After completing a BA and an MA in English and Related Literature at the University of York, I began a PhD in the TFTI department under the supervision of Professor Duncan Petrie, graduating in 2016. My thesis focused on the British filmmaker Terence Davies, and I have delivered several conference papers on his work.
Having taught regularly in TFTI since my time as a PhD student, I was appointed to the position of Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries in 2023. I teach on a range of undergraduate modules, including Creative Materials, The Discipline of Genre, Business for Performance, Non-Fiction Forms of Film and Television, Individual Project (BCI) and Group Project (BCI).
I have also worked extensively with the Centre for Lifelong Learning and the City Screen cinema, facilitating short courses on a variety of cinematic subjects, including the French New Wave, Ingmar Bergman, film noir, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Japanese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, and Agnès Varda.