Invited Presentations

• “Early Modern Race and Disability: Intersections and Beyond,” ACMRS Virtual Event, scheduled to be held online in September 2026.

•  “Navigating the Job Market,” Annual Speaker Series, Washington State University (2026)
  “What shall Cordelia speak?”, Early Modern Neurodiversity Symposium at Arizona State University, Tempe in October 2025.

• “‘Grisly Night’: Reading Racial Melancholia in Book I of The Faerie Queene,” Modern Language Association in Washington, DC in January 2021.

• “‘Aaron will have his soul black like his face’: Annotating Black/Disabled Masculinity,” Global Early Modern Formations of Race and Their Afterlives, Cornell University, NY, held online in May 2021.

• “Spenser and Acoustemology” lightning talk, Sound Affects, University of York, UK, held online in April 2021.

Conference Participation

2026

• “’Keep me in Temper’: Sensory Capacity, Normative Nationality, and Racialized Gender across Shakespeare’s King Lear and Titus Andronicus,” panel paper, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) in Denver.

• “Disability Beyond Tragedy,” response paper, annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America in Toronto.

2025

• “Crafting Difference,” seminar paper, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Boston.

• “We Must Coin: The Revenger’s Tragedy, Racial Capitalism, and Forms of Disability,” seminar paper, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Portland.

2024

• “Race, Disability, and Religion: Deformed Monsters, Foul Black as Ink,” panel paper, annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in Chicago, USA.

• “‘There’s For Thy Care:’ Love’s Cure, the Ethics of Care, and the Performance of Normalcy,” roundtable paper, annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia.

• “’Foule Ugly Forme (that) Did Her Disgrace’: Monstrous Embodiment, Racialized Disgust, and Disability Aesthetics in Premodern Europe,” panel paper, annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia.

2023 

•  “‘Know the man/ By the garments he had on’: Reading the “other” in Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger’s Love’s Cure, or the Martial Maid,” seminar paper, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Minneapolis.

• “Rew his piteous plight!”: (Dis)ability, Sensory Perception, and Difference,” panel paper, annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in San Francisco.

• “Come and Learn of Us / To Melt in Showers”: Reading Race and Emotional Ability,” seminar paper, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Jacksonville.

2022  

• “The Past that is Not Past”: Sympathy and Racecraft in Titus Andronicus”, Humanities Center, Syracuse University, NY.

• “What Strange New Motions Do I Feel”: Love’s Cure, the Ethics of Care, and the Performance of Normalcy,” seminar paper, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021

• “‘Ugly Monstrous Shapes’: Signs of Alterity in Book I of The Faerie Queene,” panel paper, the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, held online due to COVID.

• “’Arm Thy Heart and Fit Thy Thought’: Affect and Disability in Titus Andronicus,” roundtable paper, meeting of the Modern Language Association, held online due to COVID.

These presentations are indebted to the generous professional, financial, and intellectual support of multiple organizations including the Folger Shakespeare Library, ACMRS, RaceB4Race mentorship network, the Humanities Center at Syracuse University, the Department of English at the University of Toronto, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Shakespeare Association of America, the Modern Language Association, and the Renaissance Society of America.