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Education

PhD American Literature – Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, 2021 – ‘Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War’

MPhil American Literature – Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 2017

BA English – Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 2016

Employment

Post-Doctoral Researcher – Sorbonne Université, 2024-2025 – Project AmHealth

Associate Lecturer – University College London, 2021-22

Fellowships

Kluge Fellowship – Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 2020

BMI Woody Guthrie Fellowship – Woody Guthrie Center, Tulsa, 2017

Publications

The Sound of Poetry in the American Civil War, forthcoming 2026, Edinburgh University Press

‘John Brown as Launcelot: The Influence of Tennyson on Herman Melville’s “The Portent”, ANQ, published online, September 2024

‘Home Front Lines: The Telegraphic Ballistics of Emily Dickinson’s Civil War Poetry’, French Journal of American Studies, 178, 2024

‘“a certain amount of windowpane trouble“: Injury, Censorship and Style in Ernest Hemingway’s London Writing’, Symbiosis, 26(2), 2022 (read here)

‘“Fit for war”: Rhythm and Bodily Health in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps’, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 38, 2020, 71-94

‘“A Dance That Is Danced Standing Still”: Poetic Motion in the Work of Woody Guthrie’, Woody Guthrie Annual, 2017, 4-40

Reviews

‘Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science, by Renée Bergland’, Transatlantica, 2, 2024

‘The Letters of Emily Dickinson’, Review of English Studies, 75(321), 2024, 513-514

‘Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Jarrett’, American Nineteenth Century History, 24(1), 2023

‘The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction’, Review of English Studies, 74(315), 2023, 583-585

‘Sound Recording Technology and American Literature by Jessica E. Teague’, Transatlantica, 1, 2022

‘Tied to the Mast: James Joyce and Absolute Music by Michelle Witen’, Cambridge Quarterly, 49(1), 2020

Invited Papers

‘When Persons Become Supposed: Emily Dickinson and the American Civil War’, A19 Seminar, Sorbonne Université & Université Paris Cité, 10 February 2022

Selected Conference Papers

‘Health and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature’, roundtable, MLA 2025

‘Dunbar on the Record Player’, BAAS Annual Conference 2023

‘American Civil War Poetry as Recording Technology’, Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures, online, December 2020

‘Dread, but the Whizzing’: Emily Dickinson’s Catastrophic Micro-Histories’, originally accepted for American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Diego, May 2020. Due to COVID-19, rearranged to Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, online, August 2020

‘Walt Whitman’s Wartime Rhythms’, American Literature Association Symposium on American Poetry, Washington, D.C., February 2020