Presentations

“Confrontational Antiquarianism: Posturing Controversy in John Pinkerton’s History and Poetry,” John Pinkerton Symposium, November 18th (University of Edinburgh, UK)

“Imitation, Virality, and Traffic in Tropes: William Fearman Imitates Walter Scott” AND “Historical Mediocrity and Literary Disability in Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) AND North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) combined upcoming 2026 conference, November 11th-15th (Pasadena, CA)

“John Galt’s Anecdotes on the Boundaries of Law, Literature, and History.” Law, Culture, Humanities Conference 2026, June 17th & 18th (Depaul University Law School, Chicago, IL)

“Antiquaries, Ballad-Collectors, Popular Medievalists, and Forgers.” Chaired and organized the panel at ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Conference 2026, April 8th-11th (Philadelphia, PA)

“Wacousta’s Scottish Sojourns: Unsettled Settler Hierarchies on Empire’s Periphery.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference 2026, January 8th-11th (Toronto, ON).

“The Historical Novel’s Comparative Jurisprudence: Walter Scott and Henry Sumner Maine.” The University of Edinburgh, invited lecture, November 28th, 2025 (Edinburgh, UK)

“Reivers and Lawyers: Walter Scott and Medieval Law in the Scottish Court of Session.” Law, Culture, Humanities Conference 2025, June 17th & 18th (Georgetown Law School, Washington, DC). Also chaired and organized the panel, “The Romantic Legal Imagination.”

“Anecdote and Law in John Galt’s Middle Ages.” NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) Conference, August 15th-18th, 2024. Washington, DC (Georgetown University).

“Roundtable: Making the John Galt Edition.” BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Conference, July 22nd-25th, 2024. Glasgow, UK (University of Glasgow).

“Stadialism and Ethnographic Particularity from Scott and Tolkien to Sci-fi/ Fantasy.” International Walter Scott Conference, May 23rd-25th. Columbia, SC (University of South Carolina).

“Chance Medley, Manslaughter, and the Duelist’s Literary Character.” MLA Conference, January 4th-7th, 2024. Philadelphia, PA. Also chaired and organized the panel, “Reconsidering Eighteenth-Century Texts as Data through the Gale Digital Scholar Lab.”

“Character Evidence in Austen’s Seduction Plots: Extralegal Resolution, the Novel of Manners, and the #metoo Paradigm.” Fulbright Research Talk (Plenary), University of Alberta Department of English and Film Studies, October 26th, 2023. Edmonton, Alberta.

“Character, Seduction, and the Legal Ramifications of Mr. Willoughby & Mr. Wickham.” Law, Culture, Humanities Conference 2023, June 22nd & 23rd, 2023. University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario. Also chaired & organized the panel, “The Balance of Power and the Legal Plot in the Romantic Novel.”

“Legal Reform, Anti-Romanticism, and the Character of the Criminal: from Newgate to Thackeray.” NASSR 2023 (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism), March 29th-April 1st, 2023. Huntsville, TX (Sam Houston State University). Also chaired & organized the panel, “The Changing Character of Criminality & Law.”

“New Approaches to the 18th Century: Applying Digital Humanities Methods.” Research Roundtable at ASECS 2023 (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), March 9th-11th, 2023 in St. Louis, MO

“The #metoo Era’s New Austen: Character Evidence and Extralegal Resolution.” Joint NASSR/ BARS (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism & British Association for Romantic Studies) conference, August 2nd-5th, 2022. Liverpool, UK (Edge Hill University).

“The Historical Form’s Racial Imaginary: Difference and Personhood in Scott and Cooper.” 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, June 22nd-26th, 2022. Prague, Czech Republic (Charles University).

For a list of 11+ conference presentations prior to 2022, please reach out.