Teaching

I am Director of Studies in French for St Catz. I teach all areas of French language and literature to first-year students at the College. To second years and finalists I teach seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and thought, as well as French language. I also teach on the MSt in the European Enlightenment.

About me

I was educated at a state school in Cardiff, and studied French and Italian at Worcester College, Oxford, where I also completed my Masters and DPhil. I spent two years as a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, before returning to Oxford and joining St Catherine’s in 2015. I have a particular interest in outreach and widening access, having been involved in the UNIQ summer schools for several years, and given a number of talks to schools. Please contact me if I can be of assistance in similar activities.

Research

I work in the field of eighteenth-century literature and thought, with a particular interest in the ways in which authors create a public image of themselves, both in their lifetime and after their death. My first book examines the French career of the Italian author Carlo Goldoni. My current project, Imagined Afterlives, thinks about early modern texts that project into the future, and how they might affect authors and readers in the present. I have also taken part in a variety of engagement events (including a youth theatre collaboration), and published critical editions (including an edition of plays about the revolutionary Mirabeau) and translations (including an open access, collaborative translation produced with second year students from St Catz). Other interests include celebrity, posterity, anonymity, and socio-historical approaches to literature.

For further information, and a list of publications, please navigate here.