Academic
LUX Article
In 2020, LUX Undergraduate Journal published my essay entitled ‘Oriental Monstrosity: The problematic progression of reading Western vampire culture’. You can read it on Issuu here.
The Death of the New Woman Project
I have presented a paper on a collaborative creative-critical project entitled “The Death of the New Woman: A Photographic Novel” with my friend and writer Lara Orriss. You can read the abstract here.
The conferences include:
Comics Up Close Conference
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, 11th October 2019
Spectacle and Spectatorship Conference
Lancaster University, 1st June 2019
You can read the conference report by Brontë Schiltz of this event in Fantastika 4:1. (p. 234-6).
For the images taken in this project, visit my photography portfolio.
SAMPLE ESSAY
I wrote this essay during my undergraduate degree at Lancaster University for a module on Literature and the Visual Arts. The feedback from my tutor was as follows:
“This is an exceptionally good piece of writing: bold, original and full of insight, the essay explores the phenomenon of Instapoetry with skill and finesse. You build on the debates we explored on the module very intelligently and I found your analysis of digital ekphrasis particularly illuminating. The references to Barthes and Sontag provide useful theoretical touchstones but you also engage with recent critical work in a way that makes this a highly pertinent intervention. Indeed, the essay is so compelling that it makes me think that the module would benefit from exploring Instapoetry alongside Rossetti, Auden and Atwood. So your work is challenging my thinking. In short, this is an outstanding essay.”
Research Interests
My research interests include:
- Romanticism and Gothicism.
- Hell and religion in literature.
- Digital literature and social media.
- Space and landscape in literature.
CSW 65 with UN Women UK
Between the 15th to the 26th March 2021, the 65th Commission on the Status of Women with the United Nations took place online for the first time. I attended the conference virtually as a delegate for UN Women UK, having applied in the previous month. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear from governments, NGOs, charities, and UN projects across the world and help move towards an equal world.
I learned so much from this conference, and I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to participate. I felt that it's essential to share the information from the summit back with my networks, which is why I wrote a conference report.
From how digital technology plays a role in making urban areas safer, the importance of education in achieving gender equality, and so much more, I hope you find it helpful in your own practices.
