INVITED TALKS

International

  • “‘Shakespeare Sells High’: Black American Readers and the 1623 First Folio,” What’s Past is Prologue: Mobilizing the UBC First Folio, University of British Columbia, November 17-18, 2023 Vancouver, Canada. 

  • “ ‘Difficile est Satyram non scribere’: The Parnassus Plays, The Bishops’ Ban and English Juvenalian Satire in the 1590s,” Literature and History in Early Modern British Seminar, Jesus College, Oxford University, May 3, 2021, online.

  •  “Bottle-books and Shakespeare’s The Tempest,” Undergraduate Herbert Society, Jesus College, Oxford University, February 26, 2021, online. 

National

  • “You are welcome here: Centering the Humanities in the Classroom and Curriculum,”     Lecture, English Department, The Pinanski Lecture, Wellesley College, April 30, 2024.

  • “Archives and Beyond,” The Fales Annual Lecture, English Department and NYU Libraries, New York University, April 6, 2024.

  • “The Folio Unfixed in Time,” Shakespeare First Folio Event, Elizabethan Club and English Department, Yale University, September 29, 2023. 

  • “A black ‘poyson’ on the state: Editing Shakespeare and Race,” The Early Modern Colloquium, University of Wisconsin Madison, December 6th, 2022, online.

  • “Whither are you Bound: The Publication and Shaping of Shakespeare in 1619, 1623, and 1923.” Kimberly Bentson Distinguished Speaker Series, Haverford College, November 1, 2022, online.

  • “We had not thus trespassed against your consent’: The Blackamoor Poems by Rainolds and King (1630s-1650s)” Symposium of the Book, University of Georgia, April 27, 2022.

  • “In search of a black printer,” USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Huntington Library, Pasadena, California, April 2, 2022.

  •  “The (white) troubles of Queen Elizabeth I,” Racing Queens Seminar, Butler University, Indiana, March, 2022, online.

  • “‘Inlaid with inkie spots of jet’: Towards a convergence of Early modern book history and premodern critical race studies,” Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, Yale University, October 14, 2021, online.

  • “‘Dost understand the word?’:  Reading knowledge, ‘Unbookishness,’ and race in Othello” University of Connecticut Avery Point, March 4, 2021, online.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 Plenary Talks

  • “The Blackness of Early Modern English Poetic (Text)iles,” RaceB4Race: Poetics, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, January 27-28, 2023.

  • “A Case for Scholarly Advice: Magic Books in Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay” BritGrad: The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, August 23, 2021, online

  •  “The Consequences of Reading: Early Modern English Universities, Books, and The Parnassus Plays (1599-1606)” 2021 Undergraduate Research Conference in English, University of West Georgia, February 25, 2021, online.

 Conference Papers

  •  “Scholarly (re)turns to the Alfred Knight Collection,” Shakespeare Association of America, Portland, OR, April 2024.

  • "Acts of Reading, the Lives of Magic Books, and the Limits of the University in Greene and Marlowe” Modern Language Association, January 2024.

  • “A Renaissance Book (History) in Time?” Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, MN, April 2023.

  •  “Editing Shakespeare and Race,” Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2022.

  •  “Vincenzo, Early Modern English Revenge Drama, and Pedagogy,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Baltimore, March 2022.

  • “Discourses of Fairness in Roger Ascham’s The Scholemaster (1571),” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC,  January 2022.

  • “Book, Race, and Gender,” Bibliographical Society of America Panel, January  2021, online.

  •  “Shakespeare’s Futures Roundtable: Accessing Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Association of America. Denver, 2020 cancelled. Rescheduled, April 2021, online.

  •  “Being Online: Risks and Rewards for Women in Academe,”  Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2020.

  •  “‘Mediators of the Wor(l)d’: Another approach to editing early modern English drama,” Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, DC, 2019.

  •  “Magic Books and the University in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and Dr. Faustus,” Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, 2018.

Respondent

  • “DEI and Editing Early Modern Texts,” Modern Language Association, Washington DC, January 2022.

  • Invited respondent to Seminar Papers, “New Directions in Book History,” organizers: Valerie Wayne and Helen Smith, World Shakespeare Congress, National University of Singapore, July 15th, 2021, online.

 Panel and Seminar Organizer  

  • “The Politics of Bibliography, Textual Editing, and Book History” with Zachary Lesser, Shakespeare Association of America, April 2021, online.

  •  “‘We acknowledge ours’: Celebrating the scholarly impact of Kim Hall’s Things of Darkness,” Society for Renaissance Studies, November 2020, online.

Panel Moderator

  • “The Shakespeare Editor: Lives & Labor,” Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2022.