My DPhil research focuses on translation and obscurity in English and French alchemical writings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, in the context of the development of English as a scientific and literary language. It examines printed treatises and recipe books, print ephemera, and unpublished manuscripts through case studies of figures poised between English and Continental traditions: Joseph Duchesne (a French alchemist), John Hester (a London distiller), Hugh Platt (an alchemical and medical practitioner), and Théodore de Mayerne (the French-born chief physician to James I).
Alongside alchemy, the history of science, and translation, my research interests include multilingual texts, the history of the book, and early modern theatre.
I am CEMS Research Coordinator for 2026–27. I also co-convene the Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop.
