Speaking

Upcoming Talks

“‘Mortimer Ambition’: The Political and Historical Context of Chicago, University Library, MS 224,” Mortimer History Society online conference, November 21, 2026 (invited).

“The Emergence of Middle Welsh Prose: Evidence from Brut y Brenhinedd,” 44th Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Harvard University, October 2026.

Recent Talks

“The Translator of the Peniarth 44 Version of Brut y Brenhinedd and Middle Welsh Prose,” The Early Transmission History of Geoffrey of Monmouth in its Multilingual Contexts: A Symposium, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, March 20, 2026.

“Poetry as History in the B- and C-Texts of Annales Cambriae,” 43rd Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Harvard University, October 10, 2025.

“Memory and Prophecy in the Earliest Welsh Translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth,” The Politics of Memory of the Medieval Celtic World II: Wales, Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Harvard University, March 22, 2025.

“Colonialism and Wasteland in the Third Branch of the Mabinogi,” Premodern Waste/Lands, A Symposium: Waste, Wasting, and Wastelands from the North Seas to Indigenous Mesoamerica, Indiana University Bloomington, November 1, 2024 (invited).

Plenary conversation, “Multilingualism, Medieval and Modern,” IONA: Transformative Networks, Skills, Theories and Methods for the Future of Early Medieval Studies, King’s College, London, June 26, 2024.

Roundtable, “Silences and Interruptions in the Manuscript Record of Colonial Wales,” Working with Absence, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Annual Meeting, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, May 23, 2024.

Roundtable on Pedagogy, Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting, Farleigh Dickinson University, April 6, 2024.

Roundtable, “Applying for Grants and Fellowships,” Celtic Studies Association of North America Online Lecture Series, September 29, 2023.

“Gerald of Wales and his Reception in Welsh Historical Texts,” Gerald of Wales Workshop, Jesus College, Oxford University, September 8, 2023 (invited).

“Literary Border Crossings in the March of Wales.” Crossing Boundaries in the British Isles. 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 13, 2023.

“Marcher Perspectives on the Welsh Past.” Mortimer History Society Online Seminar Group: Medieval Wales and the Marches, March 22, 2023 (invited).

“Gerald of Wales: A Twelfth-Century Writer and Cleric.” Mortimer History Society (online), February 15, 2023 (invited).

“Visions and Revisions of the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval Wales.” Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, September 20, 2022 (invited).

Roundtable, “Celtic Language Pedagogy.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 6, 2022; Celtic Studies Association of North America Online Lecture Series, April 19, 2022.

“Digital Research in Medieval Celtic Studies: Successes, New Directions, and Opportunities.” Digital Humanities Beyond Modern English, University of Texas at Austin, April 7, 2022 (invited).

“Marcher Genealogies from Llanthony Priory.” Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting, hosted on Zoom by Farleigh Dickinson University, April 2, 2022.