““I am not even my own”: Unfree and Coerced Labor in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes,” 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2023. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“Space-Time Distortions and Narrow Lines of Communication in Historia Meriadoci,” The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN March 2023. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“Noncompassionate Modes of Female Authorship in Chaucer,” 22nd Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Durham, UK, July 2022. [See abstract here]
“Deceptive Lombard Tyrants in Gower’s Tale of Albinus and Rosemund,” The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN, April 2022. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“Courtly Lovers and Bad Mothers: Ygerne in Of Arthour and of Merlin,” 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2021. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“Virtual Field Trips: Using Online Museum Resources,” 2021 Clemson Teaching Excellence Virtual Conference: Teaching During a Pandemic, Clemson, SC, April 2021. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“Poetics, Pornography, and Play in Warner of Rouen’s Moriuht,” 96th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Bloomington, IN, April 2021. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“The Transmedial Knights of the Round Table: Character-based Worldbuilding in the Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes,” Story-Worlds and Worldbuilding in Medieval Literature International Workshop, Tübingen, Germany, March, 2021. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“‘The One You Sent to Kill the Boogeyman’: Folklore and Identity in John Wick,” The World(s) of John Wick, Bloomington, IN, November 2019. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“Snake-Women and Vikings: Gendered Geographies in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” 7th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis, MO, June 2019. [See abstract and slideshow here]
“As egir as any lyoun: Warrior Horses and Savage Knights in Lybeaus Desconus,” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2019.
“Loyalty to Lineage in Simon Aurea Capra’s Ylias,” 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Philadelphia, PA, March 2019.
“Dwarves, Lepers, and Storytellers: Minor Characters in Jaufré,” 134th MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019.
“Memory, Allegory, and Retrospective Characterization in Erec et Enide and Perceval,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2018.
“‘Ce n’est pas fable que dire voz volons’: Truth and the Public Impact of Rumor in Ami et Amile,” 133rd MLA Annual Convention, New York, NY, January 2018.
“‘De lui amer est toute folle:’ Dido’s Downfall and the Concept of Love in Two Manuscripts of the Roman d’Enéas,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2016.
“‘Car vallés sui et nient mescine’: Courtly Masculinity and Trans Heroism in Le Roman de Silence,” 131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, TX, January 2016.
“‘Great knowledge has created the highest beauty’: Feminizing the Epic in Lucrezia Marinella’s Enrico,” Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2014.
“Lovers, Fighters, and Lions: Friendship in Chrétien’s Yvain and Hartmann’s Iwein,” 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2013.
“‘The Best and Sweetest Flesh in the World’: Comparative Cannibalisms in John Mandeville’s Travels,” North Carolina Colloquium: Marginalia: Life on the Edges, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2013.
“‘Comme mere entiere’: Mothers and Nobility in Galeran de Bretagne and L’Escoufle,” Southeastern Medieval Association XXXVIII: Voices of (the) People, Decatur, GA, October 2011.
“Sex, Love, and Pirates: Legitimate Marriage in Day 2, Story 10 of the Decameron,” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2011.