About

I am an early career researcher currently working as a research assistant at the University of Portsmouth on the Supernatural Cities project – an interdisciplinary network of humanities and social science scholars of urban environments and the supernatural. Prior to this, I was a doctoral candidate and postgraduate teaching assistant in the Department of English at University College London, where I recently completed my thesis, ‘Crime, Space and Disorientation in the Literature and Cinema of Los Angeles’.

My doctoral research focuses on the culture and history of Los Angeles, examining both genre texts (detective fiction, the police novel and film noir) and African-American literature and cinema. It is particularly concerned with the psychology and mobility of individual protagonists as they navigate the city’s complex topography – its diverse neighbourhoods, jurisdictional borders, and racial and social boundaries. More broadly, my research interests lie in twentieth-century literature and film, urban theory, mobility studies and the history of criminalistics, and I have articles published or forthcoming on Raymond Chandler, David Lynch, Aldous Huxley and Henri Bergson.