2026

25 April 2026: Was Cassandra Famous? — Classic Questions of Love and Luck with A. Natasha Joukovsky, Author of MEDIUM RARE, InterIntellect.

21-22 March 2026: The Power of Storytelling, Bucharest.

13-14 March 2026: Beowulf & circulations, Institut Historique Allemand & Sorbonne University.

26 January 2026: Havelok the Dane and the Possibilities of Rulership, Centre Ernst Robert Curtius, Bonn.

15-16 January 2026: Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow, Cambridge University.

2025

18 October 2025: “Perfection and Chaucer’s Women.” Conférence plénière, Journée d’étude André Crépin, Sorbonne University.

2-4 July 2025: “Riddles as Training for Scriptural Interpretation.” 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England.

12 March 2025: “The Medieval Roots of Celebrity.” In person and online at the Sorbonne University.

28 February 2025: “Gawain’s Imperfection and the Practices of the Self in Middle English Poetry.” Université de Strasbourg.

10 February 2025: “Writing Against the Clock: Nurturing Your Creativity in the Academic World,” online roundtable of the Medieval Academy of America.

2024

4 December 2024: “The Medieval Roots of Celebrity.” Antrittsvorlesung / Inaugural Lecture, Dies Academicus, University of Bonn

19-21 September 2024: “Havelok the Dane and the Possibilities of Rulership.” Eliten am Hof. Konsens und Konflikt in mittelalterlichen Texten und Bildern, University of Bonn

16 September 2024: A Sentimental Education: Navigating Chosen Families, Mentors, and Lovers. With Agnes Callard and Anna Gát.

26-30 August 2024: “Chaucer’s Women and the Problem of Perfection.” Keynote lecture, European Society for the Study of English conference, University of Lausanne

August 2024: “The Aesthetics of Failure: Disruption, Loss, Decline,” London Global Gateway, Notre Dame University

20 June 2024: “What is Creative Criticism?“, Oxford University

7 June 2024: “Finding the Bones: Structure & the Art of the Essay,” University of Münster

May 2024: “Intersections: Critical, Creative, Medieval” (In Memoriam Nicholas Howe), International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI

27 April 2024: The Forms of Criticism, London

8 March 2024: “Beowulf, She Wrote,” ASNC Research Seminar, University of Cambridge

February 2024: Guest lectures, University of Virginia

February 2024: Public Writing Workshop, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto

13 February 2024: A Brief History of Self-Help: With Irina Dumitrescu and Anna Gát (registration)

2023

23 September 2023: Plenary, Texas Medieval Association, Dallas

21 September 2023: Stephan Grundy Lecture, Southern Methodist University

September 2023: Writing workshop, Yale University

31 May – 2 June 2023: Symposium on Translation and the Archives, Düsseldorf

May 2023 (date TBA): Virtual seminar, International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England

11-13 May 2023: International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI

23 March 2023: The Value of Literature panel, Institute of English Studies, London

19 January 2023: Interview with Greg Kelly (CBC Radio), “Leading a (professional) life of the mind.“, Bonn Lectures in the Public Humanities