About

I am an Early Career Academic in Creative and Cultural Industries. In this role, I research digital feminist and popular feminist responses to Incels and the manosphere. My broader research interests are 21st century women's writing, feminist theory, queer theory, and radical adaptations. I am a committee member for the BAAS and US Embassy funded Transatlantic Literary Women network. 

Teaching responsibilities

I teach on the following modules: 

• Tragedy 
• Gender & Identity in Contemporary Literature

I co-lead the following module: 

• Reading the Contemporary

Research interests

My current research investigates Incels and the manosphere. I am interested in how digital feminist activism and books written by women for general audiences are raising awareness and affecting change in this field. I am also interested in the contentious relationship between the manosphere and the Alt-Right, and their impact in both online and offline society. 

Previously, my doctoral research focused on contemporary feminist adaptations of Greek myth, the trends within this genre, and what these texts revealed about current concerns within feminism and feminist theory. 

Membership of professional bodies

• Transatlantic Literary Women, University of Glasgow
• Hufton Centre for Gender History, University of Glasgow 
• American Comparative Literature Association
• Contemporary Women Writers Association 
• Northeast Modern Languages Association 
• Connotations Society for Critical Debate 

Qualifications

• BA (hons.), English and American Literature, University of Kent
• MA (hons.), Women's Studies, University of York 
• Doctor of Philosophy, English Literature, University of Glasgow

Recent conferences

Invited talks

• '"Girl against the world": Antigone's Afterlives in Contemporary Feminist Adaptations of Greek Myth', Research Salon, University of Kent, November 2023
• 'Ancient Myths, Modern Masculinities: Toxic Masculinity in Greek Myth Retellings', public lecture, Erasmus Darwin House, October 2023
• ‘Multitextual Medea: Medea in 21^st Century American Women’s Writing’, Transatlantic Literary Women, University of Glasgow, October 2023
•  'Multitextual Medea: Updating the Classical Canon', The Biennial Connotations Symposia, Kloster Schönenberg (Ellwangen, Germany), July-August 2023          
• ‘Here be Monsters! Sea Monsters of Scottish Folklore and Beyond’, Scottish Maritime Museum, August 2022
• ‘Kamila Shamsie: A Transatlantic Literary Woman’, Transatlantic Literary Women, University of Glasgow, July 2020
• ‘Exploring Contemporary Women Writers’ Adaptation of Myth for Feminist Purposes’, Peer Symposium for English Literature PhDs, University of Glasgow [co-organiser], October 2019
• ‘Speculating on Ecofeminism and Fantasy’, Symposium on Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, May 2019

 Selected conference papers and workshops

• 'Multitextual Medeas: Revisiting the Witch in 21st Century Women's Writing', American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, March 2024
•  'Popular Feminist Textual Interventions in the Manosphere', Annual Terrorism and Extremism Colloquium, European Society of Criminology & University of Portsmouth Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime, February 2024
• 'Roundtable: Open Access in short-form publications', Open Access Week, University of Derby & University of Essex, October 2023
• ‘Speculating on the Climate Catastrophe in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy’, Once and Future Fantasies Conference, University of Glasgow and the IAFA, July 2022
• ‘Madeline Miller’s Circe as the Archetype of Contemporary Feminist Adaptations of Greek Myth’, Popular Feminist Novel Beyond Escapism, UCL, June 2022
• ‘“We called him the butcher”: Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls Textual Exploration Workshop’, Adapting Violence in/from ‘Classic Texts’, University of Bern, March 2022
• ‘Decolonising the Classics in contemporary adaptations of Greek myth’, Contemporary Women Writing Race: Textual Interventions and Intersections Symposium, CWWA, October 2021
•  ‘Madeline Miller’s Circe as the Archetype of Contemporary Feminist Adaptations of Greek Myth’, NeMLA 52nd Annual Convention, Buffalo, New York, USA, March 2021
• ‘From White Men to White Feminism: Adaptations of Greek Myth’, GIFCon, April 2021 
• ‘Contemporary Women’s Adaptations of Myth for Feminist Purposes: #Instapoetry Edition’, Reading #Instapoetry, global, July 2020
• ‘“Now that I’m dead, I know everything”: Interrogating ghosts in feminist adaptations of Greek myth’, Afterlives: College of Arts Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Glasgow, July 2020
•  ‘Could Briseis Consent?’ Consent Conference, Durham University, August 2019
• ‘In the Margins of Myth and Feminism: The Women Writers of the Canongate Myth Series’, British Comparative Literature Association Postgraduate Conference, University of Strathclyde, December 2018

In the media

• I received death threats for calling the Mr Men books sexist | Metro News

Recent publications

See my research on my ORCID profile or on my ResearchGate profile.