Biography

Focusing on the late medieval period, my research investigates the intersection between economic and political structures of control and the workings of imagination. I am interested not just in what we think, but how we are able to think. I completed my MA at Monash University, an Australian university with particular strengths in medieval and early modern studies. Having myself come to university via Open Learning and a community-based adult learning centre, I am passionate about ensuring that people overcoming disadvantage of all kinds have access to education. This year, it was my great delight to co-direct the inaugural Australian Youth Humanities Forum, an initiative which aims to combat perceptions that non-vocational degrees like Arts only offer viable career options to the privileged. A key aim of my time at Cambridge is to develop better ways of sharing the excitement and potential of research in the humanities with the broader community.