A discussion of Dangerous Liaisons, Letters and Epistolary Novels with Sir Christopher Hampton
August 2025 |The Meighen Forum at the Stratford Festival. Stratford, Ontario
Science, Scissors-work, and Mary Delany’s Flora Delanica.
May 2025 |Surfacing Craft in the Archive. Houghton Library.
Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century.
November 2024 |The New York Eighteenth-Century Seminar. Fordham University.
The Revolt of the Papers; or Bits and Pieces toward a Feminist Theory of Scrap.
March 2024 |W. J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature. University College, University of Toronto.
Believing in Novels: Hoax, Hocus, and the Gothic.
November 2023 |For the Novel Network, University of Sydney, Australia. | Revised version given for “Fiction, Belief and Disbelief,” seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association meeting. Montréal, March 2024.
'The diamond quit—with me the pencil take': Albums and the Enduring Ephemeral.
September 2023 |Plenary lecture for “Between Text and Image: Print Media and Visual Culture in the Long 19th Century.” Manchester Metropolitan University.
Walter Scott’s Typographical Antiquities.
April 2023 |SWINC (Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century) lecture, University of Edinburgh.
The Social Life of Scraps: Scavenging, Shearing, Sharing, and Gleaning.
April 2023 |Plenary address for “Reading and Book Circulation, 1650-1850.” The Books and Borrowing Project. University of Stirling (Scotland).
Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: The Seasons Quartet and Seriality in the Digital Age.
February 2023 |For 'To Be Continued: Narrative Continuation and the Novel.' Freie Universität, Berlin.
Hocus, Hoax, Priestcraft: The Gothic at the Limits of Fiction.
May 2022 |For "The Turn against Fictionality." Center for the Study of the Novel. Stanford University.
Unbinding Walter Scott: Books, Scraps, and Dispersive Reading.
July 2021 (On Zoom) |Plenary lecture for “Walter Scott at 250.” 12th International Scott Conference.
Bugs in Books.
October 2021 (On Zoom) |For the Digital Workshop on Manuscript Albums, organized by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Charles Lamb’s Paperwork.
March 2020 |For the Workshop on Material Texts. University of Pennsylvania | Revised and extended version given (on Zoom) for the Paris-London Romanticism Seminar, June 2022; (on Zoom) for the research seminar of the English Department of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, November 2022.
Stranded in the Present in Persuasion.
September 2019 |For the Jane Austen Society of North America Massachusetts Chapter.
Paper Mosaics and Paper Sentiments: Mary Delany’s Loves of the Plants.
January 2018 |Plenary address for the annual meeting of the Australian-New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Brisbane, Australia, December 2017. | Also given for the Columbia University Seminar in 18th-Century Studies, January 2018.