Education
2012-15
PhD (French)
– University of Cambridge
2011-12
MPhil (European Literature and Culture)
– University of Cambridge
2007-11
MA Hons (French and Italian)
– University of Edinburgh
Academic Career
2022-
Assistant Professor (Geography)
– Università di Bologna
2022-23
Communications Consultant
– Economia&Ecologia, Bologna
2021-23
Curatorial Consultant
– Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
2022
Honorary Research Fellow (History of Emotions)
– University of Western Australia, Perth
2021
Communications Coordinator
– Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
2020-21
Research Fellow (Comparative Literature)
– Università Ca' Foscari, Venice
2018-20
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow (French)
– University of Bristol
2018
Research Fellow (Environmental Humanities)
– University of Edinburgh
2018
Assistant Senior Tutor
– Hatfield College, Durham
2017-18
Teaching Fellow (French)
– Durham University
2016-17
Teaching Fellow (French)
– University of Southampton
Grants
2023
Education Technology Project: €5000
– Universiteit Maastricht
(with S. Schleper)
2023
Knowledge Frontiers Follow-On Funding: £49,851
– British Academy
(with P. Merchant + 4)
2021
UK-Netherlands Knowledge Frontiers Seed Funding: £3976
– British Academy & Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
(with B. Ewing + 10)
2021
UK-Netherlands Knowledge Frontiers Seed Funding: £2550
– British Academy & Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
(with S. Schleper + 5)
2019
Schools' Liaison and Outreach Funding: £500
– Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
2019
Small Grant: £400
– British Society for Literature and Science
(with A. Rose)
2018-19
Language Acts and Worldmaking Small Grant x3: £3000
– Arts and Humanities Research Council
(with V. Gosetti)
2016-19
Research Support x5: £1715
– Society for French Studies
2018
Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership Cohort Development Fund: £5530
– Arts and Humanities Research Council
2018
Conference Grant: £500
– Society for French Studies
Professional Standing
2023-26
COST Action Working Group
– Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience (SHiFT)
2019-24
Treasurer
– European Society of Comparative Literature; Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
2017-23
Reviewer of 9 bids totalling €2,234,093/C$182,113
– Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Paris; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels; Irish Research Council, Dublin; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, Rome; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Ottawa; Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli
2016-23
Invitee for 25 talks/keynotes
– Benton Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Cardiff University; Durham University; European University Institute, Florence; Institute of Modern Languages Research, London; Lancaster University; McGill University, Montreal; New York University; Sapienza Università di Roma; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan; Università della Valle d'Aosta; Universität St Gallen; Université de Paris; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris; Universitetet i Oslo; University College Cork; University of Bristol; University of Edinburgh; University of Helsinki; University of Hull; University of New England, Sydney; University of Sydney; University of Toronto; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
2016-23
Reviewer of manuscripts for 27 articles
– Australian Journal of French Studies; CounterText; Dix-neuf; Ecocene; Ecozon@; Enthymema; French Studies; French Studies Bulletin; Green Letters; Humanities; Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas; Journal of Romance Studies; L'analisi linguistica e letteraria; Lagoonscapes; Meta; Nottingham French Studies; Revue électronique de littérature française; Rivista di studi italiani; Status quaestionis; Studies in the Novel; Textes et contextes; The Italianist; The Translator
2013-23
Participant in 34 conferences
– American Association for Italian Studies; Art Association of Australia and New Zealand; Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in the United Kingdom and Ireland; Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France; Australian Society for French Studies; European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment; European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres; Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies; International Auto/Biography Association Asia-Pacific; Modern Language Association of America; Nineteenth-Century French Studies; Società di Studi Geografici; Society for French Studies; Society of Dix-Neuviémistes; Women in French
2018-22
Reviewer of manuscripts for 2 monographs and 2 edited books
– Liverpool University Press; Peter Lang, Oxford; Routledge, London; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
2017-22
Fellow
– Higher Education Academy, York (FHEA); Royal Geographical Society, London (FRGS)
2018-21
Adviser at 4 postgraduate workshops
– Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France; Australian Society for French Studies; Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
2020
Founder of Special Interest Group for Early Career Academics
– University Council of Modern Languages
2019-20
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Representative
– University of Bristol
2019-20
Regional Correspondent
– Société des Études Romantiques et Dix-neuviémistes
2018
Exams Officer
– Durham University
Creative Work and Impact beyond Academia
2023
'PhD Storytelling: Community Building through Public Engagement'
Università di Bologna
2022
'"Walkshopping" at the Intersection of Medical and Environmental Humanities'
MedEnv Network
https://medenvnetwork.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/walkshopping-at-the-intersection-of-medical-and-environmental-humanities
2022
'Object Lessons'
Grounding Value in the Anthropocene
www.groundingvalue.org
(with A. Cunningham + 6)
2022
'GeoNight: Geografie della sostenibilità'
Salus Space, Bologna
www.geonight.net/444-2
(with M. De Giglio, M. Dubbini, T. Raeymaekers and P. L. Floridia)
2021
'Rimbaud écologique'
Alliance française, Cambridge
2021
'The Anglophone Dilemma in the Environmental Humanities'
Seeing the Woods
https://seeingthewoods.org/2021/07/28/the-anglophone-dilemma-in-the-environmental-humanities
(with K. Ritson)
2021
'Cities and Flooding: Cork and Venice'
University College Cork
http://casilac.ie/portfolio-item/cities-and-flooding-cork-and-venice
(with J. da Mosto, J. Hegarty and S. Ross)
2019
'Stories @ FUTURES – European Researchers' Night'
SS Great Britain, Bristol
(with C. Murphy)
2019
'Soil-Telling'
Festival of Nature, Bristol
(with G. Shaw)
2019
'Post-16 French Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues'
University of Bristol
https://asmcf.org/news/post-16-french-enrichment-day-on-environmental-and-medical-issues
(with A. Rose)
2019
'Multilingual Poetry Translation as a Catalyst for Change'
Bristol Central Library
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIkh3O_sw
(with V. Gosetti and M. Métail)
2016-17
Lecturer
– Routes into Languages, Manchester/Newcastle/Sheffield
2015-16
Lecturer
– Prince's Teaching Institute, London
