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Research interests

My practice-based PhD, 'Nineteenth-century Ambivalence and the Gendered Body: A Practice-based Study of Dr James Barry', is a multidisciplinary project combining literary criticism, archival research and creative writing, culminating in a critical and creative exploration of transgender pioneer Dr James Barry (1789-1865).

Interrogating how portrayals of gender changed and were constructed in the face of nineteenth-century colonialism, I am interested in the ethics and efficacy of representing complex queer histories, especially in doing justice to the racially marginalised individuals in stories like Barry's, whose lives are not archived.

Bringing the conventions of the 19th-century novel, especially the gothic, into conversation with real archival material and developments in medicine and science, my project aims to apply queer and decolonial theory to creative writing - interrogating the idea of a single archival truth, and examining methods such as Saidiya Hartman's 'critical fabulation'.

Education/Academic qualification

Master, Creative and Critical Writing

Sept 2019Sept 2020

Award Date: 28 Oct 2020

Bachelor, Creative Writing, Brunel University London

Sept 2014May 2017

Award Date: 13 Jul 2017

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