About Me.

I'm a recovering academic, writer, researcher, and word mechanic. In March 2022 I completed my DPhil in English Literature at Oxford. I'm interested in strategy, project management, and how stories shape human action and interaction.

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My background training is in journalism and I've dabbled in publishing, with a fair bit of teaching experience accumulated along the way. I taught at Oxford from April 2019 until September 2021, and before that, at the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University, my two South African alma maters. I love working in adult and tertiary education and found a particular fulfilment working in outreach and access; supporting underprivileged young people to achieve their academic goals.

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I grew up in Johannesburg and moved to the UK in 2017 on a scholarship for my MA at the University of York. Another successful round of funding applications saw me land at Oxford at the end of 2018, where I started a research network, lead a collaborative project with the Universität der Künste, Berlin, hosted a podcast, and worked two or three jobs on the side throughout: writing, content creation, teaching, admin. I cracked out my DPhil thesis in three years and three months, and am now investing in the 'recovery' part of 'recovering academic.'

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These days, I freelance as a research consultant, content creator, reviewer, editor, and writer.