Conference Presentations
Invited Talks
“Historical Fish Stories: Eels as a Part of Cultural History.” scheduled to be presented at The Scottish Eel Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. April, 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
“Thinking in a Man’s World: Christine de Pizan and Gendered Mnemonic Mapping.” to be presented with Anna Waymack at the Barry Lawrence Rudderman Conference on Cartography. David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. October 10-12, 2019.
“Clogs in the Schuyt: A History of the Dutch Eel Ships on the Thames.” at the Sustainable Eel Group‘s 10th Anniversary Celebration and Conference, Museum of Natural History, London, UK, June. 26-27, 2019. Invitation declined.
Papers
“A Right-Anguilled People: Eels and the Medieval English Identity” scheduled to be presented at the 55th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamzoo, MI, May 7-10, 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
“All Abbots and No Costellos” to be presented at the 38th Annual Haskins Society Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, November 8-10, 2019.
“Walking the Walk and Talking the Talk: Kinetic Learning and the Ambulatory Classroom” presented at the Connecting Research and Teaching Conference, Ithaca, NY, May 17, 2019.
“A Slippery Currency: Eels in the Medieval English Economy” presented at the 54th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2019
“In the Beginning Was the Word: How Medieval Text Became Fantasy Art” presented with Anna Waymack at Boundary Crossings, the 2018 ISSM Conference on Medievalism, St. Catherines, ON, October 12-13, 2018.
“The Bridge to Scotland: Matthew Paris and the Politics of Mapping Bridges in 13th Century Britain” presented at BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures, at the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, UK, July 6-10, 2017.
“Mappae Mandeville: Accessing and Teaching the Geography of Sir John Mandeville’s Travels” presented at the Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, February 20, 2016.
“All the Stage’s a World: Issues of Popular Geographic Knowledge and Didactic Cartography at Play in The Castle of Perseverance” presented at the New York State Association of European Historians Annual Conference, Geneseo, NY, October 3-4, 2014.
“The Consenting Dragon: Wales and the Claudius Map” presented at the Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, February 22, 2014.
“Matthew Paris’ England: Imagined Journeys…Imagined Country” presented at the 28th annual conference of the Ohio Valley History Conference, Johnson City, TN, October 12-14, 2012.
“Wayfarers All: William Wey’s Itineraries and the Turner Paradigm” presented at the 36th annual conference of the Mid-America Medieval Association, Manhattan, KS, February 25, 2012.
“Pilgrim Culture: A Backdrop for the Crusades” presented at the 2011 meeting of the University of Virginia at Wise Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Wise, VA, September 15-17, 2011.
Posters
“Dutch Eel Ships on the Thames: A Brief History.” at the Sustainable Eel Group‘s 10th Anniversary Celebration and Conference, Museum of Natural History, London, UK, June. 26-27, 2019.
“Efficacy of Focused Efforts at Correcting Overuse of ‘To Be’ in a First-Year Writing Seminar” presented at the Connecting Research and Teaching Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, May 21, 2018.
“Sovereignty at Anchor: Internal Frontiers and the Dutch Eel Ships on the Thames” presented at the Global Frontiers Winter School, Tübingen, Germany, November 15-17, 2017.
Colloquium Presentations
“You Are What You Eat: Eels and Medieval English Identity” presented at the Cornell Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable, Ithaca, NY Oct. 26, 2018.
“Istrildis’s Lament: An Exeter Book / H.R.B. Mashup” presented at the Cornell Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable, Ithaca, NY, Oct. 13, 2017.
“A Moveable Feast: Eels and Spatial Construction in 17th Century London” presented at the Cornell Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable, Ithaca, NY, Sept. 4, 2015.
