COMMITTEES:
2022 - Member of Modern Languages Faculty Athena Swan committee.
2022 - Chair and French editor of MHRA Critical Texts series, and member of MHRA Executive Committee.
2017 - 2021 Society for Early Modern French Studies, Committee.
2017 - 2018 Communications Officer – MHRA Executive Committee.
2014 - 2017 Membership Officer – MHRA Executive Committee.
Including project managing website redesign.
2012 - 2015 Member of AHRC Research Careers and Training Network.
2012 - 2014 Postgraduate representative – MHRA Executive Committee.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT:
'The Italian Commedia'
Public lecture at Oxford Lieder Festival, Bodleian Library (Oct. 2018).
Book at Lunchtime, Representing the Dead (FILM)
Roundtable discussion of Representing the Dead, by Helen Swift, at TORCH (Oct. 2017).
'You Are What You Leave'
Session on death and identity, with Helen Swift, at Pitt Rivers Museum, for Curiosity Carnival (Sept. 2017).
'Whither Death?'
Short filmed discussion for TORCH site.
'Great men and fallen heroes in eighteenth-century France' (FILM)
Bitesize talk for Ashmolean Museum / TORCH 'Live Friday' event on Heroes and Villains (Jan. 2016).
Great Books: Les Liaisons dangereuses
Open lecture for all college members, Clare College, Cambridge, as part of 'Great Books' series (Jan. 2016).
'What made the seventeenth century laugh… and is it still funny now?'
Talk for visiting students from Social Mobility Foundation, Clare College, Cambridge (June 2015).
AHRC/Cheltenham Literary Festival Scheme, 2015
Shortlisted to develop idea for session at festival based on my research. Attended finalists' workshop (Feb. 2015).
‘Stagestruck: Paris in the Century of Theatre’, Prince’s Teaching Institute
Lecture and discussion for secondary school modern languages teachers (Nov. 2014).
Broadcasting in the Humanities Workshop, Oxford University Humanities Division
One-day workshop on public engagement and communicating research using radio (June 2012).
‘The Comédie-Italienne in 18th-century Paris: a pre-history of typecasting?’
Poster presentation, Oxford Humanities Research Briefing Poster Showcase (June 2012).
‘Making a name on the Enlightenment stage: James Bond, Harry Potter, and their 18th-century ancestors’
Franks Society (cross-disciplinary graduate talks series), Worcester College, Oxford (Feb 2012).
Talk repeated at Radley School (Oct 2012) and West Oxford Community Academy (March 2014).
AHRC Broadcast Media Training Day
One-day workshop on communicating research using radio and broadcast media (June 2011).
MISCELLANEOUS:
Click here for my episode of the Viva Survivors podcast, in which I discuss my viva experience with Nathan Ryder.
I am an occasional freelance translator from French and Italian into English: past work ranges from academic articles to EU reports.
2022 - Member of Modern Languages Faculty Athena Swan committee.
2022 - Chair and French editor of MHRA Critical Texts series, and member of MHRA Executive Committee.
2017 - 2021 Society for Early Modern French Studies, Committee.
2017 - 2018 Communications Officer – MHRA Executive Committee.
2014 - 2017 Membership Officer – MHRA Executive Committee.
Including project managing website redesign.
2012 - 2015 Member of AHRC Research Careers and Training Network.
2012 - 2014 Postgraduate representative – MHRA Executive Committee.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT:
'The Italian Commedia'
Public lecture at Oxford Lieder Festival, Bodleian Library (Oct. 2018).
Book at Lunchtime, Representing the Dead (FILM)
Roundtable discussion of Representing the Dead, by Helen Swift, at TORCH (Oct. 2017).
'You Are What You Leave'
Session on death and identity, with Helen Swift, at Pitt Rivers Museum, for Curiosity Carnival (Sept. 2017).
'Whither Death?'
Short filmed discussion for TORCH site.
'Great men and fallen heroes in eighteenth-century France' (FILM)
Bitesize talk for Ashmolean Museum / TORCH 'Live Friday' event on Heroes and Villains (Jan. 2016).
Great Books: Les Liaisons dangereuses
Open lecture for all college members, Clare College, Cambridge, as part of 'Great Books' series (Jan. 2016).
'What made the seventeenth century laugh… and is it still funny now?'
Talk for visiting students from Social Mobility Foundation, Clare College, Cambridge (June 2015).
AHRC/Cheltenham Literary Festival Scheme, 2015
Shortlisted to develop idea for session at festival based on my research. Attended finalists' workshop (Feb. 2015).
‘Stagestruck: Paris in the Century of Theatre’, Prince’s Teaching Institute
Lecture and discussion for secondary school modern languages teachers (Nov. 2014).
Broadcasting in the Humanities Workshop, Oxford University Humanities Division
One-day workshop on public engagement and communicating research using radio (June 2012).
‘The Comédie-Italienne in 18th-century Paris: a pre-history of typecasting?’
Poster presentation, Oxford Humanities Research Briefing Poster Showcase (June 2012).
‘Making a name on the Enlightenment stage: James Bond, Harry Potter, and their 18th-century ancestors’
Franks Society (cross-disciplinary graduate talks series), Worcester College, Oxford (Feb 2012).
Talk repeated at Radley School (Oct 2012) and West Oxford Community Academy (March 2014).
AHRC Broadcast Media Training Day
One-day workshop on communicating research using radio and broadcast media (June 2011).
MISCELLANEOUS:
Click here for my episode of the Viva Survivors podcast, in which I discuss my viva experience with Nathan Ryder.
I am an occasional freelance translator from French and Italian into English: past work ranges from academic articles to EU reports.