Forthcoming Conference Papers
Agony and Ecstasy: Ballet and the Gothic Body, Embodying Fantastika, Lancaster University, 8-10 August 2019
Previous Conference Papers
The Water Has Memory: Expanding the Mythosphere of Oz in Gregory Maguire’s The Wicked Years, GIFCON, University of Glasgow – May 2019
‘I know You: Maleficient and the Reimagined Wicked Queen’, as part of panel proposal Beautiful Wickedness: Fairytale Queens and the Gothic, Reimagining the Gothic, University of Sheffield – May 2019
Agony and Ecstasy: Ballet and the Gothic, Reimagining the Gothic, University of Sheffield – October 2018
Corsets, Airships and…Vampires? Hybrid Monstrosity in Steampunk/Gothic Texts, Gothic Hybridities: The International Gothic Association Conference 2018 – Manchester – August 2018
Narrative and the Fractured Self in Gregory Maguire’s Lost, as part of panel proposal Haunted and Transgressive Spaces, (Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self – University of Hull – September 2016
‘“Who frowned me this face?”: Dopplegangers in and out of time in Doctor Who’, Temporal Discombobulations – University of Surrey – August 2016
“I know all the stories … but I still want to hear the world tell them the way only it can tell them”: Reimagining Russian folklore in Deathless and Egg and Spoon”, Global Fantastika – University of Lancaster – July 2016
‘Will the real monster please stand up?: Fear in the age of the sparkly vampire’, Reimagining the Gothic: Monsters and Monstrosities – University of Sheffield – May 2016
Wicked Girls: Oz as Asylum/Asylum as Oz, as part of panel proposal Madness, Identity, and Horror in the Asylum – Asylums, Pathologies and the Themes of Madness: Patrick McGrath and his Gothic Contemporaries – University of Stirling – January 2016
Little Monsters: Hybrid offspring in steampunk and contemporary gothic texts, ‘The Company of Wolves’: Sociality, Animality, and Subjectivity in Literary and Cultural Narratives—Werewolves, Shapeshifters, and Feral Humans – University of Hertfordshire – September 2015
‘There’s no Place like Oz: Oz Reimagined On Screen and Off’, Locating Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference – University of Lancaster – July 2015
Transitioning Bodies and Changeling Children in Gregory Maguire’s Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Out of Oz, Being Non/Human: Bodily Borders Conference – Queen Mary, University of London – June 2015
‘Through the Looking Glass: Adaptation as Mirror in Contemporary Fairy Tales’
Wonderlands Conference – University of Chichester – May 2015
‘New Wine in Old Bottles: Creating New Myth from Old in Gregory Maguire’s The Wicked Years’
The Wizard of Oz and the Cultural Imagination – University of Brighton – November 2014
“Memory, Narrative and Constructions of the Self: Locating the Gothic in Gregory Maguire’s Lost”
Locating the Gothic Conference And Festival – Limerick – October 2014
‘“Now what are we going to do about Dorothy?”: The Judgement of Dorothy in Gregory Maguire’s The Wicked Years Series’
Returning to Oz: The Afterlife of Dorothy Hic Dragones – Manchester – February 2013
‘“No One Mourns the Wicked”: On the Nature of Evil and Monstrosity in Gregory Maguire’s The Wicked Years Series’, 10th Global Monsters and the Monstrous Conference: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil – Mansfield College, Oxford – September 2012
‘“No One Mourns the Wicked”: Representing Witches in the Contemporary fiction of Gregory Maguire, Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images – Lancaster University – August 2012
‘New Wine in Old Bottles: Intertextuality and Creating New Myth in the Fantasy Fiction of Gregory Maguire, Folklore & Fantasy Conference – University of Chichester – April 2012
‘Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know: Thirst, Lust & Abstinence in the Suburban England of Matt Haig’s The Radleys, Vegetarians, VILFs and Fang Bangers – De Monfort University – November 2010
Convention Appearances
Invited speaker and panel organiser on Twisted Tales: The Darker Side of Fairytales, Nineworlds Geekfest – London – August 2017
Invited speaker on Limits of Horror: When Does Thriller Become Horror?, Nineworlds Geekfest – London – August 2017
Invited speaker on Undercover Geek: How to Stealth Cosplay, Nineworlds Geekfest – London – August 2017
Workshop organiser on Feminst Parenting Meet-up, Nineworlds Geekfest – London – August 2017
Invited speaker on Beauty Of The Beast: Monsters and Why We Love Them, Nine Worlds Geekfest – London – August 2016
Moderator on Cosplay for Beginners, Nine Worlds Geekfest – London – August 2016
Invited speaker on How to Cosplay on a Budget, Nine Worlds Geekfest – London – August 2016
Wicked or Wonderful?: Religion in Gregory Maguire’s Oz, Nineworlds Geekfest Religion Track London – August 2015
Research Group Talk
“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say”: Reflections of the Non/Human in Gregory Maguire’s Mirror Mirror
Being Non/Human Research Group – Kings College London – May 2014
Guest Lecture
‘Adapting Narratives: Gregory Maguire’s Wicked’ for the HNC Professional Writing Skills module on ‘Narrative in Fiction and Film’, May 2010