About me
I am a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Fellow, working on the Horizon Europe-funded project ‘MS-LAB: Manuscript Lives Across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1860-1920.’ This works builds upon my first monograph, Late Victorian Girls and Their Manuscript Magazines: Girlhood and Textual Transformation in Britain, 1860-1900, which was published Open Access with Palgrave in 2025.
I join the University of Stirling from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where I was Assistant Professor of Critical Heritage, Innovation and Curation in the Department of Culture Studies. I have previously held fellowships from Durham University (Residential Research Library Fellowship), the University of Newcastle and Seven Stories National Centre for Children’s Literature (David Almond Fellowship), the University of Edinburgh (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Digital Scholarship Fellowship), and the British Academy (Visiting Fellowship).
I have received grants to support my research from the Willison Foundation Charitable Trust (2026), Princeton University Library (2025), the British Association for Victorian Studies (2024), the Scottish Historical Review Trust (2021), the Royal Historical Society (2020), and the North American Victorian Studies Association (2017).
I hold Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). I have taught across Bachelors and Masters courses in Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. I have acted as coordinator for the Tilburg University branch of the Erasmus Mundus International Masters in Children’s Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship (CLMCE).