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

My poetry book is Almost, with Tenderness (Out-Spoken, 2025).

My forthcoming monograph is Reading Frictions: Violent Histories, World Literature, and the Politics of Touch (Bloomsbury, 2027).

I am a Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, where I teach modules on postcolonial and world literatures, poetry, and the creative industries.

Prior to my role at York, 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.

Reading Frictions: Violent Histories, World Literature, and the Politics of Touch (forthcoming Bloomsbury, 2027) discusses the potential — and limitations — of touch as an ethical mode of relation, in the face of historical and ongoing violence. It identifies an emergent form of 21st century world literature defined by a renewed concern with touch, memory, and relational ethics; and proposes a new methodology for reading across difference, arguing for forms of reading grounded in touch, contingency, and friction.

I have also written about various topics including decolonial feminisms (parallax ‘Reading Otherwise’); 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).

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.