I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Language and Literature currently researching the "lottery fantasy" in state lottery advertisements from the eighteenth-century to contemporary times. My archival research spans across Europe and includes Scandinavia, The Netherlands, The U.K. and Spain. 

Current project 

Researcher in The Invention of the Lottery Fantasy: A Cultural, Transnational and Transmedial History of European Lotteries 

Research Group

Literary and Cultural Eighteenth-Century Studies (LACES)

Background

• BA in English from UC Berkeley 
• Philosophy of Humanities and MA in Book and Digital Media from Leiden University

Special Interests

• Book History
• The History of Cartography and Mapmaking
• Print History 
• Archival Research 
• Early Modern History 
• Enlightenment History 
• English Literature 
• Literary Theory