Educational Background
Northumbria University
PhD, English Literature, Passed without Corrections
My PhD was funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of the four-year Major Project, 'Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832'.
My thesis is titled: 'Every Woman Her Own Physician': Literary Portrayals of Lay Women Medical Practitioners on the Page and Stage in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Principle supervisor: Prof. Clark Lawlor. Secondary supervisors: Prof. Allan Ingram and Dr. Ashleigh Blackwood
Examiners: Dr. Noelle Dückmann-Gallagher and Dr. Claudine van Hensbergen
2019 – 2023
My thesis can be found online: on the British Library’s EThOS repository.
More information about the project can be found here: on the Writing Doctors website.
University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute
MA, Shakespeare & 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 & Theatre Studies (with an approved year abroad), First Class Honours
2010 – 2014
Universiteit Utrecht
Year Abroad (the Netherlands), Comparative Literature & Creative Writing, 8.5 (First Class cum Laude)
2012 – 2013
PhD, English Literature, Passed without Corrections
My PhD was funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of the four-year Major Project, 'Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832'.
My thesis is titled: 'Every Woman Her Own Physician': Literary Portrayals of Lay Women Medical Practitioners on the Page and Stage in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Principle supervisor: Prof. Clark Lawlor. Secondary supervisors: Prof. Allan Ingram and Dr. Ashleigh Blackwood
Examiners: Dr. Noelle Dückmann-Gallagher and Dr. Claudine van Hensbergen
2019 – 2023
My thesis can be found online: on the British Library’s EThOS repository.
More information about the project can be found here: on the Writing Doctors website.
University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute
MA, Shakespeare & 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 & Theatre Studies (with an approved year abroad), First Class Honours
2010 – 2014
Universiteit Utrecht
Year Abroad (the Netherlands), Comparative Literature & Creative Writing, 8.5 (First Class cum Laude)
2012 – 2013
Publications
Book Chapters
- Co-authored with Clark Lawlor, ‘Natural and Medical Science’, The Oxford Handbook of Henry Fielding, eds. Thomas Keymer and Henry Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Under Contract]
- ‘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) April 2024
- ‘“Such a Domestic Plague”?: The Silent Stewardship of Tabitha Bramble in Smollett’s ‘Humphry Clinker’, Tobias Smollett After 300 Years: Life, Writing, Reputation, ed. Richard Jones (Clemson: Clemson University Press) December 2023
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
Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2022
Susanna Blamire, Medicine, and Romantic Women’s Poetry: An Exploration in Celebration of the Work of C. H. Maycock
 '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
BSECS, Oxford University, 2020
'A Domestic Plague' or Household Hygieia? Tabitha Bramble as Domestic Medical Practitioner in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Smollett at 300, Institute of Advanced Studies: University of London, 2021
'Ladies with Facility': Smollett, Self-Help and Women's Domestic Medicine
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
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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 (Taken up June 2022 due to Covid)
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 (Taken up June 2022 due to Covid)
Degree of recognition: International
Granting Organisation: The Huntington Library
Teaching Experience
University of Worcester
Associate Lecturer: Academic English
Academic Writing Guidance, Level 3 to Postgraduate
February 2024 -
Worcester Learning Zone
English Tutor
English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing, Year 9 upwards
November 2023 -
The Brilliant Club
English Tutor
Through the Looking Glass: An Introduction to Literary Theory, Key Stage 3 Programme
Students under my tutelage saw an average increase of 12 marks over the course of their studies, the equivalent of more than an entire grade boundary
September 2022 - August 2024
Northumbria University
PhD Peer Mentor
I was tasked with guiding students through the processes associated with undertaking a PhD. I would work 1to1 with students to help them with their thesis work, research and referencing; providing practical and emotional support to assist them in passing both their project approval and first annual progression.
January 2021 – June 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Literary Revolutions, Level 5
Early Modern Cultures, Level 5
January 2020 – December 2020
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)
August 2017 – September 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)
September 2016 – August 2017
LAMDA Teacher
Over 50 Students Taught
Grades 4, 5, 6, and 7
66% awarded Distinction
33% awarded Merit
2017 – 2018
Associate Lecturer: Academic English
Academic Writing Guidance, Level 3 to Postgraduate
February 2024 -
Worcester Learning Zone
English Tutor
English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing, Year 9 upwards
November 2023 -
The Brilliant Club
English Tutor
Through the Looking Glass: An Introduction to Literary Theory, Key Stage 3 Programme
Students under my tutelage saw an average increase of 12 marks over the course of their studies, the equivalent of more than an entire grade boundary
September 2022 - August 2024
Northumbria University
PhD Peer Mentor
I was tasked with guiding students through the processes associated with undertaking a PhD. I would work 1to1 with students to help them with their thesis work, research and referencing; providing practical and emotional support to assist them in passing both their project approval and first annual progression.
January 2021 – June 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Literary Revolutions, Level 5
Early Modern Cultures, Level 5
January 2020 – December 2020
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)
August 2017 – September 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)
September 2016 – August 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.
Senior Research Assistant, Boxing on the Periphery, Northumbria University (Solomon Lennox)
I conducted archival research for this project which examines the violence enacted upon Black bodies in colonial America and England in the late 1700s – early 1900s. My research was focused on boxing matches which occurred on plantations between enslaved people, and battle royals staged in America during the Jim Crow Era, with a particular emphasis on the boxers Tom Molineaux and Bill Richmond.
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 Shōhaku, Renga and Waka Poet.
Dyffryn Gardens, Wales
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