Guest lectures
2018
- ‘”A Common Ground”: American Poetics and Denise Levertov’s Ethical Lyric.’ Keele University, David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Visiting Speaker Program
2017
- ‘The future of security? The changing shape of an academic career.’ University of Oxford, University English Association Annual General Meeting
2016
- ‘Denise Levertov: Material Poetics, Counter-Culture in Community, and the Alternative Press, 1969-1971.’ University of Westminster, Literary Criticism and the Small Press Symposium
2015
- ‘Denise Levertov: Cross-currents in the Trans-Atlantic Avant-Garde.’ School of Arts, Research Seminar Series, University of Northampton
- ‘Poetry and Revolution.’ University of Surrey, English Research Seminar Series
2011
- ‘The Ethical Turn: Ethics and Politics in Avant-Garde and Modern Poetry’. Modern Literature and Culture Lecture Series, Ryerson University, Canada
- ‘Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry’. English Literature Visiting Speakers Program, Edinburgh University
2010
- ‘Technology and the Poetic Cityscape’. English Literature Research Lecture Series, University of Brighton
2008
- ‘Environmental Ethics in the Poetry of Gary Snyder’. Department of English Visiting Lecture Series, Aberystwyth University
Conference papers
2019
- “‘You are eroded as war erodes us’: Rhetoric and Postwar Ethics in the Poetry of Denise Levertov”. Modernist Studies Association 21st Annual Conference, Toronto
2017
- ‘Underground and Alternative Press Collection: Radical Brighton’ (with Lisa Redlinski, Library Manager, University of Brighton). University of London, Senate House Library
2016
- ‘Denise Levertov: A Trans-National Pilgrimage.’ Poetics: The (next) 25 Years, State University of New York, Buffalo
2015
- ‘”The walls of the garden, the first light”: Political Emotion in the Poetry of Denise Levertov’. Northeast Modern Language Association, Ryerson University, Toronto
2014
- ‘Poetic Ecologies in New York Dada: A Case Study in Modernism’s Urban Avant-Garde’. Modernism Now! British Association of Modernist Studies, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London (with Professor Irene Gammel)
2013
- ‘Modernist Poetry Criticism and the New Ethics,’ Roundtable organiser and moderator. 15th Annual Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Sussex University
- ‘Literary Ethics and the New Rhetoric: Jack Kerouac’s “Spontaneous Prose” as a “Structure of Knowing”‘. Rhetoric as Equipment for Living, Ghent University, Belgium
2012
- ‘Ecopoetics as Spatial Practice in New York Dada’. (with Professor Irene Gammel) Canadian Association of American Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada
2011
- ‘Modernity’s Dialectic’. Literatures of Modernity Symposium, Ryerson University, Canada
2010
- ‘Maximus kinesis: Charles Olson and modernist women’s poetry’. Charles Olson 2010 Centenary Conference, University of Kent
- ‘The “Turn to Ethics” or, Political Commitment “After Theory”. English Subject Centre Literature Politics Study Day, University of Brighton
2009
- ‘Ethnopoetics and the Performativity of Place’. Placing Poetry Colloquium, Bangor University
- ‘Frontier Testing: Re-thinking the Paradigms of Assessment’ (poster presentation). Gwella Launch Symposium: Good Practice in Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching, Aberystwyth University
2008
- ‘Authorised Identities: Approaching Charles Olson through the Archive Collection’ (co-authored with Melissa Watterworth, Curator of Literary Collections, Dodd Center, University of Connecticut) Archive Fervour/Archive Further, Aberystwyth University
- ‘Environmental Ethics in the Poetry of Gary Snyder’. Department of English, Research Seminar, Aberystwyth University
2006
- ‘Face Work: Bruce Andrews’ Poethical Praxis’. British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury
2005
- ‘Poethical Praxis: Ethics & Politics in “Language Poetry”’. British Association of American Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Sheffield
- ‘The Poethical Trajectory: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry’. Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics, Ghent University, Belgium
- ‘Jerome Rothenberg’s Ethnopoetics’. British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, University of Cambridge
- ‘The Horizon of the Poem and Postmodern Ethics’. University of Wales Postgraduate Colloquium, Gregynog, Newtown, Wales
2004
- ‘Gary Snyder’s Eco-poetics’. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Annual Conference, University College Chichester
- ‘Questioning our Research Methodology: “Ways of Reading,” in the light of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas’. University of Wales Postgraduate Colloquium, Newtown, Wales
Conference organiser
2017
- ‘Contemporary British and American Poetics: the trans-Atlantic avant garde‘, Seminar organiser for English Shared Futures, Newcastle Civic Centre
2016
- Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (DRHA) 20th Anniversary Conference, with Alan Bolden, University of Brighton
2013
- ‘Modernist Poetry Criticism and the New Ethics,’ Roundtable organiser and moderator. 15th Annual Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Sussex University
2012
- Poetry’s Public, International seminar (featuring Canada’s Poet Laureate, Fred Wah, Ryerson University Professor Dale Smith, and American poet, Hoa Nguyen) for Centre for Contemporary Poetry. Organiser & chair. Hosted at Ryerson University in Toronto, with a live transatlantic video-link across five universities (read more & watch the video, here)
- ‘Ethics of Fiction.’ Session organised and chaired for BookCampTO, Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada)
2011
- ‘Technology and Modernity.’ Panel co-organized and co-chaired with Professor Irene Gammel for Modernist Studies Association annual convention, State University of New York, Buffalo (USA)
2009
- ‘Gwella Launch Symposium: Good Practice in Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching,’ Aberystwyth University (see, the Gwella Project Report and the Nexus Good Practice website)
2008
- ‘Writers and Writing,’ Universities of Wales Staff/Postgraduate Annual Conference, Gregynog, Newtown, Wales