I am a graduate of Cambridge University, where I studied for my BA and PhD and was a lecturer at Christ’s College before coming to King’s in 2000. At King's I have held various roles including Head of French, Vice Dean for Languages and Literatures, and Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities. I am currently Director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, an AHRC-funded doctoral training consortium, and editor of Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Literature and visual art
• Surrealism
• Art theory
• Twentieth-century French literature
• Avant-gardes

My research interests are in 20th- and 21st-century literature, visual art and theory. I am the author of a book on surrealism and politics and am currently writing another on casts, imprints and traces in modern and contemporary art, which will be published in 2023 by MInnesota University Press. I offer research supervision in the fields of modern French literature (particularly modernism and the avant-garde), critical theory and text-image relations.

For more details, please see my full research profile.

Teaching

I teach a range of undergraduate and MA modules on modern French literature, visual art and theory. I also teach translation from French to English.

Expertise and public engagement

I am happy to speak on surrealism and on aspects of modern French literature and visual art. I was a judge of the 2012 Scott Moncrieff prize for translation into English from French: http://www.societyofauthors.org/scott-moncrieff-past-winners