Before starting a DPhil in Classical Reception at Hertford College, I completed my Bachelor’s degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada where I received a first class Joint-Honours degree with Distinction in American History and Classics. I also completed my Master of Arts degree at McGill in Classics. With my doctoral research I returned to the comparative interests of my undergraduate degree to explore the use of Graeco-Roman literature and myth by enslaved writers in the United States and the Caribbean between 1750 and 1865. My dissertation entitled ‘Possibility from Dispossession: Analysing the use of Graeco-Roman Culture by Enslaved Writers in North America and the Caribbean, 1750-1865’ is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Beyond my current project, I have a broad interest in Black Classicisms in the United States and the Caribbean and how anti-colonial writers reimagine Graeco-Roman material in subversive ways.
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