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

 

Teaching & Research

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

I have published articles and reviews 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 works. My master's thesis explored the intersections between science and art in Jules Verne's juvenile fiction. It analysed the relationship between imperial scientific and museological discourse and the ambition to explore and 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, public lectures, workshops and outreach programs 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 the Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2019 & 2020, 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 2022, (Paris)
  • 'Analysing Race and Gender in Children's Literature ', at the Lord Florey Talk - Trinity Term 2021 (University of Oxford)
  • 'The Role of Universities and Colleges in Combating Racism' at the Lincoln Anti-Racism Roundtable (University of Oxford)
  • ‘Should Governments Pay Restitution for their Predecessors' Acts?’, at the Lincoln Leads 2021 Seminar Series (University of Oxford)
  • ‘Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Personal Collection of Curiosities: A Museum Structured by Sight’, at the Perlego: Critical Perspectives on Image and Text Conference, (Taylor Institution, University of Oxford)
  • ‘The Self Translation of Personal Pronouns in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, at the 4th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society: Transdisciplinary Beckett, (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitan, Mexico City)
  • '"Only Poets Know the Truth About Us": From James Baldwin to Kendrick Lamar - Peace, Love and Self-Knowledge as Resistance', at the 2018 Hip Hop Studies Conference: Show and Prove, (University of California Riverside, Los Angeles)
  • '"A Poet To Some, A Regular Modern Day Shakespeare": Eminem's Commercial and Artistic Success', at the 2018 Hip Hop Studies Conference: Show and Prove, (University of California Riverside, Los Angeles)
  • ‘Memory Manipulation and Personal Identity: Beckett, Nolan and Gondry’ at the 2018 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
  • ‘Why Does Literature Outlive its Moment?’, at the Lincoln Leads 2019 Seminar Series (University of Oxford)
  • '"Et si le beat est lourd, je l'adoucie à la poésie": Le succès commercial et artistique de MC Solaar', at the 20th Annual Conference of the ADEFFI (University College Dublin, Dublin)
  • ‘The Self Translation of the Representation of the Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, at the International Samuel Beckett Conference: Literature and translation, (University of Extremadura, Spain)
  • ‘The Self Translation of Mental Verbs in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, at the Creative Multilingual Identities Conference 2018, (University of Reading)

 

Publications 

  • ‘Conversational Counter-Memorialisation: Negotiating England’s Troubled Histories Through Uncomfortable Walking Tours’, in Radical History Review, Duke University Press, 2024 (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, Alvarez and Gonzalez, 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

 

Drama Reviews

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