ACADEMIC PANELS, CONFERENCE PAPERACADEMIC PANELS, CONFERENCE PAPERS (Forthcoming)

ACADEMIC PANELS, CONFERENCE PAPERS

(Forthcoming)

 

 

Invited to chair a panel at the Moving Modernism conference's postrgaduate section

Oxford University

Oxford, March 2012

 

Invited to deliver paper "All Night a Red Siren Will Howl in his Body: Futurist and Eliotian Insomnias" for the conference T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Rome and Italy in Modernist Literature.

Foundazione Romualdo Del Bianco

Florence, February 2012

 

 

 

ACADEMIC PANELS, CONFERENCE PAPERS

(Past)

 

Delivered Paper “The Hours Stood Fast: Victorian Insomnia and its Spatiotemporal Distortions” for the conference Tempus Fugit: Time and Temporality in Victorian Britain

ESSE 2010

Turin, August 2010

 

Delivered paper “Victorian Trauma, Insomnia, and Neurasthenia” for the conference Trauma: Intersections among Narrative, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis

George Washington University

Washington DC, March 2010

 

Delivered paper “The ‘Cult’ in Cultivation: Nineteenth-Century Sexual Ideologies” for the conference Forms of Life: Artifice, Emergence, Generation

European Summer School in Cultural Studies, ESSCS

Amsterdam, July 2008

£200 honorarium

 

Delivered paper “The Trans-Atlantic Cable in the Age of Insomnia” for the conference The Idea Of America In Nineteenth-century British Culture, 1776-1914

The Institute of English Studies, University of London

London, June 2008

 

Invited panelist in the “History of Insomnia” section of the Sleeping and Dreaming exhibition

Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine

London, February 2008

 

 

Delivered paper “Dreadful Cities, Dreadful Nights: James Thomson and the Insomnia of Modernity” at Minds, Bodies, Machines conference

Birkbeck, University of London

London, July 2007

 

Delivered paper “Breathing in Beckett’s Breath” at Beckett & Co. conference,

Goldsmiths, University of London

London, October 2006

 

 

Delivered paper ‘The Echo of Narcissism in Interactive Art’ at the conference Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Madrid, September 2006