Academic Talks

Selected Conference & Seminar Papers

Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’, Nineteenth Century Research Seminar, University of Cambridge (February 2023)

‘Byron and the Origins of Ottava Rima’, Public Lecture, The Byron Society (December 2022)

Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Verse Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’, Romantic Research Seminar, University of Oxford (October 2022)

‘Anglo-Italianate Verse Forms in Manuscript: Tennyson, Byron and Sesta Rima’, British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Birmingham (September 2022)

‘The Orphic Song: Innovation and Revision in Tennyson’s Notebooks’, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, King’s College London (March 2020, postponed)

‘Tennyson, Burke, and the Sublimity of Song’, Romantic Research Seminar, University of Oxford (November 2019 – one-hour seminar paper)

‘“Singing in her Song”: Tennyson’s Romantic Inheritance’, British Association for Romantic Studies International Conference, University of Nottingham (July 2019)

‘Silence and Sublimity in Tennyson’s Early Notebooks’, Inventions of the Text, University of Durham (May 2019 – invited, one-hour seminar paper)

‘Multiple Authorship and the Poetics of Voice’, Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory Inaugural Conference (April 2019 – invited symposium paper)

‘Tennyson’s Notebooks and the Allegory of Art’, Tennyson Society Annual Conference, University of Oxford (March 2019)

‘Tennyson’s Swan Songs: Silence and Revision in The Lady of Shalott’, Literary Birds Conference, University of Durham (October 2018)

‘Tennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon’, Tennyson Society Annual Conference, Girton College, Cambridge (August 2016 – invited, one-hour lecture)

‘Tennyson’s Early Voice: Romantic Prophecy and the Lyrical Mode’, British Association for Romantic Studies: Romantic Voices Conference, University of Oxford (June 2016)

‘Elegy in Exile: Byron and the Poetic Experiments of 1816’, The Summer of 1816: A Bicentenary Conference, University of Sheffield (June 2016)

‘Tennyson and The Golden Treasury: A Rediscovered Proof Copy’, Conference in Editorial Studies, Boston Editorial Institute (April 2016)

‘Tennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon’, Trinity Arts and Humanities Symposium, University of Cambridge (March 2016)

‘Tennyson, Palgrave and the Poetic Tradition’, Nineteenth-Century Graduate Workshop, University of Cambridge (November 2015)

‘Tennyson and the Nineteenth-Century Lyric Anthology: Constructing a Victorian Canon’, British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference, Leeds Trinity University (August 2015)

‘“Notes of busy life in distant worlds”: Tennyson and the Voice of Antiquity’, Victorian Modernities Conference, University of Kent (June 2015)

‘Byronic Illusion and the Elegiac Mode’, Long-Eighteenth-Century Research in Progress Seminar, University of Oxford (November 2014)

‘“The Controlless Core of Human Hearts”: Writing the Self in Byron’s Don Juan’, Adam’s Dream: Imaginative Incarnations in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Cambridge (April 2013)

‘Chaotic Imaginings in the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley’, University of Durham (June 2012)