My research centres on interwar literature, politics and aesthetics in working-class and British women’s writing. As part of an ongoing project to bring to light the work of lesser-known woman writers, I have published short stories alongside articles contextualising the fiction of Socialist authors Sylvia Pankhurst, May Westoby and Ethel Mannin. In the near future, a volume of Pankhurst’s short utopian fiction, recovered from the archives, will be appearing in print for the first time in over a century (Things Not Seen, Always Imagined: Sylvia Pankhurst’s Utopias, Comma Press, 2027).

A book-length study examining British women’s writing, International Socialism and the transnational circulation of literary works is underway, alongside a co-edited poetry collection, Poets Call for Solidarity: an anthology of contemporary resistance poetry (Crater Press, 2028), and corresponding essay collection, Poetry Between the World Wars: solidarity and resistance 1919-1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2028) which together speak to global concerns: particularly rising fascism and war.

My work on popular fiction by Socialist authors has led to further research into the political affordances of contemporary popular fiction and the intersection of formal and informal educational spaces online. I am a co-founder of the Ukrainian Music Project, which brought together musicians from 20 countries to record and preserve music and culture under threat due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.