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Research interests

I have a background in the literary medical humanities, particularly where they intersect with environmental criticism and theory. My doctoral research is concerned with ecologies of crisis in narratives of health and illness, supervised by Dr Maria Vaccarella (Bristol) and Dr Arthur Rose (Exeter). My research is funded by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC).

My research has been published by the Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Women: A Cultural Review and Feminist Theory, and I have presented work at conferences across the US, the UK and Europe, including at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Lund University in Sweden, Tilburg University in the Netherlands, the University of Oxford, the Glasgow School of Art, the Thackray Museum of Modern Medicine in Leeds, the University of York, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 in France, the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, and the Institute of Modern Languages Research in London. I hold an MA in English Literature (Honours of the First Class) from the University of Glasgow, a Wellcome-funded MA in Medical History and Humanities (Distinction) from the University of York, and an MLitt in Art Writing (Distinction) from the Glasgow School of Art. 

Some of my awards in recent years include an SWWDTP (AHRC) PhD Studentship (2023), a GSA Staff Student Partnership Fund (2023), the Edwin Morgan Centenary Trust Second Life Award (2022), the University of York's MA Dissertation Prize (2021), the Alexander Waddel Prize (2020), a Wellcome Trust Scholarship (2020), a York Futures Scholarship (2021), a small project grant from the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York (2021), and two grants from the Nurturing Talent – Time to Shine Fund (2018/21).

I am the author of HOTHOUSE (Salò Press, 2021), and co-edited This is not a biography* (Yellow Paper Press, 2023) with Dr Laura Haynes and Kate Timney. I was the Co-Editor in Chief of JAWS: Journal of Art and Writing (Intellect Books) from October 2023 to May 2026, and now serve as a member of the Advisory Board. I was previously the Poetry and Nonfiction Editor at SPAM Press, and worked with the SPAM team for a number of years on post-internet poetics and publishing. I have served on the Executive Committee of the Anna Kavan Society for some time, which led to a public talk on Kavan's legacy at Sotheran's in London (2025). My creative writing has been published in print and online, and broadcast on Clyde Built Radio, Systems Radio and Cashmere Radio.

External positions

Advisory Board Member, JAWS Journal of Art and Writing

31 May 2026 → …

Co-Editor in Chief, JAWS Journal of Art and Writing

31 Oct 2023 → 14 May 2026

Executive Committee, Anna Kavan Society

May 2023 → Apr 2026

Research Groups and Themes

  • Centre for Humanities Health and Science
  • Centre for Environmental Humanities

Keywords

  • Medical Humanities
  • Narrative medicine
  • Contemporary literature
  • Ecocriticism
  • Trauma
  • New materialisms
  • Crisis

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