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Biography

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PhD student at the University of Kent. Thesis supervised by Dr Derek Ryan, provisionally titled 'Bad Animals: Vermin, Health, and Modernist Literature'.  

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Research interests include Vermin and literature, modernist cultures, modernism and fascism, modernism and "the masses", hauntology, and horror literature and cinema.

Papers Presented

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September 2020The Gardens Trust New Research Symposium | Online

'Virginia Woolf's mystic garden(s)'

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September 2019 | Beastly Modernisms | University of Glasgow

Joycean Beasts roundtable (Chaired by Peter Adkins): 'Troubling the Boundary: Imagining the Nonhuman in Ulysses'

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September 2019 | Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK and Ireland): 'Co-emergence, Co-creation, Co-existence' | University of Plymouth

'Multidirectional Eco-Memory and Environmental Justice in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms'

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August 2019 | Botanical Modernisms | Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex | Organised by The National Trust and Queen's University Belfast

'"A Meeting Place Between Man and Nature": Mysticism and the Modernist Garden'

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June 2019 | GLITS 'Outsiders' Conference | Goldsmiths, University of London

'Haunting and Hauntology in Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black'

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July 2018 | Samuel Beckett Summer School Symposium | Trinity College Dublin

'Joyce's Animals: An Analysis of the Nonhuman in Ulysses' (Preliminary Research)

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June 2018 | GLITS 'Sound and Silence' Conference | Goldsmiths, University of London

'Sound at the Limits of Sense: Jordan Scott's Lanterns at Guantanamo and the Subversive Potential of Sound'

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January 2017 | GLITS (Goldsmiths Literature Seminar) | Goldsmiths, University of London

'Hunger Artists: Analysing Biopower and Discipline in Kafka's Starving Bodies'

Education

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University of Kent: PhD English | Supervised by Dr Derek Ryan

  • Thesis provisional title: 'Bad Animals: Vermin, Health, and Modernist Literature'

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Goldsmiths, University of London: MA Literary Studies: Modern Literature | Distinction

  • 15,000-word dissertation: 'Joyce's Animals: An Analysis of the Nonhuman in Ulysses' | Supervised by Dr Andreas Kramer

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Goldsmiths, University of LondonBA (Hons) English | First Class​

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Awards

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July-August 2018 | Samuel Beckett Summer School Bursary | Joint bursary awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London and Trinity College Dublin

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