Scarlett Baron took her B.A. (2003), M.St. (2005), and D.Phil. (2008) at Christ Church, Oxford.
She was affiliated to the École Normale Supérieure and the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes in Paris in 2006, and spent two months as a Scholar of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation in 2007.
She was a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2008 to 2011.
She joined UCL as a Teaching Fellow in 2011, assuming the role of Lecturer in 2012 and Associate Professor in 2018.
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the James Joyce Quarterly and a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.