Staff profile

I completed a BA and MPhil in Classics at the University of Cambridge courtesy of a Brian Buckley Studentship and scholarship awarded by the Faculty of Classics and Pembroke College (Cambridge) respectively.

Alongside this, I have worked with a theatre company and charity delivering workshops on ancient drama in schools across the UK. I was involved in designing and administering a series of ongoing SEN(D) -supportive workshops on myth and coding and offered dramaturgical and strategic support on creative projects.

I have recently started my PhD in Durham under the Department of Classics and Ancient History focusing on ancient drama and its contexts through critical post-humanism. My research is generously funded by the AHRC, Northern Bridge Consortium.

PhD Project

My research uses the concept of the Cyborg to defamiliarize ancient Greek drama and its relationship with human identity. I enjoy diverse and interdisciplinary approaches to study and combine philological, material, environmental and cognitive methodologies through post-human critical theory. I aim to reveal  how ancient Greek drama might disrupt, rather than reinforce, hierarchical models of self-positioning and create new identities that attend to a complex entanglement with others, and with the material, ecological and technological elements of our world.

My research is informed by a long-standing passion for generous and responsive scholarship, and I'm particularly  interested in how the hybrid forms of the ancient stage might help modernity navigate our human condition, ecological destruction and technological revolution to restorative, rather than destructive ends.

My other interests include material culture, particularly that which lies beyond the canon, and classical reception and education.