I came to King's in 2000, following a PhD at Cambridge and posts at Christ's College Cambridge and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. At King's I have held a number of roles, including Associate Dean for Doctoral Training, Vice Dean (Head of School) for the Cultures cluster and interim Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities. From 2022-2025 I was Director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, an AHRC-funded doctoral training consortium of eight London universities. I took up my current role as Vice Dean for Engagement and Enterprise in July 2026.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Literature and visual art
• Surrealism
• Art theory
• Twentieth-century French literature
• Avant-gardes

My research interests are in 20th- and 21st-century literature, visual art and theory. I am the author of a book on surrealism and politics and am currently writing another on casts, imprints and traces in modern and contemporary art, which will be published in December 2026 by MInnesota University Press. I offer research supervision in the fields of modern French literature (particularly modernism and the avant-garde), critical theory and text-image relations.

For more details, please see my full research profile.

Teaching

I teach a range of undergraduate and MA modules on modern French literature, visual art and theory. I also teach translation from French to English.

Expertise and public engagement

I am happy to speak on surrealism and on aspects of modern French literature and visual art. I am a member of the /origin\forward/slash\research group bringing together artists and philosophers/theorists, in collaboration with Flat Time House, London.