In my thesis, I am investigating the poetics of testimony in Jacques Derrida's later writings (from the mid-80s until his death). I'm interested in the different ways that testimony — and specifically the responsibility to testify for the other — is mediated through the recurring themes of his late thought (e.g., questions of secrets, cinders, justice, singularity, and sovereignty), despite always remaining, in a certain sense, impossible.

Before commencing my DPhil studies at Oxford, I completed a BA in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Leeds and an MA in Modern Languages at King's College London. My broader interests are in 20th-century French philosophy and literature, the writings of Walter Benjamin, visual theory, psychoanalysis, and memory studies.

My research is generously funded by Lady Margaret Hall's Walker Scholarship.