Profile
My PhD research, funded by LAHP, examines the representation of mortifications of the flesh in anglophone modernist literatures and their intersection with different spiritual traditions (Catholicism, Mysticism, Indigenous American religions, Hinduism). My work finds that these acts were of particular interest to both religious and irreligious modernist writers, intersecting with questions of belief, psychology, and selfhood characteristic of the period. Before Queen Mary, I studied a BA at Oxford and an MA at Durham. My broader research interests include modernism, sensory studies, religion and bodily experience, and forms of experimental writing.