I joined the School of Modern Languages in January 2022 as an Academic Track (NUAcT) fellow. My current project explores the role of popular music in communicating and responding to experiences of disease, medicine, and public health – first, in the era of Parisian café-concert and London music hall, and then up to the present day.

More broadly, my research interests embrace music, performance, and popular culture, especially in nineteenth-century France. My latest monograph, Singing the English: Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow 1870-1904 (Routledge, 2022), examines the role of low-brow music in forming an idea of ‘Britishness’ for the French at the height of cross-channel rivalry - scores of the fascinating songs at the heart of this research can be found on the project website here: https://singingtheenglishuk.wordpress.com/ My research is informed by my background as a keen amateur flautist, and I occasionally dally with singing some of my research material in public.

Previous publications include a monograph at the intersection of material culture and literature in Paris in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and numerous articles ranging across popular song, material culture, and literary studies 

I received my PhD in French from the University of Bristol in 2014 and have since held teaching positions and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, and Nottingham.

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