About Me

I have recently received my Ph.D. from Royal Holloway, University of London. I also hold an M.A. in Literature, Culture and Modernity from Queen Mary, University of London and a B.A. in English from the University of Birmingham.

My Thesis

My Ph.D. thesis is entitled Radical Frontiers: Political Violence in the Italian Western.

My research analyses militant appropriations of the Italian, or "Spaghetti", Western which occurred around the time of the 1968 protest movements. I show how the codes of the Hollywood Western were adapted and re-inscribed with radically oppositional doctrine, and relate these films' inherent advocacy of insurgent violence to the eventual outbreak of terrorism in 1970s Italy. You can read its abstract here.