Invited Lectures
Conference papers
Public talks
World Book Day Lecture: Books in the World of Things
The University of Otago, New Zealand, 1 March 2018 Read more
Shelley’s Long Poems in Victorian Anthologies
Shelley Conference, Institute for Advanced Study, University of London, September 2017 Read more
Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning Lecture in Melbourne
The University of Melbourne, 7 March 2018 Read more
Collaborative Authorship
Rountable, MLA Convention, New York City – 4-7 January 2018 Read more
Passing Time in Victorian Illustrations to Romantic Poetry
MLA Convention, New York – 4-7 January 2018 Read more
Libel Law and Reviewing in Early Blackwood’s
The Blackwood’s Bicentenary Conference, University of Edinburgh, 25-26 July 2017. Read more
Improving Shelley in Victorian Sermons
‘Improving Shelley in Victorian Sermons’, BARS, York University – 27-30 July 2017 Read more
Retro-fitted Illustrations and Victorian Modernity
‘Woodpeckings: Victorian prints, illustration and word-image narratives’, British Museum – 17 June 2017 Read more
What the Victorians Made of Romanticism
University of Uppsala – 22 May 2017 Read more
Catching up with Walking Stuart
Plenary Lecture ‘The Lost Romantics’, University of Vechta, Germany – 11-14 May 2017 Read more
The Death of the Paperback
Roundtable discussion, Edinburgh Science Festival – April 2017 Read more
What is Book History?
Lyon and Turnbull Auctioneers, as part of ‘Rare Books Edinburgh’ – March 2017 Read more
Does the Academic Book have a Future?
Academic Book Week Event, University of Edinburgh Library – January 2017 Read more
The Academic Book of the Future: An Academic Perspective
Academic Book Week Event, Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow – January 2017 Read more
Scott in Stone: The Scott Monument in the Victorian Pantheon
Walter Scott Club, Edinburgh – November 2016 Read more
Wordsworth, Photography, and the Invention of the Lake District
The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere – October 2016 Read more
Retro-fitted Illustrations and Temporal Dislocations’
NASSR, ‘Romanticism and its Discontents’, Berkeley – August 2016 Read more
Byron and the Good Death
International Byron Conference, Paris – July 2016 Read more
Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Victorian Anthologies as Data
Plenary Lecture, Print Networks Conference, NUI Galway – July 2016 Read more
Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Romantic Poems in Victorian Anthologies
Lecture at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia – 17 March 2016 Read more
Why Do Academics Write Books?
Academic Book Week Event, Blackwells Bookstore, Edinburgh – November 2015 Read more
Byron’s Unlikely Celebrity in Victorian Sermons
University of Vienna – November 2015 Read more
Celebrity in Historical Perspective
Roundtable, After-image: Life Writing and Celebrity, The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities and Wolfson College, Oxford – September 2015 Read more
Celebrity and Anonymity in the Long Eighteenth Century
University of Edinburgh ‘Literary Commerce in 18th-Century Britain’ Workshop – July 2015 Read more
Victorian Illustrated Editions: Renovating Romanticism
British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, ‘Romantic Imprints’ , Cardiff University – July 2015 Read more
Renovating Romanticism in Victorian Illustrated Books
University of Pennsylvania – April 2015 Read more
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the Language of Personal Attack
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society – April 2015 Read more
Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Victorian Anthologies as Data
Bucknell University – April 2015 Read more
Renovating Romanticism in Victorian Illustrated Books
University of Pennsylvania – April 2015 Read more
Byron and the Scotch Reviewers
Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York – November 2014 Read more
Celebrity and Anonymity in Romantic Britain
Celebrity Studies Seminar, Centre for Life Writing, Oxford University – November 2014 Read more
Scott in Stone, Byron in Bronze
‘Embodying Literary Celebrity in Multiple Media’, Lancaster University – September 2014 Read more
The Interacting with Print MultiGraph
Roundtable, NASSR, Washington DC – July 2014 Read more
Walter Scott’s Transatlantic Celebrity: A Tale of Two Monuments
Plenary Lecture, ‘Nineteenth-Century Celebrity Encounters: Transatlantic Fame in Britain and America’, University of Portsmouth – July 2014 Read more
Organizing Byron’s Lyrics in Victorian Anthologies
NASSR, ‘Romantic Organizations’ , Washington, DC – July 2014 Read more
Taming Don Juan
Plenary Lecture, ‘Byron and the Margins of Romanticism’ conference, University of Vechta, Germany – June 2014 Read more
Periodicity as Generational Change in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Periodisation: Pleasures and Pitfalls, All Souls College, Oxford – June 2014 Read more
The Scott Monument and the Reformed Nation
Waverley at 200, University of Dundee – March 2014 Read more
“Scattered Odes” in “Shattered Books”: Romantic Poets in Victorian Anthologies
Lecture at Durham University, Department of English, November 2013. Read more
Scott in Stone, Byron in Bronze: Statues, Photographs and Poets in the British Pantheon
Lecture at University of Durham, Hatfield College, October 2013. Read more