Staff profile

I completed a BA and MPhil in Classics at the University of Cambridge, courtesy of a Brian Buckley Studentship and scholarship awarded by the Faculty of Classics and Pembroke College (Cambridge), respectively.

Alongside this, I worked with a theatre company and charity to deliver workshops on ancient drama in schools across the UK. I was involved in designing and administering a series of ongoing SEN(D)-supportive workshops on myth and coding, and in providing dramaturgical and strategic support for creative projects.

I have recently started my PhD at Durham in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, focusing on ancient drama and its contexts through critical posthumanism. My research is generously funded by the AHRC, Northern Bridge Consortium.

PhD Project

My research examines ancient Greek drama through the concept of the Cyborg, drawing on the theory of Donna Haraway and critical posthumanism to generate new and urgent encounters with these canonical texts. I combine philological, material, environmental, and cognitive methodologies to explore how ancient drama might disrupt, rather than reinforce, hierarchical models of human agency and identity.

Ancient drama, I argue, demonstrates the cost of rejecting our constitutive entanglement with others, and with the natural, material and technological elements of our world. It offers models for more "response-able" ways of being in our current ecological and technological emergency. Three interconnected aims guide my approach. First, to uncover resonances within these canonical texts that help (re)encounter their tensions in genuinely new ways. Second, to show how a Cyborg reading articulates the precise structures through which these plays generate mood, ambience, and tonality, offering greater clarity than previous interpretive models. And third, to demonstrate that these texts help us shape future-repairing relationships between humans and the non-human world we share.

My work is informed by a long-standing passion for generous and responsive scholarship. I also hold interests in material culture, particularly that which lies beyond the canon, classical reception, and enhancing access and educational practice in the study of classics.