I am an editorial board member of the peer-reviewed journal, the OCCT Review.
My DPhil research explores the ways in which ‘endangered’ languages, and the idea of language endangerment, are imagined and represented in contemporary literary and cultural production. I am interested in the ways both native and non-native writers navigate working with and translating from languages in insecure states, particularly when their own relationship to the language in question is unstable. Through this work, I am considering larger questions about the value of (linguistic) diversity, the relationship between culture and language, and what contact with ‘endangered’ languages does to English & its literatures.
Occasionally, I translate from Dutch.
