Events

Recent Conferences

2025

In March, I will present work from my monograph-in-progress, Schools of Love, at the annual SEC Colloquium to be held at the University of Mississippi.

2024

In October, I shared new work on Vernon Lee’s ghost stories at the Atlanta, GA, hub of the global “Event” conference organized by the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA).

In January, I shared my latest research on Victorian gaslighting at the Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia, PA. My co-editors, Nora Gilbert and Tara Macdonald, as well as several contributing writers, and I discussed our essay collection, Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice.

2023

In November, I spoke at the NAVSA conference at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. I co-organized a roundtable with Doreen Thierauf on Victorian Rape Studies, featuring presentations by a range of tenured, non-tenured, and independent scholars. I discussed how Ovidian rape culture influenced avant-garde art in nineteenth-century London.

In April, I gave a talk on “Vernon Lee, Rape Culture, and Britain’s Aesthetic Movement” for an SEC roundtable on “Movements” at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN.

2022

In October, I presented new work on gaslighting at the NAVSA conference at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

Image: The Waterfall by John Everett Millais (1829-96). Via Delaware Art Museum.