I completed my doctoral thesis, 'Cervantes and the Rise of the Russian Novel', in 2019 at the University of Oxford. During this project I examined the reception of Cervantes (in particularly his Don Quixote, but also his Exemplary Stories) in the works of four canonical Russian writers: Pushkin, Gogol', Turgenev and Dostoevsky.  By exploring their attitudes towards Cervantes, his texts and his heroes, my work sheds new light on the development both of my selected authors' oeuvres and, by extension, of the wider Russian prose tradition. 

Prior to my DPhil, I completed an MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Durham, and a BA in Spanish and Russian at the University of Oxford. 

Teaching and Lecturing:

• Spanish FHS: Paper II (Unseen Translation)

• Spanish FHS: Paper VII (Lectures on Golden Age Prose)

• Russian Prelims: Graduate Mentor

Conference Proceedings:

• July 2019: 'Snapshots of Spain: Literary-historical Intersections on the Road in Cervantes' Don Quixote'. 13th Annual MEMSA Conference: Travel, Movement and Exploration in the Medieval and Early Modern World (University of Durham)

• May 2019: ‘Don Quijote’s Russian Sally: the Reception of Cervantes in Imperial Russia’. Russia and Europe: Linguistic and Cultural Encounters (University of Edinburgh)

• May 2019: ‘“А теперь люблю рыцаря бедного”: The “Poor Knight” in Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Dostoevsky's The Idiot’. Russian Graduate Seminar (University of Oxford)

• April 2019: ‘“Уж не пародия ли он?” Quixotic echoes in Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin’. BASEES Annual Conference (University of Cambridge)

• May 2017: ‘Violent Retribution in Gogol’’s “St John’s Eve” and “Nevsky Prospekt”’. Postgraduate Symposium on the Writing and Screening of Violence in Russian Culture (University of Oxford)

• January 2017: ‘A Fantastic Reality: The Function of Fear and Hatred in Nikolai Gogol’s “Viy”’. Deeper than Swords: Fear and Loathing in Fantasy and Folklore (University of Edinburgh)