I am a Senior Lecturer in French with a research background in cultural studies. In addition to my teaching and research responsibilities, I support students from across Sheffield Business School in sourcing, securing, and completing sandwich placements in French-speaking countries.

My research is rooted in cultural studies and is increasingly interdisciplinary, with a growing focus on the medical humanities. My monograph, Rewriting Les Mystères de Paris: The Mystères Urbains and the Palimpsest, examines several rewritings of Eugène Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris (1842–43), produced in the latter half of the nineteenth century in response to the phenomenal success of Sue’s archetypal urban mystery.

I have also co-edited Rewriting Wrongs, a collection of essays exploring the resonance of the palimpsest trope in contemporary French crime fiction.

More recently, my work has focused on representations of work in French fiction and film, and on the particular agency of fiction in translation as a bibliotherapeutic tool—an area that connects directly with current debates in the medical humanities. I lead the Transnational Popular Culture research cluster.

My teaching focuses on French language and cultural studies, as well as intercultural competencies in a business context.