My research is in early modern book history, using both traditional and digital methods. Currently, I am a postdoc on the Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe (DORMEME) project (PI: Elisabeth Giselbrecht). DORMEME investigates the dissemination and use of polyphonic music books printed 1500–1545 through analysis of surviving copies, data from which is being captured in a TEI XML database.

Previously, I was a postdoc on the Continental European Books in Early Modern England, 1500–1640 (CEBEME) project at Manchester Universty (PI: Fred Schurink; website: https://www.cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/). There I developed methodologies to harmonise heterogeneous book historical datasets as RDF data, in order to make visible the circulation of imported books, upon which England was highly reliant at this time. Before that, I was a postdoc on the Shaping Scholarship: Early Donations to the Bodleian Library project at UCL (PI: Robyn Adams; website: https://ebdo.org.uk/), where I led the construction of an SQL database of gifts to the Bodleian c. 1600–1620, drawing on analysis of library records and surviving copies.

I have a particular interest in the public and semi-public libraries of early modern England. My PhD thesis on the town and parish libraries of Devon uses surviving books alongside archival evidence to expose practices of book use amongst the middling sorts, an important constituency of readers whose bookish activities are rarely recorded.