I am a Macquarie University Research Fellow and soon to be ARC DECRA Fellow. I am currently working on a monograph that tracks the crisis of psychoanalysis and the rise of the cognitive therapies in America, with chapters devoted to key topics in contemporary therapeutic culture (from ‘work/life balance’ to the representation of what an ‘analysed’ person looks like). In addition to this, I am editing a collection with Dr Jess Cotton (Cambridge) on psychoanalysis and contemporary therapeutic and political culture.

I am also the author of The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2026). From large-scale quantitative studies in the digital humanities to AI-generated poetry, scientific reading seemingly reigns supreme. However, these reading practices preceded, and often shaped, modern literary criticism and the rise of close reading. The Search for a Science of Verse restores this history, tracing the unruly and deeply political attempts to fashion a scientific account of poetry from 1880 onwards. It also investigates a set of modern poets, from Laura Riding to Veronica Forrest-Thomson, who thought about how their verse offers a form of knowledge not reducible to scientific explanation. It gives an account of the singularity of poetic thinking in their work, which actualises instances of meaning-making that prioritise the singular over the rule-governed. The Search for a Science of Verse is thus a historical inquiry into how techno-scientific reason sought to exert its full domination over the poetic imagination—and how that imagination, in turn, responded.

My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity, Literature and Medicine, The Cambridge Quarterly, Australian Humanities Review, Psychoanalysis and History, S: Journal for the Circle of Lacanian Ideology Critique and elsewhere. With Robert Boncardo, I am the author of Mallarmé: Rancière, Milner, Badiou (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).