This section includes conference presentation, invited lectures, and other events where I got to “talk” about my research or teaching.

2025

• “The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn: New Archives for Researching Law, Drama, and Disability in Early Modern London,” Hudson Strode Speakers Series, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Feb. 10, 2025.
• “Intellectual Disability and Property Law,” Roundtable on Early Modern Human Rights, CLCS Medieval and Renaissance Forum, MLA New Orleans, LA, Jan. 10, 2025.

2024

• “Cripping Citizenship,” for the ELH Colloquium series English dept., Johns Hopkins University, 7 Nov. 2024.
• “The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn: Service, Disability, and the Limits of Early Modern Institutional Care,” Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM): Disability and Mad Studies Working Group, May 14, 2024.
• Co-facilitated with Alli St. John, “‘I hardly yet have learned’: Tools for Teaching Shakespeare,” Roundtable for High School, College, and University Educators, Shakespeare Symposium, The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, 20 April, 2024.
• Co-led with Andrew Bozio, Seminar “Dis/ability and Racial Capitalism in Shakespeare and Beyond,” Shakespeare Association of America, Portland, OR, 12 Apr. 2024.
• Spoke with Urvashi Chakravarty and Misha Ewen, “Colonization, Consent, and Community: Book Panel with Three Authors,” UMN Center for Premodern Studies, March 15, 2024.
• Co-organized with Jennifer Row, Uncommon Bodies Symposium: Premodern Disability and Race in a Global Context (see Uncommon Bodies website for details). UMN and Macalester College. Feb. 15-16, 2024. Read about it on the Uncommon Bodies website and The Mac Weekly, “Mac Co-Hosts Uncommon Bodies Symposium.”

2023

• “Shakespeare and the Culture of Shaming,” Beijing Normal University Shakespeare Lecture Series Webinar, Dec. 15, 2023.
• “Refusing Able-Bodied Citizenship,” spoke on a panel with Katherine Schaap Williams and Genevieve Love, Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, MN, Apr. 2023.
• “Disability in John Manningham’s Diary,” Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court Webinar, March 8, 2023.
• “Disabled by Law.” Pearce Shakespeare Law and Literature Symposium, Rhodes College. Feb. 23, 2023.
• Co-facilitated with Ryan Greenwood, “Treasures from the Riesenfeld Center for Rare Books,” UMN Law Library, CPS Premodern Regional Colloquium, Feb. 10, 2023.
• “Disability Aesthetics and Public Scholarship,” Roundtable on “Public Humanities,” MLA San Francisco, Jan. 6, 2023.

2022

• Roundtable participant for Julie Stone Peters, Law as Performance (OUP 2022). RSA Virtual, Dec. 2, 2022.
• “Disability Knowledge and Ablenationalism at the Inns of Court,” The Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 30, 2022.
• “Dressing to Transgress,” English, Bryn Mawr College, 19 Oct. 2022.
• “Ablenationalism and Disability in Timon of Athens,” seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, FA, Apr. 2022.
• “Navigating the Academic Job Search,” graduate seminar, Thematic Option Program, USC, LA, 15 Apr. 2022.
• Book Panel, with Jessica Winston and Jessica Apolloni for Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court Webinar, March 17, 2022.
• “Cripping Benefits: Timon of Athens” University College London, Intercultural Encounters: Race, Power, and Politics Speaker Series, March 10, 2022.  
• Roundtable participant, “Precarious Ability,” part of “The Political Ends of Early Modernity Roundtable,” MLA, Jan. 9, 2022. (Unable to attend due to COVID-19.

2021

• “Precarious Ability: Of Tenures and Compulsory Able-bodiedness in King Lear (1606, 2018),” Works in Progress Webinar in Law and Literature, 7 Dec. 2021.
• “Course Design and Syllabus Development,” New Faculty Orientation, Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching, Macalester College, 18 Aug. 2021.
• “Building an Accessible and Inclusive Class,” Third Annual Radical MacAccess, Faculty Panel, Macalester College, 22 Apr. 2021.
• “‘Manifest Appeal’: Rape, the Female Appellor, and Measure for Measure,” Renaissance Society of America, Virtual Conference (Dublin), 20 April, 2021.
• Roundtable participant, “Lost in the Archive?,” organized by Derek Dunne and Rachel E. Holmes, Renaissance Society of America, Virtual Conference (Dublin), 20 April, 2021.
• “Precarious Ability: Ablenationalism in the Common Law and King Lear,” Shakespeare Association of America, Virtual Conference (Austin, TX), 2 April, 2021.

2020

• “Audience Response to Communal Shaming in Henry VI, Part 2,” Shakespeare Association of America, Denver, CO, 17 Apr. 2020.

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