Cohort Year:
2024
Research Interests:
the novel; aesthetic theory; ekphrasis; history of the body and embodiment; literature and financialization; Marxism(s); narrative and narratology; post-45; visuality; gender and sexuality; queer studies
Education:
MSt English (1900-present), University of Oxford, 2022; BA English, Barnard College, 2020
At its core, my work explores the history and politics of perception through the lens of literature. I’m interested in what happens to art under late capitalism—and the impact of financialization on sensory perception and embodiment. Examining the economic assumptions that undergird descriptive practices, I study the ways in which aesthetic experience is structured by a shift from the commodity to the asset form in late 20th and early 21st century novels. I’ve previously worked as a journalist for a small financial publication, with young children on reading practice/s, in film production, and as an editor of The Oxonian Review, a UK-based literary/criticism publication.