Overview
I am a PhD student in the Department of Literatures in English, with an academic disposition towards Early Modern Prose, Popular Print Culture, and Digital Humanities.
Having been trained in modernist studies, my early work has delved into the liminality of cosmopolitan and mercantile spaces of 19th-century America, examining the degree of agency these domestic and modern spaces exert on the psyches of the people who occupy them. In the same vein, I have also explored the animation and agency of desire and sexuality in metropolitan public and private spaces, drawing correlations between the liberation and agency sought by an individual from the city and by women under patriarchal oppression in gynocentric narrative novels.
My current research expands these inquiries into the Early Modern Period. In particular, I am interested in the manner print culture in Tudor and Stuart England facilitated negotiations of identity, gender, and political voice under monarchical constraint and within a rigid social hierarchy.
Research Focus
- Early Modern Prose Fiction and Drama
- Print Culture
- Digital Humanities
- Theories of Spatiality, Desire, and Power
- History of the Novel