After studying at the University of Toronto (BA) and University College London (PhD), I started work at King's in 2003. I was Head of Department between 2020 and 2022.

Research Interests and PhD supervision

• Virginia Woolf
• Modernist women writers
• Modernism and colonialism
• Literary sound studies

I would be interested in hearing from prospective doctoral students in any of these areas or modernism more broadly. My latest, Leverhulme-funded monograph is Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound (Oxford University Press, 2025). My edited volume, Sound and Literature, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2020 and I co-organised a major conference on 'Sounding Modernism' at King's in June 2023.

I am the project lead, with Clara Jones, of WoolfNotes, a major new digital humanities project featuring Woolf's reading and research notebooks. I was one of the co-organisers of the 34th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference held in July 2025 at King's and Sussex.

For more details, please see my full research profile.

Teaching

• Modernism
• Virginia Woolf
• Literary sound studies

Expertise and Public Engagement

• Member of the Editorial Board of Modernism/modernity
• Member of the Editorial Board of Woolf Studies Annual
• Former member of the AHRC Peer Review College
• Keynote speaker at 'Relational Forms', University of Porto (Dec. 2025)
• Contributor to 'The Three Transformations of Virginia Woolf' presented by Fiona Shaw (BBC Radio 4, July 2025)
• Delivered the annual Woolf Lecture at Woolf College, University of Kent (May 2025)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Modern Fiction Studies-Co-organiser, with Dr Clara Jones and Dr Helen Tyson, of the 34th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference (July 2025, King's and Sussex)
• Project co-lead, with Dr Clara Jones, for WoolfNotes
• Project lead, with Dr Lizzie Stewart, of 'Waxing Virginia' with the Istanbul Queer Art Collective
• I was a keynote speaker at the School of Advanced Study Postgraduate Conference in 2023
• I gave the 2019 Annual Lecture at the Centre for Modernist Cultures, University of Birmingham
• Contributor to 'The Noisy Page' (Radio 4) produced by Cathy FitzGerald
• Keynote Speaker at ‘Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History’, Université de Rouen,
• 2018 Speaker at Virginia Woolf Exhibition, Tate St. Ives,
• 2018 Collaboration with Deborah Pearson on ‘The Filibuster’, a 12-hour durational performance by female-identified actors, as part of Somerset House’s, Arts in Society series
• Keynote Speaker at 'Virginia Woolf and the World of Books', University of Reading, 2017
• 2017 Member of the New Modernist Editing Network (PI Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow)

Selected publications

My previous major publications include Writing Noise in Interwar Britain (OUP 2025), a scholarly edition of Woolf's The Years for the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (2012), Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London 1890-1945 (CUP 2014), which was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, and an edition of A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas for Oxford World's Classics (2015). I wrote about 'Mrs Dalloway@100' for The Conversation (May 2025).