Academic Presentations
“Victorian Jewish Medievalism. ” DACH Victorianists Workshop, Online, June 2025
“Jewish Museums in the Germanosphere,” Archives, Heritage, and Memory. The Parkes Institute, Southampton, England, May 2025
“Victorian Jewish Literature: Forgotten Trends.” 19th-century Minor Literatures, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow, Poland, May 2025
“You Were Romeo, I Was A Scarlet Letter: Taylor Swift’s Shakespearean Intertextuality.” Shakespeare and Popular Cultures, Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, Germany, April 2025.
“Isn’t Shakespeare Sexy? Eroticism and Shakespearean Women in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings.” Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network, Online, Feb 2025
"Art to the Left, History to the Right: The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition." Victorian Study Day, Universität Hildesheim, Germany, July 2024
“The Erotics of the Corpse in Two Victorian Poems." Victorian Darknesses, Universität Vechta, Germany, Feb 2024
"Would You Like To Have Your Cunt Pricked? Discourses of Virginity and its Loss in Victorian Pornography." Victorian Reproductions, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, March 2023
"'A Barb'rous Age': Memorialization and Jewish Medievalism." Victorian Resurrections, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, September 2022.
"At Home in Whitechapel: Representations of Domesticity in the East London Slums." (Re)Mapping the Victorian Household, University of Hildesheim, Online, May 2022.
"Visualizing Lavinia: Titus Andronicus's Sexual Violence on Paper and on Screen." Women's Rights and Global Adaptations of Shakespeare, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, November 2021.
"Cottagecore Lesbians, Drag Queens in Hoop Skirts, and Other New Neo-Victorianisms." Nostalgia: 2nd Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Progressive Connexions, Online, August 2021.
"Imported Grandmothers: Aging Immigrants and Victorian Fear of the Old in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto (1892)." Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Care: What Does It Mean To Grow Old? Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care, University of Graz, Austria, June 2021.
"Femininity in Late-Victorian Projects of Jewish Modernity." Agency and Emotion: New and Emerging Work in Nineteenth-Century Studies. Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies, Online, November 2020.
"Decoding the Female Voyeur in Villette and Victorian Porn." Kink and the Erotic: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Progressive Connexions, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2020.
“Off With Their Wombs! Cultural Representations of Women’s Rebellion Against Childbirth” with Elif Çakmak. Evil Women: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Progressive Connexions, Prague, Czech Republic, December 2019.
"But Why Victorian Porn? A Justification." GUSEGG Science Slam, Graz International Summer School Seggau, Graz, Austria. July 2019.
"Kiss the Rod: Love and Porn in the Time of Sexology." Kink: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Progressive Connexions, Prague, Czech Republic. March 2019.
"Michael Litwak's Araby: Power in the Self-Portrait of Childhood Interiority." Academic Writing Student Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. February 2019.
"Towards a Definition of 'Explicitly Jewish Forms of Remembrance.'" Narratives of Culture and Religion Morning Lecture, Graz International Summer School Seggau, Graz, Austria, July 2018.
"What is Narrative Appropriation?" GUSEGG Science Slam, Graz International Summer School Seggau, Graz, Austria, July 2018.
"Century-Old Vice: Emily Murphy's The Black Candle and the Chinese Immigration Act." Somewhere In Between: Borders and Borderlands, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, London, England, April 2018.
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Modernists." Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, March 2017.
Poster Presentations
"How to Make a Pre-Raphaelite: Material Conditions for a Pre-Raphaelite Ethic." Future Forum @ GUSEGG, Graz International Summer School Seggau, Graz, Austria, July 2019.
"shakespearekink.livejournal.com: Exploring Amateur Shakespeare Porn." "Shakespeare in Adaptation" Student Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, July 2019.
"Creativity in Crisis: NGO Funding, HIV Support, and the Destabilization of Culture-Community Barriers." With Lizzie Batchelor. New Faces Poster Session, Porto, Portugal, June 2019.
"Thou Art Troubled Morgane: The Southern Politics of Morgan le Fay in Madison Cawein's 'Morgan le Fay' and 'Accolon of Gaul.'" Future Science Hub @ GUSEGG, Graz International Summer School Seggau, Graz, Austria, July 2018.
Creative Readings
"Breathe Into It." Kinky Soul Reading Night, Berlin, August 2022.
Excerpts from Angela (a narrative poem). Kinky Soul Reading Night, Berlin, May 2022.
Excerpts from The Primrose and the Puritan (a novel in verse). Creative Writing Master Class Showcase, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, November 2017.
Excerpts from The Primrose and the Puritan (a novel in verse). Prince Edward Island Writer's Guild Open Mic, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, October 2017.
"Fantasy versus Mystery: A Book Review." UPEI Arts Review Launch, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, April 2017.
Excerpts from Chapter 16 of Knight Takes King (a novel). Creative Writing Master Class Showcase, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, April 2016.
Excerpts from Chapter 1 of Knight Takes King (a novel). Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, February 2016.
Panels as Discussant
"The Thing Itself: Laboratories of Identity." With Federica Bonora, Robin van den Brule, Meike ter Haar, Katarzyna Hübner, Rita Marinho, Emmy Ribet, Jonathan Romero, Jamie Rose. New Faces Seminar Symposium, Porto, Portugal, June 2019.
"Words, Words, Words: Discourse Analysis." With Lizzie Batchelor, Robin van der Brule, Meike ter Haar, Nathalie Oziol, Ondrej Polak, Daria Tolokonnikova. New Faces Seminar Symposium, Porto, Portugal, June 2019.
Panels Chaired
"Versions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor." New Faces Seminar Symposium, Porto, Portugal, June 2019.
"Institutional and Cultural Borders." Somewhere In Between: Borders and Borderlands, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, London, England, April 2018.
"Constructed Experience and Dichotomous Representation." Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, March 2017.
"Theorizing Literature: Critical Approaches to Texts." Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, March 2017.
Conferences Organized
Meeting Manager, Athens Interdisciplinary Weekend, Progressive Connexions, Athens, Greece, July 2022
Event Leader, Visiting the Shadows, Progressive Connexions, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2022
Event Leader, Nostalgia: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Progressive Connexions, Online, August 2021
Event Leader, Monsters: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Online, May 2021
Web Coordinator, Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference, March 2017