Daniel is a DPhil student at Hertford College supervised by Prof. Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and Dr. Justine McConnell (KCL) funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship. His DPhil project, entitled 'Possibility from Dispossession', analyses the redeployment of Graeco-Roman myth and literature within the creative and testimonial expressions of people who experienced enslavement in the United States and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This thesis examines the ways in which writers subversively ‘Signified’ (Gates 1988) upon a Graeco-Roman imagery to deconstruct the colonial apparatus of enslavement and racial hierarchies. In 2024, he co-convened the Institute of Classical Studies and Classical Reception Studies Network's seminar series, 'Out of the Shadows of Empire'.