Invited Talks

‘Narrating Oil: Modernism, Petroleum and Ambivalence’, Teesside University, 4 June 2024.

‘Lawns, Books and Bombs: A Response to Claire Colebrook’, Virginia Woolf and Ecology: The 32nd Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, Florida Gulf State University, 8 June 2023.

‘Of Steaks and Suffragettes: The Vegetarian Politics of Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day’, Digestive Modernisms Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 6 April 2023.

‘Reading the Modernist Anthropocene’, University of Tartu, 16 September 2022.

‘Djuna Barnes’s Beastly Anthropocene’, Writing Animals Symposium, University of Kent, 3 March 2017.

Conferences and Events Organised

Beastly Modernisms, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, September 2019

Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace: The 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woof, University of Kent, Canterbury, June 2018

Selected Conference Papers

‘Vita Sackville-West, British Modernism and the Anglo-Persian oilfields’, Petrocultures 2024, University of Southern California, 15-18 May 2024

‘Crude Yet Refined: Finding the Oil in Woolf’s Essays’, Virginia Woolf and Ecology: 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Florida Gulf Coast University, 8-11 June 2023

‘An English Highway Straight Into Hell: The Oil in British Modernism’, The Subterranean Anthropocene: The British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2022, Kings College London and University of Bristol, 12 November 2022

‘Tracing Modernism’s Vegetarian Influencers’, Hopeful Modernisms: British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference 2022, University of Bristol, 23-25 June 2022.

‘Reading Woolf in the Anthropocene’ Virginia Woolf and Ethics: 31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Lamar University, Texas, 9-12 June 2022.

‘Siberian Mammoths, Rice Pudding and Iraqi Oil Fields: ‘The London Scene’ and the Capitalocene’, 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of South Dakota, 10-13 June 2021.

‘Consciousness and Materiality: Reading Joyce in the Noosphere’, British Society for Science and Literature Annual Conference 2020, University of Sheffield, 15-17 April 2020.

‘Joyce, Molly and the Revenge of Gea-Tellus’, British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference 2019, Kings College London, 20-22 June 2019.

‘Fourwalkers, Taildanglers, Headhangers: Labouring animals and animal labour in James Joyce’s Ulysses’, Zurich James Joyce Centre Workshop 2018, Zurich James Joyce Center, 6-11 August 2018.

‘Writing the Anthropocene: Woolf, Braidotti and Posthumanist Feminism in the time of Climate Change’, 28th Annual International conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Kent, 21-24 June 2018.

‘Modernist Anthropocene Aesthetics’, Aesthetics in the Anthropocene, University of Sussex, 10-11 April 2018.

‘Unclean Beasts: Reading Djuna Barnes in the era of Anthropocene Studies’ at New Work in Modernist Studies 2017, University of Leeds, 15 December 2017.

‘Green, Queer, Entangled: The Use of “Nature” in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Vita Sackville-West’s The Land’, 27th Annual International conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Reading, 29th June – 2nd July 2017.

‘The Eyes of Dead Animals: Nineteenth Century Meat Production in James Joyce’s Ulysses’, Consuming Animals, University of York, 17-18th March 2017.

‘Nature’s Queer Tricks: Historicizing the Anthropocene with Virginia Woolf’, MLA Convention 2017, Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017.

‘Challenging Joyce: The Claim of the Nonhuman in Ulysses and Elizabeth Costello’, XXV International James Joyce Symposium, University of London, 13-18 June 2016.