My doctoral research traces the development of a literary trope, the locus horridus, from its Greek prototypes in Homer and Hesiod, through to its 'fleshier' iterations in the verse of Ovid, Statius, and Vergil, culminating in the profane groves of Seneca's Thyestes and Oedipus. My work employs a trio of aesthetics lenses - Burke's theory of the sublime, Korsmeyer's of the sublate, and the Freudian uncanny (unheimlich) - and engages with ecocritical and ecofeminist perspectives where relevant.
I completed my BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Vassar College in 2020, followed by the MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford in 2021. My doctoral research is supervised by Dr Rebecca Armstrong.
