Select Presentations

Invited Talks

2022

• “Careers in Professional Editing,” professional development and Q&A session for Professional Editing, English Department graduate seminar, University of St. Thomas, 23 February (virtual) 

2018

• “Mary Shelley’s Keepsake Tales, Or, My Journey to Finding My Scholarly Passion,” professional development talk for Issues in Criticism, English Department graduate seminar, University of St. Thomas, 17 April

Panels Organized

• “Pick-A-Periodical with Patrick Leary,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Digital Event Series 2023, Online, 8 May 2023 (moderator)

• “Doing Research as an Independent Scholar,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Digital Event Series 2021, Online, 21 May 2021 (moderator)

• “RSVP Zotero Workshop,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Digital Event Series 2021, Online, 12 April 2021

Select Presentations

2023

• "Structural Genealogy: Tracing the Historical Occupancy of the Cook-Simms House in Willingtown Square." Recorded poster presentation for "Keeping Archives Relevant in the Digital Age," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Online, 26-28 April

2022

• “Aunts in Space-Time: Upholding Middle-Class Mores from the Margins.” Margin/Limit/Periphery/Edge, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Online, 15-17 September

2021

• “Anxieties of Aunthood in Anglo-American Periodicals.” Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s), Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Online, 8-12 September

2020

• “Circulations of Civil War.” “Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s),” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Temple University, 10-12 September *Cancelled due to Covid-19.

• "In Search of True Womanhood: Women’s Contributions to the Anglo-African Magazine (1859),” Dickens Universe, 26-31 July *Cancelled due to Covid-19.

2019

• “The Disruptive Power of Frame Narratives in Mary Shelley’s Keepsake Tales.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), University of Illinois at Chicago, 8-11 August

•  “The Politics of Pleasure: Design in Print and Material Culture for the Victorian Mass Market.” “Work/Leisure, Duty/Pleasure,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, University of Brighton, UK, 25-27 July

2017

• “Placing Catherine in Jane Austen’s Pantheon: The Female Hero in Northanger Abbey.” Politics and Sensation: Texts and Subtexts, University of St. Thomas, 21 April

2016

•  “Romantic Heroism: Friend or Foe of Abolition in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko?” Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, South Dakota State University, 15-16 April

Discussant

• “Tracking Jane Austen’s Carriages with ThingStor,” ThingStor Webinar, University of Delaware, 6 May 2021.

• “Doing Periodical Research Online,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Digital Salon 2021, Online, 26 February 2021.