I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of English, working under the supervision of Dr. Ronjaunee Chatterjee and Dr. Brooke Cameron. Some of my past research projects have looked at the use of Dorian Gray in Wilde's libel trial, female vampires in the 19th and 21st centuries, and werewolf short stories in England and Canada.
My dissertation, tentatively titled Making Queer Meaning: Coded Languages in the Diaries, Letters, and Poetry of Michael Field, aims to identify and analyze the forms of coded language that Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper) used to describe their queerness, their relationship, and their love for one another in their letters, diaries, and poetry collections Long Ago and Underneath the Bough.
Victorian literature, gender and sexuality studies, monstrosity, coded language, and archival studies, queerness, Gothic
Publications
[Forthcoming] “Heavenly Dances and Mortal Fights: Dance and Swordplay in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.” Journal of the Wooden O, edited by Dr. Stephanie Chamberlain.
“Categorizing Identity: Literary, Performative, and Legal Languages in Oscar Wilde’s Libel Trial vs the Marquess of Queensberry.” Inquiry@Queen’s Undergraduate Research Conference, 12-13 March 2020, Joseph S. Stauffer Library, Kingston, ON. Inquiry at Queen’s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings, 15 April 2020.
Conference Presentations
“‘the struggle of one thing twisting into another and back again’: The Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment of the Sea Lung in Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea.” Open Minds Open Graves, Sea Changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Conference, September 2025, British Library, London, UK.
“‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense’: Spatial Nonsense and Movement in Dreams in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Novels.” Student Association for Graduate English (SAGE)’s NON/SENSE 2025 Colloquium, March 2025, Montreal, QC.
“Imagining Unreal Worlds: Exploring Damage to Create Space for Desire in Kai Cheng Thom’s I Hope We Choose Love and Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee’s Death Threat.” Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures Annual Conference, June 2024, Montreal, Canada.
“‘The refuse of London’: Disease, the Working Class, and the Industrial Revolution in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem.” Re-imagining the Victorians Conference, April 2024, Kingston, Canada.
“Exploring Life, Exploring Dreams: The Dreamer’s Space in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.” Sixth Annual Dreams, Phantasms and Memories Conference, InMind Support, November 2023, Warsaw, Poland.
“Categorising Identity: Literary, Performative, and Legal Languages in Oscar Wilde’s Libel Trial vs the Marquess of Queensberry.” Summer+ 2019, June 2019, Bader College, Herstmonceux, United Kingdom.
Other Presentations
"Queer Traces: The Influence of Decadence and Aestheticism on Queer Coded Languages in the Late Nineteenth Century." Special Topic Presentations, May 2025, Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Watson Hall, Kingston.
“Representations of Female Sexuality and Desire in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy.” G.M. Trevelyan Research Prize, June 2022, Trevelyan College, Durham, United Kingdom.
“Carmilla, Female Sexuality, and Illness.” Middle Common Room Research Buffet, November 2021, Trevelyan College, Durham, United Kingdom.
