FORTHCOMING:
'‘Des impressions si durables, si profondes?’ Voltaire, an author in the dialogue des morts'
To be given at Oxford Early Modern French Research Seminar, November 2022.
'‘Shadows of things that may be?’ Voltaire, an author in the dialogue des morts'
To be given at Bristol French Research Seminar, December 2022.
PAST:
'The author of/in literary history: the future, conditional?'
In panel 'Constructing the Field: Authors' at 'What does literature do?', colloquium in honour of Alain Viala, Oxford, September 2022.
'Literary apophasis in the dialogue des morts'
In panel 'Repurposing Enlightenment' at American Comparative Literature Association Conference, online, April 2021.
'Self-projection in Mercier's L'An 2440'
In panel 'Legacies of Enlightenment' at Oxford-Berlin Enlightenment hub conference, Oxford, October 2019.
‘L’au-delà comme lieu de mémoire? Projection, jugement et gloire dans Les Nouveaux dialogues des morts de Fontenelle’
At conference 'Danses macabres d’Europe', Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, March 2019.
'Talking heads: the afterlife of the female voice in the French Revolution'
Early Career plenary at Nottingham University Symposium of Research Priority Area: Language, Texts and Society, Nottingham, January 2019.
'Authors at the Comédie-Italienne'
Invited paper at exploratory workshop on 'National Theaters Across the Channel: France/UK, 1660 – 1800', Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard, May 2018.
'Voice, speech, style in the dialogue des morts'
Workshop 'Viva voce: The Premodern Voice', TORCH, Oxford, May 2018.
'‘Je revais que j'étais mort': Projections of Posterity in L’An 2440 and other texts’
Invited paper at study day on Mercier, Maison Française d’Oxford, May 2018.
'Mirabeau, Gouges, et la postérité en rêve'
Invited paper at seminar 'Imaginaires de la Révolution', Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, March 2018.
'Talking Heads: Silenced Female Voices in the Revolutionary Afterlife'
Women in French conference 2018, 'Le bruit des femmes', Winthrop-King Institute for French and Francophone Studies, Florida, Feb. 2018. Winner of Early Career Conference Paper Award.
‘The Pre-Mortem as Tool for Self-Fashioning: Literary Posterity in Mercier’s L’An 2440’
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford, Jan. 2018.
''Respect des Hommes, Silence des Femmes': Writing Female Voices in the Revolutionary Afterlife'
Gender and Authority Seminar, Oxford, Nov. 2017.
'The view from upstream: authoritative perspectives in eighteenth-century dialogues des morts'
Workshop 'Whither Death', TORCH, Oxford, March 2017
'Staging the Enemy: Audience as Ally in Anti-Revolutionary Theatrical Texts'
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford, Jan. 2017
'Embodied epitaphs? Onstage commemoration in late eighteenth-century France'
Society for French Studies 57th Annual Conference, Glasgow, July 2016.
'Comment se servir des archives? Les auteurs à la Comédie-Italienne, 1760-70'
Invited paper at CIRESFI annual meeting, Nantes, March 2016.
'‘O quante favole di me si scriveranno’: Goldoni’s gloire in France and Italy'
Oxford Italian Research Seminar, Trinity Term 2016.
Roundtable: Historical Re-evaluations of Celebrity in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Invited participant, at Conference ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity’, Wolfson College / TORCH, Oxford, Sept. 2015.
'Immortalité or Circonstance? The Panthéon and the Problem of Revolutionary Glory'
In panel 'Death and Glory in Early Modern France' at Society for French Studies 56th Annual Conference, Cardiff, June/July 2015.
‘‘Philosophe courageux, bienfaisant législateur’: Commemorating Mirabeau on the Parisian Stage’
In panel ‘Textual Pantheons’ at International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies International Congress, Rotterdam, July 2015.
'‘La gloire, l’ornement et les bienfaiteurs de la France’: celebrating the man of letters in late eighteenth-century dialogues of the dead'
‘From the Textual to the Visual: Changing Practices of Embodying Literary Celebrity in the long 19th Century’, Lancaster University, Sept. 2014.
‘Encountering the ancestor, encountering the posthumous self: defining the grand homme in late eighteenth-century dialogues of the dead’
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate and Early Career Scholar Conference, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, July 2014.
‘The dialogue des morts as textual Panthéon: commemorating the grand homme in late eighteenth-century Paris’
Early Modern Studies Conference, Reading University, July 2014.
‘‘Le néant de ce qu’on appelle gloire’: the instability of cultural memory in post-revolutionary dialogues des morts’
Early Modern Memory Conference, Worcester University, May 2014.
‘Mourning the literary great and good: the dialogue des morts as textual Panthéon?’
Panel on 'The Politics of Mourning’, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 2014.
‘Understanding authorial reputation in eighteenth-century French theatre: the case of Carlo Goldoni’
Enlightenment Workshop, Oxford University, March 2014.
‘‘Où vous n’êtes pas, où vous ne serez jamais’: Carlo Goldoni and the problem of Parisian gloire’
‘Transmission and Translation’, Early Modern French Seminar, Cambridge University, Oct. 2013.
‘‘Oh quante favole di me si scriveranno!’: le sort du personnage ‘Goldoni’ sur scène’
‘Le dramaturge sur un plateau. Le personnage de l'auteur dramatique au théâtre’, Université Paris IV – La Sorbonne, March 2013.
‘La gloire et le malentendu: Goldoni in Paris’
Early Modern French Seminar, Oxford University, Feb. 2013.
‘Mapping theatrical Paris in the 1760s: an author’s-eye view’
French Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford University, May 2012.
‘Personne to personnage: names, fame and identity games in eighteenth-century theatre’
‘Naming, Re-naming, Un-naming’, Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, Oxford, Nov. 2011.
‘L’Anonymat à la Comédie-Italienne au 18e siècle: un enjeu ou un outil?’
‘L’anonymat de l’œuvre à l’époque moderne’, Aix-en-Provence, Oct. 2011.
‘The mask of collectivity: compositional practices at the Comédie-Italienne’
‘Anonymity and Pseudonymity’, Charles Singleton Center, Johns Hopkins University, Nov. 2010.
‘Auteur, acteurs, texte et scène : jeux de pouvoir au Théâtre Italien, 1762-64’
‘Les théâtres institutionnels au prisme de leurs querelles’, Maison Française, Oxford, Nov. 2009.
‘“L’immortal signor”: The legacy of Montesquieu in Verri’s Il Caffè’
French Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford University, Jan. 2009.
'‘Des impressions si durables, si profondes?’ Voltaire, an author in the dialogue des morts'
To be given at Oxford Early Modern French Research Seminar, November 2022.
'‘Shadows of things that may be?’ Voltaire, an author in the dialogue des morts'
To be given at Bristol French Research Seminar, December 2022.
PAST:
'The author of/in literary history: the future, conditional?'
In panel 'Constructing the Field: Authors' at 'What does literature do?', colloquium in honour of Alain Viala, Oxford, September 2022.
'Literary apophasis in the dialogue des morts'
In panel 'Repurposing Enlightenment' at American Comparative Literature Association Conference, online, April 2021.
'Self-projection in Mercier's L'An 2440'
In panel 'Legacies of Enlightenment' at Oxford-Berlin Enlightenment hub conference, Oxford, October 2019.
‘L’au-delà comme lieu de mémoire? Projection, jugement et gloire dans Les Nouveaux dialogues des morts de Fontenelle’
At conference 'Danses macabres d’Europe', Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, March 2019.
'Talking heads: the afterlife of the female voice in the French Revolution'
Early Career plenary at Nottingham University Symposium of Research Priority Area: Language, Texts and Society, Nottingham, January 2019.
'Authors at the Comédie-Italienne'
Invited paper at exploratory workshop on 'National Theaters Across the Channel: France/UK, 1660 – 1800', Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard, May 2018.
'Voice, speech, style in the dialogue des morts'
Workshop 'Viva voce: The Premodern Voice', TORCH, Oxford, May 2018.
'‘Je revais que j'étais mort': Projections of Posterity in L’An 2440 and other texts’
Invited paper at study day on Mercier, Maison Française d’Oxford, May 2018.
'Mirabeau, Gouges, et la postérité en rêve'
Invited paper at seminar 'Imaginaires de la Révolution', Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, March 2018.
'Talking Heads: Silenced Female Voices in the Revolutionary Afterlife'
Women in French conference 2018, 'Le bruit des femmes', Winthrop-King Institute for French and Francophone Studies, Florida, Feb. 2018. Winner of Early Career Conference Paper Award.
‘The Pre-Mortem as Tool for Self-Fashioning: Literary Posterity in Mercier’s L’An 2440’
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford, Jan. 2018.
''Respect des Hommes, Silence des Femmes': Writing Female Voices in the Revolutionary Afterlife'
Gender and Authority Seminar, Oxford, Nov. 2017.
'The view from upstream: authoritative perspectives in eighteenth-century dialogues des morts'
Workshop 'Whither Death', TORCH, Oxford, March 2017
'Staging the Enemy: Audience as Ally in Anti-Revolutionary Theatrical Texts'
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford, Jan. 2017
'Embodied epitaphs? Onstage commemoration in late eighteenth-century France'
Society for French Studies 57th Annual Conference, Glasgow, July 2016.
'Comment se servir des archives? Les auteurs à la Comédie-Italienne, 1760-70'
Invited paper at CIRESFI annual meeting, Nantes, March 2016.
'‘O quante favole di me si scriveranno’: Goldoni’s gloire in France and Italy'
Oxford Italian Research Seminar, Trinity Term 2016.
Roundtable: Historical Re-evaluations of Celebrity in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Invited participant, at Conference ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity’, Wolfson College / TORCH, Oxford, Sept. 2015.
'Immortalité or Circonstance? The Panthéon and the Problem of Revolutionary Glory'
In panel 'Death and Glory in Early Modern France' at Society for French Studies 56th Annual Conference, Cardiff, June/July 2015.
‘‘Philosophe courageux, bienfaisant législateur’: Commemorating Mirabeau on the Parisian Stage’
In panel ‘Textual Pantheons’ at International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies International Congress, Rotterdam, July 2015.
'‘La gloire, l’ornement et les bienfaiteurs de la France’: celebrating the man of letters in late eighteenth-century dialogues of the dead'
‘From the Textual to the Visual: Changing Practices of Embodying Literary Celebrity in the long 19th Century’, Lancaster University, Sept. 2014.
‘Encountering the ancestor, encountering the posthumous self: defining the grand homme in late eighteenth-century dialogues of the dead’
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate and Early Career Scholar Conference, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, July 2014.
‘The dialogue des morts as textual Panthéon: commemorating the grand homme in late eighteenth-century Paris’
Early Modern Studies Conference, Reading University, July 2014.
‘‘Le néant de ce qu’on appelle gloire’: the instability of cultural memory in post-revolutionary dialogues des morts’
Early Modern Memory Conference, Worcester University, May 2014.
‘Mourning the literary great and good: the dialogue des morts as textual Panthéon?’
Panel on 'The Politics of Mourning’, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 2014.
‘Understanding authorial reputation in eighteenth-century French theatre: the case of Carlo Goldoni’
Enlightenment Workshop, Oxford University, March 2014.
‘‘Où vous n’êtes pas, où vous ne serez jamais’: Carlo Goldoni and the problem of Parisian gloire’
‘Transmission and Translation’, Early Modern French Seminar, Cambridge University, Oct. 2013.
‘‘Oh quante favole di me si scriveranno!’: le sort du personnage ‘Goldoni’ sur scène’
‘Le dramaturge sur un plateau. Le personnage de l'auteur dramatique au théâtre’, Université Paris IV – La Sorbonne, March 2013.
‘La gloire et le malentendu: Goldoni in Paris’
Early Modern French Seminar, Oxford University, Feb. 2013.
‘Mapping theatrical Paris in the 1760s: an author’s-eye view’
French Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford University, May 2012.
‘Personne to personnage: names, fame and identity games in eighteenth-century theatre’
‘Naming, Re-naming, Un-naming’, Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, Oxford, Nov. 2011.
‘L’Anonymat à la Comédie-Italienne au 18e siècle: un enjeu ou un outil?’
‘L’anonymat de l’œuvre à l’époque moderne’, Aix-en-Provence, Oct. 2011.
‘The mask of collectivity: compositional practices at the Comédie-Italienne’
‘Anonymity and Pseudonymity’, Charles Singleton Center, Johns Hopkins University, Nov. 2010.
‘Auteur, acteurs, texte et scène : jeux de pouvoir au Théâtre Italien, 1762-64’
‘Les théâtres institutionnels au prisme de leurs querelles’, Maison Française, Oxford, Nov. 2009.
‘“L’immortal signor”: The legacy of Montesquieu in Verri’s Il Caffè’
French Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford University, Jan. 2009.