I am a literary scholar and book historian specialising in the literature of medieval and early modern England. I work at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where I am an SNSF Assistant Professor in the Department of English.

My current work includes an SNSF Starting Grant project which investigates the Chaucer and Shakespeare research of Caroline Spurgeon (1869-1942), the first woman professor of English literature in England. Previously, I led the SNSF ‘To the Reader’ project, which studied the emergence of printed letters to readers in English books. I have also held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in English at the University of Oxford.

My published work includes articles in Book History, Digital Philology, The Chaucer Review, The Journal of the Early Book Society, The Review of English Studies, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and Shakespeare. My monograph, Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers: Reception in Print and Manuscript, which traces the afterlives of fifteenth-century Chaucer manuscripts and demonstrates the unlikely role of printed books in their survival, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. With Lukas Erne, I am co-author of Shakespeare in Geneva (2018) and co-editor of the first critical edition of the printed commonplace book Bel-vedére or the Garden of the Muses (2020).

I have been the recipient of major fellowships from the Bibliographical Society, the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, the Gates Cambridge Trust, the Jackman Humanities Institute, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

In 2022, I co-founded Print Exchanges, a collaborative network of early and mid-career print scholars, together with UK- and US-based colleagues, Alex da Costa, Aditi Nafde, and Kathleen Tonry.

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The banner image on this site is from the Bodmer copy of William Caxton’s second edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (c.1483; STC 5083), sig. s.6v (detail), used here under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC, 4.0 licence.