Children’s Literature Association 2025 Virtual Conference – Shortcuts, Tesseracts: Time/Space in Children’s Literature and Culture
9 June – 14 June 2025
Presenter: Identity, Loneliness and Heritage as Catalysts of Young Adult Time-Slip and Time-Travel Narratives in Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle and Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 53rd Annual Conference, ‘Work and Play’
3 January – 5 January 2024, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
Presenter: The representation of work and play in eighteenth-century children’s literary tests A Little Pretty Pocket-Book,The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, The Governess and A Very Pretty Story
IRSCL 2023 Congress
13 August – 16 August 2023, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (Digital)
Presenter: Childhood and nature in Ellenor Fenn’s Cobwebs to Catch Flies; or, dialogues in short sentences
YA Studies Around the World
31st October – 4th November 2022, YA Studies Association (Online)
Presenter: Representations of Young Adult Girlhood in Sarah Fielding’s The Governess; or Little Female Academy
ENCAPsulate 2022 Conference
15th – 16th June 2022, Cardiff University, Wales
Presenter: Representations of Self and Other: Representations of Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature
IRSCL 2021 Congress
21 October 2021, Santiago, Chile (Online)
Presenter: Session 10, Stream A: Power, Canon and Ideology in Children’s Literature. Paper: Who Holds the Book? The Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Child Reader
ENCAPsulate 2021 Conference
17 – 18 June 2021, Cardiff University, Wales
Co-organiser of Conference
Panel Chair: Writing History: Caitlin Coxon, ‘Eliding Philomela in the Confessio Amantis’ and Romala Parish, ‘Adapting the Lives of Saints’
Fiction Fiesta (Online)
7 May 2021, ENCAP Cardiff University, Wales
Reading: Extract from novel 8 Degrees Below the Horizon
Open Mic (Online)
26 March 2021, Cardiff University, Wales
Reading: Short Story: The Hills
Christmas Conference for ENCAP MA Students 2020
10 – 11 December 2020, Cardiff University, Wales
Co-organiser and workshop presenter: Writing Fantasy – Making the Real Fantastical and the Fantastical Real.
Fiction Fiesta Online (Part of ENCAP’s Reading Week Festival)
19 November 2020, Cardiff University, Wales
Reading: Short Story: Early Morning at Westbay.
ENCAPsulate Digital Symposium
9 – 10 June 2020, Cardiff University, Wales
Presentation: Literature and History: An exploration of the interrelationship between 8 Degrees Below the Horizon (PhD Creative Component) and “The Rise of the Eighteenth Century Child and the Relationship with the Contemporary Young Adult Reader” (PhD Critical Component).
Panel Chair: Philosophy, Art and Identity: Matthew Jenkins, ‘(Un)believable Social Psychology” and Liam Bell, ‘Fantasy Island – Working, Building, Dwelling’.
Gregynog ENCAP Creative Writing Retreat
9 – 11 December 2019, Cardiff University, Wales
MA Seminar Leader: From Short Story to Novel Writing.
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