“Teaching Literature with Microhistory: Stages of Transition in 1603”. Invited panelist for “New Approaches to 16th Century Pedagogy” panel. Sixteenth Century Society conference 2022. Minneapolis, MN.
“‘Permit them to Pass’: New Evidence of a Troupe of Italian Players in England in 1574”. “On Belonging 2: English Conceptions of Migration and Transculturality, 1550-1700” conference, 2021. Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c. 1550-1700 project. Oxford University, UK.
“‘The stranger that hath his liberty’: Foreign Performers in Early Modern England”. Invited presentation for the VCU Department of English Faculty Forum series, 2021. Richmond, VA.
Co-chair, “Teaching Identity, Inclusion, and Exclusion through Early Modern Drama”. Shakespeare Association of America 2020. Denver, CO.
“‘The stranger that hath his liberty’: The Reality and Representation of Foreign Performers in Renaissance England”. Modern Language Association 2020. Invited presentation for the “Global Medieval and Renaissance Drama” panel. Seattle, WA.
“(False) Fire in a Crowded Theater, or, The Lively Failure of Deadly Props on Shakespeare’s Stage”. American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference 2019. Staunton, VA.
“‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Foreign Performers in the Records of the Strangers’ Churches of London”. Shakespeare Association of America 2019. “Players, Patrons, Playhouses, and Parishes” seminar. Washington, DC.
“Strange Company: Foreign Performers in Shakespeare’s England”. Berglund Seminar invited lecture for VCU Honors College. 2018.
“Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater”. Invited lecture and podcast for VCU Humanities Research Center “Meet the Author” series. 2018.
“Stranger Companies: Foreign Performers in Early Modern England”. Shakespeare Association of America 2018. “Continental Shakespeare” seminar. Los Angeles, CA.
“Town Criers, Squeaking Boys, and Other ‘Insufficiant Personnes’: Bad Acting on the Early Modern Stage”. American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference 2017. Staunton, VA.
“The Labor We Delight In: Amateur Playwrights, Renaissance Fan Fiction, and the Rewards of Purposeless Work”. Bates College, Honors Banquet, invited lecture, 2017. Lewiston, ME.
“(False) Fire in a Crowded Theater, or, The Lively Failure of Deadly Props on Shakespeare’s Stage”. Hamilton College, invited lecture, 2017. Clinton, NY.
“‘To Affricks shore’: Politics, Exile, and Rebellion in Sir Francis Verney’s Tragedy of Antipo.” Modern Language Association, 2017. “Crossing Boundaries in the Mediterranean” session. Philadelphia, PA.
“The Butcher’s Good Batoone: Property Failures on the Early Modern Stage”. Renaissance Society of America, 2016. Boston, MA.
“Samuel Hall: Printer-Patriot of the Revolution”. Salem Athenaeum, invited lecture, 2016. Salem, MA.
“‘All write playes’: Fan Fiction in the Early Modern Theater”. Harvard Society of Fellows, invited lecture, 2014. Cambridge, MA.
“‘I will keep and character that name’: Character Lists in Early Modern Manuscript Plays”. Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, invited lecture, 2013. Amherst, MA.
“‘To the People’: Stage Directions by Playwriting Playgoers”. Shakespeare Association of America 2013, “Theater Boundaries” seminar. Toronto, ON.
“An Early Modern Edition of an Early Modern Play: Nicholas Leatt’s 1622 Fair Copy of Sir Francis Verney’s Tragedy of Antipo”. Society for Textual Scholarship 2012. Austin, TX.
“Where Do We Begin? The First Edition of an Early Modern Play”. Shakespeare Association of America 2012, “Chronologies in Theater History” seminar. Boston, MA.
“The Pirate, the Merchant, and the Manuscript Play”. Graduate Research in the Renaissance Series 2012. Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. Amherst, MA.
“’Mayn’t a Spectator write a Comedy?’: Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater”. Shakespeare Association of America 2011, winner Open Paper Competition. Bellevue, WA.
“Frozen Bigots, Funding Crises, and Freak Fires: The History of Theater in Salem, Massachusetts”. Benefit lecture for the Salem Theatre Company, 2011. Salem, MA.
“‘Go to my stationer’: Mapping the Playbook Market of Early Modern London, 1560-1660”. Renaissance Society of America 2010. Venice, Italy.
“‘Fitted to that Season’: Reconsidering Early Modern Drama Anthologies”. Anthologies: A Conference, 2010. Trinity College, CT.
“‘a Creature of the last Edition, and yet of the olde print’: Dramatic Printing from the Shop of Thomas Harper”. Northeast Modern Language Association 2009. Boston, MA. Also presented at “The History of the Book,” a conference of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 2009. Amherst, MA.
Seminar Leader, “Shakespeare’s Next Editors”. British Shakespeare Association 2009. London.
“At.óow or l s’ aatí át? Language Revitalization, Cultural Creation, and the Tlingit Macbeth”. Annual Amherst-Binghamton Translation Studies Conference, 2008. Amherst, MA.
“‘A Britaines hart and an Italeans Braine’: Foreignness, Disguise, and the English State in The Wasp”. University of Massachusetts English Graduate Conference 2008. Amherst, MA.
“‘with my dying breath, ile wryte this new’: Encountering and Countering History in The Tragedy of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt”. American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference 2007. Staunton, VA.
“‘Seldome seene’: Observations from Editing The Launching of the Mary”. British Graduate Shakespeare Conference 2006. Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
“‘I’ll work my heart out’: A New Approach to the Authorship Question of The Second Maiden’s Tragedy”. London Forum on Authorship Studies, 2006. University of London.