Books

The Memory Essay: Life-Writing and the Essay Form in Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Joan Didion [in preparation]

Essays for edited collections

‘“How Mysterious, Our Instincts”: Feminism and the Unconscious in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat’
In Tramps: Remaking Contemporary Irish Fiction, edited by Mary Burke and Tara Harney-Mahajan (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming Spring 2027)

‘“Floating Incidents”: The Ethics of the Essay as a Life-Writing Form in “A Sketch of the Past”’
In Virginia Woolf and Ethics: Selected Papers from the 31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, edited by Amy C. Smith and Paola Brinkley (Clemson University Press, 2025)

Journal articles

‘The Making of the Memoir-in-Essays: Vladimir Nabokov, Mary McCarthy, and May Sarton in the New Yorker’ [in preparation]

‘Autobiocartography: Mapping Memory in Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900 and Elizabeth Bowen’s Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood’ [in preparation]

‘“Images That Shimmer Around the Edges”: Migraine Auras and Blurry Perception in the Essays of Joan Didion, Hilary Mantel, and Brian Dillon’ [under review]

Selected conference/seminar papers

‘“Floating Incidents”: Involuntary Memory in Virginia Woolf’s Life-Writing’
Memory Club (16 April 2026)
When Memories Come Alive research group
University of Cambridge, U.K.

‘“Images That Shimmer Around the Edges”: Migraines and Perception in the Essays of Joan Didion, Hilary Mantel, and Brian Dillon’
Visiting Researchers Workshop (2 December 2025)
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
University of Oxford, U.K.

‘Alternative Ways of Writing a Life’
Forms, Fragments and Fractures: Trajectories, Tendencies and Topoi in Contemporary Women’s Life-Writing (5–6 September 2025)
University of Oxford, U.K.

‘Autobiocartography: Mapping Memory in Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900 and Elizabeth Bowen’s Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood’
Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century (22–23 May 2025)
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

‘“Splinters of Actuality”: Form and Metaphor in Elizabeth Bowen’s Memory Essays’
British Association for Modernist Studies Conference: Ephemeral Modernisms (27-29 June 2024)
University of Leeds, U.K.

‘“Splinters of Actuality”: Locating the Past in Bowen’s Autobiographical Essays’
Elizabeth Bowen Society Conference: Locating Elizabeth Bowen (11 May 2024)
University of Bedfordshire, U.K.

‘“Images That Shimmer”: Joan Didion’s Migraine Aesthetic’
International Auto/Biography Association Europe Conference: Life-Writing in Times of Crisis (5–8 July 2023)
University of Warsaw, Poland

‘Are Real Lives Story-Shaped?’
Franks Society Talks (24 October 2022)
Worcester College, Oxford, U.K.

‘“Floating Incidents”: The Ethics of Essayistic Life-Writing in “A Sketch of the Past”’
The 31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Ethics (9–12 June 2022)
Lamar University, Texas, U.S.A.
My conference presentation is available to watch on YouTube here.

Theses

‘The Memory Essay: Life-Writing and the Essay Form in Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Joan Didion’
DPhil thesis (University of Oxford, 2024)

‘“Floating Incidents”: The Non-Narrative Life-Writing Essays of Virginia Woolf and Rebecca Solnit’
MSc thesis (University of Edinburgh, 2021)