I am a lecturer in Literature 1500-1800, with a specialism in surveillance in late eighteenth-century literature. I have been awarded funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust for a two-year project entitled 'spies, suspicion, and sincerity in British radical literature: 1790-1803'. My research includes work on William Godwin, John Thelwall, Mary Wollstonecraft, Robert Bage, Mary Robinson, Thomas Holcroft, and William Blake. This research project will lead to the publication of a book contracted with Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming 2026).

I have a long-standing interest in Romanticism. My PhD explored Blake's use of the term 'self-annihilation' in his poetry: how it is a process that continually emerges from creative labour, and that brings together spiritual community through the imagination.  

I have also performed poetry and song on local radio (BcFM Backchat), published poetry in the Landsdown Poet's Anthology (choir press), and performed at Sanctum, Apples and Snakes and poetry open-mics in Bristol and London.