I completed my PhD at the University of York in 2020, and since this time I have taught at numerous UK HE institutions in the fields of Screen Studies, Media and Communications and the Creative Industries. Prior to this, I worked for several years in the FE sector, where I taught English and Media Studies.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Period drama
• Screen adaptations of literature
• Screen audiences
• Young people and screen texts

Teaching

I currently teach on a range of modules relating to the screen and creative industries, as well as supervising UG and PG dissertations.

Expertise and Public Engagement

I was interviewed on BBC 5 Live in relation to my research on the period drama, with particular reference to the Netflix series 'Bridgerton'.

Selected publications

• Teenage Audiences and British Period Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
• ‘Bridgerton: The Progressive Period Pastiche’, Screen Storytelling: The Works of Shonda Rhimes, ed. by Anna Weinstein (Bloomsbury, 2024)
• ‘Leaning In or Opting Out? Women’s Choices in Little Women and Mary Queen of Scots’, Feminist Media Studies (September 2021)
• ‘200 Miles Outside London’: The Tourist Gaze of Far from the Madding Crowd‘, Intercultural Screen Adaptation: British and Global Case Studies, ed. by Michael Stewart and Robert Munro (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
• ‘Harry Potter and the Hidden Heritage Film: Genre Hybridity and the Power of the Past in the Harry Potter Film Cycle’, The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 13, issue 3 (2016)