I am the Departmental Lecturer in Feminist Political Theory. Prior to coming to Oxford, I was a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.
I completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Chicago, an MPhil in Politics at Oxford, and a BA at the University of British Columbia. I have previously written on topics in Democratic Theory, Early Modern Political History, Nationalism Studies, Queer-Feminist Theory, Affect Studies, and Non-Human Political Theory.
Research
I am currently writing a queer-feminist history of the rise of fraternity and sodomy as co-constitutive symbols, practices, and feelings of equality in Early Modern England and later Britain. The book explores how fraternity became a dominant ideal of democracy by tracking how novel discourses and practices of gender and sexuality emerging after the English Revolution of 1688 displaced an aristocratic society rooted in principles of blood, status, and rank and produced heterosexual manhood as a new model of democratic equality. By attending to everyday practices of gender and sexuality, the book shows how fears concerning sodomy and gender-nonconformity shaped the history and theory of equal male citizenship.
For further details, including a list and freely accessible pdfs of my publications, view my personal website.
Teaching
I give a series of lectures for the undergraduate 'Feminism and Philosophy' special subject paper: Feminist Political Theory.
I also teach a graduate seminar called 'Feminism and the Future', where we think about what the history of feminist thought can teach us about contemporary issues, such as capitalism, work, technology, the state, prisons, reproduction, identity, and solidarity.
Publications
Journal articles
“From the Body of the King to the Body of the Nation: Sovereignty, Sodomy, and the English Revolution of 1688,” Modern Intellectual History (2024): 1-27, first view online.
“Conceptualizing Gender, Sexuality, and the Problem of Democratic Erosion,” Femina Politica: Zeitschrift für Feministische Politikwissenschaft, 33, 1 (2024): 72-80.
“The Inter-est Between Us: Ontology, Epistemology, and the Failure of Political Representation,” Contemporary Political Theory, 22, 1 (2022): 46-69.
“Sovereign Chaos and Riotous Affects, Or, How to Find Joy Behind the Barricades,” Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 2, 1–2 (2020): 152–172.
Book Chapters
"Communist Guilt, Public Happiness, and the Feelings of Collective Attachment” in The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture After 1968, eds. Guillaume Collett, Krista Giappone, Iain MacKenzie, (Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), 201-224.
“From Mute Objects to Militant Subjects: The Politics of Rebellious Animals” in Subjectivation in Political Theory and Contemporary Practices, eds. Andrei Siclodi and Andreas Oberprantacher (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 237–263.
"‘We Support Circus Animals Who Kill Their Captors’: Nonhuman Resistance, Animal Subjectivity, and the Politics of Democracy” in Tiere - Texte - Transformationen: Kritische Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies, ed. Andreas Oberprantacher (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015), pp. 277–294.
