I am a literary critic and cultural historian specialising in twentieth and twenty-first century literature in English. My research interests include Anglophone modernism – particularly in areas of literature and place – war writing and travel writing, and cognitive literary studies. I hold a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford (awarded 2018), and my first monograph Travel, Home, and War in Late Modernist British Literature is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. The book explores the literary pursuit and definition of home by late modernist writers. My co-authored, edited volume Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature Culture and Theory is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.

My second monograph project, provisionally titled Remote Minds: Technology, Affect and Control in Literature 1880-Present explores how writers portray minds that are variously embattled with technologies and institutions of remote control.

I am the author of articles and book chapters on modernist literature, politics, travel writing, and literature and technology, published in journals including Modernist Cultures, Twentieth-Century Literature, Textual Practice and Symbiosis. My essay on Rebecca West, imperialism and fantasy won the 2020 Andrew J. Kappel prize in Literary Criticism, and my essay on Evelyn Waugh’s travel writing won the British Association for Modernist Studies essay prize (2016).

In 2025/26, I taught/am teaching and lecture on our first-year module, Adventures in the History of Ideas, and taught/am teaching and convening our second-year module, Modernism and Modernity, and our third-year module Writing New York, 1880-1940. My second-year option Cities and Edgelands: Writing Place and Displacement focuses on an international corpus of texts that range widely in time and space, across cities including Paris, London, Belfast, New York and Lagos. Topic and themes that are covered include the flaneur and flaneuse, psychogeography, the postmodern city, and the new nature writing.