My interest in the definition of "human" and what falls beyond its discursive and material boundaries was explored in my Master's dissertation, which studies the role of monstrous entities in Mandeville's Travels. Continuing in a similar vein, my PhD thesis examines the impact of outbreaks of pestilence on understandings and representations of human materiality (inclusive of body and soul) in late fourteenth to early sixteenth century culture, with a particular focus on East Anglia. It analyses the impact of pestilence on medical discourses, public health measures, religious responses, and dramatic texts in which engagements with an understanding of the human are prominent.
My other research interests include medieval medicine, subjectivity, Posthumanism, New Materialism, discourse analysis, and videogames.