I completed my PhD thesis on French modern playwrights Antonin Artaud and Jean Genet at the University of Montreal and the Université Paris Diderot - Paris VII.

Before teaching French language, modern literature and culture, and translation at Lancaster, I lectured on French critical thought at Vassar College and Wesleyan University in Paris (2008-10), taught comparative literature as well as French avant-garde theatre and film as Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in the US (2010-11), and have been Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Institute for the Humanities at Keele University in the UK (2012-14).

I have published several articles and book chapters on Apollinaire, Artaud, Céline and Genet, and am the author of The French Genealogy of The Beat Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac’s Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux (Bloomsbury, 2017).

I am currently editing two journal special issues: "French and Beat Literatures: A History of Mutual Appropriation, Reception, and Translation" for L'Esprit Créateur (vol. 58, no. 4, 2018) and "Literary Back-Translations" for Translation and Literature (vol. 29, no. 3, 2020).

I am also working on a new research project at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Translation Studies and Medical Humanities.

19th and 20th Century French Literature and Theatre, Modern Comparative Literature, French Critical Thought, Francophone Literature (Quebec), Literary Translations, Translation Theory

2012-14: Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

2010: Research Grant, awarded by the McMahon Memorial Fund of Wesleyan University, for the organisation of the colloquium Jean Genet politique, une éthique de l’imposture, Paris, Théâtre de l’Odéon

2009-10: Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC)

2007-10: Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by the Ministère des Affaires étrangères du Gouvernement français

2007-10: Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

FREN 100-101: French Language (oral and aural skills)

FREN 100-101: 19th Century: from Political to Artistic Revolutions

FREN233: Shaping Contemporary France: Culture, Politics and the Legacy of History (convenor)

FREN301: Translation (French into English)

DELC320: Final Year Dissertation

DELC416: MA Academic and Practical Methods in Translation

DELC420: MA Translation Project

I am currently supervising one PhD thesis in TPR (Translation Process Research).