Areas of Specialisation: 20th- and 21st-century American literature, feminist/gender/queer theory, critical race theory, performance studies, film studies

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My proposed dissertation, Posing Alternatives: Bodily Comportment and the Feminist Imagination, which is funded by a SSHRC CGS-D Award (2023-2026), investigates the role of gesture, posture, and pose in a range of contemporary feminist literature, pushing beyond ideas of the body as a readable surface or sign and toward the relational, performative, and subversive potential of its comportment. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods from performance studies, film studies, art history, and political theory, I consider bodily comportment as a crucial site where feminists theorise sociopolitical transformation, as well as a site where questions of interpretation, visuality, and opacity push against conventional ways of interpreting the written body, and by extension, text.