EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Most Recent Position                               

April 2019 – September 2020: Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge

April 2019 – May 2020: Flying Machines with Minds of Their Own: Perceptions of Autonomous Flight

June 2020 – September 2020: AI After Humans

HIGHER EDUCATION

University of East Anglia               

Oct 2015 – Jan 2019: PhD in Film, Television and Media Studies

Title: Representations of Posthuman Women in Contemporary Science Fiction Television

University of Sheffield                   

Sep 2013 – Sep 2014: MA in English Literature, Distinction

Sep 2010 – June 2013: BA in English Literature, First Class

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

2020: ‘Futures of Autonomous Flight: Using a Collaborative Storytelling Game to Assess Anticipatory Assumptions,’ with Sarah Dillon, Futures (25 December 2020)

2020: ‘Metaphors of Patriarchy in Orphan Black and Westworld,’ Feminist Media Studies 20.8 (2020): 1211-1225.

Book Chapters

2020: ‘Techno-Transcendence and Artificial Rapture,’ in Theology and Westworld, edited by Juli Gittinger and Shayna Shenfield (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020), pp. 19-36.

2020: ‘The Measure of a Woman: Fembots, Fact and Fiction,’ with Kate Devlin, in AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 358-382.

Popular Writing

2019: ‘The Representation of Augmented Reality,’ Litro Magazine

2019: ‘The UCU and You,’ Social Review

CONFERENCE PAPERS

October 2021: ‘Love Machines: Sex Work and Fictional Sex Robots,’ Gendering Technology, University of Oxford

Oct 2019: ‘Public Perceptions of Autonomous Flight,’ Constructing the Future, University of Huddersfield

Oct 2019: ‘Using Futures Methodologies to Understand Public Perceptions of Autonomous Flight,’ Futures Thinking Network Conference, University of Oxford

July 2019: ‘Posthuman Womanhood in Science Fiction Television,’ Film-Philosophy Conference, University of Brighton

March 2018: ‘Cyborg Multiplicity in Dollhouse and Orphan Black,’ Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada

July 2017: ‘Orphan Black and Feminist Science,’ Console-ing Passions, University of East Carolina

TEACHING

Postgraduate Teaching

Jan 2019 – April 2019: Feminisms and Television: MA Gender Studies, University of East Anglia

Oct 2018 – Dec 2018: Studying Media: MA Film Studies, University of East Anglia

Undergraduate Teaching

Feb 2019 – June 2019: Philosophy Meets the Arts: Department of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia

Nov 2018: Analysing Film: Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of East Anglia

Oct 2018 – Dec 2018: Film Theory: Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of East Anglia

Oct 2016 – Dec 2016: Analysing Television: Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of East Anglia

Dissertation Supervision

April 2020 – June 2020: MPhil Dissertation, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge

Jan 2020 – April 2020: BA Part II Dissertation, University of Cambridge

Jan 2018 – May 2018: BA Dissertations, Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of East Anglia

OUTREACH AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Nov 2020: Panelist, ‘Future of AI,’ Aesthetica Film Festival 2020, with Peter Cowling, Jenn Chubb, Amanda Rees and Rob Wilmot

June 2020: Chair and Panelist, ‘AI Myths and (Male) Fantasies,’ CogX 2020, with Kanta Dihal, Kate Devlin and Anna McFarlane

December 2019: Convener, Collaborative Storytelling session, UNESCO Futures Literacy Forum, Paris

Jan 2019 – April 2019: Intern Coordinator, Green Film Festival, University of East Anglia