Educational Background
Northumbria University
PhD, 18th Century Medical Humanities
My PhD is funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of the three-year Major Project, 'Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832'.
My thesis is titled: 'Every Woman Her Own Doctress': Literary Portrayals of Lay Woman Practitioners on the Stage and Page in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Principle supervisor: Prof. Clark Lawlor
Supervisors: Prof. Allan Ingram and Dr. Ashleigh Blackwood
2019 –
More information about the project can be found here: on the Writing Doctors website.
University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute
MA, Shakespeare and Theatre, Distinction
Dissertation: ‘White and Black Magic in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus’. Mark achieved: 78.
Supervisor: Dr. Chris Laoutaris.
2015 – 2016
University of Kent
MDrama (Hons), Drama and Theatre Studies (with a year abroad), First Class Honours
2010 – 2014
Universiteit Utrecht
Year Abroad (the Netherlands), Comparative Literature, 8.5 (First Class cum Laude)
2012 – 2013
PhD, 18th Century Medical Humanities
My PhD is funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of the three-year Major Project, 'Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832'.
My thesis is titled: 'Every Woman Her Own Doctress': Literary Portrayals of Lay Woman Practitioners on the Stage and Page in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Principle supervisor: Prof. Clark Lawlor
Supervisors: Prof. Allan Ingram and Dr. Ashleigh Blackwood
2019 –
More information about the project can be found here: on the Writing Doctors website.
University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute
MA, Shakespeare and Theatre, Distinction
Dissertation: ‘White and Black Magic in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus’. Mark achieved: 78.
Supervisor: Dr. Chris Laoutaris.
2015 – 2016
University of Kent
MDrama (Hons), Drama and Theatre Studies (with a year abroad), First Class Honours
2010 – 2014
Universiteit Utrecht
Year Abroad (the Netherlands), Comparative Literature, 8.5 (First Class cum Laude)
2012 – 2013
Publications
Book Chapters
- 'Studying in Solitude: Demythologising the Masculine Medical Monopoly with Jane Barker’s Galesia and Tobias Smollett’s Sagely', Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture, eds. Clark Lawlor, Allan Ingram and Helen Williams (Manchester: Manchester University Press, Under Contract)
Reviews
- Book review of Kevin Siena, Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Yale University Press, 2019), for Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies (June 2020)
Public Engagement
- 'Channelling the Challenges of Chronic Illness: The Poetry of Susanna Blamire' (Oxford: TORCH Oxford University, March 2022)
Paper Presentations
BSECS, Oxford University, 2020
'A Domestic Plague' or Household Hygieia? Tabitha Bramble as Domestic Medical Practitioner in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
'Barks, Berries & Bitter Pills', Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy, 2021.
In Search of the All-Healing Herb: Ginseng in the Eighteenth Century
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The North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies, Durham University, 2020
'A Domestic Plague' or Household Hygieia? Tabitha Bramble's Medical Practice in Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Smollett at 300, Institute of Advanced Studies: University of London, 2021
'Ladies with Facility': Smollett, Self-Help and Women's Domestic Medicine
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Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library
Fellowship awarded competitively
Short-Term Award for ‘Fashion Victims?: Women Mimicking, Moulding, and Managing Fashionable Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain.'
Awarded date: March 2020 for 2020-2021
Degree of recognition: International
Granting Organisation: The Huntington Library
Fellowship awarded competitively
Short-Term Award for ‘Fashion Victims?: Women Mimicking, Moulding, and Managing Fashionable Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain.'
Awarded date: March 2020 for 2020-2021
Degree of recognition: International
Granting Organisation: The Huntington Library
Teaching Experience
Northumbria University
Seminar Leader:
Literary Revolutions, Level 5, Second Year Module
Early Modern Cultures, Level 5, Second Year Module
Royal Ballet School, White Lodge
Assistant Drama Teacher, Years 7 – 11
Assistant English Teacher, Year 9
Healthy Performer Practice Teacher,
Years 7 – 8
Senior House Parent (Years 9 – 11)
Junior House Parent (Years 7 – 8)
2017 – 2018
Taunton School
Assistant Drama Teacher, Year 10 – 13
Drama Teacher, Year 9
Head of Drama Club, Years 7 – 8
Wills West House Parent (Years 9 – 13)
Wills West House Tutor (Year 10)
2016 – 2017
LAMDA Teacher
Over 50 Students Taught
Grades 4, 5, 6, and 7
66% awarded Distinction
33% awarded Merit
2017 – 2018
Seminar Leader:
Literary Revolutions, Level 5, Second Year Module
Early Modern Cultures, Level 5, Second Year Module
Royal Ballet School, White Lodge
Assistant Drama Teacher, Years 7 – 11
Assistant English Teacher, Year 9
Healthy Performer Practice Teacher,
Years 7 – 8
Senior House Parent (Years 9 – 11)
Junior House Parent (Years 7 – 8)
2017 – 2018
Taunton School
Assistant Drama Teacher, Year 10 – 13
Drama Teacher, Year 9
Head of Drama Club, Years 7 – 8
Wills West House Parent (Years 9 – 13)
Wills West House Tutor (Year 10)
2016 – 2017
LAMDA Teacher
Over 50 Students Taught
Grades 4, 5, 6, and 7
66% awarded Distinction
33% awarded Merit
2017 – 2018
Prizes
- My poster In Search of the All-Healing Herb: Ginseng in the Eighteenth Century was awarded a Highly Commended prize by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries at their Barks, Berries & Bitter Pills symposium.
Transcriber, Georgian Papers Programme
The GPP is partnership between the Royal Collection Trust and King’s College London to digitise, conserve, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and disseminate papers held in the Royal Archives and Royal Library relating to the Georgian period, 1714-1837. I was responsible for the initial transcription of a portion of George III’s medical papers, specifically over 70 letters from the king's physicians to the Prince of Wales dated between 1788 and 1818. I also contributed to Robert Fulke Greville’s journal for 1788, transcribing his daily bulletins and thoughts on the evolving condition of the king’s health at Kew Palace.
Japanese Object Research, the National Trust
I worked with the National Trust in identifying and researching objects from their extensive collection.
I uncovered the identify of three Japanese statues at Dyffryn Gardens, Wales, and produced comprehensive accompanying research essays on their subjects for internal circulation within the National Trust’s database, and created clear, concise versions for public consumption during their visits to the property.
I also catalogued incorrectly classified Japanese objet d’art at Croome Court, England, revealing the objects’ true subjects.
I uncovered the identify of three Japanese statues at Dyffryn Gardens, Wales, and produced comprehensive accompanying research essays on their subjects for internal circulation within the National Trust’s database, and created clear, concise versions for public consumption during their visits to the property.
I also catalogued incorrectly classified Japanese objet d’art at Croome Court, England, revealing the objects’ true subjects.
Fujin, God of Wind.
Dyffryn Gardens, Wales
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Botanka Shohaku, Renga and Waka Poet.
Dyffryn Gardens, Wales
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