Conference Papers

2026

 “The Schoolmaster and the Railroad: Silencing the Remnants of the Medieval in the Victorian Countryside,” Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA), Silence.

2022

 “Unsettled English: Nineteenth-Century Representations and Reactions to China-Coast Pidgin,” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Unsettling Victorians.
  “‘The past yet works in us’: John Mitchell Kemble’s Multilayered Anglo-Saxonism,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), Strata.

2021

 “Editing in Absentia: Editing Tennyson’s Notebooks from Photographs,” MLA convention.

2019

“Peter Piper’s Poems? The Hybrid Genre of Alliterative Tongue-Twisters,” NAVSA, media. genre. the generic.
  “Dialect, Jargon, Patois, Creole: The Latitudes of Victorian Language,” NVSA, Latitudes.
2018 “‘Grand-daughters of Latin’: Victorian Philology and Caribbean Creoles,” NAVSA, Looking Outward.
2017 “Preserving ‘the making of England’ in Tennyson’s History Plays,” NAVSA conference, Victorian Preserves.
  “The Question of English in Victorian Poetry,” NVSA conference, The Question of Victorian Literature.
2016 “The Social Dilemma of Historical Rhymes,” NAVSA conference, Social Victorians.
2015 “The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles,” NAVSA conference, Victorians and the World.
2014 “‘Bibliomaniacal foppery’: Typesetting and Typifying Old English,” NAVSA conference, Victorian Classes and Classification.
  “Twisting the Victorian Tongue,” NVSA conference, Victorian Senses.
2013 “How Smart Is Watson? or, The Role of the Sidekick,” Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present, Institute of English Studies, University of London.
  “Historical Prosody and Philology in Tennyson’s Style,” Victorian Poetry: Forms and Fashions, celebrating 50 years of Victorian Poetry, University of West Virginia.
  “Tennyson Turns Playwright,” NVSA conference, 1874.
  “‘A Respectful Perversion’: W.S. Gilbert and ‘The Princess’ in Adaptation,” MLA convention.
2012 “Victorian Philology and the Problem of ‘long familiar use’ in the English Language,” NVSA conference, Victorian Clichés and Orthodoxies.
2011 “Wordplay and Burlesque in ‘The Princess,’” NAVSA conference, Performance and Play.
   “Fragments as Raw Material: Julius Charles Hare and Guesses at Truth,” interdisciplinary colloquium Fragments and Fragmentation, University of Cambridge.
   “Nationalizing the English Language: J.M. Kemble’s Anglo-Saxonism,” Recasting the Past: Early Modern to Postmodern Medievalisms, University of Exeter.