Writing and Features

2018 – Current

“There Is Still Time”: Shimmering Trans Temporalities in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, feature produced for MIFF24 Critics Campus.

Interview with Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel on Armand, produced for MIFF24 Critics Campus.

Sweet Dreams - Four Ways, MIFF24 Critics Campus.

“Pressing the heart”, Cordite Poetry Review, POP! edition, September 2023.

“Cruising the Harlem Renaissance with Richard Bruce Nugent”, The Modernist Review: Black Lives Matter and Modernist Studies, November 2020.

“In-commonalities” for fine print magazine, issue 24 themed “COMMUNITY.” Online experimental essay for 2020 South Australian Artists Survey exhibition at ACE Open, titled If the future is to mean anything.

“‘I Am No Longer a Fiction but a Real Human Being’: The Modernist Queer Body in Patrick White’s The Twyborn Affair (1979).” Hecate, vol. 44, no. 1–2, p. 59, 2018.

“Encountering, Positioning and Orientating my Queer “Self””, Writing From Below, vol.4 no.3, 2019.

“Suffrage 125: Working Women in the Nineteenth Century.” The Centre of Democracy, June 2019. (Co-authored with Craig Middleton.)

Conferences, Papers, Talks & Public Lectures

2017 – Current

“Risk, Rebellion, and Queer Rendition in Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler’s 1930s Manhattan Street Scene” at the Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Brooklyn, New York, 26-29 October 2023.

“Homorendition and Pleasurable (Dis)orientations in Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler’s The Young and Evil (1933)”—Panel: “Urban Literary Surrealism and the Making of Queer New York” for Surrealisms 2021, hosted by the International Society for the Study of Surrealism, November 11-14, 2021.

“Cruising and Encountering Queer Modernism: Reading Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler’s The Young and Evil (1933)” for The Department of English and Creative Writing Postgraduate Conference 2019. 20 June-21 June, The University of Adelaide.

“Writing from the Body and on the Skin: Encountering, Positioning, and Orientating My Queer Self” for the session 4 panel titled “Body and Flesh” at the Gender, Sex, & Sexualities Postgraduate + ECR Conference in September 2018, titled “Space + Place.” Napier Building, The University of Adelaide.

“The Legacies of the Modernist Queer Body in Patrick White’s The Twyborn Affair (1979)” for Queer Legacies, New Solidarities 2018 hosted by Deakin Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association & the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives in November 2018. Deakin Downtown and the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

Chair of two panels, titled “Literary Landscapes of Australia and New Zealand” and “Creative Reading Session II” at The Department of English and Creative Writing Postgraduate Conference 2019. 20 June-21 June, The University of Adelaide.

Workshop and featured writer at the showcase event and literary panel for Tracks: Adelaide, 2017.

Featured poet at the monthly poetry reading event NO WAVE, August 2019.

Guest poet at the Healthbased Poetry Reading Series, 2023.

Education

2015-Current

2020-Current: PhD candidate in Screen and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

2019: Awarded a Graduate Diploma in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

2018: Awarded a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, Australia.