Zukunftskolleg Postdoctoral Fellow
Zukunftskolleg/Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies
University of Konstanz
I am currently working on a first monograph with University of California Press on the history of drag performance in modern Britain, as well as a separate research project on the career and legacy of musician Little Richard.
'Male Cross-Dressing Performance in Britain, 1918-1970', PhD thesis, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (2018).
Drag. A British History (University of California Press/Berkeley Series in British Studies, submitted for peer review October 2021).
Tutti Frutti: Little Richard, Sex, Gender, and Transgression in America and Europe (University of London Press/Institute of Historical Research/Royal Historical Society, under contract, to be submitted for peer review September 2023).
‘Splinters: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen on the Interwar Stage’, Twentieth Century British History 30:1 (2019).
‘Soldiers in Skirts: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen, Sexuality and Censorship in Post-War Britain’, in Stephen Farrier and Mark Edward, eds., Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene, Volume 2 (Bloomsbury, 2021).