An upcoming paper I will present at the 2025 British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Early Career and Postgraduate Researcher Conference, “Romantic (Un)Consciousness,” which will take place at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge on 4-5 September 2025 and online on 12 September 2025.

My biggest project and dream is to become a Doctor in literature and to do research professionally. If everything goes according to plan, I should start a PhD assistantship in the Spring semester of 2026. I don’t know what my PhD thesis will be about exactly yet, but I know that it will at least involve British Romantic and American Transcendentalist environmentally aware writings in relation to attention in states of suspension.

Not only am I a Romanticism nerd, but I am obsessed with contemporary internet-based aesthetics as they are explored on social media, especially the Cottagecore and the Dark Academia cultural crazes, which I believe are descendants of Romantic tropes. I’d love to write an article on this topic in the future, or to integrate this aspect in my PhD thesis.