UPCOMING & PAST EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
British Women Writers Association Conference, Auburn University
Keynote lecture
May 7-9, 2026
Annual Fales Lecture
Department of English and Special Collections Center, NYU
April 22, 2026
PAST EVENTS
18th-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar, Oxford University
“Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing,”
March 4, 2025
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Co-convenor with Adam Smyth for Extra Extra!: the Material History of the Visually Altered Book conference
September 27-28, 2024
Caxton Club, Chicago
Invited lecture: “Containing the Self in 18th-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and Formats of Personal Information Storage”
June 14, 2024
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto
Respondent for session on recently published book, My Dark Room, with David Alff, Ian Balfour, Lynn Festa, David Taylor, and Amelia Worsley
April 6, 2024
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Long 18th Century Seminar, Los Angeles and San Marino
Invited lecture: "The Camera Obscura & Spaces of Inner Life in 18th-Century England," Huntington Library,
February 2, 2024.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Invited lecture: “Lady Scott's Landscape in a Dark Room,” Art in Context Gallery Talk on Paul Sandby, “Roslin Castle, Midlothian” (detail of painting on the cover of My Dark Room)
December 5, 2023.
East Central American Society for 18th-Century Studies Conference, Williamsburg, VA
Keynote lecture: “The Camera Obscura and Built Environments of Inner Life in Eighteenth-Century England”
October 13, 2023
Virtual Book Launch, By the Book Series, University of Chicago Press and Seminary Co-op Bookstore
Conversation with Jayne Lewis, celebrating the publication of My Dark Room
September 15, 2023 1-2 PM EDT
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Rome
Panel presentation: “Pope’s Grotto and the Intentional Design of Inner Life”
July 5, 2023
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis
Panel presentation: “Follies and Fictions of Gothic Space in 18th-Century Landscapes,” on “Building the 18th Century: Histories of Physical Form” panel
March, 2023
Annual Comparative Literature Conference, “Print: Theories, Histories, Futures, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Keynote lecture: “Folds of Intermediality: Print as Word and Image in the 18th-Century Extra-illustrated Book,” for
February 23-25, 2023
Jane Austen & Co., Public Humanities Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Invited lecture: “Folding in and Folding Out: Making and Writing the 18th-Century Extra-illustrated Book,” lecture for the “Reading with Jane Austen” virtual lecture series
February 21, 2023
Freie Universität, Berlin
Invited workshop presentation: “Opening My Dark Room,” Literature and Loneliness international workshop
July 18-19, 2022