Qualifications
Mar – July 2021: UCL Arena One Teaching Associate Programme leading to Higher Education Academy Associate Fellowship
Sept 2017 – April 2021: PhD in English Literature, University College London.
Title: ‘Object Lessons: Joyce and Things’
Supervisors: Dr Scarlett Baron, Dr Matthew Sperling
Viva examiners: Dr Julia Jordan, Prof Paul Saint-Amour
Passed with no corrections. Fully funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership
Sept 2013 – July 2014: Mst in Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Oxford
Dissertation Title: ‘Italo Calvino and Samuel Beckett: Regenerative Creation in the Fiction of the 1960s’
Supervisors: Prof Martin McLaughlin, Prof Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Passed with Distinction
Sept 2010 – July 2013: BA in English Literature, Queen Mary, University of London Dissertation
Title: ‘John Fowles’s Metafiction: The Possibility of Freedom through the Artificiality of the Novel’
Supervisor: Dr Mark Currie
Passed with First Class. Recipient of the Westfield Award for Outstanding Results
Conferences
Invited Speaker
Ulysses MA Course, University of Geneva, 19 December 2021
Lecture title: ‘‘Proteus’ and the hybridity of decaying matter’
Organiser
‘Synaesthesia’, Annual UCL English Graduate Conference, June 2019
Attendee
‘Making Modernism, 1922: 100 Years On’, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, 27-30 October 2022
Paper presented: ‘Temporal Oddities and Spatial Enmeshment in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood’
‘James Joyce Ulysses 1922 -2022’, XXVIII International James Joyce Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, 12-18 June 2022
Paper presented: ‘The ‘Wilderness of Inhabitation’: Conceptions of Home in ‘Calypso’’
‘Care’, NeMLA 53rd Convention, Baltimore, March 10-13 2022
Paper presented: “Resilience as Coping Mechanism and Critique in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood”
“Omniscientific Joyce”, XXVII International James Joyce Symposium, Trieste University/Online, 14-18 June 2021
Paper presented: “The Artistic Science of ‘Ithaca’: Latourian Networks in Ulysses”.
‘Beckett & Italy. ‘Old Chestnuts’ New Occasions’, Samuel Beckett Society Conference, Sapienza Università di Roma/Online, 24-26 May 2021
Paper presented: ‘Weakness and pietas in Gianni Vattimo’s weak thought and Samuel Beckett’s ‘Dante and the Lobster’’
‘Language and Languages in Joyce’s Fiction’, XII Italian James Joyce Foundation Conference, Roma Tre University, 31 January-2 February 2019
Paper presented: ‘Material Language and Situated Cognition in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’
‘The Art of James Joyce’, XXVI International James Joyce Symposium, Antwerp University, 11-16 June 2018
Paper presented: ‘James Joyce and the Epiphanic Inscription’