I am an intellectual historian and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. I received my DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford (2016) and have since held several postdoctoral positions, as well as multiple research fellowships, including at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
My research explores the intersections of political thought, religion, and gender from the early modern period to the present, with a particular focus on how ideas are received, used, and reinterpreted over time. My interests include Thomas Hobbes; British deism, freethinking, and anticlericalism; early British feminism and abolitionism; Enlightenment and utopian thought; and the politics of the Eurovision Song Contest.
I am the author of Anticlerical Legacies: The Deistic Reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740 (Manchester University Press, 2024; paperback 2026), associate editor of the journal Hobbes Studies, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Eurovision Song Contest Studies (under contract with Oxford University Press).
