Upcoming Papers
12–13 February 2022 | [Title TBD – invited lecture on metaphor comprehension and expression] | Perception and Expressive Culture, York University, Toronto / Online.
7–9 April 2022 | ‘The sweet spot: an optimal defamiliarisation of conventional metaphors’ | British Society of Literature and Science 17th Annual Conference, Manchester.
Past Papers
‘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