Personal Statement
My research focuses on nineteenth-century literature and medicine. I am interested in how writing shaped the development of medical practice during this period, in particular within the periodical press. My work centres on women in medicine, as both practitioners and patients.

I am the William Noble Fellow for 2024-27. Prior to this, I held the Alan F Price Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship for 2023-24. Before coming to Liverpool, I held a WRoCAH Engagement Fellowship at the University of York (2023) and completed my PhD at the University of Leeds (2021).

I teach on a range of modules within the English Department, at both UG and PGT level. These include the second-year Victorian Literature module, and the Victorian Literature MA pathway.

In addition to my research and teaching, I am passionate about making medical history more accessible. I am currently working on a project which aims to share the stories of female doctors, past and present. I have previously curated an exhibition on apothecary jars for the Harvard Centre for the History of Medicine (2018), and assisted with the development of an educational game on AHRC funded project, Mind-Boggling Medical History (2017-18).

I currently convene the Departmental Research Seminar for English and am the UoL chair for the Joint Liverpool Universities English and Creative Writing Seminar.

Academic Support & Feedback Hours:
Tuesday 11am-12pm (Teams)
Wednesday 2pm-3pm (in office)
19 Abercromby Square, Room 2.48
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Research Overview
My research is interdisciplinary, across literary studies and the history of medicine. I am interested in how writing shaped medical practice during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and my work focuses on women in medicine.

My recent book, Writing Women's Madness, 1845-1914 (2025), demonstrates the importance of writing to psychiatric practice during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores the textuality of clinical literature and periodicals to show how their genre, form, language, and readership shaped the development of theories about the female mind.

My current project, Medical Women and Medical Journals in Britain and India, 1845-1914, explores the periodical writing of early British female doctors, looking in particular at the journals which medical women founded for themselves. My project investigates how these journals aided female doctors in sharing medical knowledge, shaping clinical practice, and defining their identity in a profession which marginalised them. This research is funded by a Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Curran Fellowship. A preliminary study of the Magazine of the London School of Medicine for Women has been published in Humanities (Literature and Medicine Special Issue, 2024), exploring how the periodical established a sense of community amongst female doctors.

As part of this project, I am curating a digital exhibition, titled Medical Women's Stories. The exhibition combines the testimony of contemporary and historic female doctors to highlight how gender inequality in the medical profession has persisted, evolved, or diminished over time. It brings these stories to life through oral histories, performance, archival photographs, and digital technologies.

I have also recently completed a project looking at the early publications of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the women who wrote and edited them.