Activities and Appointments

Academic Appointments and Employment

2024-2026:
  • Assistant Professor, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Department of Anglophone Literatures
2022-2024:
2015-2024:
  • Qualification, Maître de conférences: Langues et littératures anglaises. Competitive qualification to teach at French universities.
2015-2022:
  • Bye-Fellow; Academic Associate; acting Director of Studies, and Supervisor in English, Pembroke College, Cambridge.
2019-2021:
  • Senior Research Associate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
2013-2019:
  • Fellow and Tutor; acting Director of Studies, and Supervisor in English, Wolfson College, Cambridge.
2013-2019:
  • Lecturer, supervisor, and examiner, Education with English and Drama BA, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
2010-2018:
  • Affiliated Lecturer; Bye-Fellow; Director of Studies and Special Supervisor in English, Newnhan College, Cambridge.
2014-2017:
  • Lecturer, Pembroke-King’s Summer Programme: course creator for ‘Jane Austen: Life, Works, Times’ and ‘Splendour & Squalor: Eighteenth-Century British Culture’.
2014-2015:
  • Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
2010-2011:
  • Course Convenor and Lecturer for ‘Rise of the Novel’ course, King’s College, London.
2004-2021:
  • Supervisor (academic tutor), English Literature BA, University of Cambridge.

Guest lectures and presentations

2024:   Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

∙ Open public lecture, 23 April: ‘Eighteenth-Century Literary Celebrity and Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century: A Virtual Museum of Laurence Sterne’, delivered in English and simultaneously translated into Polish, at the invitation of Adam Mickiewicz University and the City of Poznań

∙ Lecture-Workshop for AMU students: ‘Using Digital Sources in Literary Studies: Adaptation Theories in Practice’.

2023:   University of Passau, ‘Eighteenth-Century Magazines’, invited lecture, Literary Afterlives and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century symposium

2021:     Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, ‘What could Sterne possibly have said upon a button-hole?’: Imagining Shandean conversations in Sterneana’, invited lecture, Eighteenth-Century and Romanticism Research Seminar

2018:   Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, ‘“Alas, poor Yorick!”: Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey after 250 years’, Humanities Society guest lecture

2017:   Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, ‘“Motly Emblem”: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and its Marbled Pages’, invited talk, Imaginative Things: Curious Objects, Paper Marbling seminar and workshop

2017: Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, ‘Cocks and Bulls: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy into Film’, Magdalene Festival of Change

2016:   Université de Strasbourg, ‘Charles Dickens and Serialised Book Illustration’, guest lecture and graduate workshop, MA Edition

2015:   Université de Strasbourg, ‘Jane Austen and Gothic Fiction’, guest lecture and graduate workshop, MA Edition

2014:   Université de Strasbourg, ‘The Rape of the Lock and itsillustrations’, guest lecture and graduate workshop, MA Edition

2013:   Newnham College, University of Cambridge, ‘Laurence Sterne at 300’, Newnham Arts Society

2007:     Trinity College, University of Cambridge, ‘Closing the Gap: The Ending of Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey’, invited presentation at the History of the Book research seminar

2007:   Huizinga Institute, Amsterdam, ‘Shandean Theatricality’, book-launch symposium for René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions

2006:   Trinity Hall, Cambridge ∙ ‘From Laurence, to Lesley, to Lytton: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Literature’, Guest Annual Lecture, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain

Selected papers at international conferences

2025:    ∙ ‘Laurence Sterne and The Shandean’, BSECS, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

2024:     ∙ ‘Adapting Sternean Sentiment: Antislavery Discourse in Newspapers and Magazines’, Association of Adaptation Studies, University of Szczecin

∙ ‘Recirculating Sterne and Sterneana in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers and Magazines’, European Society for the Study of English, Université de Lausanne

∙ ‘Mechanical as the notes were’: Replaying the sympathetic transactions between human and non-human animals in eighteenth-century literature and visual culture’, Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE), SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

∙ ‘Fair dealing: games and play in Sterne and Sterneana in newspapers and magazines’, British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) annual conference, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford

2023:     ∙ ‘Playing with Sterne’, 5th International Laurence Sterne Foundation (ILSF) Conference, Università Ca’Foscari, Venice

∙ ‘“Browless Idiotism”? “Statuary, the Shows of London”, and the Popular Novel’, Queen Anne to Queen Victoria 8 conference, University of Warsaw

∙ ‘Statuary in the Novel, BSESC annual conference, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford

 ∙ ‘Travel, Statuary, and the Novel’, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) congress, Università Sapienza, Rome

∙ Laurence Sterne Then and Now: A Virtual Museum of Sterneana, April Conference Fifteen,Jagiellonian University of Kraków

2022:     ∙ ‘Sociability, Nature, Laurence Sterne’, DIGITENS, National Archives, Kew, London

∙ ‘Solitary Confinement, “Aloneness”, and Sociability in Sterne’, BSECS annual conference, University of Oxford/Zoom

2021:  ∙ ‘Statuary and sculpture in the eighteenth-century novel’, ILSF conference, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale (Naples)

∙ ‘Anonymity in Sterneana’, Adaptation and Digitisation in the Long Eighteenth-Century, University of Cambridge and Northumbria University collaboration, University of Cambridge/Zoom
2020:   ‘Conscious Couplings: Natural Conjunctions in Tristram Shandy’, BSECS, University of Oxford  

2019:   ‘Time, Space and Narrative in Sterne’s Fiction and Sterneana’, ISECS, Edinburgh
2017:   ∙ ‘Sterneana, any “ana”?: Sternean Adaptations’, ILSF, Bygdoszcz, Poland
∙  ‘“Othering” Sterne: The Absent-Presence of Anonymity in Sterneana’, BSECS
2015:  ∙ ‘The Commercial Interests Involved in Sterneana’, ISECS congress, Rotterdam
2014:  ∙ ‘Adaptations of Sterne’s Fiction in the Digital Age’, Contacts, Frictions, Clashes SEARCH conference, Université de Strasbourg
2013:  ∙  ‘Laurence Sterne meets Denis Diderot’, MML Research Seminar, Cambridge
∙  ‘The ‘first annotated’ Sentimental Journey?’, Sterne Tercentenary Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London
2012:   ‘Sterne and Caricature’, Sterne and Humour book colloquium, Université de Strasbourg
2010:   ‘Parasitic Parody’, BSECS, St Hugh’s, Oxford

Conference and Event Organisation

2025:    University of Liverpool

‘Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne’, biennial Sterne conference, co-organised with Prof. Jakub Lipski

2024:    Université de Lausanne, European Society for the Study of English conference

∙ ‘Adaptation in the Second Degree’, double-session panel co-organised with Prof. Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz) and Dr Ruth Menzies (‘L’Université d’Aix en Provence, France)

2022:    University of Cambridge

 ∙ ‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’, project conference, co-organised with

Prof. Jakub Lipski

2021:     University of Cambridge (Zoom)

∙ ‘Adaptation and Digitisation in the Long Eighteenth-Century’, co-organised with Dr Helen Williams (Northumbria University)

2019:   University of Utrecht

∙ ‘War and Peace in the Age of Sterne’, 3rd International Laurence Sterne Foundation conference, co-organised with Prof. Peter de Voogd

2018:   Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

∙ ‘“Alas, Poor Yorick!”’: 250-year Laurence Sterne anniversary international conference, lead organiser

Journal editor

2013-present: Editor of international Sterne journal The Shandean; published with Liverpool University Press since 2024.

2024-present: Editorial board (language editor), Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, University of Warsaw

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