INVITED TALKS

• Problematic Shakespeare (Spring 2022, guest speaker) 
  • Panel hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Exeter 
  • With: Reginia Gagnier, Philip Schwyzer, Victoria Sparey, Ayesha Mukherjee, and Naomi Howell
• ‘Interventionist Dramaturgy and Editorial Praxis in Early Modern Drama’ (Spring 2022, guest speaker)
  • For: Scholarly Editing Research Group, University of St. Andrews
• Early Modern Digital Practice (Winter 2020, invited participant)
  • Roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies
  • With: Ellie Rycroft, Nour El-Gazzaz, Valeria Clayman Pye, Miranda Fay Thomas, & Emma Whipday

• ‘Scaffolding Difficult Conversations in Theatre and Performance’ (Summer 2020)
  • For: ‘Not Your Grandad’s Shakespeare’, Society for Renaissance Studies online panel
• ‘Shakespeare, Sexual Violence, and Creative Citizenship’ (Spring 2020, UCU TeachOut)
  • For: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies seminar series (University of Kent)
•  ‘“Who will believe thee?” Staging Early Modern Gendered Violence (Spring 2019, plenary)
  • For: The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (Shakespeare Institute)
• ‘Teaching Shakespeare’s Bad Politics: An Interactive Lecture’ (Spring 2019; keynote workshop)
  • For: Sidelights on Shakespeare: Teaching Early Modern Drama (University of Warwick)
• ‘“Who will believe thee? Performing Gendered Violence in the 21st Century’ (Spring 2019; invited presenter)
  • For: New Directions in Early Modern Theatre (University of Bristol)
• “‘Speak the Speech, I Pray You”: Editing Shakespeare for Performance’ (Spring 2018; keynote address)
  • For: The Nichols Student Shakespeare Conference (Nichols School)

CONFERENCE PLANNING

I have significant experience planning and delivering academic conferences and other events, including:

• The Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Annual Conference (Essex, 2023)
  • Major annual conference for national research organisation.
  • First hybrid conference for TaPRA, and the first with in-person delegation since COVID-19 (approximately 200 in-person delegates, plus 100 online)
  • Acted as Postgraduate/Early Career Researcher liaison 
  • Planned and organised an alternative to the paid conference dinner: a well-attended BYO BBQ on the University of Essex campus
• The NRN 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd Annual Symposia (London 2014 and 2015; Bristol 2016)
  • Keynote speakers included Abigail Roksion-Woodall, Matthew Reason, and Catherine Hindson

• The NRN ‘Teaching Theatre Practice’ training event (Royal Holloway 2015)
  • A full day of hands-on workshops to equip postgrads and ECAs with the tools to teach theatre practice in university settings
  • Workshops led by a number of academic-practitioners, including Jaq Bessell and Melissa Blanco Borelli.

• The NRN ‘What Next? Life After PhD’ employability event (Birmingham 2017)
  • Professional development event for postgrads and ECAs, with a focus on employability both within and beyond academia.

• The International Christopher Marlowe Conference (Exeter 2015)
  • Approximately 80 delegates from 8 countries
  • Keynote from Prof. Alan Stewart, Columbia University

LEADERSHIP

2023

SAA Annual Meeting (Minneapolis) – Seminar: ‘Shakespeare on Broadway’ with Louise Geddes

2020

SAA Annual Meeting (Denver) – Workshop: ‘#MeToo: Staging Sexual Violence in Early Modern Drama’ (with Erin Julian)***moved online due to COVID-19 pandemic

2018

SAA Annual Meeting (Los Angeles) – Seminar: ‘Remediations of Early Modern Drama’ (with Sally Barnden)**Funded by a Contingent Faculty Travel Grant

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2022

• TaPRA Conference (Colchester, Essex) – Practice as Research Gallery
  • ‘Taking Up Space: Using Physical Theatre & Feminist Dramaturgies to Intervene in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure’

2021

• Empowerment to Disempowerment: Intersectional Voices (Shakespeare’s Globe symposium)
  • ‘Interventionist Dramaturgies and Shakespearean Atrocities’
• TaPRA Conference (online) – Directing and Dramaturgy Working Group
  • ‘Insiders and Outsiders: The Early Modern Soliloquy as Dramaturgical Frame’
• SAA Annual Meeting (online) – ‘Embodying Difference in Global Shakespearean Performance’ 

  seminar group

  • ‘Isabella’s Veil: (Un)Dressing in Measure for Measure 
• RSA Annual Meeting (online) – Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies Sponsored Panel
  • ‘To whom should I complain?’: The Misogynist Dramaturgies of Early Modern Soliloquies

2019

• SAA Annual Meeting (Washington, DC) – ‘Virtual Shakespeares’ workshop
  • ‘Public and Private Selves: @LadyP_W and Volpone at the RSC’

2017

• Shakespeare, Technology, Media, Performance (Exeter; Shakespeare Bulletin symposium) 
  • ‘@Shakespeare and @ aTwasFletcher: Performing Authority on Twitter’

• SAA Annual Meeting (Atlanta) – ‘Adapting Shakespeare’ workshop
  • ‘Adaptations of Shakespeare Should Be More Like Fan Fiction’

2016

• World Shakespeare Congress (London & Stratford) – Rogues, Vagabonds, and Scholars WG
  • ‘Towards a Performance-Conscious Editorial Praxis’

2015

• A Game at Chess Symposium (Canterbury Christ Church)
  • ‘Performing Texts/Texts for Performance: A Game at Chess’

• SAA Annual Meeting (Vancouver) – ‘Form and Deformity’ seminar **Funded by a Graduate Student Travel Grant
  • ‘Layers of Form and Deformity in The Changeling’

• Exeter Humanities PGR Conference (Exeter)
  • ‘Connecting early modern texts to their performance histories: a workshop’ (Winner of the Abstract Prize in Drama)

2014

• Recitation, chant et danse en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Les pratiques nationales et les influences étrangères, les cas de l’italien et de l’anglais (Montpellier)
  • ‘Coriolan / Coriolanus: differences and similarities’
  • Presented in English with David Wiles 

• IFTR World Congress (Warwick) – New Scholars’ Forum
  • ‘Text, Context, Performance: Stratification and The Changeling’

• British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford)
  • ‘Re-reading the “lost classic”: Tony Richardson, The Changeling, and the Royal Court, 1961’
  • Winner of the Lizz Ketterer Trust Memorial Award

2013

• TaPRA (Glasgow) – Directing and Dramaturgy WG
  • ‘Utilising Tradition: The Changeling at the Young Vic, and the institutions of Shakespeare and Stanislavsky’

• British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford)
  • ‘“Thy language is so bold and vicious…”: Towards a non-Shakespearean vocabulary’

• Exeter Humanities PGR Conference (Exeter)
  • ‘The Changeling, Middleton, and the Stage: Reading not-Shakespeare for performance’