Roslind Powell received her degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews. Before joining the UvA in January 2023, she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the relationship between literature, science, and religion and she is the author of two monographs: Christopher Smart’s English Lyrics (Ashgate, 2014) and Perception and Analogy (Manchester University Press, 2021).

She is currently researching a project about self-experimentation and narrative between 1660 and 1830 and co-editing an essay collection on teaching with scientific texts in the humanities classroom.