Natalie Tolentino

About

Natalie Tolentino is a 1st year PhD Researcher who hails from Michigan, USA. She is currently undertaking a CHASE sponsored collaborative doctoral project between the University of Kent and Canterbury Cathedral that focuses upon processes of Material Rejection, Recycle, and Fragmentation in sixteenth-century England. When she is not making her supervisors’ lives a ghoulish Lovecraftian caricature of this frail mortal life, she enjoys creative writing, knitting, bouldering, hiking, and learning video game design. Natalie also serves on the 2024 MEMS Fest committee.

Natalie is a student representative. As a neurodivergent scholar of colour, Natalie is deeply committed to the creation of a supportive, inclusive, and diverse community of research that is privileges student support with dignity. Natalie takes a “human first” approach to problem solving and has experience with student advocacy through successive years as student rep at previous institutions. She is always happy to signpost students to the services that will offer the most benefit, or offer general support where desired. She is deeply dedicated to enacting change that is anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and broadly anti-hate to create a safer community and a richer, more secure field of study for the future.

Research interests

Her research interests include memory and death studies, processes of marginalisation, iconoclasm, fragment studies, codicology, as well as information management.