Presentations

  • ‘The Improper Negotiation of Thresholds in Modern British Literature‘ The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, July 2014.
  • ‘Embodied Narrative Absence: Living for the Present in the “Fisher King” Narrative‘ Modernism Now, British Association for Modernist Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, June 2014.
  • ‘The Westwood or the McQueen?: Fashion, Disguise, and Power in the Sherlock Holmes Mythos‘ Fashion in Fiction: Style Stories and Transglobal Narratives, City University of Hong Kong, June 2014.
  • ‘Authenticity and Engagement in Blended Learning: “Authentic” Learning Management Systems‘ New Technologies and the Future of the Humanities, City University of Hong Kong, May 2014.
  • ‘Building the Modern World: The Architectural Spaces of Shaw’s Drama‘ Shaw at Home: 2013 International Shaw Society Conference’ in Ayot St Lawrence, UK, June 2013.
  • ‘The Thresholds of Interpretation: Reading Henry James at 18, at 28, and Every Decade Thence‘ Storyville: Exploring Narratives of Learning and Teaching, the 2nd annual HEA Arts and Humanities Conference’ in Brighton, UK, May 2013.
  • ‘Reading the Unwritten in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture‘ City University of Hong Kong, November 2012.
  • ‘What Do We Speak About When We Speak About Literature?’ The Excellence Hub of Yorkshire and the Humber, April 2011.
  • ‘The Aubrey Beardsley Meme’ Re-imagining the Victorians, Leeds Humanities Research Institute, September 2011.
  • ‘Alan Hollinghurst and the Problems of Contemporary Late Style’ Contemporary Literature and Its Contexts, University of Manchester, July 2010.
  • ‘Misprision and Desire in Twentieth-Century Readings of Literary Influence’ Mis/Appropriation, Oxford University, June 2010.
  • ‘The Artistry of Interpretation’, The Excellence Hub of Yorkshire and the Humber, March 2010.
  • ‘Buried Temples and Open Planes: Alethea Hayter, Alan Hollinghurst, and the Architecture of Drug-Taking’ University of Leeds, December 2009.
  • ‘Belgian Symbolism and the Mirror of Pedagogical Influence’ University of Leeds, November 2009.
  • ‘Revisiting The Yellow Book in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty‘ The Idea of the New, University College London, March 2008.
  • ‘Restoring Space and Rescripting Baedeker in Forster’s A Room With A View’ University of Leeds, November 2007.
  • ‘Hemingway’s Brett Ashley as Modernist Anti-Heroine’ Sigma Tau Delta International Conference, March 2006.
  • ‘Social Progress and the Link Between Science and Art in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House’ Ohio Northern University, November 2005.
  • ‘Working Towards Post-Queerism: Reclamations of a Gay Heritage’ Crossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Encounters, Cleveland State University, October 2005.