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I am Lecturer in English Literature. 

I attended my local comprehensive school in Milton Keynes and studied for a BA in English and American Literature at the University of Kent. I have an MA and PhD, both in Comparative Literature and Critical Thought, from King's College London. My doctoral work focussed on theories of silence and the unsayable in modern thought and literature, for which I won the Elsevier Outstanding Thesis Prize (an internal award at King's). This was the basis for my first book, "Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy", which was published in 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan. 

I was Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UEA from 2019 to 2023. My project, 'The Graphic Turn: Drawing in Modern Poetry and Philosophy', looked, broadly, at the intersections between the discourse of drawing in philosophy, art history and aesthetic theory, and considered how these threads might inform a theory of poetic form. 

I have an abiding interest in the work of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens and I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Wallace Stevens Journal. My co-edited book, Wallace Stevens in Theory, was published by Liverpool University Press in summer 2023.