Recent Invited Presentations
“Sleep, Vitality and the Human in the English Renaissance,” Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, March 2012
"Vitality and Futurity in Christopher Marlowe," University of Connecticut, April 2013
"Immobility, Memory and Sleep in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage," Keynote Speaker, Renaissance Immobility Symposium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, May 2013
"Sleep in the Age of Shakespeare," University of Surrey, Guildford, England, May 2013
"Sleep, Embodiment, Cognition" Interdisciplinary Roundtable, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, May 2013
"Immobility, Memory and Sleep in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage," University of Lancaster, England, May 2013
"Vitality and Futurity in Marlowe," Keynote Speaker, International Marlowe Conference, Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, VA, June 2013
"Living and Dying in Dr. Faustus," Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium Lecture, University of North Texas, November 2013
"Sleeping in Error in Book 1 of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene," BIRTHA Distinguished Lecture and Keynote Address,
"Perchance to Dream": Sleep and Related Phenomena in English Literature, University of Bristol, England, May 2014
Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Sleep, University of Bristol, England, May 2014
"Living and Dying in Dr. Faustus," University of Sydney, Australia, September 2014
"Sleeping in Error in The Faerie Queene Book 1 and A Midsummer Night's Dream," Keynote Speaker, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, October 2014
"Living and Dying in Dr. Faustus," University of Melbourne, Australia, October 2014
"Sleeping in Error in The Faerie Queene Book 1," Renaissance Literature Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, February 2015
"'A Pair so Famous': Memory, Sexuality and Selfhood in Antony and Cleopatra,"University of North Carolina at Charlotte, October 2015
“My Life, My Company”: Amity, Enmity and Vitality in Marlowe's Edward II," Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar, March 2016
"'How Britain Fights': Shakespeare and WWII Film Propaganda," Keynote Speaker, Shakespeare Undergraduate Conference,
University of Connecticut, April 2016
"'How Britain Fights': Shakespeare and WWII Film Propaganda," Manhattan College, April 2016
"Sleeping in Error in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 1," University of Manchester, UK, May 2018
"'Hamlet's a Loser!": Pimpernel Smith (1941), Hamlet and British WWII Film Propaganda," Ohio University, April 2019