Natalya Din-Kariuki is a doctoral student in English literature at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Her academic interests include early modern intellectual, literary, and book history. Her thesis is on early modern travel narratives, and the ways in which these texts engage with ideas of invention and discovery – rhetorical, dialectical, and poetic. She is interested in how writers, artists, and other creators engage politically and form communities through their work and whilst at Oxford performed in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf. She has worked as a critic for the Oxford Theatre Review, contributed to the Oxford University Poetry Society magazine, Ash, the feminist journal Bluestocking and the international literature journal Asymptote. Recently, she has focused her efforts on issues of access and inclusivity in academic spaces. Her long-term goal is to raise the profile of arts in the Kenyan national curriculum.