Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, English — expected completion 2012
Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
Research topic: Nineteenth-century understandings of composite form in the arts and sciences of the voice and the face
Supervisor: Steven Connor
MA, Cultural and Critical Studies — 2008
Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
Dissertation title: ‘Physiognomy and Phonography: Constructing the Ideal Face and Voice in the Long Nineteenth Century’
BA, Linguistics — 2003
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London
Grants and Awards
Individual
2011. North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Graduate Student Paper Prize
2011. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Library of Congress Scholarship — sponsorship of a four-month programme of research at the John W. Kluge Center, Washington, DC
2010. British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Sally Ledger Memorial Travel Bursary — for the best paper delivered by a British graduate student at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference 2010 (selected by NAVSA Organizing Committee)
2010. Full Colours, Birkbeck College Students’ Union — awards nominated by the student body in recognition of ‘outstanding achievements’ making a ‘significant contribution to the life of the College/Union’
2009–2012. AHRC Doctoral Studentship — fees and maintenance grant for full-time study
Projects (as lead applicant)
2010. AHRC Collaborative Research Training (CRT) Student-Led Initiative Scheme. Funding for Angles interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on cultural history, and network
2009–2011. Department of English and Humanities, and Central Research Training (Roberts) Fund, Birkbeck. Funding for Angles
Publications
Journal Issues Edited
Co-edited with Rachel Richardson and Thomas Turner, ‘Angles’, special issue of Dandelion, 2.2 (2011)
Journal Articles
‘Parameters of Vibration, Technologies of Capture, and the Layering of Voices and Faces in the Nineteenth Century’, Victorian Studies, 53.3 (2011), 468–78
Presentations
‘“You Can Turn Her On as Often as You Like”: Performing Phonographic Physiology’, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference (theme: ‘Performance and Play’), in a panel entitled ‘Animated Anatomy and Victorian Physiology’, Nashville, TN, 6 November 2011
‘Alexander Graham Bell and Vocal Physiology’, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 17 May 2011
‘Parameters of Vibration, Technologies of Capture, and the Layering of Voices and Faces in the Nineteenth Century’, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference (theme: ‘Victorian Scale and Perspective’), in a panel entitled ‘Voices: Animal and Human’, Montreal, 12 November 2010, and British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) conference (theme: ‘Composition and Decomposition’), in a panel entitled ‘Technologies/Machines’, Birmingham, 2 September 2011
‘Face-Making, Vocal Impersonation, and the Construction of Character in the Nineteenth Century’, Instruction, Amusement and Spectacle: Popular Shows and Exhibitions 1800–1914, in a panel entitled ‘Physical Impressions’, Centre for Victorian Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Literatures, University of Exeter, 17 April 2009
‘Working with Sound’, research skills panel for MA Cultural and Critical Studies students, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, 16 February 2009
‘“The Melody of Speaking”: Music and Morality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Elocutionism’, 2nd Annual Work in Progress Conference, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, 7 February 2009
Teaching
Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
— Preparing for and leading small group seminars, coursework assessment
2011–2012. The Novel (BA English Year 2 core course)
2011–2012. Reading Literature (BA English Year 1 core course)
2011–2012. Critical Methods (BA English Year 1 core course)
2010–2011. Literatures in Context: Literary London (BA English Year 1 core course)
Academic and Professional Service
Editing
2011–. Editorial Intern, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, based in the School of Arts, Birkbeck
2009–2011. Subject Editor for English and Humanities, Dandelion, based in the School of Arts, Birkbeck
Conference and Seminar Organization
2012–. Events Officer, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck, University of London — managing the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies lecture and seminar series
2012. Co-convenor with Jonathan Tee, panel on Sound and Textuality, Department of English and Humanities Graduate Lecture Series, Birkbeck, 22 March 2012
2012. Co-convenor with Tom F. Wright, London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar, on the theme of Orality and Literacy, January to March 2012
2009–2010. Co-organizer, Angles interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on cultural history, and network. Supported by the AHRC (in 2010), and by the School of Arts and the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, in association with the London Consortium, Birkbeck
Representation and Administration
2012–. With Cathryn Setz, development and maintenance of the British Association of Modernist Studies website
2010–. Committee member (co-opted), and coordinator of postgraduate network, International Society for Cultural History (ISCH)
2009–2011. Postgraduate Members’ Officer (elected), representing taught postgraduates and research students on the Students’ Union Council, Birkbeck, in which capacity serving on the following College committees: Academic Board Executive Committee and Academic Board (2010–2011), Research Committee and Research Students Sub-Committee (2009–2011), Teaching and Quality Enhancement Committee (2009–2011)
2008–2009. Member, Student Library Forum, Birkbeck
2006–2008. Student Representative, MA Cultural and Critical Studies
Other Academic Activity
2008–. Regular participant in Birkbeck and University of London research networks, including London Sound Seminar, London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar, Nineteenth Century reading group, Space reading group
2009–2010. Participant in Le son du théâtre/Theater Sound research group, CNRS–ARIAS (Paris) and CRI (Montreal)
2008–2009. Participant, British Library Digital Research Project
2006–2008. Organizer, MA Cultural and Critical Studies Reading Group, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck
Academic and Professional Development
Short courses attended
Presentation Skills (UCL, October 2009); Evidence, Sources, and Referencing (UCL, October 2009), Stage 2 Generic Skills (Birkbeck, June 2009), Getting Research Published (SAS, May 2009), Problem Solving and Decision Taking for Research Students (UCL, February 2009), Working in Archives (SAS, February 2009), Management Skills for Researchers (UCL, February 2009), Basic Skills for Thesis Preparation (SAS, January 2009), Project Organization and Management (SAS, January 2009), Stage 1 Generic Skills (Birkbeck, December 2008), Making a Success of your Doctorate (Birkbeck, November 2008), Heuristic Methods and Bibliographical Resources (IES, November 2008), Advanced Writing Skills (UCL, October 2008)
Modules undertaken
Fundamentals of Teaching (October 2010), Teaching English and Humanities in British Higher Education (Birkbeck, January to March 2010), Introduction to Digital Humanities (Birkbeck, October to December 2008)
Memberships
Northeast Victorian Studies Association (2012–)
British Association for Modernist Studies (2011–)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (2011–)
International Society for Cultural History (2010–)
British Association for Victorian Studies (2010–)
North American Victorian Studies Association (2010–)
Modern Humanities Research Association (2009–)
Modern Language Association (2009–)
Society for the History of Technology (2008–)
