Introduction

I grew up in London and Hertfordshire and attended local comprehensive schools. From 2014–18, I completed a BA in History and French at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and after graduating spent a year working for charity and campaign organisations. In 2019, I returned to Oxford to complete an MSt in Women’s Studies, and the following year I began my PhD in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at King’s College London. My PhD was supervised by Professor Siobhán McIlvanney and Dr Ros Murray and funded by the AHRC through the London Arts & Humanities Partnership. During my PhD, I spent three months as a visiting research student at the Gender Studies centre (l’Initiative Genre-Philomel) at Sorbonne Université (Paris-IV). After submitting my PhD, I worked as an LSE100 Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I currently sit on the committees of the Society for French Studies and Women in French UK-Ireland. As of October 2024, I am the Hamilton Junior Research Fellow in French at Queen’s.

Teaching

I am currently supervising undergraduate and master’s dissertations in the fields of French studies and gender studies. I teach an Option Course called ‘Feminist Perspectives on Abortion’ on the interdisciplinary MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oxford.inary MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oxford.

Research

I am interested in contemporary French literature, film, and thought, and my research sits at the intersection of French studies and gender studies.

I am currently carrying out a postdoctoral research project on representations of abortion in twenty-first century France. This project examines how abortion is put into and regulated through narrative, revealing the epistemic exclusion of certain perspectives across different narrative forms. My work asks questions about the relationship between abortion rights and French national identity, shedding light on the position of abortion in the French Republican postcolonial imaginary.

I have a PhD from King’s College London, and I have studied and taught in Oxford, London, and Paris. I sit on the committees of the Society for French Studies and Women in French UK-Ireland.

Selected publications

Towards a Queer-Feminist Aesthetics: Virginie Despentes’s Political Art (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming).

‘Sex and Subversion in French Women’s Writing from the Fin de siècle to the Present’ in The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in French, ed. S. Jordan and S. McIlvanney (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

‘La constitutionnalisation de l’IVG. Un an après’, Les temps qui restent (2025), https://lestempsquirestent.org/fr/numeros/numero-5/la-constitutionnalisation-de-l-ivg-un-an-apres.

‘Unbecoming Woman: The Shadow Feminism of King Kong théorie by Virginie Despentes’, Paragraph 46:2 (2023), 212–25.