About

I am Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

My book Reading Frictions: Memory, Violence and The Politics of Touch in Contemporary World Literature (forthcoming, 2025) explores creative representations of historical violence. With Dr Ruth Daly, I edited a special issue of parallax, featuring a series of in-conversations on ‘decolonial feminisms’ today.

I am also working on my first book of poetry. My poems have been published in journals including The Poetry Review and Ambit; I have been highly commended in the Forward Prizes, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and longlisted in the National Poetry Competition. I am Associate Editor at Wasafiri Magazine.

Before starting at York, I was Postdoctoral Research & Engagement Fellow at the University of Leeds on the project Imagining Posthuman Care, led by Prof. Amelia DeFalco. This project included the development of the exhibition Can Robots Care? at the Thackray Museum of Medicine. I was also Curator at the German Historical Institute, London, where I led the development of the online exhibition Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media. Before my academic roles, I spent a few years working in arts and cultural organisations.

At York, I teach modules on world, postcolonial and contemporary literatures. I convene the MA in Literature in the Creative and Cultural Industries.

I completed my PhD at the University of Leeds in Autumn 2020, funded by the WRoCAH (AHRC) consortium. During this time, I was awarded the Journal of Postcolonial Writing/Postcolonial Studies Association postgraduate essay prize. I received my MA in Comparative Literature at UCL, funded by the Provost’s Studentship, and my BA in English & German at the University of Oxford.