BIO

I am a researcher completing doctoral studies in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Broadly, my research engages questions of identity, inequality, and everyday life. 

I am particularly interested in shifting attention to underexamined and disparaged media as well as attending to the meaning-making practices of historically marginalised groups. I am most thrilled when these two themes meet in a study, as in the case of my doctoral research. In this work, I analyse in-depth interviews with black women authors, publishing professionals, and readers to uncover the meanings they attach to and draw from books marketed as self-help literature by and for black women in Britain. Funded by the UKRI's Economic and Social Research Council, this study merges approaches in audience research and media production studies to highlight the social uses and felt consequences of minority media.

Previously, I studied at King's College London (BA Politics) and St Antony's College, Oxford (MSc African Studies).