Introduction
After a BA in History and French and an MSt in Women’s Studies at Oxford, I completed my PhD at King’s College London (2023). This was funded by the AHRC through the London Arts & Humanities Partnership. I spent a term as a visiting researcher at the gender studies network (l’Initiative Genre-Philomel) at Sorbonne Université (Paris-IV), and I have taught at King’s College London and LSE. I sit on the committees of the Society for French Studies and Women in French UK-Ireland.
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.
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 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.
Selected publications
Virginie Despentes’s Political Art: Building Queer-Feminist Community (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.