“Ghostly Interaction, Fairy Abduction, and Popular Creeds of Mind and Body,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Athabasca University, August 2025.

“Empiricism, Superstition, and Barbauld’s Principle of Credulity,” Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent, University of York, UK, June 2025.

“Radical Antiquarianism and Gothic Materialism,” Science, Medicine, and Psychology Caucus Seminar on “Subversive Science,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Georgetown University, August 2024.

“Listening through the Prison Walls: Cognitive Ecology in Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Sam Houston State University, TX, March 2023.

Roundtable speaker, “Romanticism and Consciousness Revisited.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Edge Hill University, August 2022.

“Folk Horror, Folk Psychology, and the New Animism,” No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies – Horror Studies Special Interest Group. Online, June 2022.

“Time-Stretched Audio and ‘Delayed Cinema,’” Beyond Life and Death: Twin Peaks at Thirty. Online, July 2021.

“Musical Ambience and Cognitive Ecology in Percy, Ritson, and Scott,” Twelfth International Walter Scott Conference, University of Edinburgh, July 2021.

“Joanna Baillie and the Science of Song,” Roundtable on Women and Romantic Science, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, June 2021.

“Charlotte Smith’s Disintegration,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Chicago, IL, August 2019.

“Experimental, Innovative, Speculative: Enlightenment Keywords in Science and Literature,” Symposium on “The Nature of Experiment: Intelligence, Life, and the Human,” Waterloo Centre for German Studies, April 2019.

“Experimental Meters and Gothic Histories of Cognition,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, January 2019.

“Gothic Ecologies of Mind,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Toronto, ON, November 2018.

“Experiment, Innovation, and Dissent,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Providence, RI, June 2018.

“Ballad Collectors and Skull Collectors: Walter Scott, Robert Chambers, and the Science of Poetry,” Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, November 2017.

“Ballie’s Diagnostic Sublime,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Ottawa, ON, August 2017.

“Romantic Sociability and Diagnosis,” Waterloo Centre for German Studies, March 2017.

“Wordsworth’s Scattered Minds,” Work in Nineteenth Century Studies Group, Department of English, University of Toronto, April 2016.

“Barbauld’s Orality,” Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, January 2016.

“Physiological Poetics and the Social Sublime,” Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, January 2016

“Mind as Internal,” at “Waterloo This-Idea-Must-Die Day,” Waterloo Cognitive Science Program, December 2015.

“Hymns, Prose, and the Natural History of Language,” Symposium on Nature and Education, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, November 2015.

“Cognitive Scaffolding, Aids to Reflection,” History of Distributed Cognition Workshop Series, Workshop 3: From the Enlightenment to Romanticism, University of Edinburgh, June 2015.

“Ballad Collectors and Skull Collectors,” Modern Language Association, Vancouver, BC, January 2015.

“Barbauld, Priestley, and the Forms of Thought,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, January 2014.

“Wordsworth between Minds,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Washington, DC, July 2014.

“Companionable Form: Poetry and Projection from Hume to Coleridge.” Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference, UC Berkeley, October 2013.

“Reading One’s Own Mind: Hazlitt, Cognition, Fiction.” Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, January 2013.

“Lyric Mindedness and the ‘Automaton Poet’ in Coleridge and Scott.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 2012.

“Lyrical Impairment in Waverley.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Park City, UT, August 2011.

“Hazlitt and the Science of Reading One’s Own Mind.” Romanticism and Evolution, University of Western Ontario, May 2011.

“Lyric Mindedness and the Romantic Pedant” (co-presented with Sean Barry).  Northeast Modern Language Association, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2011.

“Macpherson’s Ossian and the Embodied Mind.”  East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2010.

“Phantom Lyric and the Textual Body in Macpherson’s Fragments of Ancient Poetry.”  Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009.

“The Monk, Poetic Insertion, and the Social Mind.”  International Conference on Romanticism. City University of New York, November 2009.

“Reading Vathek’s ‘Sciences That Did Not Exist.’” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA, March 2009.

“The Orthodoxy of Psyche and Keats’s Genealogy of the Secular.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Toronto, August 2008.