Upcoming Papers
28–30 May 2025 | ‘“Getting” poetry: How reading tasks modulate the processing and aesthetic experience of poems‘ | Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, University of Messina | Messina, Italy
1 September 2025 | ‘No Such Thing as Neutral: How Anticipated Reading Tasks Shape the Everyday Reading of Poetry’ | Everyday Reading of Literature Symposium, University of Zagreb | Zagreb, Croatia
Past Papers
‘Effects of ease of comprehension and individual differences on the pleasure experienced while reading novelized verb-based metaphors’ (poster) | Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | July 2024
‘Exploring the Effects of Reader Mindset on the Aesthetic Experience of Poetry’ | Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2024 | Catania, Italy | June 2024
‘The Wood or the Trees? On the (Im)Possibility of an Ecological Criticism’ | LLC English Department Lecture Series, University of Edinburgh / Online, November 2021.
‘Useless Literature: Responding-To and Responding-With’ | Uses of Literature Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark / Online, November 2021.
‘Beyond Critical: A Case for Responding with Poetry’ | Cognitive Futures in the Humanities Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, July 2018.
‘In Kind: How a Co-Creative Response Encourages Enactive Reading of Poetry’ | Educational Role of Language Conference, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2018.
Chair: ‘The Art of Translation’ | 24th International Conference for Europeanists: Sustainability & Transformation, Council for European Studies and University of Glasgow, Glasgow, July 2017
‘Immersive Poetics: Creative Response Writing as an Enactive Approach to Poetry’ | English: Shared Futures, Newcastle University, July 2017
‘The Body In Mind: Poetry and the Re-Embodiment of Abstract Thought’ | Contemporary Poetry: Thinking & Feeling, Plymouth University, May 2016