I am a research fellow at the University of Southampton, working across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. I have led the AHRC-funded projects, which have included research activities for the , , , , and . Across these projects, I have co-authored an article for on levelling up and affective governance, co-produced a short with the poet Ella Frears and the filmmaker Annlin Chao, and developed a for understanding pride in place. I am a , which draws together much of this work.
I am a specialist policy officer for Public Policy | Southampton and the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities. I co-founded and coordinate the Culture and Creativity Policy Network. I have written about , , and . My research on pride in place was also featured as a case study in the UPEN and Durham University , "How does Arts and Humanities research influence public policymaking?" I led University support for the report, which made the case for strengthening the visual arts sector and launched in UK Parliament.
I am co-director of the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing. I have co-organised research days on and . I have written a chapter in (Routledge, 2022), which explores early cinema’s influence on modernist life-writing. I have also written on recent adaptations of Kafka's The Trial for . I have forthcoming articles on The Revenge for Love in the Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, Samuel Beckett's Ping, and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas. I am a regular contributor to .
I publish widely in arts, film, and literary criticism. I have been an since 2016, covering festivals in Cannes, Locarno, Venice, Berlin, Cairo, Rotterdam, and Tallinn. I am on the editorial board for and . I have interviewed filmmakers as diverse in sensibility as Agnès Varda, Takashi Miike, Bong Joon-ho, Oliver Assayas, and Peter Greenaway. I have written for , , , , and . I moderated a Q&A with Cècile Embleton, who co-directed the Grierson-award winning documentary Mother Vera.
I have a diverse understanding of global cinema and wider industry trends. I was invited to the in Warsaw, which featured work by King Hu, Mabel Cheung, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, examining embodiment and spatiality in the aesthetics of East Asian cinema. I was selected to attend the Critics’ Workshop at Film Fest Ghent to write about , and I was invited to speak at a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of Armenian Cinema, which took place in Yerevan under the patronage of UNESCO.
I have written about the nature of modern sovereignty and states of exception in various outlets, including , , and . I am currently writing a book on Carl Schmitt, sovereignty, and modernism.
