I joined the University of Bristol as Lecturer in European and World Cinema in 2022. Previously, I taught film studies at the University of the West of England as an Associate Lecturer. I also have experience researching international archives and museum cataloging.

I grew up near Stoke-on-Trent in the UK, where I went to school and worked through critics' lists of classic films by renting home video in my spare time. Developing a serious interest in literary and then film analysis, I received a BA in English (2014) and MA in Film and Literature (2015) from the University of York thanks to means-tested scholarships. At York, I assisted research on the 'Mediating Cultural Encounters through European Screens' project, encouraging my transnational appreciation of moving images. I then won funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for my doctoral research on widescreen cinema in Britain and the USA, which began immediately in 2015 as a three-year project between the universities of Bristol and Exeter.

I succesfully applied for an extension to my AHRC doctoral funding for an immersive six-month placement at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum in 2018-2019, outputs of which included the Pamela Davies Collection of British film photographs, a temporary exhibit, 'Widescreen South West', and conference on 'Working the Film Script: Hidden Production Histories'. Since 2018, I also co-host with Dr Dominic Lash the film criticism podcast, 'discursion', which examines classic, cult and contemporary films from around the world (available on Acast, Spotify etc.)

I am co-convenor of the British Cinema and Television Special Interest Group (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies). From 2024-2025, I was Project Administrator for UK Subtitling Audiences Network.

I qualified for FHEA status in 2024 and continue to develop my work thanks to the input of academic colleagues and my students.