I am Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literatures in English at Utrecht University. I am particularly interested in artistic depictions of protest and social change, as well as the historical intersections of literature and public debate, often mediated by the periodical press. My first monograph, Slavery in the International Women’s Movement, 1832−1914: Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism is in production with Cambridge University Press (2025). I co-edited the volume Memory and the Language of Contention with Ann Rigney, which will appear with Brill early 2025. My articles have appeared, among other places, in Memory Studies, Language and Communication, and Historica.

In 2020, I completed my PhD dissertation on the cultural memory of slavery and abolition in the nineteenth-century transnational women's movement. From 2021-2023, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe. My research project developed the idea of a “protest lexicon” of social movements, and explored how activist memory is shaped and transmitted through language.

My work is grounded in cultural memory studies as well as periodical studies. I am involved with the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies, the Memory Studies Association, the Slow Memory COST Action, and serve on the board of the European Society for Periodical Research. I am also part of the editorial boards of the Journal of European Periodical Studies and the Yearbook of Women's History.