Personal Statement
I am interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and religious studies in modern and contemporary postcolonial literature. I teach across a range of modules at both UG and PGT level, with a focus on postcolonialism, critical race theory, gender and environment in contemporary literature. I am the co-ordinator for the third-year science fiction and environment module Re-Writing Nature: Literature, Science and Science Fiction. Prior to joining the University of Liverpool, I completed my PhD at the University of Leeds, where my doctoral thesis was recognised for Research Excellence based on my interdisciplinary work and commitment to decolonial scholarship.

My research focuses on the articulation of animist ontologies in recent African continental and diasporic writing. In particular, I am interested in how literature reimagines human embodiment through the lens of entangled spiritual and material subjectivities. I am currently preparing my first monograph, which examines how contemporary Nigerian writers theorise gender nonconformity through creative engagements with ritual embodiment in Mami Wata worship. The monograph explores how a range of texts articulate queer and nonconforming subjectivities through the lens of water deity worship, transatlantic spiritual crossings, and more-than-human lineages.

My academic support and feedback hours for Semester 2 (2025-26) are Tuesdays from 12-1pm in my office (3.09, 19-23 Abercromby Square) and Wednesdays from 2-3pm on MS Teams.

Research Overview
My primary research interests include Indigenous ontologies, ecocriticism and queer theory in modern and contemporary postcolonial literature. I specialise in African continental and diasporic writing, with a broader expertise in postcolonial theory and critical race theory. I have published on a range of texts, genres and fields within postcolonial studies, including the artistic and musical legacies of Afrofuturist fiction, new materialism in South Asian writing, genre and ontology in contemporary Nigerian literature, and Indigenous ontologies in Taiwanese diasporic ecocriticism.

I am currently developing a project on queer animist literary engagements with environmental exploitation and human injustice in the work of a range of writers from Africa, continental North America and the Caribbean.