I first joined King’s in 2019 on a fixed-term contract as a Lecturer in American Literature in the English department, before moving to the Culture, Media & Creative Industries department in 2021 as a permanent Lecturer. I have also taught at the University of East Anglia, the University of Hertfordshire, the University of Westminster, and Oxford Brookes University.

Research interests and PhD supervision

I’m currently working on a monograph tentatively entitled “What-Is-It?” Containing the Threat of the Black Male Body in American Visual Culture, which examines the racist narratives attached to Black men's bodies, and the function of these narratives in maintaining white supremacy. This project builds on the research conducted for my PhD at the University of East Anglia. My research more generally is interested in somatic disciplinarity and popular, visual & literary representations of race, gender, sexuality, and the body. I am happy to supervise doctoral work focusing on cultural representations of bodies, race, gender, and sexuality.

For more details, please see my full research profile. 

Teaching

I teach across a range of modules in the CMCI department, specialising in cultural representations of identity and the body, gender, sexuality, and race. I am particularly interested in interrogating traditional foci within academia: as a queer person of colour from a working-class and state school background and the first of my family to attend university, I am passionate about the ways in which education can be utilized to reveal the voices and experiences of those who have historically been marginalized and erased, in addition to making the spaces in which I teach as accessible and inclusive as possible. As part of this work, I created The Abolitionist Curriculum: an open-access resource which centres engagement with the multiplicities of Blackness.

Selected publications

• Book Chapter: “Examining the ‘White Saviour’ in The Birth of a Nation” in Art, Culture & Ethics in Black and White: Over 100 Years of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, Manchester University Press, 2022, pp. 91-111. DOI: 10.7765/9781526164469.00011
• Co-Authored Journal Article: “Teaching Exchange on American Studies Signature Pedagogy” in Journal of American Studies, no. 1, 2023, 120–49. DOI: 10.1017/S0021875822000238
• Book Chapter: “Looking at Race with 20:20 Vision: What are We (Mis)Remembering from the Past?” in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, May 2025). DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-69594-0
• Co-Edited Collection: New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity: Forging a Home for Ourselves, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, July 2025). DOI: 10.5040/9781350419599
• Co-Authored Book Chapter: “Securitisation and surveillance of LGBTQI+ people” in Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments (Edward Elgar Publishing, November 2025). DOI: 10.4337/9781035356669.00017