Languages and Literature, University of Birmingham
Thesis title:
My dissertation explores the digital circulation of romance genre texts following long-21st century shifts in systems of publishing and media exchange. Situated within the genre’s history in the English language and drawing upon textual, archival, and qualitative research, I read four axes of encounter – subscription, series, metadata, and community – to draw a topography of contemporary navigational and interpretive circuits in digital reading.
“‘Like harvest moon, except I ate a guy:’ Graveyard Keeper’s Dark Ecology”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, June 2021, pp. 146-64, doi:10.5283/copas.347.
Upcoming. “‘Turn Back Now’: Re-reading Non-consent in the Genre Romance”. The Forgotten Forms of Contemporary Fiction seminar, American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting, March 14-17, 2024, Montreal, CA.
“Keynote panel: The Birmingham Romance Research Group.” International Association for the Study of Popular Romance 2023 Conference, University of Birmingham, 29 June 2023, Birmingham, UK.
“Autographic transfocalization in the romance: the case of Midnight Sun.” International Association for the Study of Popular Romance 2023 Conference, University of Birmingham, 28 June 2023, Birmingham, UK.
British Library PhD Placement Scheme, Sept 2023 – Feb 2024. Project: “Self-publishing and legal deposit”. Supervised by Ian Cooke within Contemporary British Collections.
Workshop: “Researching Romance.” Romantic Novelists’ Association Conference, 12 August 2023, Imperial College, London.
MA Freie Universität Berlin, North American Studies, 2022
BA Wesleyan University, Studio Art and German Studies, 2014
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