I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Ulinka Rublack, on the gendering of witchcraft in early modern Germany. Between 2013 and 2016, I was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. I have also held a visiting lectureship at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2014, I was an Early Career International Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, and since then have co-convened two joint international conferences with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in Melbourne on 'Witchcraft and Emotions'. I joined the University of Sussex as Lecturer in Early Modern History in Autumn 2016.

My research has focused on gender, emotions, selfhood, crime and conflict and early modern witch trials. I'm also interested in methodological and conceptual approaches to history, particularly relating to emotions, gender, selfhood and subjectivity, and the use of historical self-narratives.

I have published an article on the gendering on witchcraft in German History, and I have co-edited two books, one with Stephen Cummins on Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2016), and the other with Michael Ostling on Emotions in the History of Witchcraft (Palgrave, 2017). I am also the co-editor, with Gian Marco Vidor, of a Special Issue on 'Law and Emotions', in the Journal of Social History (2018). My monograph on Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany is published with Oxford University Press (2018) - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/imagining-the-witch-9780198799085?cc=gb&lang=en& 

I have recently co-written an article with Professor Ute Frevert on 'Institutions and Subjectivities', published in Geschichte und Gesellschaft (2024). I have also contributed a number of chapters in edited volumes, ranging from magical practitioners in the early modern period, to the use of the Listening Guide Method of Psychological Enquiry in historical sources.

I am co-editing with Will Pooley (Bristol) the Cambridge Companion to the Witch, under contract with Cambridge University Press (forthcoming), and I have a trade book with Hodder Press forthcoming entitled At the Full Moon: The Untold History of Early Modern Werewolf Trials (2027).

In 2017-2019 I was awarded a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award for an event on 'Subjectivity, Self-Narratives and the History of Emotions' - https://historyofemotions2019.wordpress.com/about/

I regularly speak about witchcraft, women, and werewolves to public audiences around the UK, as well as on podcasts and in the media. I have also been featured on the Channel 4 documentary Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials (2024), and the BBC Sounds podcast 'Witch'. 

I was part of a roudtable conversation on the History of the Witch at the British Academy in 2025, which has been published in an open access article - https://journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/14/1/a07