Research 

My research project is focussed on the modernisation of mathematics and literature in late Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. I focus on a variety of writers, artists, and mathematicians, and work with prose, poetry, literary manifestos, pedagogy and (popular) mathematical writing from 1900-1930. I seek to understand how and why writers engaged with contemporaneous mathematical ideas, and incorporated mathematics into their creative practice. Simultaneously, I seek to unravel the influence of literature and art on late Imperial and early Soviet mathematicians in their approach to mathematics and in their (non-)scientific writings. 

I graduated from the University of St Andrews in 2023 with an MA (Hons) in Mathematics and Russian, and an MSt in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford in 2024. 

My research is co-supervised by Professors Philip Bullock and Christopher Hollings, and generously funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP, Wadham College's Mr Michell Scholarship, and the Clarendon fund.

Teaching and Outreach 

Alongside my own research, I enjoy sharing the joy of language learning with others in my role as a Modern Languages Graduate Ambassador (2024 onwards). I have led a variety of lessons introducing school groups to the Russian language, as well as introductory workshops on Soviet-era poetry. I have also worked with Charlotte Douglas at the Queen's Translation Exchange to discuss the transferable skills of learning languages, even in my experience as a mathematics student. I have also delivered introductory workshops as part of the UNIQ summer school.

'The Figure of the Mathematician Nikolai Lobachevskii in Modernist Russophone Poetry and Literary Criticism (1910–30)', Graduate Lecture Series, TT26.

BO1.1 History of Mathematics, Teaching Assistant, MT24.

Conference Papers 

‘Jakob Lintsbakh’s Transcendental Algebra as a Language of Mathematics’, BASEES Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, April 2026.

‘Anxiety and Crisis in Late Imperial Russian and Early Soviet Mathematics 1900-35’, British Society for the History of Mathematics’ Research in Progress, Queen's College, Oxford, March 2026.

‘Velimir Khlebnikov as both a Mathematician and a Poet’, XI International Council for Central and East European Studies World Congress, UCL, July 2025.