I specialise in Neurodiversity Studies, Comparative Literature, and Contemporary Studies, with research interests that span three main areas: neurodiversity and dis/ability deployments in literary and science fiction; the interplay between epistemologies of ‘the contemporary’ and crip time; OCD. Before taking up my current post, I was a Research Fellow on a literature / digital humanities project called ‘Forecasting Reproduction in Space’ at the University of St Andrews (2022-2023), where I also completed my PhD in Comparative Literature in March 2024.

I’m currently working on my first monograph, titled Neurodiversity and the Contemporary. This book, building on my doctoral research, offers a provocative analysis of the intersections between neurodiversity and the diverse field of Contemporary Studies. By addressing the question ‘what is the contemporary?’, it delves into neuronovels to explore some of the imaginative spaces where today’s temporalities unfold and neurodivergent bodyminds are (re)created. So, it aims to illuminate the entanglements between categories of crip time and the contemporary, the exclusionary mechanisms that govern neurodivergence construction and models of the contemporary, and advocates for a new vocabulary signalling the role of the contemporary and neuroinclusive perspectives in twenty-first-century epistemological processes.

In parallel, I am developing an interdisciplinary, cross-sector project that explores the narrative practices of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), focusing on innovative approaches to articulating obsessive-compulsive distress.