Introduction
After attending a state grammar school in East Kent, I completed a BA in Classics and French, as well as an MSt in Modern Languages, at St Anne’s College, Oxford. I then spent a year teaching English language and literature as a lectrice at the Université de Lorraine and SciencesPo Nancy in France. In 2022, as the inaugural recipient of the Cyril Vysove Scholarship, I began my DPhil at Queen’s under the supervision of Professor Daron Burrows. In March 2026, I was a visiting researcher at the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland.
Teaching
At Queen’s, I teach first- and second-year unseen translation classes (French to English), as well as seminars on literary and critical theory.
I have been awarded Associate Fellowship of Advance HE (February 2026) in recognition of my effective teaching practice in French at college and faculty level at Oxford.
Research
My DPhil investigates the understudied manuscript transmission and reception of the thirteenth-century Roman de Dolopathos, an Old French adaptation of the pan-continental narrative tradition known as the Seven Sages of Rome. Drawing on the history of the book, religious studies and gender studies, I argue that the Dolopathos’ circulation alongside a range of genres, including courtly romances, hagiographies and mirrors for princes, fundamentally shapes and unsettles the text’s own misogynistic and proselytising frameworks, from both medieval and modern perspectives. More broadly, I am interested in medieval French literature in its cross-cultural and transhistorical contexts, as well as the interrelations between materiality, metapoetics and questions of community formation.
Publications
An up-to-date list of my publications can be found at this link