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Lecturer: St Catherine's College & DPhil: Lincoln College

 

Teaching & Research

I work on Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Imperial History, Museum Studies, Material Culture, and Hip Hop Studies across Oxford's Colleges and Faculties, and at the Ashmolean Museum.

I have published on Samuel Beckett and Self-Translation, Public History, and Hip Hop. I have also been invited to speak on various topics such as Decolonising History,  Hip Hop Poetics, Discrimination in Literature, Colonial Reparations, Critical Museology, and French and English Literature.

My doctoral thesis examined self-translation in Samuel Beckett’s artistic process. It compared the effects of multilingual creativity on the construction and representation of personal and cultural identity in his prose Trilogy, across French and English versions. My master's thesis explored the intersections between science and art in Jules Verne's fiction. It analysed the relationship between naturalist discourse and the ambition to appropriate the world present in his prose works.

 

Public Engagement with Research

I am Co-Director at Uncomfortable Oxford, a Social Enterprise which runs walking tours, workshops, public lectures, and community outreach programmes to raise awareness and encourage discussions about the 'uncomfortable' legacies of inequality and imperialism in the city as well as the politics of memory built in its environment. 

I was Co-Organiser of two Lincoln Leads Seminar Series, which showcases the exciting and diverse research connected to Lincoln College, and opens up this research to non-specialist audiences.

 

Papers, Talks, & Conferences

  • ‘Let’s Talk It Over: Walking Tours, Knowledge Exchange, and the Co-Production of Urban Geographies’ at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference – Participatory Geographies (London)
  • 'Liberté, Egalité, Beyoncé: Museum Mining by Revolutionary Royalty', at the European Hip Hop Studies Conference (Paris)
  • 'Analysing Race and Gender in Children's Literature ', at the Lord Florey Talk (Oxford)
  • ‘Discollecting the Pitt Rivers Museum’, Radical Hope Series (Oxford)
  • 'The Role of Universities and Colleges in Combating Racism' at the Lincoln Anti-Racism Roundtable (Oxford)
  • ‘Should Governments Pay Restitution for their Predecessors' Acts?’, at the Lincoln Leads Seminar Series (Oxford)
  • ‘Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Personal Collection of Curiosities: A Museum Structured by Sight’, at the Perlego Conference (Oxford)
  • ‘The Self Translation of Personal Pronouns in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, at the 4th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society: Transdisciplinary Beckett (Mexico City)
  • 'From James Baldwin to Kendrick Lamar - Peace, Love and Self-Knowledge as Resistance', at the Hip Hop Studies Conference: Show and Prove - UC Riverside (Los Angeles)
  • 'Eminem's Commercial and Artistic Success', at the Hip Hop Studies Conference: Show and Prove - UC Riverside (Los Angeles)
  • ‘Memory Manipulation and Personal Identity: Beckett, Nolan and Gondry’ at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting - UCLA (Los Angeles)
  • ‘Why Does Literature Outlive its Moment?’, at the Lincoln Leads Seminar Series (Oxford)
  • 'Poétiques de Mc Solaar et de Baudelaire', at the Conference of the ADEFFI - UCD (Dublin)
  • ‘The Self Translation of the Representation of the Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, at the International Samuel Beckett Conference: Literature and translation (Extremadura)
  • ‘The Self Translation of Mental Verbs in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, at the Creative Multilingual Identities Conference (Reading)

 

Publications 

  • ‘Conversational Counter-Memorialisation: Negotiating England’s Troubled Histories Through Uncomfortable Walking Tours’, in Radical History Review, Duke University Press, (forthcoming)
  • ‘The Self Translation of the Representation of the Mind in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy ’ in Samuel Beckett and Translation, eds. José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre García, Edinburgh University Press, 2021
  • ‘The Self Translation of Personal Pronouns in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy ’ in Transdisciplinary Beckett/Beckett Transdisciplinar, 2020 (forthcoming)
  • ‘Beckett The Bilingual Self-Translator’ in Samuel Beckett: Literature and Translation, ed. Moreno, Álvarez and González, pp.247-264, Peter Lang Editions, 2020
  • Book Review on In Search of Soul : Hip-Hop Literature, and Religion by Alejandro Nava in Journal of Hip Hop Studies Special Issue Religion and Hip Hop And Volume 5, Issue 1, Summer 2019

 

Theatre Reviews

Theatre and opera reviews published on the University of Lausanne’s Atelier Critique website: