Experience

The Swedenborg Society

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Publishing, Gallery and Events Assistant

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Recent projects have included:• 'Histories & Hauntings' exhibition (13 October-22 December 2023), curated by Iain Sinclair and the third in a trilogy of staged interventions by Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair at Swedenborg House. Featured exhibited work by Renchi Bicknell, Brian Catling, Iain Sinclair and others. Further participants in events that formed the exhibition programme included Claudia Barton, Anonymous Bosch, Jack Catling, Steve Dilworth, Allen Fisher, Andrew Kötting, Victor Rees, Matthew Shaw and Michael Whyte.Named Assistant Editor for Histories & Hauntings three-part accompanying publication (limited edition of 200, numbered by myself), with texts (prose, poetry, and academic) by Iain Sinclair, Brian Catling, Renchi Bicknell, Claudia Barton, Steve Dilworth, Gareth Evans, Allen Fisher, Victor Rees, Matthew Shaw and Carol Williams. Also assisted in copyediting.I was present from the early meeting and discussion stages of the exhibition, and helped shape its organisation. I composed the ‘List of Works’ for the exhibition, largely decided how rooms should be numbered, and numbered the 69 exhibits using dry transfers. I assisted with other aspects of physical installation including unpacking works and mounting wall labels. I liaised with contributors on points of organisation and sent out invites on the behalf of contributors and the Society. I wrote and distributed copy including contributor bios, a press release and a number of mailouts; I organised our participation as part of the Bloomsbury Festival 2023; I compiled and maintained RSVP/attendee lists; and I assisted with event organisation and staffing. Show less

• Publishing, Exhibition Organisation and Event Planning Intern

  • Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

  The Swedenborg Society is a Bloomsbury-based independent publisher, as well as a gallery, museum, event space, library, archive and bookshop. In their own titles, they frequently work with acclaimed writers and poets such as Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd, Homero Aridjis, Chloe Aridjis, A S Byatt, Brian Catling, J. M. G. Le Clézio, David Harsent, Tom McCarthy.• Acted as an assistant to the curators Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies on the March-June 2023 exhibition ‘Tremulations’, held at Swedenborg House. The exhibition incorporated pieces by Meret Oppenheim; Tony Cokes; Yayoi Kusama; Mark Leckey; Grace Ndiritu; Peter Saville and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, as well as archival material and objects belonging to the Swedenborg Society.Responsibilities varied from providing in-situ support and help with installation and events; to managing email correspondence; to assisting in the writing, presentation and distribution of the press release (undertook distribution to Press Association and Associated Press, and announcement via e-flux; featured in AnOther Magazine, MUBI Notebook, Kunstkritikk, and e-flux Criticism, and reviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist for Das Magazin).• Began assisting the writer Iain Sinclair on an upcoming exhibition.• Reworked AI sheets for multiple series in the publisher’s backlist in Adobe InDesign; composed AI sheets for upcoming titles; created metadata sheets.• Helped produce the most comprehensive transcribed bibliography of Emanuel Swedenborg’s personal library thus far, to be published in Swedenborgs [sic] Lusthus (2023) by Chloe Aridjis, Deborah Levy, Iain Sinclair et al.• Copyedited and editorially advised on multiple essay collections.• Read, summarised and advised on publication proposals.• Proofread event materials and style guides.• Handled phonecalls to the office when required.• Assisted with front-of-house duties at events, and VR staffing. Show less



Oxford University Press

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Copyeditor

  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Carried out paid copyediting for the Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett, ed. Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon. Carried out paid copyediting for the Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett, ed. Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon.



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

  Undertook a paid research assistantship with Professor Dirk Van Hulle. Undertook a paid research assistantship with Professor Dirk Van Hulle.



United Agents LLP

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant to Literary Agent

  • Dec 2017 - Jan 2018

  Undertook work experience with the literary agent Jon Elek, reviewing submitted fiction proposals and manuscripts. Sometimes I had to offer preliminary feedback advising on whether I thought a proposal was meritorious; on other occasions, I was required to give focused structural feedback on the plot rundown for a book trilogy and proofread manuscripts which Jon had already marked out as worth investing in. Whilst much of my work was able to be carried out remotely, I also met with Jon at the United Agents agency building in central London, which afforded me an initial inside view into the publication process. Show less