I am a fully funded PhD candidate in French studies. My research is centred around contemporary women's writing, with particular focus on questions of social class, sexuality and the body. I graduated with a first class BA (Hons) in French and Russian from Downing College, University of Cambridge in 2016, where I also completed my MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures in 2018. 

Supervisory team

Professor Shirley Jordan

Dr Kathryn Robson

Research project

My PhD thesis constitutes a comparative study of expressions of social class and sexuality and their interactions with (and implications for) embodied experience in the works of three prominent contemporary French women writers - Annie Ernaux, Christine Angot and Virginie Despentes. All three of these authors cultivate provocations about acceptability and taste, about excess and discretion, and these in turn are inextricably bound up with questions of class and gender. Looking at their writerly handlings and explorations of space, speech(/language) and sex(/the body), I hope to expose the fruitful conclusions to be drawn at the interstices of class and gender dynamics in contemporary French women's writing.

Other areas of research interest include - film studies, contemporary art and visual culture, poetry, philosophy, gender studies, queer studies

Seminar Leader - FRE1071 Level B French

Guest Seminar Leader - FRE4016 Contemporary Life Writing in French: Textual and Visual Experiment