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My research primarily focuses on the connections between intermedial poetic form and counter-hegemonic politics. I am especially interested in the period which follows the acceleration of the modern capitalist world-system, beginning with William Blake around the 1790s and ending with poetries in the present.

In my thesis, I concentrate on works that engage with the politics of the period that I define as the 'era of neo-imperialism' (between the 1970s and 1980s). I am looking at a global range of anglophone poets, all of whom have incorporated different media into their poetry to produce works that exceed conventional written-word forms. I intend to evaluate the extent to which the intermedial forms of the poetry can be read as cultural resistance in relation to the poets' particular situations within the modern capitalist world-system.

I am currently working on a chapter which explores uses of visual images in poetic works by Cecilia Vicuña (1948-) and Etel Adnan (1925-2021). Specifically, I examine how the poetry's intermedial forms register Vicuña's and Adnan's critical positions as exiled women artists in opposition to the neo-imperialist powers generating civil unrest in their respective home countries, Chile and Lebanon.

My general aim with my research is to show how a sustained focus on intermedial form might further our understanding of the total significance of a poetic work, beyond the limits of 'logocentricity' in both literary analysis and Western culture more broadly.

I came to Bristol in 2023 after completing an MA in Comparative Literature at King's College London and a BA in Classics and English at Oxford University (Regent's Park College) before that.

 

External positions

Library Research Fellow, University of California System

Jul 2024Jul 2025

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