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