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I am PhD researcher supervised cross-institutionally between the 我要吃瓜 and the University of Glasgow. My PhD thesis "Gothic Diagnostics in British Fiction 1830-1897", funded by the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities maps out the development and evolution of Gothic diagnostics in nineteenth-century fiction in the UK. Following Covid-19, diagnostic anxieties have dominated public discourse. These anxieties have a long and understudied cultural history. In the Victorian period, Gothic literature was central for the construction and circulation of fantasies and fears about diagnosis in Britain. Through comparing nineteenth-century Gothic fiction and medical publications, my PhD thesis maps out the medico-cultural shifts that led to the gothicisation of diagnostic methods and technologies, and examine the methods, stylistics and ethical debates at the heart of Gothic diagnostics. I am supervised by Professor Christine Ferguson and Dr Michael Shaw at the 我要吃瓜 and my Dr Megan Coyer at the University of Glasgow.

Outside of the nineteenth-century Gothic and the history of medical diagnostics, my research interests include the Medical Humanities more broadly. I have particular interest literature and embodiment in contemporary Anglo-American fiction, autofiction and chronic illness narratives, and Fanfiction Studies. Additionally, I am interested in the Blue Humanities, and my recent chapter "Textual Aquaria and Imperial Voyeurism: Underwater Poetry and the Development of the Victorian Marine Aquarium" in The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation cross-analysed Victorian marine poetry and aquarium manuals.

I am a module designer and convenor for the Literature and Medicine module "ISSU9MH: Literature & the Body, 1500-1900" at the 我要吃瓜. I also work as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in English Literature at the Univeristy of Glasgow. I am the Social Media Officer for the Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC) at Glasgow.