In my thesis, I am investigating the poetics of testimony in Jacques Derrida's later writings (from the mid-80s until his death). I'm interested in the different ways that testimony — and specifically the responsibility to testify for the other — is mediated through a variety of the recurring themes of his late thought (e.g., questions of secrets, cinders, justice, singularity and sovereignty), despite always remaining, in a certain sense, impossible.

Before commencing my DPhil studies at Oxford, I completed a BA in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Leeds and an MA in Modern Languages at King's College London. My broader interests are in 20th-century French philosophy and literature, the writings of Walter Benjamin, visual theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of hope, messianism, trauma, and memory.

My research is generously funded by Lady Margaret Hall's Walker Scholarship.