conferences, presentations, talks, readings
- “Through the Looking Glass: An Examination of the Double in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mirror’” presented at the Allergic Bodies Conference at University of Greenwich, May 2010 and published in Plath Profiles, August 2010.
- “The Black Goddess in Ted Hughes’s Capriccio” presented at 10th Robert Graves Conference, Mallorca, July 2010
- “Frigga’s Two-Faced Gift” presented at the “On the Edge: Psyche in Ethics, the Arts and Nature” conference, held jointly by The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and the International Association for Jungian Studies, Cornell University, New York, August 2010
- “Feeding the Flames: The relationship triangle in Ted Hughes’s Capriccio, Birthday Letters and Howls and Whispers” presented at the “Writings of Intimacy in the 20th and 21st Centuries” conference, Loughborough University, September 2010
- “Each Dead Child, Coiled: The Dark Side of Pregnancy in the Poems of Sylvia Plath” presented at the seventh annual Evil, Women and the Feminine conference by Inter-Disciplinary.net, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2015
- “Sylvia Plath, the White Goddess, and ‘The Rabbit Catcher’”, presented at the Society of the Study for American Women Writers conference, Philadelphia, 2015
- “Sylvia Plath and Laura Riding: Reductive Goddess-ising”, Newnham College Cambridge MCR Speaker Series, 2016
- “Found Poetry and Avant-Garde Poetics”, round table discussion with Kathryn Maris and SJ Fowler presented at Goldsmiths Graduate Festival, London May 2016
- "More beautiful and voluptuous than ever: Exploring the transformation of female vampire representation through poetics", presented at the Gothic Trespass: Borders, Bodies, Texts colloquium at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1-2, 2017
- "The Vampire Who Said He Was You: ‘Siring’ poems from the corpus of Sylvia Plath", Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words and Fragments conference, Ulster University, Belfast, November 2017 ; Reflections on the Sylvia Plath Info.
- "The Vampire Who Said He Was You: ‘Siring’ poems from the corpus of Sylvia Plath", The International Vampire Film and Arts Festival academic conference, Sighișoara, Romania, 7-11 June 2018
- "Sylvia Plath: I am. I am. I am." Bradford Literary Festival event with Gail Crowther, June 2018
- "The Vampire Who Said He Was You: ‘Siring’ poems from the corpus of Sylvia Plath", International Gothic Association academic conference, Manchester, UK 31 July - 3 August 2018
- Selected poems and recordings presented at the Reimagining the Gothic 2018: Aesthetics and Archetypes creative showcase hosted by Sheffield Gothic at the University of Sheffield, October 2018
- SheGrrrowls weekly online reading, 3 September 2020 (online)
- Broken Sleep Books February book launch, 28 February 2021 (online)
- Chase Summer Reading Series, 26 July 2021 (online)
- “The Gothic terror of Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom”, Sylvia Plath across the Century conference, online, March 2022
- “‘I’ve crossed oceans of versions to find you’: Remediating Mina from novel to screen in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, ‘Children of the Night’ Dracula International Congress, 19 November 2022
- Poetry workshop, Plath as Influence, Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, Hebden Bridge, UK, 21-23 October 2022
- Pop-up Pamphlet Poetry Reading, Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, Hebden Bridge, UK 21-23 October 2022
Post-secondary teaching
Goldsmiths, University of London
Graduate trainee tutor, January 2018-June 2020
Courses: Introduction to Poetry
Learning and Enterprise College, Bexley
Tutor, September 2019-December 2021
Designed, developed and taught the following courses: Creative Writing: Poetry; Creative Writing: Fiction; Creative Writing: Literary Nonfiction
Graduate trainee tutor, January 2018-June 2020
Courses: Introduction to Poetry
Learning and Enterprise College, Bexley
Tutor, September 2019-December 2021
Designed, developed and taught the following courses: Creative Writing: Poetry; Creative Writing: Fiction; Creative Writing: Literary Nonfiction
publications
- Book review: "Your Story, My Story by Connie Palmen", Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1935039
- "First Girl, Last Jedi, Final Girl: Rey, Resistance, and the future of Star Wars" in edited volume The Heroic 'Final Girl' in Popular Culture: Young Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity edited by Simon Bacon and contracted agreed with Routledge.
- “Okay, so I don’t know if it was a race thing or a lady thing, but I’m mad as hell”: the (environ)mental toxicity of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (Feig: 2016)" in Toxicity: A Companion edited by Simon Bacon, published by Peter Lang in 2022. More here.
- “Remediating Mina from novel to screen in Bram Stoker’s Dracula” in The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead, edited by Simon Bacon and published by McFarland in 2021. Order here.
- “Each Dead Child, Coiled: The Dark Side of Pregnancy in the Poems of Sylvia Plath" in Lilith Rising: Perspectives on Evil and the Feminine, the published version of the Evil, Women and the Feminine #7 Inter-Disciplinary.net conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2015. Edited by Cathleen Allyn Conway and published by Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016. Order here.
- “An Oracle in Ariel”, Plath Profiles, vol V, 2013, edited by W. K. Buckley. Available here.
- "Through the Looking Glass: An Examination of the Double in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mirror’”, Plath Profiles, vol III, 2010, edited by W. K. Buckley. Available here.
- Static, short play produced at Soho Theatre, London; February 2003.
editing
Broken Sleep Books
Assistant Publisher
First-round line editing of prose manuscripts and readying texts for publication.
Plath Profiles
Managing editor, volumes 7-9
Co-edited the only academic journal dedicated to the work of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath. In volume 7 I redesigned the look of the journal in order for each article to be self-contained with all citation data when downloaded. In volume 8 I established a blind peer-review process. The journal is available for free online via ScholarWorks.
Thank You for Swallowing
A women's poetry protest in magazine form. Poems challenged preconceived notions that hurt all of us, of every colour, gender, sexuality, age, religion, nationality and shape. Submissions from poets of colour, non-binary, disabled and LGBT+ poets given primary consideration. Nominated for various awards, including Bettering American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. Profiled in The Mslexia guide to small and independent book publishers and literary magazines in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Assistant Publisher
First-round line editing of prose manuscripts and readying texts for publication.
Plath Profiles
Managing editor, volumes 7-9
Co-edited the only academic journal dedicated to the work of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath. In volume 7 I redesigned the look of the journal in order for each article to be self-contained with all citation data when downloaded. In volume 8 I established a blind peer-review process. The journal is available for free online via ScholarWorks.
Thank You for Swallowing
A women's poetry protest in magazine form. Poems challenged preconceived notions that hurt all of us, of every colour, gender, sexuality, age, religion, nationality and shape. Submissions from poets of colour, non-binary, disabled and LGBT+ poets given primary consideration. Nominated for various awards, including Bettering American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. Profiled in The Mslexia guide to small and independent book publishers and literary magazines in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
fellowships and funding
- Goldsmiths College, Graduate School funding to attend overseas conference, 2018
- Indiana University, Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, 2017
- Goldsmiths College, English and Comparative Literature department funding for overseas research, 2016
- SSAWW 2015 Conference Graduate Student Travel Award
- Goldsmiths College, Graduate School funding to attend overseas conference, 2015
- Teaching Agency Training Bursary, 2012