Research

I have presented research from my dissertation both regionally and internationally at annual conferences of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA), and Northeast MLA (NeMLA), as well as the 25th International Thomas Hardy Society Conference & Festival in Dorchester, UK, and the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de théorie critique in Paris. My research has been supported by a Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Upcoming Talks and Presentations

  • “‘Alas! Romance can make no head against the riot act’: Civil Unrest and Civic Development in the ‘May Day’ Sketches of Leigh Hunt and Charles Dickens.” NASSR-ICR 2024 Conference, Washington, D.C. (upcoming, August 2024).

  • Roundtable chair, “Moments of Vocation.” NAVSA EVENT 2024 Conference, online (October 2024).

Selected Presentations

  • “Hardy’s Visualities: Text and Image in Under the Greenwood Tree.” ACLA 2024 Conference, Montréal, Canada. (March 2024)

  • “Weathering the Elements: Realist Provocations in Hardy’s Early Novels.” VISAWUS 2023 Conference, Seattle, WA. (October, 2023)

  • “Marshes and Dreams: Country Landscapes in Dickens’ Bleak House.” NeMLA 2023 Conference, Niagara Falls, NY. (March 2023)

  •  Panel co-chair, “The Everyday Beyond Description.” NeMLA 2023 Conference, Niagara Falls, NY. (March 2023)

  • “‘My find; my piece-work’: Feminist Poetics in Conversation with Dorothy Wordsworth.” ACLA 2023 Conference, Chicago, IL. (March 2023)

  • “‘Material for another kind of study’: Realism’s Belatedness in Under the Greenwood Tree.” Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium 2023. Princeton, NJ. (March 2023)

  • “‘Ruined lands in every shire’: Landscape, Property, and the Picturesque in Bleak House.” NAVSA 2022 Conference, Bethlehem, PA. (September 2022)

  • "Dutch Paintings, Description, and Realist Form: Hardy’s Pictorialism in Under the Greenwood Tree." 25th International Thomas Hardy Conference and Festival. Dorchester, UK. (July 2022)