Conference Talks

As Presenter

“Constructing Nova Albion.” UC Davis Library MEMS Event, 2 May 2024, Davis, CA. Poster Presentation.

“Recollecting from the Wat’ry Empire: how to extract meaning in Pericles.” Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), 10-13 April 2024, Portland, OR. Conference Seminar. Invited seminar contributor.

“Nova Albion: ‘Common’ Narratives and Reimagined Futures.” Oecologies I: An Uncommon Exclusion: Human/More-than-Human Alliance in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations, ASLE+AESS, 12 July, 2023, Portland, OR. Conference.

“Nova Albion in Bodega Bay.” Invited talk for UC Davis Chancellor and his Board, 11 May, 2023, Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory. Invited Elevator Pitch.

“‘All the forms thou can’st invent’: Transmovement in Marvell’s ‘The Gallery.’ SCRC (South Central Renaissance Conference), 27-29 April, 2023, UC Berkeley. Roundtable Presentation.

“Prolepsis in Nova Albion.” On the Sea and Coastal Ecologies: Early Modern Pasts and Uncertain Futures (UCHRI Funded Symposium), 19-20 May, 2022, Bodega Bay, CA. Symposium Presentation.

“Wastefull emptiness”: Ecological Rhetoric of Transitory Space in The Faerie Queene.” SCSC (Sixteenth Century Society & Conference), 28-31 October 2021, San Diego, CA. Conference Presentation.

With Colin Keohane, “Fish, Family, Flowers: Exploring the Oikos of Codex Ashmole 61.” International Medieval Conference, 4-7 July 2021, Leeds University, Leeds, EN. Conference Presentation.

With Colin Keohane, “Revisiting the Users of the University of Victoria McPherson Library’s 1610 Actes and Monuments.” New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 12-14 March 2020, New College, Sarasota, FL. Conference Presentation, postponed.

“Where Terrestrial Poles Meet: The Liminality of World-Building.” ASLE, 26-30 June 2019, University of California, Davis; Davis, CA. Conference Presentation.

With Colin Keohane, “University of Victoria McPherson Library’s 1610 Actes and Monuments: A Users’ Guide.” CSRS (Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies), 1-3 June 2019, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Conference Presentation.

“’Wretched man, wretched tree:’ Navigating Post-Human Reality in The Faerie Queene.” PAMLA co-conference with ASLE, 10 November 2018, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. Conference Presentation.

Invited to Global Pre-humanisms: An interdisciplinary conference, Urbana-Champagne, IL, unable to attend.

As Organizer

Graduate Poster Presentations at UC Davis Library MEMS Event, 2 May 2024.

“Oecologies II: Re/Imagining the Commons: Resistance and Rebellion in the Late Medieval and Early Modern England,” ASLE+AESS, 12 July, 2023, Portland, OR. Conference.

“Ecogrief and the Premodern Environment,” Oecologies, 15 December, 2022, Airmeet. Discussion with Dr. Chris Barrett and Dr. Heide Estes.

“On the Sea and Coastal Ecologies: Early Modern Pasts and Uncertain Futures,” UCHRI, 19-20 May, 2022, Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory. Symposium.

“Ecologies and Economics: Premodern Extractions,” Oecologies, 5 November, 2021, Zoom. Discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Dr. Debapriya Sarkar, and Dr. Phillip Usher.