Dr. Ally Louks

Author, Public Academic, Engligh Literature Supervisor at University of Cambridge 

Dr. Ally Louks’ work is situated in the interdisciplinary field of Sensory Studies, but her focus is on smell, culture, and literature.  She is currently working to turn her PhD thesis on the politics of smell in modern and contemporary literature into an academic book and is writing a trade non-fiction book called Under Your Nose: The Pleasures and Politics of Smell, to be published in Spring 2027 by Chatto & Windus and Tarcher, imprints of Penguin Random House. She is invested in bringing academic work on olfaction to public audiences through social media, broadcasting, and public writing.