"A Thousand Natural Shocks and Loving-Kindness"

21st International Thomas Hardy Conference (Dorchester, UK, July 26 –  August 2, 2014).

“Labyrinth or Laboratory: A Cross Between Darwin and Melville”

At Face Value: Re-thinking Surfaces Friends of English Southland Graduate Conference: (UCLA, May 31, 2013).

“Dinner and a (Minstrel) Show: Speech Supplied by a Sub- Sub- Altern in Moby-Dick”

International Conference in Dialect and Literature (University of Sheffield, UK, July 11 – 13, 2011).

 “Free Fall?: Problematic Movement in Hardy’s Narrative”

Hardy at Yale II Conference (Yale University, June 9 – 12, 2011).

 “Neither Soapbox nor Confessional: Postcolonial Monologues on America”

American Geographies British Association for American Studies Annual Postgraduate Conference (University of Oxford, UK, November 13, 2010).

“Reading the Skies: Meteorology in Hardy’s Narratives”

19^th International Thomas Hardy Conference (Dorchester, UK, July 24 – August 1, 2010).

“How Used ‘You’ Is: An Expansive Pronoun in A Small Place”

Framing the Self Conference (University of Portsmouth, UK, May 21, 2010).

“Entropy of Hope: Tennyson’s ‘Vision of the World’ Crushed by Gravity in Jude the Obscure”

Tennyson’s Futures Conference (University of Oxford, UK, March 27 – 28, 2009).