I studied for a BA in English and Related Literature and an MA in Women in the Late Medieval World at the University of York. I completed my PhD on 'Virginity in Medieval English Texts and Practices' at the University of East Anglia. I joined King's in 2007.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

I research late medieval, especially 15th century, English literature and culture. I am interested in questions of sexuality, gender, subjectivity and devotional practice; the intersections of literary, visual and material culture; place, space and travel; drama and performance; the contemporary medieval.

I have supervised or co-supervised 16 now completed PhDs and currently co-supervise a further 7.

Teaching

I teach on aspects of late medieval literature, art and performance at all levels. 

Expertise and Public Engagement

I have made public appearances discussing medieval woman writers including Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. With Joshua Davies, Bea Wilford and Catherine Sambrook I curated the exhibition Medievalist Visions at KCL in 2013. 

Selected Publications

• Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019
• 'Theaters of Solitary Selves’, Romanic Review 114.1 (2023): 141-60
• 'Writing Performed Lives: Margery Kempe Meets Marina Abramović’. In Laura Kalas and Laura Varman, eds, Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 259–77
• 'Found Bodies: The Living, the Dead and the Undead in the Broad Medieval Present’. In Andrew James Johnston and Jan-Peer Hartmann, eds, Material Remains: Reading the Past through Archaeological Evidence in Medieval Britain. Ohio State University Press, 2021, pp. 21–37
• 'Julian of Norwich, the Carrow Psalter and Embodied Cinema’. In Hilary Powell and Corinne Saunders, eds, Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 147–74"