PhD Candidate
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Queer Studies
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
Biography
My dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of the lived experience of queer men in eighteenth-century England. Using a range of contemporary historical and literary texts -- including criminal biographies, minor Gothic novels, trial records, broadsides, political and personal satires, versified love letters, newspaper accounts, commonplace books, wills, and more -- I present a series of case studies that untangle some of the most mysterious and least interpretable materials in the human record: a labyrinth of double entendres, redacted names, and false trails.