Academic work

Published research

‘“How Mysterious, Our Instincts”: The Psychoanalytic Feminism of Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat
In Tramp Press: Ireland’s Maverick Publisher, edited by Mary Burke and Tara Harney-Mahajan (Bucknell University Press, 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, forthcoming 2024)

Book reviews

‘The Art of Precarity’
[Review of The Precarious Writing of Ann Quin (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), by Nonia Williams]
Critical Quarterly vol. 66, no. 2 (July 2024)

Conference/seminar papers

‘“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.