Past and Forthcoming Conference Papers and Research Seminar Presentations

• paper accepted at the 22^nd Annual British Women Writers Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY), 19-21^st June 2014
• Gothic Landscape and the Quest for Meaning in Tale of Tales' 'The Path', Arts Faculty Postgraduate Seminar Series, University of Warwick (28^th May 2014)
• Catoptric Feminine Identities in 'The Lady of Shalott' and Its Visual Representations, Arts Faculty Postgraduate Seminar Series, University of Warwick (5^th March 2014)
• 'The Mirror Blue' and the Curse of Desire: Appropriating or Alienating the Female Self in Representations of 'The Lady of Shalott'?, Transgression, Trespassing and Taboos in the Long Nineteenth-Century, Cardiff University (10^th April 2013)

• The Grotesque and the Sinister in 'The Wizard of Oz': Perpetuating Christian Models of Merit, Returning to Oz: The Afterlife of Dorothy, Hic Dragones, Manchester (7^th February 2013) - watch presentation in Prezi
  

• ‘I am not in love with a coloured pannel’: the Gothic Cross-Boundaries of Illegitimate and/or Defective Eros in Walpole’s ‘The Castle of Otranto’ and Lewis’s ‘The Monk', Unhealable Wounds: Gothic and the Question of Trauma, University of Stirling (24^th November 2012) - download PowerPoint presentation

• Celestial Virgin and Tellurian Whore: Anthropomorphic Simulacra and the Problematisation of Eros in M.G. Lewis and Prosper Mérimée, Arts Faculty Postgraduate Seminar Series, University of Warwick (31^st October 2012) - download PowerPoint presentation

​Catoptromancy​, entry for the 2013 research photography competition