I completed my BA in English Literature (First Class, Hons) and MA in Literature and Culture (Distinction), at the University of Birmingham, and began my DPhil at Oriel College, Oxford in 2020. My thesis is currently entitled: ‘The Modern Essayist on Trial: Style, Politics, and the Essay Form (1940 to Now)’ I have previously written on Zadie Smith’s Aesthetics of Uncertainty in On Beauty and NW; ‘Capital-T Truth’ in Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays, and have a chapter ‘George Orwell and Emotional Truth’ forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to George Orwell. I also have current research interests in: Afrofuturist histories (film, music, literature), experimentation in genre and gender (Terry Pratchett, Ann Leckie), and modernist figures including Woolf, Richardson, and Joyce. I am also currently working on two novels, a post-apocalyptic book in which the ocean has rejected human involvement entitled Amongst the Wreckage; and a contemporary literary novel Lonely is the Pathetic Youth, focused on the peculiarities and challenges of boyhood at a suburban London Catholic school. Finally, I am a Junior Dean at Christ Church College and have a genuine interest in improving student welfare services in Oxford and Higher Education more broadly.
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