Conferences and Interviews

‘Monstrous Women with Dr. Nicole Dittmer’.

Dirty Sexy History with Jessica Cale. February 2023.

Penny Dreadfuls and The Gothic, Book Release. English Literature Seminar Series. Lancaster University. Lancaster, UK 2023.

‘The Wild Witch – Mistress of the Broomstick’.

A Close Reading at TCNJ. Ewing, New Jersey, 2022.

‘“that was to conceal that I escaped”: Transgressive Ontologies and Female Monstrosities in Penny Blood and Dreadfuls (1828-63)’. Gothic Interruptions. IGA. Dublin, Ireland 2022.

‘“Mistress of the Broomstick”: Biology, Ecosemiotics, and Monstrous Women in Victorian Penny Bloods’. Witches and Witchcraft: A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference. Prague, Czech Republic, 2022.

Episode 16: Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic. Victorian Legacies with Emma Catan. 2022 February 5.

‘Affective Environments and Criminal Ontologies: The Female Offender in Penny Publications’. Captivating Criminality 8: Crime Fiction, Femininities, Masculinities. Bamberg, Germany 2021.

‘A Wolf in Wife’s Clothing: Wildness and the Reclamation of Self in the Wolf Stories of Frederick Marryat and George MacDonald.’ NWLNC. Manchester, UK. 2020.

‘”Othering” the Human: Vampiric Legacy and Darwinian Evolution in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls.’
‘Performativity and Expectations: Corruption of the “Final Girl” in Friday the 13th.’ PCAACA. Philadelphia, PA. 2020.

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‘Spectral Anomaly: The Disappearing Act of Bridget Bishop, Salem’s Absentee Witch 1692-2018.’ Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror. IGA. Chicago, Il. 2019.

‘“Thou Bearest a Woman’s Face”: Identity and Gender Inversion in Titus Andronicus.’ ESRA. Rome, It. 2019.

‘The Infertile Frankenstein: Eugenics and the Sterilization of Victor Frankenstein.’ Gothic Hybridities. IGA. Manchester, UK. 2018.

‘“I will be with you on your wedding night”: Sex and Science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.’ UVC. Venice, It. 2018.

‘“Nor [ever] was in this place before”: A Modern-Day Case Study of Bridget Bishop, Salem’s Absentee Witch.’ SEA. Tulsa, Ok. 2017.

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‘Living Digitally: The New Social Technology of Authentic Life Writing.’ Lead Paper. Changes. Ewing, NJ. 2016.