I am the Salvesen Junior Research Fellow at New College. Before joining New College, I held an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2023) and a Wiener-Anspach Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2021). From 2023-25, I held a lectureship in English at Oriel College, University of Oxford. I received my BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge (Churchill College, King’s College) and my MSt from the University of Oxford (Somerville College). 

Teaching 

At Oxford, I have taught early modern literature in English across BA English (FHS Papers 1, 3, and 4) and BA Classics and English (Prelims Paper 3, FHS Paper 5). I have supervised BA and MSt dissertations and delivered lectures and classes at the Faculty of English.

Research 

My research tracks relations – and agitations – between geometry, number theory, ecology, and early modern English poetics. I am currently revising my first monograph, Shape Misshaped: Poetics, Mathematics and The Faerie Queene, for publication. Arguing for the ‘stranger mathematics’ of The Faerie Queene, the book reveals how Spenser’s verse geometries shape a poetic world that qualifies, even rivals, contemporary cosmic models. I have also begun work on my second major research project: Early Modern Ecopoetics, 1540-1690. In 2023, my study of Spenser’s ‘toadstool poetics’ was awarded the ISS Isabel MacCaffrey Prize for the best essay on Spenser published in 2021-22. Chapters in progress include contributions to edited volumes on Shakespeare’s lyric poetry, ‘premodern probability’, and Love’s Martyr (the collection in which Shakespeare’s ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ was first published).

Selected Publications 

• ‘Algorithmic Spenser’, ed. Bethany Dubow and Michael Ullyot, special issue for The Spenser Review 54.2 (2024)
• ‘Bad Writers Fail to “Compasse”?’, The Spenser Review 54.1 (‘Spenser and Bad Poetry’), ed. Richard Danson Brown, Andrew Hadfield and Andrew Wadoski (2024)
• ‘A Fruitful-Headed Beast? Rhyme in The Faerie Queene’, in Edmund Spenser and Animal Life, ed. Abigail Shinn and Rachel Stenner (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 203-236
• ‘“Roote out those odde rymes”! The unruly matter of early modern English verse’, in Special Forum: Early English New Materialisms, ed. Adin Lears and Tekla Bude, Exemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory 35.2 (2023),  
• ‘Toadstool Poetics: Alliteration in The Faerie Queene’, Spenser Studies 36 (2022), 91-135
• ‘Fractal Geometry in Errour’s Den’ in Kirsten Schuhmacher et al., ‘Spenserian Futures’, Spenser Review 50.3.4 (2020)
• (with Bonnie Lander Johnson) ‘Allegories of Creation: Glassmaking, Forests and Fertility in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi’, Renaissance Drama 45.1 (2017), 107-37