Danielle is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans across historical sociology, narrative theory and cultural studies. Her research explores narratives regarding constructions of age, intergenerational power (im)balances and the relationship between definitions of adulthood and different forms of capital. Danielle work also foregrounds the significance of place in individuals’ experiences of age, and she is particularly interested in the role of physical cities and digital spaces in cultural imaginations of childhood and adulthood.

Danielle has teaching, research and administrative experience in Higher Education, and she has worked across the social sciences, arts and humanities. Before joining LSE100, Danielle taught undergraduate students at the University of East Anglia and University of Hertfordshire.

Danielle completed her PhD in American Studies at the University of East Anglia in 2024, where it was generously funded by a Faculty of Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Research Studentship. Her doctoral thesis theorised a framework for the literary and social study of age, which examined how a selection of New York City novels both reproduce and resist neoliberal narratives of American adulthood. Prior to undertaking her doctoral research, Danielle completed an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge.