I joined King's College London as a Lecturer in 2023 after having held a Junior Research Fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford. I completed my PhD in the English Department at the University of Sussex and, prior to that, attended QMUL for both my BA and MA.

My research focuses on fiction and literary culture from the mid-twentieth century till now. I’m particularly interested in the changing relationship between fiction and criticism as well as in the relationship between fiction and the operations of literary publishing. To that end, my current research is organised into two projects. I am in the process of completing my first book (titled Critical Enchantments) which is about novels that reproduce literary criticism and critical technique, but which frequently counterpose criticism with figures of magic and enchantment.

I have also written about the vast publishing career of Toni Morrison, and am engaged in a broader book project that articulates the overlap between women novelists and publishing workers across the second half of the twentieth century. Reading across the editorial and fictional work of authors with diverse literary ambitions, it reconsiders the significance of often poorly paid professional editing work to the received canons of post-1945 literary culture.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Postwar and contemporary fiction
• Publishing studies
• Literary editing and editors
• Sociology of literature and literary culture
• History of secular magic and aesthetic theories of enchantment

Teaching

I teach across a range of modules on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, gender and sexuality, and publishing, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. I contribute to core teaching on the Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory MA and also convene the UG Dissertation.