I took my BA in Modern Languages from Christ Church, University of Oxford. After a year teaching French and German at St. Edward's, Oxford, I received a Christ Church Studentship in Modern Languages to study for an MSt specialising in Medieval German literature. My dissertation, examining the German tradition of Marian laments, aimed to shed new light on the late fifteenth-century Bordesholmer Marienklage by reading it both as a product of a literary tradition as well as through historical, theological, paraliturgical and homiletic lenses. My doctoral work, made possible by the Oxford-Dieter Schwarz Graduate Scholarship, embarks on a literary-critical study of Hildegard of Bingen's visionary trilogy.

More broadly, I am interested in medieval conceptions of authorship and creation, text and music, style and form, processes of translation and rewriting in Latin and the vernacular, monastic literary production, and mysticism.