I'm interested in modern and contemporary literature and thought. My research to date has focused on the work of Maurice Blanchot.   

My monograph Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot will be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2023. This book reappraises the influential French thinker Maurice Blanchot's writing from the 1940s to his late work in the 1980s, demonstrating how Blanchot's exploration of the question of technology remains decisive throughout his career. It situates Blanchot's fictional and critical work in the context of his thinking of art as techne - the Greek root of 'technology' meaning both craft and art - as it develops out of Martin Heidegger's philosophy.

I am working on a new project which begins by examining the influences behind Blanchot's third and final novel Le Très-Haut [1948].

Teaching

I teach French Prelims papers III and IV, FHS papers VIII and XI, and translation at all levels at St Anne's and St Edmund Hall.

Publications

Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)

'Uncontrollable Mechanisms: Maurice Blanchot's Inorganic Writing', French Studies, 73.3 (July 2019), 401-15 https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knz130

Review of A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 by Maurice Blanchot, trans. by Michael Holland, Modern and Contemporary France, 26: 1 (2018), 103-04

Other projects

I project manage the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. 

In 2023 I will be chair of the judges for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.

I am co-director, with Ros Schwartz, of Bristol Translates Summer School.

I work for The Queen's College Translation Exchange overseeing the running of the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators. I develop resource templates for all languages and select texts and design resources for French and German. In 2022, the second year of the prize, over 14,000 students participated in the competition.

At the Translation Exchange I am also on the Steering Group for Inclusive Outreach through Translation. I am running a new project for schools in Rochdale in 2022-23, in partnership with Oxford MML, Cambridge MMLL, and the Stephen Spender Trust. I ran the Fiamma Luzzati Covid-19 comic blog translation project over the summer of 2020.

For several years I worked with schools in the West Midlands on widening participation initiatives as WP Lead for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick. I am interested in understanding the barriers preventing students from all backgrounds enjoying, and choosing to study, languages.