Doctoral candidate in English, University of Sydney
I am currently writing my PhD thesis in Victorian literature. My work explores the intersection between Victorian visual culture and states of mourning, with a specific focus on phenomenology. A cinephile and Francophile, I am perennially interested in philosophy, film and literature. I am particularly occupied with questions of contemporary visuality and the affects of screen culture. I teach the novels of the Brontë sisters at University of Sydney.

Apr 05, 2023 13:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In Thomas Hardys The Woodlanders (1887), the trees sing. Sometimes the sound is like a Gregorian chant, a threnody from the rustling leaves, the creaking boughs, the undulations of limbs heavy with leaves, swaying in...

Why Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a cult classic
Jul 31, 2018 15:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
In our series, Guide to the classics, experts explain key works of literature. Nothing about the reception of Emily Bronts first and only published novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1847 suggested that it would grow to...