Presentations

  • 2016 “Epistolary (Auto)fictions of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza,” at the conference “Epistolary Cultures,” Humanities Research Centre, University of York, York, UK, March 18–19, 2016.
  • 2014 “Fervor and Fever in the Letters of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza” as part of the panel “Writing Women’s Lives in Early Modern Iberia and Beyond” at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, LA. October 16–19, 2014.
  • 2014 “Fighting History: Militant Women on the Edges of Empire” as part of the panel “Frontiers of Engagement: Memory, Loss, and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Europe” (co-organized with Adleen Crapo and Dan Redding-Brielmaier) at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Toronto, May 22–25, 2014.
  • 2013 “‘El asunto breve’: Women’s petitions and lived experience,” presented to the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Puerto Rico, October 24–27, 2013.
  • 2013 “Reading on the Edge of the World: Women’s Arms and Letters in Early Modern Europe,” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Victoria, June 2–4, 2013.
  • 2013 “‘Here lies the most famous Sigea’: Reading the exceptional in sixteenth-century women’s letters,” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Victoria, June 1–3, 2013.
  • 2012 “‘To boldly go where no man has gone before’: crossing the threshold in the Libro de buen amor,” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, at Wilfred Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, May 27–29, 2012.
  • 2012 Seminar Participant: “Annotating Shakespeare: Old Words, New Tools,” (chaired by Jennifer Roberts-Smith) at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, April 5–7, 2012.
  • 2012 “The Absent Body in Medieval Love Letters,” presented at “(An)Aesthetic of Absence,” the 23rd Annual International Graduate Colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, March 8–10, 2012.
  • 2011 “‘How to Read This Letter’: Controlling Reception in Suitors’ Letters,” presented at “Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern England, 1550–1640,” at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, April 14–16, 2011.
  • 2010 “Authorship, Authority, and Auctoritas: The Veracity of the Text in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, at Concordia University, Montréal, QC. May 28–30, 2010.
  • 2009 “Look Who’s Evil Now!: Dancing Demons and Zombie Mobs,” presented at “Cine–Excess III, the Third Annual Conference on Cult Film Traditions,” at Brunel University, London, UK. April 30–May 2, 2009.
  • 2008 “The Radiant City at Night: Zombies in Suburban America,” presented at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference “Underground,” at the Department of Comparative Literature, City University of New York, NY. November 6–7, 2008.