Academic

My main areas of expertise lie in the history of classical and Renaissance rhetoric and Shakespeare studies and I have published widely at the intersection of these fields. My doctoral thesis, titled Shakespeare’s Strategies of Deliberation, explores how the playwright rhetorically depicts and questions the process of moral and political decision-making. As well as offering new readings of works such as Julius Caesar and Hamlet, I argue that a particularly rhetorical way of thinking and arguing determines the possibilities of, but also the limits on, ethical reflection and even action. My work has been supported by a full studentship from Queen Mary University of London and a research fellowship from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. I am working on turning this work into a monograph tentatively titled Deliberative Shakespeare.

I also work on non-Anglophone Shakespeare and adaptation studies. I am co-editing a collection titled Hanguk Shakespeare: Korean Receptions and Transformations for Arden Bloomsbury’s Global Shakespeare Inverted series and am developing work on Shakespeare in Singapore and balletic adaptations of Shakespeare. My interests in rhetoric and adaptation also extend to Milton. I am currently exploring Paradise Lost in relation to bestial rhetoric and have published on the poem’s afterlife in the genre of graphic novels.

Articles

‘Shakespeare and the Choreographer: Frederick Ashton’s Dream’, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (forthcoming).

‘Imitation and Authority in Paradise Lost and The Sandman’, Modern Language Review 121.3 (2026), 347-64.

‘‘Fashion it thus’: Construal in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar’, Journal of Greco-Roman Studies 62 (2023), 157-81.

‘‘To be or not to be’: Hamlet’s Humanistic Quaestio’, Review of English Studies 70 (2019), 640-58.

Book chapters

‘Private Speech in English Renaissance Prose Fiction’, Practices of Privacy: Vestiges of Dialogue, eds Jelena Bakic, Liam Benison, and Natacha Klein Käfer, (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).

‘Circumstances and the Plotting of Revenge’, Revisiting Revenge Tragedy: New Perspectives, eds Adam Hansen, Kornee van der Haven, and Marco Prandoni (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 151-73.

Notes

‘Polonius the Nose-Blowing Fishmonger’, Notes and Queries 68 (2021), 100-2.

(with Joanne Paul) ‘Commonplaces, Aristophanes, and Clouds in Hamlet’, Notes and Queries 65 (2018), 535-36.

‘The Rhetorica ad Herennium: A Source for Richard II’, Notes and Queries 63 (2016), 405-6.