I am a scholar and independent researcher of nineteenth-century Gothic Studies. I received my PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, UK, where I focused on early-to-mid Victorian Gothic literature and contemporaneous medical sciences.

My monograph, Monstrous Women in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871, is now available from Lexington Books.

I am an Advisory Board member for the ETAP series at Rowman & Littlefield publishers and proofreader and Editorial Board member for the Studies in Gothic Fiction journal. I am also peer reviewer for various journals in the UK and the US where I have written extensively on the Gothic, science fiction, medical humanities, ecocriticism, and horror.

As a member of the IGA, NAVSA, ASLE, and PCAACA, I am an avid participant and presenter at both continental and international conferences.

In my free time, I enjoy playing board games, photography, and film analysis. In addition to these hobbies, I also have an interest in learning new languages. My current training incorporates both the informal and formal practices of the German language.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6626-2888