I completed my undergraduate degree in Art History at the University of St Andrews, and then did an MA in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. I have lived in France, where I became bilingual in French and English. I hold the Institute of Linguists' Diploma in Translation, and am certified as an examiner for the official French government DELF/DALF examinations in French.
My PhD thesis is: "Reading Connectivity in the Shoah and Transatlantic Slavery: Developing a Framework Alert to Memory, Trauma and the Inscription of the Human"