I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of English, working under the supervision of Dr. Ronjaunee Chatterjee and Dr. Brooke Cameron. Some of my past research projects have looked at the use of Dorian Gray in Wilde's libel trial, female vampires in the 19th and 21st centuries, and werewolf short stories in England and Canada.
My dissertation, tentatively titled Making Queer Meaning: Coded Languages in the Diaries, Letters, and Poetry of Michael Field, aims to identify and analyze the forms of coded language that Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper) used to describe their queerness, their relationship, and their love for one another in their letters, diaries, and poetry collections Long Ago and Underneath the Bough.
Victorian literature, gender and sexuality studies, monstrosity, coded language, and archival studies, queerness, Gothic
Publications
[Forthcoming] 鈥淗eavenly Dances and Mortal Fights: Dance and Swordplay in William Shakespeare鈥檚 Romeo and Juliet.鈥 Journal of the Wooden O, edited by Dr. Stephanie Chamberlain.
鈥淐ategorizing Identity: Literary, Performative, and Legal Languages in Oscar Wilde鈥檚 Libel Trial vs the Marquess of Queensberry.鈥 Inquiry@Queen鈥檚 Undergraduate Research Conference, 12-13 March 2020, Joseph S. Stauffer Library, Kingston, ON. Inquiry at Queen鈥檚 Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings, 15 April 2020.
Conference Presentations
鈥溾榯he struggle of one thing twisting into another and back again鈥: The Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment of the Sea Lung in Julia Armfield鈥檚 Our Wives Under the Sea.鈥 Open Minds Open Graves, Sea Changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Conference, September 2025, British Library, London, UK.
鈥溾業f I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense鈥: Spatial Nonsense and Movement in Dreams in Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice Novels.鈥 Student Association for Graduate English (SAGE)鈥檚 NON/SENSE 2025 Colloquium, March 2025, Montreal, QC.
鈥淚magining Unreal Worlds: Exploring Damage to Create Space for Desire in Kai Cheng Thom鈥檚 I Hope We Choose Love and Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee鈥檚 Death Threat.鈥 Association for Canadian and Qu茅bec Literatures Annual Conference, June 2024, Montreal, Canada.
鈥溾楾he refuse of London鈥: Disease, the Working Class, and the Industrial Revolution in Peter Ackroyd鈥檚 Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem.鈥 Re-imagining the Victorians Conference, April 2024, Kingston, Canada.
鈥淓xploring Life, Exploring Dreams: The Dreamer鈥檚 Space in Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.鈥 Sixth Annual Dreams, Phantasms and Memories Conference, InMind Support, November 2023, Warsaw, Poland.
鈥淐ategorising Identity: Literary, Performative, and Legal Languages in Oscar Wilde鈥檚 Libel Trial vs the Marquess of Queensberry.鈥 Summer+ 2019, June 2019, Bader College, Herstmonceux, United Kingdom.
Other Presentations
"Queer Traces: The Influence of Decadence and Aestheticism on Queer Coded Languages in the Late Nineteenth Century." Special Topic Presentations, May 2025, Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Watson Hall, Kingston.
鈥淩epresentations of Female Sexuality and Desire in Sheridan Le Fanu鈥檚 Carmilla and Richelle Mead鈥檚 Vampire Academy.鈥 G.M. Trevelyan Research Prize, June 2022, Trevelyan College, Durham, United Kingdom.
鈥淐armilla, Female Sexuality, and Illness.鈥 Middle Common Room Research Buffet, November 2021, Trevelyan College, Durham, United Kingdom.
