I'm a Lecturer in Literature and Gender at Bristol University and my research primarily focusses on women's writing, particularly autobiographical narrative and the cultural legacies of Britain's Empire. My first book, Life Writing and the End of Empire, was published by Bloomsbury in 2024: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/life-writing-and-the-end-of-empire-9781350353794/
I am co-editor of the essay collection, British Culture After Empire (MUP 2023) with imperial historians Dr Liam Liburd and Dr Josh Doble and I've previously published articles and book chapters on life writing, postcolonial literature, and graphic narratives. From 2024-25 I will be the Anne Ball Bodley Visiting Fellow in Women's History at Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, where I'll be working on the university's anti-apartheid archives.
Experience
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2021–2022Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature, University of Keele
Education
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2020University of Leeds, PhD in English Literature
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2015University of Oxford, M.St English Literature, 1900-Present
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2013Queen Mary, University of London, BA English
Publications
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2024Life Writing and the End of Empire, Bloomsbury Academic
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2019Chapter: '"To Create Her World Anew", Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative' in , Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories and Graphic Reportage
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