My research explores how fatness was conceptualised, experienced and treated in early modern France. Using a wealth of visual and material culture alongside medical advice and personal records, I aim to address: the extent to which fat was constructed as a dangerous ‘other’; how its representation responded to key shifts in this period (such as colonial expansion and the Reformation); and, where we can identify alternative viewpoints and acts of resistance to negative characterisations or embodiments of fatness. 

Education

MSci in History of Art, Theory & Display (University of Edinburgh).

MA History (University of Edinburgh)

Scholarships & Awards

SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarships 2022/23 (3.5 year duration) 

Winner of the Baldwin Brown Dissertation Prize  2020.