Elly recently completed a DPhil in French at Wadham College. She holds an MSt in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (University of Oxford) and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (University of Cambridge). She has also studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France.

Funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities, Elly’s doctoral project explored points of encounter between water and experience in twenty-first-century women’s writing in French. Her thesis brings together the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Nathacha Appanah, Amélie Nothomb, and Fatou Diome to analyse the role of water in literary representations of distress, doing so in conversation with posthuman and decolonial feminisms. Elly’s other research interests include: the environmental humanities; feminist visual and material cultures; critical disability studies; LGBTQ+ literatures; and the work of Paul B. Preciado. In her spare time, she writes fiction and poetry.

Elly is a first-generation student and, before going to university, attended state schools in Southend-on-Sea.

Teaching and Outreach

Prelims Paper III: Short Texts

Prelims French Sole Paper XI: Introduction to French Film Studies

FHS Paper IIA: Translation from French

FHS Paper XII: Special Subject in Advanced Translation

FHS Paper XIV: Dissertation

Elly continues to teach world literatures in French and English across the university, and participates in Widening Participation programmes such as OxNet and UNIQ.  She is also a co-convenor of the Feminist Critical Theories and Practices series based at Magdalene College, Cambridge, which invites undergraduate and postgraduate students to think critically and creatively with contemporary feminisms.