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After a first MA in English Philology at Helsinki University (Finland) in 1991, I worked in teaching English as L2. A Certificate (2004) and Diploma (2012) in Technical Hand Embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework (UK) allowed me to invest myself as a textile coach and tutor for almost 20 years. In 2022, I finished my second MA, this time in Digital Humanities and English Language and Literature at Lausanne University (Switzerland) and worked as a Junior Researcher in the LALP project (Language of Artisans and the Labouring Poor in Late Modern England, ca. 1795-1834). Today, I am a PhD student at Lausanne University. The title of my PhD thesis is 'Late Modern English language use across gender and class: a historic sociolinguistic investigation'. My research focuses mainly on the education, literacies, and language use of lower-class girls and women in the 19th century.
My main research interest is the pluridisciplinary exploration of a possible 'needle-literacy' or 'nimagraphy' among English lower-class girls and women during the Late Modern English period.