I studied English and Hungarian literature at Cluj (Romania) and Odense (Denmark), before coming to Oxford for a DPhil in English at St Hugh’s College (2018), funded by the AHRC and the Scatcherd European Scholarship. Prior to joining Brasenose in 2021, I taught at the English Faculty, and held a lectureship at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. I am a Lecturer in English, and my research focuses on modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction.

I teach literary theory and the period papers from 1830 to the present; convene the HENG bridge paper on women’s life writing in interwar Britain; and supervise undergraduates in areas related to my research expertise.

My recent work explores geometries of attention in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction. I am particularly interested in the ways in which novelists’ modelling of different forms of attention redraws the ethical and epistemic contours of the novel. My first book Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the Contemporary Novel (OUP, 2025) argues for a revivification of modernist forms of aesthetic attention in twenty-first-century British and Irish novels preoccupied with the problem of empathy.

My next project theorizes the notion of the ‘new impersonal’ in the work of writers such as Rachel Cusk, Anna Burns, J. M. Coetzee, and others.

Broad research interests include visual culture, novel theory, attention studies, comparative literature, and literature and science.