Paper Presentations
I have presented papers at the following academic conferences
March 9, 2024
"The Medicalisation of Love in Contemporary Fiction"
Birkbeck University, UK
November 1, 2023
"Romanticism, Ventriloquism and the Collapse of the Humanist Self"
8th BAKEA International Conference, Marmara University, Turkey
June 8, 2023
"Corporatisation of Privacy and Gamification of Surveillance in the Digital Age"
Trust Conference 2023, University College Dublin, Ireland
February 25, 2023
"Contemporary Fiction and Modernist Mediumship Re-fashioned"
Cambridge University, UK
May 12, 2022
"Fiction, Disease and the Contemporary Culture of Fear"
The 15th International IDEA Conference, Hatay
Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey
July 11, 2019
"The Novel in the Age of Risk Society: Metamodernism as an Alternative"
AHRC Metamodernism Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
August 15, 2018
"The Rise of Populism and a Call for the New Sincerity in Contemporary Fiction"
Durham University, UK
March 8, 2018
"World War II, Disembodiment and Fiction as Therapy"
Oxford University
July 27, 2017
"Evolution of Literary Criticism and the Theory Revolution of the 1960s"
Durham University
June 9, 2017
"Schizophrenia and the Woman Writer’s Divided Identity in the 1960s"
The University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
April 22, 2017
"Censorship, Surveillance, the Cold War and Split Identity"
Cambridge University
July 6, 2017
"Institutionalisation of Literature: The Role of Criticism and Creative Writing"
Imperial College London
March 7, 2015
"Dying into Art: The Myth of the Author and the Woman Writer in the 1960s"
Durham University
April 10, 2015
"The Madwoman Leaves the Attic: the case of Sylvia Plath"
Northumbria University, UK
December 9, 2015
"Finding an Authorial Voice: Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Laing’s The Divided Self"
Durham University
August 8, 2014
"Authorship and Hysterical Woman in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat"
Durham University
Convenorships
I have (co)organised the following academic events
April 3, 2024
The Literature and Science forum
March 8, 2024
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
December 1, 2023
Webinar Series: Knowing/Feeling Contraception: A Phenomenological Exploration of How Feelings About Contraception Come to Matter (Lisa Raeder, The University of Edinburgh)
The Literature and Science forum
October 27, 2023
Webinar Series: What Do We Want From A.I.?: Artificial Intelligence as
Medium, Genre, & Mirror (Dr Chris Eaket, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa)
The Literature and Science forum
July 3, 2023
Webinar Series: Why Paperback Books Matter to the Medical Humanities (Dr Gavin Miller, Glasgow University)
The Literature and Science forum
June 14, 2023
Unburning Bridges: How the Medical Humanities Can Contribute to both Creativity and Knowledge (Dr Roula-Maria Dib, London Arts-Based Research Centre)
The Literature and Science forum
June 1, 2023
Webinar Series: Lists, Literature and (Graphic) Medicine (Dr Anne Rüggemeier, the University of Freiburg)
The Literature and Science forum
April 19, 2023
Webinar Series: Humour and Shame in the Medical Memoir (Dr Arthur Rose, the University of Exeter)
The Literature and Science forum
March 23, 2023
Webinar Series: Imagining Illness in Jane Austen (Dr Michael Greaney, Lancaster University)
The Literature and Science forum
March 20, 2023
Webinar Series: Intimate Violence and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (Dr Sophie Franklin, The University of Stuttgart)
The Literature and Science forum
February 20, 2023
Webinar Series: "Brave New Storyworlds: Literary AI Narratives in Contemporary English Literature" (Dr Curtis Runstedler, The University of Stuttgart)
The Literature and Science forum
January 23, 2023
Webinar Series: "Game-Life Writing: An Emerging Genre?" (Dr Alistair Brown, Durham University)
The Literature and Science forum
December 19, 2022
Webinar: "Telling Stories in Flat Landscapes" (Dr Noreen Masud, Bristol University)
Istanbul Aydin University
April 22, 2022
"2nd Undergraduate Symposium"
Istanbul Aydin University
July 22, 2021
"Fiction in the Age of Globalization"
the University of Tübingen, Germany
May 10, 2019
"Literature and Surveillance in the Age of Globalization,"
Durham University, UK
May 24, 2019
"Gen(d)eration: Gender and Construction of Subjectivity"
Durham University
January 10, 2018
"Gender Studies Reading Group"
Durham University
October 11, 2018
"Literary Birds Conference"
St Chad's College and University College, Durham University
May 5, 2018
"Postgraduate Lecture Day"
Durham University
August 8, 2017
"Late Summer Lecture Series"
Durham University
September 11, 2014
"Is a Novel JUST a Novel?"
Durham University
March 10, 2013
"20th and 21st Century Literature Reading Group"
Durham University