I am a researcher and writer, based in London and York.

My poetry book is Almost, with Tenderness (Out-Spoken).

My forthcoming academic book is Reading Frictions: Memory, Violence, and the Politics of Touch in Contemporary World Literature.

My co-edited special issue ‘Decolonial Feminisms: Reading Otherwise’ explores the meanings of decolonial feminisms today; discussing practices of reading, writing, speaking, and living otherwise in academia and beyond.

I am a Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Prior to this, I worked in various arts, cultural, and research organisations. This included curating ‘Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media’: an exhibition exploring 20th century feminist activism in Britain, Germany, and India.

Research

My background is in comparative literary studies, but my work is interdisciplinary. Recent work explores the ethics and politics of research and writing in the contemporary moment, focusing particularly on how contemporary writers experiment with ‘touch’ as methodology.

Reading Frictions: Memory, Violence, and the Politics of Touch in Contemporary World Literature discusses how contemporary writers engage the politics of touch to represent diverse histories of modern violence and to imagine anti-colonial forms of relation and collectivity in the present. It considers issues including the limits of empathy, the possibilities of speculative thinking, and the relationship between writing and resistance.

I have also written about various topics including techno-touch in Afrofuturist film (The Senses & Society); ‘subjunctive’ remembering (Berghahn Books); Han Kang’s The Vegetarian’s re-imagining of postcolonial resistance (Journal of Postcolonial Writing); and the ethics of contingency and care in exhibition curation (Women’s History Review).

I co-edited a special issue of parallax ‘Reading Otherwise’ with Ruth Daly: a series of in-conversations on what decolonial feminisms mean today, which explores feminist approaches to writing, reading, and living in academia and beyond.

Public Engagement/Curatorial Projects

Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media
An exhibition for the German Historical Research Institute, London

Can Robots Care?
An exhibition at Thackray Museum of Medicine.