Self-Commemoration and the Pursuit of Immortality in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literary Culture
Research Area
Languages and Literature
Publications
'Shakespeare's History Plays: 2022 Publications', The Year's Work in English Studies, 102 (2024), 79-95.
'Shakespeare's History Plays: 2021 Publications', The Year's Work in English Studies, 102 (2024), 71-9.
'Select Bibliography', in William Shakespeare: Comedies, Volume 1 (London: Everyman's Library, 2024), pp. clviii-clxvii.
'Select Bibliography', in William Shakespeare: Comedies, Volume 2 (London: Everyman's Library, 2024), pp. clxxxiii-cxciv.
'Select Bibliography', in William Shakespeare: Romances (London: Everyman's Library, 2024), pp. clxiii-clxxiv.
'Select Bibliography', in William Shakespeare: Histories, Volume 1 (London: Everyman's Library, 2024), pp. lxxxix-xcvi.
'Select Bibliography', in William Shakespeare: Histories, Volume 2 (London: Everyman's Library, 2024), pp. cxxii-cxxxi.
'Select Bibliography', in William Shakespeare: The Sonnets and Narrative Poems (London: Everyman's Library, 2024), pp. xxxiv-xxxvi.
'Select Bibliography', in William Shakespeare: Tragedies, Volume 1 (London: Everyman's Library, 2024), pp. ci-cx.
'"Are we all met?": Responding to Shakespeare's Canon through Online Community Performance', in Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation, ed. by G. K. Allred, B. Broadribb, and E. Sullivan (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2022). (Co-author).
Conferences
Participant, 'Shakespeare's Historical Biographies' Seminar, British Shakespeare Association Conference, De Montfort University, June 2024
Chair, Dr Urvashi Chakravarty's Plenary, British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, June 2024
Chair, Dr Will Green, Dr Anna L. Hegland, and Dr Sam Jermy's Plenary, British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, June 2024
Panel Chair, '(De)Constructing the Canon: The History of Shakespeare Criticism and the Formulation of an English Literary Tradition', British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, June 2024
Panel Chair, '"Tragical-comical-historical-pastoral": Cutting, Pasting, and (De)Constructing Genre in Shakespearean Drama', British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, June 2024
Presenter, '"Speak of me as I am": Deathbed Self-eulogising as a Form of Epitaph-writing in Shakespeare's Othello', PGR Seminar Series, Shakespeare Institute, March 2024
Presenter, '"There is a new shepheard late vp sprong, / The which doth all afore him far surpasse": Samuel Daniel, Edmund Spenser, and the English Literary Tradition', British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, September 2023
Presenter, '"All our understandings are not to be built by the square of Greece and Italy": Samuel Daniel and the English Literary Tradition', Canterbury MEMS Festival, University of Kent, June 2023
Presenter, '"I can erect no other pillars to sustaine my memorie, but my lines": Samuel Daniel's Quest for Poetic Immortality', PGR Seminar Series, Shakespeare Institute, April 2023
Presenter, '"Here are my sons…/ There's my eternity": Anti-Providentialism and Secular Immortality in Cyril Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy (1611)', Midlands4Cities Research Festival, Online, June 2022
Presenter, '"Heaven hath through me restored the King to health": Helena as Mediatrix in All's Well That Ends Well', British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, June 2022
Panel Chair, Magic/Supernatural Panel, British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, June 2022
Panel Chair, Musical Shakespeare Panel, British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, June 2022
Panel Chair, Early Modern Sciences Panel, British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, June 2022
Public Engagement & Impact
Malone Society Orders Assistant, 2024-
Co-Chair, British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, 2024
Panellist, M4C Welcome Event, Online, June 2023
Registrar, British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, 2021-22
School Student Representative, Shakespeare Institute, 2021-22
English, Drama, and Creative Writing First-Year PhD Representative, University of Birmingham, 2021-22
Equality and Diversity Student Representative, Shakespeare Institute, 2019-20
Other Research Interests
Post-Reformation Christianity
Epitaphs and Monuments
Commemoration of the Dead
Early Modern Drama
Textual Legacies
Memberships
The Arts Society
The Church Monuments Society
The Malone Society
British Shakespeare Association
Shakespeare Association of America
Awards
HEFi Horizon Teaching Award, University of Birmingham, awarded 2024
Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Award (full funding), awarded 2021-2025
Shakespeare Institute Sir Stanley Wells Prize for outstanding scholarly work in an MA dissertation, awarded 2020 (£50)
Durham University Scholarship, awarded 2016-2019 (£16,500)
Teaching
Postgraduate Demonstrator at the Shakespeare Institute for the 'Shakespeare's Legacy' module (2023-24)
Postgraduate Demonstrator at the Shakespeare Institute for the 'Research Skills' module (2023-24)
Postgraduate Demonstrator at the Shakespeare Institute for the 'Plays and Poems of Shakespeare A' module (2022-23)
Previous Education
MA Shakespeare Studies at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 2019-2020
BA (Hons) English Literature at Durham University, 2016-2019 (Van Mildert College)
Other Skills
Website Design for the British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad.com), 2023-24
Communications Management for the British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, 2021-22, 2023-24
