• Early Modern Drama 

• Disability Studies 

• Shakespeare 

• Embodiment 

• Health and Disease 

• Gender and Sexuality 

I am a PhD student focusing on the intersection of the Medical Renaissance, disability studies, and early modern epistemology in England’s theatre culture. My dissertation is premised on a fundamental dialectic of the human body: while it is the corporeal site where ideas about being human converge and contend with each other, it is also the medium through which experiences are perceived and mediated. The project thus proceeds to explore the question of how subjectivity is shaped by/with disabled bodies, investigating how particular social conceptions and material conditions of disability give shape to disabled characters’ subjectivities in early modern drama, as well as the ways in which these characters remap their physical and social environments. The dissertation is funded through a Doc.CH scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (project 214720: https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/214720). 

I hold a BA in English and an MA in Literary Studies. My research centres on early modern literature, particularly drama. I have a strong interest in the theme of embodiment in its various forms, especially those related to gender, ability, and race. I am part of the Early Modern Team at the English Department.