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 (forthcoming)

‘“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]

‘Shimmering Images: Migraines and Perception in the Essays of Joan Didion, Hilary Mantel, and Brian Dillon’ [in preparation]

Conference/seminar papers

‘Shimmering Images: Migraines and Perception in the Essays of Joan Didion, Hilary Mantel, and Brian Dillon’
Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum (5 November 2025)
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

‘Shimmer and Decay: Joan Didion’s Image-Based Life-Writing Essays’
Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum (23 November 2022)
University of Oxford, U.K.

‘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.

‘“Moments of Harmony”: Virginia Woolf’s Influence on Rebecca Solnit’s Life-Writing Essays’
Oxford English Graduate Conference: Conversation(s) (3 June 2022)
University of Oxford, U.K.

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)