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Upcoming Talks & Travel

IMC 2024 – Kalamazoo, MI: “Animal Skins and Body Puppetry in Medieval and Early Modern England.” “New Voices in Early Drama” panel.

SAA 2024 – Portland, OR: “Shakespeare’s Puppet Children,” “Costume, Scenography, and the Role of the Designer in Performance” seminar.

RSA 2024 – Chicago, IL: “Broune Paper Monsters: Dragon Puppets and Processional Performance.” “Playing Beyond Plays: Renaissance England’s Leisure Marketplace” panel co-organized with Elizabeth Tavares and sponsored by the Hudson Strode Program.

Hic Sunt Dracones Colloquium – Chicago, IL: “Medieval Hellmouths, Renaissance Dragons”

Blackfriars Conference 2023 – Staunton, VA: Talking Heads: Early English Puppetry and Robert Greene’s Brazen Head.”

Recent Talks & Travel

Early European Puppetry Studies Conference – Yale: Co-organized with Michelle Oing (Oct 2023)

Yale Environmental Humanities: “Performing Animacy: Animals Skins and Body Puppetry”

BSA 2023 – Liverpool, UK: “Performing Animacy: Animals Skins and Body Puppetry.” “Re-wilding Shakespeare: Nature, Preternature, and Early Modern Climate” seminar

Hic Sunt Dracones Colloquium – Cologne, Germany: “Renaissance Processional Dragons”

2ème Colloque International PuppetPlays – Paris, France: “An Introduction to Early European Puppetry” with Michelle Oing.

SAA 2023 – Minneapolis, MN: “Broune Paper Monsters: Early Modern London’s Processional Puppets.” “London Historiography and Drama” seminar.

Cambridge Festival 2023: “Talking Heads: Building a Renaissance Puppet”

Renaissance Graduate Seminar – Cambridge: “Renaissance Devotional Puppetry”

Renaissance Research Workshop – Cambridge: “Literary Giants and Paper Dragons”

RSA 2022 – Dublin, Ireland: “Contested Materiality: Devotional Puppetry and Reformation Iconoclasm.” (Organized panel on “Renaissance Puppet Theater in Theory and Practice”)

SAA 2022 – Jacksonville, FL: “Acting Naturally: Imitation, Disability, and the History of Stage Clowning II.” “Shakespeare’s Other Disability Plays Continued” seminar.

ASTR 2021 – San Diego, CA: “Pageant Puppetry’s Aesthetics of Englishness.” “Early Modern Performance” Working Group.

Norwich Museums & Salisbury Museum: Archival work on snapdragon puppets, the Salisbury Giant, and Hob-Nob.

SAA 2021 – Austin, TX [Virtual]: “Acting Naturally: Imitation, Disability, and the History of Stage Clowning.” “Shakespeare’s Other Disability Plays” seminar.

SAA 2020 – Denver, CO [Virtual]: “Pageant Puppets and Interpreting London.” “The Theatrical City: Performance and Ceremony in Early Modern London” seminar.

Short-Term Research Fellowship – Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Huntington exchange fellow in residence at Corpus for archival work at the Bodleian (Oct-Nov 2020).

Shakespearean Theatre Conference 2019 – Stratford ON: “Bear-ing Violence and the Ethics of Festive Form.” “Festival and Festivity,” University of Waterloo & Stratford Festival.

Year-Long Dissertation Seminar 2018-19 – Folger Shakespeare Library: Monthly seminar at the Folger and research trips to work on “The Clown and its Double: Addressing the Marotte in Shakespeare.” See published article.

SAA 2019 – Washington, DC: “Puppet Theater and the Interpreter’s Role.” NextGenPlen plenary panel. See published version.