My research focuses on disease and the Gothic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

As a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, I survey British detective fiction, Gothic fiction, and periodicals to investigate narrative representations of influenza. My previous work has focused on maternal grief, spiritualism, and women’s ghost stories at the fin de siècle. My current project — Criminalised, Gothicised, and Marginalised: Reading Influenza in the British Literary and Media Imagination — is part of the interdisciplinary and international Media and Epidemics project, funded by CHANSE: Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe and UKRI. This project seeks to understand the role of media and technologies of communication in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks.

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