“Surprised by Science: The Original ‘Errors’ of Paradise Lost.” Early Modern Colloquium, Northwestern University. Evanston, November 2013.
“The Fable of Sound and Visions of the Moon: Allegory in Galileo’s Assayer.” Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, April 2012.
“‘When Everything Seems Double’: Dreaming in Gary Griffin’s Midsummer.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Chicago, March 2012.
“Sapphic Desire and ‘Nature’s Law’: The Social Anxiety of ‘Insignificance’ in Donne’s ‘Sappho to Philaenis.’” Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at CUNY’s Graduate Center. New York, November 2011.
“Order and Disorder in the Cosmos: Hamlet’s New Astronomy.” Society of Fellows, Northwestern University. Evanston, October 2011.
“The Theater of the World: Performing Gender and Identity in Gary Griffin’s As You Like It.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Chicago, January & February 2011.
“A Rose by Any Other Name: Economies of Exchange in Gale Edward’s Romeo and Juliet.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Chicago, October & November 2010.
“Allegory and Physics: Literature and the Scientific Revolution.” Invited Talk, Northwestern English Department. Evanston, March 2010.
“A ‘foul and pestilent congregation’: Hamlet and the New Astronomy.” Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference. Chicago, January 2010.
“A Poetics of ‘Transfixion’: Rape and Allegory in Faerie Queene III.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 2009.
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor of English, SUNY: SUNY Brockport (2014-present)
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University (2013-2014)