I studied for my BA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as well as spending a year in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University on a Herchel Smith Scholarship. Before joining Wadham, I was a Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies, and College Lecturer in English and Philosophy at Downing College, Cambridge. I have also undertaken pre-clinical training in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London, and am soon due to begin clinical training in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy.
My work concerns the visual, material, and literary culture of the twentieth (and early twenty-first) century, especially in relation to ecology. I am currently in the process of publishing my doctoral research as a short monograph (provisionally) titled On Fire: Combustion and Aesthetics: this book will provide an international perspective on combustion as a particularly complex aesthetic figure for representing contemporary social and political experience.
At Wadham, I am responsible for teaching the following papers: Prelims Paper 1B, Introduction to Literature; FHS Paper 5, English Literature 1760-1830; Prelims Paper 3, English Literature 1830-1910; and Prelims Paper 4, English Literature 1910-Present. I am also a Junior Teaching Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and an affiliate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
