Selected Presentations


  • "Ariadne's Songscapes," Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, April 30, 2018

  • "Withholding the Loved Boy," Modern Language Association, New York, NY, January 4, 2018

  • "Thomas Dallam's Artificial Life," Invited presentation, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, November 9, 2017

  • “John Donne and Textual Disembodiment,” Society for Textual Studies, College Park, MD, June 1, 2017

  • “’You can never bring in a wall’: A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Media Theory,” Invited talk, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 23, 2017

  • “Milton the Lady, Milton the Cavalier,” Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, January 10, 2016

  • “Mediating Music in Middleton’s The Witch,” Colloquy participant, The American Shakespeare Center Blackfriars Conference, October 30, 2015

  • “Musical Poiesis,” Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 20, 2014

  • “Changeling Thing,” Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis, MO, April 10-12, 2014

  • “’Thwick-a-Thwack’: Thomas Dekker’s Politics of Noise,” Sound+ Conference, University of Maryland, March 28, 2014

  • “Sidney Circularities,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, January 9, 2014

  • "Ben Jonson and Literary Form," Graduate Field Committee in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Maryland, November 5, 2012
  • “Form, Matter and Digital Crisis,” American Comparative Literature Association Providence, RI, March 30, 2012
  • “Form as Supposition,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 6, 2012
  • “Occasion,” in “Early Modern Theatricality in the 21st Century,” Rutgers Program in Early Modern Studies and Rutgers British Studies Center, New Brunswick, NJ, December 1-2, 2011
  • “Song, Mater, Media,” Shakespeare Association of America, Bellevue, WA, April 7, 201
  • “’Drown’d in noyse’: Multi-Mediation in the Lord Mayor’s Show,” in “Performing the Book: Multi-Media Histories of Early Modern Britain,” Rutgers British Studies Center, New Brunswick, NJ February 11, 2011
  • “‘This nothing’s more than matter’: Ophelia’s Immaterial Poesie,” Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, IL, April 1, 2010
  • “Fellowship and the Consumption of Tidings in Le Morte Darthur,” Eleventh Biennial Early Book Society Conference, University of Exeter, UK, July 9, 2009
  • “Circulations of Authority in Thomas Campion’s Lute Airs,” Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, March 21, 2009
  • “‘Caused to be Song’: The Echoes of Sidney’s Arcadia,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 21, 2008
  • “Forms of Authors: Terza Rima and Ottava Rima in Wyatt’s Psalms,” in “Formalisms New and Old,” Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis, New Brunswick, NJ, April 11, 2008