About Me
I am a researcher and writer based in London, UK.
I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) where I am working on two book projects: an edited collection of essays on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, forthcoming in the Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Philosophy series, and my second monograph, tentatively entitled The Aesthetics of Wagner, Nietzsche, and Joyce:In Search of the Universal forthcoming with Camden House. Prior to joining the ILCS, I was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin from 2022 to 2024. I am a comparatist working on the aesthetic intersections between literature, music, and philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
I received my PhD in Comparative Literature from the School of European Languages, Culture, and Society (German) at University College London in March 2020 and have held funded scholarships and visiting fellowships at Yale University, the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, the ILCS, and Queen Mary University of London. My first book, Music and Myth in Modern Literature, was published by Routledge in 2021. I have also published several journal articles and book chapters on the relationship between music and literature.
I have taught 19th- and 20th-century literature, literary theory, health humanities, and modern German thought at Trinity College Dublin, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, and Richmond American University London.
Publications & Research
‘Re-Joycing in Song: Love, Death and Nationhood in Ulysses’ in Ife, Rushworth and Scott (eds.), Proceedings of the British Academy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 139–154.
‘The Aesthetics of Music and Myth: Joyce, Mann, Nietzsche’ in Sprachkunst, (2020), pp. 81-110.
in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, (2019), pp. 100-113.
‘Joyce and music: the sound of avant-garde prose’ in Estudios de Literatura Comparada 1 (Vol. 1): LAS ARTES DE LA VANGUARDIA LITERARIA, pp. 93-100.
Teaching Experience
2023 Trinity College Dublin
Co-Lecturer on the Level 5 (Senior Freshman) Module ‘Modernisms: Making it New’. Lectured on James Joyce’s Ulysses to a group of c.200 students.
Led tutorial groups on ‘Literary Theory’ and ‘Modernisms’.
2019–20 Richmond American University London
Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts. Convened and taught Level 3 and 4 Research and Writing Courses.
Faculty Advisor for students on international internships.
Internal Moderator on Level 4 Philosophy papers.
2018–19 Queen Mary University of London
Teaching Fellow in German and Comparative Literature. Convened and taught the Level 5/6 module: ‘German Thought 1: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud’.
Lectured on a range of topics relating to German Thought, in particular concepts and theories introduced by Marx, Engels, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Wagner, Nietzsche and Freud.
2017–18 University College London
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant on the MA module ‘Madness and Literature’ for the MA in Health Humanities.
Led seminars on literary depictions of madness, select authors taught include William Blake, Fyodor Dostoevsky, E. M. Forster, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf and W. B. Yeats.
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant on the MA module ‘Modern Literary Theory’ for the MA in Comparative Literature.
Led seminars on topics including the Affective Turn, Anthropology and Literature, Marxist Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis and Ethics and Representation. Select authors taught include Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, Julia Kristeva, Edgar Allan Poe and Jacques Lacan.
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