Host: Literary Activists panel
BAAS Conference, Keele · Apr 14, 2023
Host of ‘Literary Activists’ panel. Introducing diverse work on activist literature by:
- Mark Whalan (University of Oregon)
- Irina Rabinovich (Holon Institute of Technology)
- Fiona Maxwell (University of Chicago)
Panellist: Sylvia Plath’s European Identities
BAAS Conference, Keele · Apr 13, 2023
Host: Olivia Foster (University of Nottingham)
Presenting my paper “Sylvia Plath: Embodying a German Identity” alongside:
- Dorka Tamás (University of Exeter) and her paper “Sylvia Plath behind the Iron Curtain”
- Julie Irigaray (University of Huddersfield) and her paper “‘I felt I’d come home’: Sylvia Plath and France”.
Panellist: Pagan and Romantic Winters
Fireside Tales of Terror Conference, Warwick · Dec 16, 2022
Host: Ruth Walbank (University of Warwick)
Presenting my paper “‘[German] sway is uncontested / In the airy realm of dreams’: Heine’s Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen and Late Romantic discontent’ alongside:
- Jack Rooney (Ohio State University) and his paper “‘Blight us with thoughts of winter and our graves’: Thomas Wade’s Poetics of Hibernal Gothic”
- Georgia Toumara (University of Glasgow) and her paper “‘For here on that first Christmas eve’: The Fantasied Loci of Sir James Rennell Rodd”
Host: New Generation Thinkers panel
Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, Hebden Bridge · Oct 22, 2022
Host of the ‘New Generation Thinkers’ panel. Filmed by The Open University for their English Literature BA course. Introducing innovative research on Plath by:
- Dorka Tamás (University of Exeter)
- Julie Irirgaray (University of Huddersfield)
- Iona Murphy (University of Huddersfield)
Co-Organiser: Sylvia Plath Across The Century
Sylvia Plath Society Conference · Mar 11, 2022
One of three conference organisers, establishing panels and creating accompanying literature for The Sylvia Plath Society’s first conference. Co-organisers:
- Julie Irigary (University of Huddersfield)
- Dorka Tamás (University of Exeter).
Panellist: Walking and Wealth
Brontë Society conference 2021 · Sep 4, 2021
Host: Adelle Hay (Loughborough University)
Carried over from the Brontë Society conference 2020, which was cancelled due to COVID-19. Presenting my paper “The Mundane and the Sublime: How Anne Brontë Portrays Wealth” on how Anne Brontë displays the financial gothic in her two novels, taken from my PhD research, alongside:
- Jacqueline Kolditz (University of Vechta) and her paper “‘Well, your mama thinks you ought not to go beyond the park or garden without some discreet, matronly person like me to accompany you, and keep off all intruders’: Walking in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey“.
Panellist: Rethinking Romanticism Now
BARS Romantic Disconnections / Reconnections Conference · Aug 12, 2021
Host: Andrew McInnes
Giving my paper “Studying Romanticism as a Comparatist,” asking what does taking a Comparative attitude to Romanticism do? How do we move forward in a discipline rooted in the past? Alongside:
- Bethany Brigham (Northumbria University) and her paper “Reconnecting the History of Bioethics: Frankenstein and the Romantic Hospital”
- Alexandra Gallagher (University of Sydney) and her paper “Connecting Vital Sensations: Twenty-First Century Reflections on Breathing and Late Eighteenth-Century Vitalism Debate”
- Simon Clewes (University of Birmingham) and their paper “Queer Utopia and the Male-Male ‘Romantic Friendship’ in William Godwin’s Cloudesley (1830)”
Panellist: Researching (Or Trying To) In A Pandemic
CHASE Virtual Encounters Conference 2021 · Jun 23, 2021
With two other PhD students hosting a panel discussion about the ways in which the pandemic has affected the work of graduate students and sharing tips and experiences among the group. My role was to present the positive experiences that have been possible as a result of COVID-19. Alongside:
- Tim Galsworthy (University of Sussex)
- Sarah Smeed (University of Kent)
Atta Troll: The Power of Romantic Allegory
Edgehill University Table Talks Online · Dec 16, 2020
Presenting Heinrich Heine’s ‘Atta Troll’ in order to facilitate a roundtable discussion about new approaches to Romanticism, with an emphasis on the eco-critical readings of this and other texts.
An Introduction to my PhD Thesis
CHASE Virtual Encounters Conference 2020 · Dec 3, 2020
A short talk presenting my PhD thesis to fellow researchers at CHASE institutes as part of their events programme aimed at early career researchers.
Panellist: Romantic Futurities
BARS Postgraduate Conference 2020 · Jun 12, 2020
Presenting ‘Sylvia Plath & Heinrich Heine: Deconstructing a Shared Romantic Heritage,’ a paper taken from my MA research into Sylvia Plath and Heinrich Heine, focussing on their shared inspirations and images.
Introducing The Sylvia Plath Society
Sylvia Plath Zoomposium II · Jun 6, 2020
Presenting a public introduction to the foundation of The Sylvia Plath Society and our aims.
Panellist: Sylvia Plath is Perfected: Recent Directions in Plath Studies
Presenting my paper “Sylvia Plath & Heinrich Heine: Deconstructing a Shared Romantic Heritage”, focussed on Plath’s inspirations and how German identity can be read in her poems, alongside:
- Kelsey Dufresne (North Carolina State University) and her paper “The Edges of My Mother: Teaching Frieda Hughes and Sylvia Plath”
- Savannah Marciezyk (Duke University) and her paper “‘To Speak to a Group of People’: Poetry as Testimony in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel: The Restored Edition”
- Jessica Williams (SUNY Old Westbury) and her paper “All Sylvia Plath All the Time: Teaching a Course on Plath”.
iPM episode – the new way to study
Interviewed on Radio 4 discussing studying in the new fee environment – working alongside study
Take 6 Scenarios
Leicester City Council · Mar 2, 2011
An interview about the scripting process for several new short films around Children’s Workforce Development. A project educating people who worked with children and young people about situations CYP find themselves in order to train them in the new CAF framework. Later presented at the Leicester City Council annual conference.
Late Romantic 