Presentations
Invited Keynote: Ethics and Education biennial conference, University of Warsaw. Co-presented with Áine Mahon. 17-19 Nov. 2023.
‘Literary Realism, or, the Artistic Logic of Neoliberalism?’ British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies biennial conference. University of Birmingham, UK. 6-8 Sept. 2023.
‘Assembly’. Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Summer School. Dublin. 19-29 Jun. 2023.
‘The value of living on in contemporary British arts.’ (Re)imagining Value: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. Economic Humanities Network, Newcastle University. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 26 May. 2023.
‘Künstlerromane and the state of criticism in the 21st Century’. Trinity Long Room Hub. 9 Nov. 2022.
‘(Con) Art School: What’s the point of art in late capitalist America?’ Irish Association of American Studies (IAAS) symposium. National University of Ireland Maynooth. 4-5 Nov. 2022.
‘The ruination of the show home: the ghost estate in Irish short fiction by women.’ Haunted Hibernia Conference, Carlow College. 28-29 Oct. 2022.
‘“Town’s Dead”: Dublin in Contemporary Irish Pop Music’, Intersectional Irelands: IASIL 2022, University of Limerick. 25-29 Jul. 2022.
‘Millennial Malaise and Realist Narratives: Can we imagine a future?’, A Look to the Future conference. Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. 16 Jul. 2022.
‘“We disappear. Us Irish.” Politics and Emigration: Ireland in Transformation?’, AEDEI, Universidad de Burgos. 2-3 Jun. 2022.
‘“Welcome to the good life!” Neoliberalism in Contemporary Irish Women’s Short Fiction’. Trinity Long Room Hub. 7 Apr. 2021.
‘“The land’ll be here long after we’re dead and gone”: Ageing masculinities and the land in recent Irish short fiction’. No Country for Old Men? Ageing Masculinities in Irish Life and Culture. University of Galway. 20 Nov. 2020 (online)
‘Contemporary Irish Short Fiction: Embodiment, Belonging, Politics’. Identities in Transformation. Trinity Long Room Hub. 3 Nov. 2020 (online)
‘Gender, capital and precarity in some recent women’s fiction’. The Age of the Precariat: Identity and Precarity. University of Galway. 9-10 Oct. 2020 (online)
‘“There are worse things than being beaten up”: masochism and neoliberalism in Normal People’. Written on the Body: Narrative (Re)constructions of Violence(s). Nordic Summer School, Oslo. 27 Jul. 2020 (online)
‘The body (politic) in crisis in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones’. Crisis in Contemporary Literature. British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies annual conference. 26 Jun. 2020 (online)
‘“The land’ll be here long after we’re dead and gone”: Ageing masculinities and the land in recent Irish short fiction’. School of English Staff Postgraduate Seminar Series. Trinity College Dublin. Feb. 2020.
‘Nationalism, Citizenship and the Maternal Body in the context of the 8th Amendment’. Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture and Society. Queen’s University Belfast. Jun. 2019