Recent and Upcoming Talks

Invited Lectures

“Feminist Subjectivity, Affect, and Late Medieval Literary Studies,” ANZAMEMS, University of Western Australia, Perth, AUS, Keynote, Summer 2022 (delayed due to COVID-19).

“Affect and the Subject of Feminism in The Book of Margery Kempe,” Northwestern University, Northwestern Medieval Colloquium, January 13, 2022.

“Margery Kempe, Intimate Affect, and the Triumph of the (Feminist) Subject,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Humanities Research Center, March 17, 2022.

“Virtues That Matter: From Chaucer’s Legends of Good Women to Shakespeare’s Hamlet,” The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, February 6, 2020.

“‘To maken vertu of necessitee’: Emelye, Prudence, and Feminist Subjectivity,” University of Pennsylvania, February 5, 2020.

“A Path to Women’s Experience? Rethinking Affect in Chaucer, Langland, and Kempe.” Southeast Medieval Association, University of North Carolina—Greensboro, Keynote, November, 2019.

“Feminist Subjectivity in Chaucer? Emelye, Prudence, and the Problem of Virtus,” Texas State University, April 11, 2019.

“Virtues that Matter in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale,” Canada Chaucer Seminar, University of Toronto, Keynote, April 21-22, 2017.

“Feminism Without Gender: Piers Plowman and Late Medieval Literary Studies,” “How Do We Do Theory Now?” Exemplaria Symposium, University of Texas-Austin, March 31-April 2, 2017.

“Virtues that Matter: Ethics and Embodiment in Hamlet,” Morrison Lecture, Department of English, University of South Carolina, February 25, 2016.

Conference Presentations

“Feeling Intimacy: Margery Kempe, Alison of Bath, and the Triumph of the (Feminist) Subject,” New Chaucer Society, Durham, UK, July 9-14, 2022 (invited).

“Liberation, Endurance, and Margery Kempe: Roundtable on Imani Perry’s Vexy Thing,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-14, 2022 (invited).

“Margery Kempe’s Obscene ‘Vertues,’” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April 8-9, 2022 (invited).

“Margery Kempe and the Triumph of the (Feminist) Subject,” Medieval Academy of America, UVA, Charlottesville, VA, March 11-13, 2022.

“Surplus Affects in the French Fabliaux of England,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., January 6-9, 2022 (invited).

“Prudence and the late medieval story of the self in Chaucer  and Langland,” Practical Wisdom Conference, University of Oklahoma, October 15-16, 2021 (invited).

“Chaucer’s Wenches,” Modern Languages Association, Toronto, CAN, January 9-12, 2021 (invited).

“Affect and Subjectivity in Hoccleve’s Series,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 9-12, 2020 (invited).

“’Elvysh’ Agency: Gender, Faith, and Chaucer’s Custance,” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2019 (invited).

“#MeToo, Langland? The Four Daughters of God, Anima, and Whatever Happened to Women in Piers Plowman,” International Piers Plowman Society, Miami, FL, April 4-7, 2019 (invited).

“Virtues that Matter: Ethics and Embodiment in Hamlet,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, ON, March 17-19, 2019 (invited).

“Feminism, Formalism, and Historicism in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women,” New Chaucer Society, Toronto, July 10-15, 2018.

“Seeing is Believing: Custance, Agency, and the Problem of the Human in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale,” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2018 (invited).

“Affect Matters,” Roundtable, 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2018 (invited).

“Vertues that Matter in John Phillip’s The Commodye of Pacient and Meeke Grissill, New Chaucer Society, London, UK, July 10-15, 2016.

“Feminism, Ethics, and Posthumanism: ‘Vertues’ in Late Medieval Vernacular Writings,” 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016 (invited).

“Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale and the Problem of the Human,” Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, January 7-10, 2016.