Associate Professor of English Literature, teaching literature, langaguage proficiency and academic writing. My research is in gender and cultural studies, focusing on critical kinship studies.
I am an Associate Professor of Literature. I teach literature, language proficiency, academic writing and cultural studies, and supervise BA and MA theses. I also supervise doctoral students.
My research is in the fields of gender studies and cultural studies. In recent years I have mainly been working within critical kinship studies, focusing particularly on the representation of mothers in literature, film and television. This has resulted in articles, for example, on the cultural suspicion towards breastmilk in advice literature for new mothers and on adulterous mothers in crime fiction.
My current project analyses how various forms of AI are represented as kin in speculative fiction. A pilot study, "Selfless Servers, Weapons in Waiting: Androids Parenting Children in Raised by Wolves and I am Mother," is forthcoming in The Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture, 2025.
Recently completed research projects
I have recently finished a project analysing American advice literature aimed at single mothers raising sons: Analysing American Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons: Essentalism, Culture and Guilt. It is an intersectional study, which analyses the advice given, as well as their explicit and implicit constructions of masculinity, femininity and parenthood, from the point of view of gender, class and ethnicity.
The works of American afrofuturist author N.K. Jemisin are the focus of a newly completed international anthology project I have run together with Dr. Jenny Bonnevier at Örebro University: Kinship in the Works of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance. In the book, scholars analyse how Jemisin problematises family and kin.