I joined the University of Glasgow in September 2024 as Lecturer in Comparative Literature. Before that, I had an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, teaching Twentieth Century Literature in the English department. I spent a year as an IRC postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin, under the mentorship of Dr Sharae Deckard, working on intermedial ecopoetics. This was after a short teaching stint at Glasgow School of Art and following a much longer stint as PhD candidate and GTA at the University of Warwick, where I completed my thesis in Comparative Literary Studies on Samuel Beckett and W.G. Sebald. The monograph based on this thesis is under contract with De Gruyter, and titled 'Forsaken Things: The Politics of the Nonhuman in Beckett, Sebald and Tokarczuk'.

I work on twentieth-century and contemporary literatures and cultures, with a focus on ecology, energy, waste, and resources. I'm interested in how we ‘read’ materiality across texts and in ecological conceptions of cultural production. literature, and what it means to think of literary production as ecological. I've written comparatively on late modernism and material environments (on writers like Samuel Beckett, W.G. Sebald, Olga Tokarczuk, László Krasznahorkai), and am currently exploring intermedial writing practices in the context of ecopoetics (looking at, among others, Renee Gladman, Caroline Bergvall, Mark Nowak, Jennifer Scappettone and Claudia Rankine...). I've recently started looking into energy infrastructures in video games.

Areas:

post-1945 and contemporary literatures/cultures

ecocriticism/environmental humanities/energy humanities

experimental and intermedial writing

comparative studies/world literatures/critical theory

global modernisms/avant-garde

video games and energy

Prior publications

Convener/Lecturer:

COMPLIT1001 Comparative Literature 1A

COMPLIT4003 Theories of Reading

COMPLIT5030 Introduction to Comparative Literature

COMPLIT5031 Comparative Literature in Practice

MODLANG5009 Transnational Constructions of Gender

MLitt Comparative Literature Dissertation

Lecturer only:

COMPLIT4015 Writing Subjects

COMPLIT5036 Reading Workshop in Comparative Literature