Staff Profile

• PhD in English Literature - 'Trans Forms: Gender-Variant Subjectivity and First-Person Narration' - Newcastle University
• MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory - Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University
• BA in English Literature with Linguistics, University of Westminster

My research interests extend into three main areas: the study of narrative form; feminist, queer, and trans studies; contemporary literature and culture. 

My PhD thesis, currently being developed into a monograph, argues for the trans narrator as a key figure in contemporary literature. I examine first-person narratives from the past five decades in a range of genres (memoir, autofiction, literary fiction, science fiction) that explore gender identities that are other than binary or fixed. The purposes and impacts of these narratives varies according to their different engagement with feminist, queer and trans theory and activism. These differences can be ultimately read in the formal choices (uses of temporality, pronouns, metaphors, focalisation, etc.) of the texts representing gender-variant narrators. Throughout the thesis, I establish a methodology at the intersection of studies of narrative form and studies of trans and non-binary gender identity. 

My current research project focuses on how space, place, and spatial metaphors (such as borders, homes, entries, exits, peripheries) are used in media and literary texts to discuss gender, finding complicities between trans-exclusionary language and nationalist and imperialist understandings of space.

• 'Dissertation' (2022-23)
• ‘Independent Research Project Preparation’ (2021)
• ‘Transformations’ (2020-22)
• ‘Close Reading’ (2019-22)
• ‘Feminist Science Fiction’ for PARTNERS Summer School (2019-22)
• ‘Introduction to Literary Studies II’ (2019-22)
• ‘Introduction to Literary Studies I’ (2018-22)