Research

My research investigates the poetics of testimony in the writings of the philosopher Jacques Derrida. I'm interested in the different ways that testimony – particularly the responsibility to testify for others – is mediated through the recurring themes of his late thought. My thesis demonstrates that Derrida's thinking provides novel ways of understanding testimony more broadly, especially with regard to the political and poetic significance of its singularity, its relationship with death, survival, and responsibility, and its opening of a critical space for considering nonhuman witnessing.

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 include 20th-century French thought and literature, deconstruction, poetics, and psychoanalysis.

My research is generously funded by the Oxford-Lady Margaret Hall Walker Graduate Scholarship.

Teaching

Lectures on Simone de Beauvoir's Le deuxième sexe for the French Sole Prelims: Key Texts in French Thought (Paper XIII) (2027) 

Lecture on 'Derrida and Literature: An Introduction to Deconstruction' for the Graduate Lecture Series (2026)

Tutor for the French Sole Prelims: Introduction to Literary Theory (Paper XII) (2025–26, 2026–27)

Conference and Seminar Papers

'Derrida, Celan: Hedgehogs, Hearts, and the "devenir-poétique de la parole"', French Graduate Research Seminar, All Souls College, December 2025

'"La date est un témoin": Derrida and the (Im)possible Testimony of Dates', Society for European Philosophy, King's College London, July 2025

Other Activities and Roles

Participant at the Derrida Seminar Translation Project workshop at the Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine in Normandy (July 2026)

Co-organiser of the Witnessing the World Otherwise: Testimony, Community, and the (Post-)Human conference at the Maison Française d'Oxford (June 2026) (more on this here)

Co-convener of the 'Witnessing the World Otherwise Network' as part of the TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities scheme (2025 onwards)

French Sub-Faculty Graduate Representative and Secretary on the Graduate Joint Consultative Committee (2025–26)

Academic Assistant to Professor Nikolaj Lübecker (2025 onwards)

Co-convener of the 'La Philosophie en effet' seminar series on 'Intellectual Influences' (2025)

Scholarships and Awards

Funding to organise a conference at the Maison Française d'Oxford (November 2025): Davis Visiting Speaker Grant (Lady Margaret Hall), Conference and Workshop Grant (Society for French Studies), and Critical-Thinking Communities Grant (TORCH)

Academic Development Grant (Lady Margaret Hall) to attend the Society for European Philosophy (June 2025)