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.