Areas of expertise
I welcome dissertations at both UG and MA level on topics within twentieth and 21st century American Literature and culture; Cold War studies; technology and identity; surveillance studies and interdisciplinary projects which engage with literature via media, film, television, spatial studies (geographical humanities, architecture and urban theory) and game theory.
Membership of professional bodies
FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
Gender Network Committee Member, for Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences: March 2018 – present
Conferences
Selected Conference Papers:
"Stranger Things in Strange Times: Surveillance, Nostalgia and Contemporary American Politics” at BAAS, University of Sussex, April 2019
“Cops and Incarceration: Constructing Racial Narratives in Reality TV’s Prisons” at IAAS, University College Dublin, April 2018
“The Role of Space, Place and Subjectivity in the works of Hubert Selby Jr”, at BAAS, Canterbury Christchurch University, April 2017
“Embracing the Threat from Within’: Patricia Highsmith’s Conformist Masculinity in The Talented Mr Ripley” at BAAS, Queen’s University Belfast, April 2016
“Hyperreal Spaces and the Mythical Male in the West”, IHR, Gender and the Americas Series, University of London, April 2016
“Cowboys and the Cold War” at BAAS, University of Northumbria, April 2015
“Cyborgs, Selves and Subjectivity in San Francisco”, IAAS, Trinity College Dublin, April 2015
“Designing Suburbia and Designing Selves”, IHR, University of London, 2015 Anglo American Conference, July 2015
“Simulacra and Selves in Suburbia” at BAAS, University of Birmingham, April 2014
“Simulacra and Selves in Suburbia” at Cultures of the Suburbs Conference, Exeter University, June 2014
“The Influence of Architecture in Cold War Suburbia”, at Gender in the Americas, IHR, London University, November 2013 (podcast available on iTunes)
“The Influence of Architecture in Cold War Literature”, at BAAS, Exeter University, April 2013
“The Role of Space, Place and Subjectivity in the Works of Hubert Selby Jr” Arts and Humanities Winter Symposium, Oxford Brookes University, 2011
“American South as American Other” - English Faculty Conference Series, Oxford Brookes University, May 2012
“Bodies and New York City Spaces in Twentieth Century American Literature”, at the Arts and Humanities Spring Symposium, Oxford Brookes University, 2011
“Cold War Ideology and Highsmith’s Authentic Non-Self” at the Arts and Humanities Winter Symposium Oxford Brookes University, 2010
“The Influence of Suburban Architecture in Revolutionary Road”, at the BAAS Postgraduate Conference University of Northumbria, 2010
Other experience
PR Director, Show Curator and Communications Editor - OFS
PR - Calvin Klein (Paris and London; LFW 2010)
PA to the Editor, GQ Magazine
Editorial Assistant, Vogue Magazine