Scholarship

I have a doctorate in History from the University of Exeter, and for six years I was Research Associate at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. My scholarly interests include: the cultural history of sincerity; the history of travel; Soviet ideology and its followers in the West; British public culture in the interwar period; philosophies concerning attention (e.g. Iris Murdoch), liberalism (e.g. Isaiah Berlin), and communication (e.g. Jacques Derrida).

Here follows some of my scholarly output.

• ‘Gareth Jones, the Soviet peasantry and the “Real Russia”, 1930–1933’ – Russian Journal of Communication, 8:3 (2016), 242-255
• ‘Gareth Jones’ – Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2018)
• (Review) American Girls in Red Russia by Julia L Mickenberg – The Modern Language Review, 115:3 (July 2020), 759-760
• ‘”I guess what you didn’t understand, you could make up”: Elizabeth Delafield in the Soviet Union — Travel, Travel Writing, Truth-Telling’ – MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 18 (2024), 5-24