Conferences Convened

“Transformations: Tracing forces of Change in the Medieval and Early Modern Period.” NC Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Chapel Hill, NC. February 24-25, 2017.

Panels and Workshops Organized

“Power Dressing.” Shakespeare Association of America. Denver, CO. April 1-4, 2026

“Cabinet Thinking.” Renaissance Society of America. Chicago, IL. March 21, 2024.

“Shirts, Smocks, and Skins: Exposure and Undressing in Early Modern England.” Renaissance Society of America. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 9-11, 2023.

“Curiously Wrought.” The Online Olios, Virtual. December 3, 2022.

“Fashionable Carriage: Women, Materiality, and Display in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries.” Attending to Women, 1100-1800: Performance. Chicago, IL. September 30, 2022.

Presentations

“The Material Politics of Girlhood in Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish.” Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, MA. March 21, 2025.

“Teaching Wroth’s Urania and/as romance novel(s).” Renaissance Society of America. Boston, MA. March 22, 2025.

“Mary Carleton: Play/Maker.” Shakespeare Association of America. Portland, OR. April 10-13, 2024.

“Mermaids and Cabinet-Counsel: Politics and Portable Furnishings in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish.” Renaissance Society of America. Chicago, IL. March 21, 2024.

“‘I cannot forbear to complain’: Mary Carleton and the Materiality of Complaint.” Shakespeare Association of America. Minneapolis, MN. April 1, 2023.

“Undressing Authority: Transparent Fashions and the Case of Mary Carleton.” Renaissance Society of America. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 9-11, 2023.

“Fashioning Eco-Futures: Dress and the Environment in Cavendish’s Writings.” International Margaret Cavendish Conference. Virtual. June 9, 2022.

“War Widowhood in the Works of Margaret Cavendish: Authority, Property, and Spectacular Dress.” Renaissance Society of America. Virtual. April 13, 2021.

“Mediating Queens: Queerness, Authority, and Constraint in the Works of Cavendish.” Shakespeare Association of America. Virtual. April 1, 2021.

“‘Such ill clothes’: The Resistant Politics of Garments in the Writings of Lady Anne Clifford.” Shakespeare Association of America. Virtual. April 17, 2020.