I am a postdoctoral fellow in English Literature at Exeter College, specialising in Romantic-era literature and visual culture. I hold a BA in Classics and English (Trinity College, Oxford), an MA in Art History, Curatorship, and Renaissance Culture (Warburg Institute), and a PhD in English and Art History (Tate Britain and the University of York).
I am interested in intersections between literature, visual art, and mapping. My PhD thesis focused on William Blake, eighteenth-century cartography, and the legacy of Blake’s cartographic imagination up to the present day, including in zines and small-press publications. I am the author of William Blake (Tate Publishing, 2024), an accessible (and affordable) introductory guide to William Blake's art. My first academic monograph, William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination: Maps, Diagrams, Networks is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in February/March 2025.
My new research focuses on global images in eighteenth-century literature and visual culture. I am currently working on what I call "global poetics" in the writings of Edward Young, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Phillis Wheatley Peters, and William Blake.
I am the current Editor of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Review.
I teach English Literature 1760-1830 (Final Honour School Paper 5) to undergraduate students at Exeter College and occasionally also the 1660-1760 paper (FHS Paper 4). I also support the teaching of students visiting Exeter College as part of the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO). At the English Faculty, I sometimes offer an MSt special option paper entitled "Globe-Gazing: World-Pictures in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture."
I am keen to hear from students and researchers interested in literary geography, radicalism and dissent, William Blake, cartography, psychogeography, and small-press publishing.
