My research explores gender, text and subjectivity in literary studies and law, from the eighteenth century to the present.

I investigate how women use their voices publicly, through literary culture and in legal contexts, to interrogate and critique the worlds they live in, and advocate for change. I explored this in my book Jane Austen’s Men: Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era , which was published with Routledge in 2020. I also use legal archives to research women’s legal testimony: how women use published life writing to respond to their experiences of the justice system.

My new research explores listening, as the necessary flipside to voice. In the #MeToo era, I am exploring how women’s voices are heard, particularly via social media, to effect law reform and social change.

I’m a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.