Education

I read English literature at the University of Cambridge, where I won the Harness Essay Prize in 2009, and the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship in 2010. I was also fortunate to receive an Erasmus scholarship during my degree that allowed me to spend a year studying French, Latin and Greek at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Following time spent teaching English back at the Ecole Normale, my postgraduate work studied the place of Shakespeare and the theatre in the literary culture of the long eighteenth century, both in Britain and France. I was awarded my doctorate in October 2015: my supervisor was Fred Parker, and my examiners Tiffany Stern and Christopher Tilmouth. You can consult my thesis online through Cambridge’s Apollo repository.