Writer, teacher and researcher based in South-East London.

Between 2021 and 2025, I was an Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Before this, I completed my AHRC-funded PhD at King's College, Cambridge in 2021. Between 2017 and 2025, I taught extensively across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature for various colleges of the University of Cambridge.

I have also undertaken preclinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at London's Maudsley Hospital.

Work

My work focuses mainly on Romanticism, philosophy and psychoanalysis in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. My first monograph, Writing Eccentricity: Characters and Forms, Johnson to Dickens examines the scope of a familiar descriptive or evaluative term: it jointly concerns 'eccentrics' as characters and 'eccentricity' as a stylistic signature across a series of literary and philosophical case studies. Through this unobtrusive word, it tells the (hi)story of our conflicted cultural relationship to ideas as various as uniformity, freedom, creativity, and productivity.

Alongside this book, I am working on two other projects. A book co-edited with Dr Louis Klee, The Associative Imagination (under contract with Oxford University Press) provides the first dedicated account of the idea of 'association' in the distinct yet entangled histories of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

A practice-based project co-researched with Professor Devorah Baum and Dr Siddharth Soni is entitled Symptoms of Writing. It aims to foreground the difficult symptoms writers face in their writing practice, looking to literary, diaristic, and medical case studies to understand and re-theorise the 'symptoms' of writing: blocks, paranoias, aphasias, avoidance, compulsions.