Personal profile
Personal profile
I am a part-time College-funded researcher working at the intersections of performance, visual, and material cultures. My research examines the function of objects in contemporary feminist performance, extending and moving beyond theories of representation through a focused analysis of the modalities of material practices.
Through close discussion of performances by Lucy McCormick, Narcissister, Rose English, Amber Hawk Swanson, Project O, Figs in Wigs, Melanie Jame Wolf, and Sin Wai Kin, my thesis further explores how attention to encounters with props and costumes advances discourse on spectatorship, contributing to debates about the nature and ethics of looking within feminist performance.
Prior to joining the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, I completed an MA in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London, and an MA in Arts Management at RMIT University, Melbourne.
I have been part of the teaching teams for undergraduate modules, including Theatre & Ideas, Skills Lab, London’s Theatrical Geographies, and The Idea of Memory (2022/23), Staging the Real and The Idea of Casting (2021/22), and Theatre & Ideas (2020/21).
I served as PGR Student Representative on the Student–Staff Committee from 2019 to 2023 and convened the doctoral reading group in the School of Performing and Digital Arts in 2022–2023. I was editor of the Performance Responses section for the Balancing Acts issue of Platform (2021), a journal for postgraduate and early-career performance studies.
I am a member of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) and the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR).