My research operates at the intersection of medieval literature, visual culture, and gender theory. In particular, I am interested in the production of illuminated vernacular manuscripts, with a focus on the illustration cycles of the Roman de la rose.

I obtained my undergraduate and Master's degrees in Middle Eastern and Modern European Languages from the University of Manchester before completing my PhD in French at King's College London, this funded in full by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. My doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof Simon Gaunt FBA, investigated the role of women illuminators in French manuscript production in the fourteenth/early-fifteenth centuries. Following this I held a research fellowship at the John Rylands Research Insitute and Library where I conducted a project on medieval women readers of vernacular spiritual allegory (1340-1420).