I am a DPhil candidate at Lincoln College. I hold an MSt in Modern Languages (European Enlightenment) from Oxford (2023) and a BA in Modern Languages and History from Durham University (2014). My research is funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, the Lincoln College Kingsgate Scholarship, and the Clarendon Fund.

My thesis asks what it meant to call a piece of writing an essai in eighteenth-century France. It considers works called essais by Rousseau, d’Holbach, Montesquieu, and Diderot – although some were not given this title or prepared for print by their author, and others were never intended for publication at all. I'm also producing the first critical edition of two short, satirical works by the baron d’Holbach as part of the Voltaire Foundation Digital d’Holbach project.

My research interests include eighteenth-century French literature and thought, literary history and materiality, and the circulation of ideas.

Teaching

I teach French Sole Prelims Paper XIII: Key Texts in French Thought (2025-26) and I’m a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Lincoln College.

Outreach

I’ve taught seminars on French literature for the MML Faculty UNIQ summer school, the Opportunity Oxford programme, and delivered outreach sessions for secondary school students for the MML Faculty, Trinity College, and The Queen’s College.