Academic conferences
“The Pleasure of Knowing Things Remote”: William Daniel’s Travels from England to Surat. Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMO), Cape Town, 2025 (forthcoming)
Grand Tours and Great Travails: Captivity, Leisure, and Orientalism in the Travel Narratives of Elizabeth Marsh. The East Coast American Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ECASECS), online, 2025
Turkish Bath and Colonial Compounds: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Hartly House, Calcutta. The American Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Baltimore, MD, April 2022
Spectacle as Cultural Exploration: British Women Travelers and Theatrical Experience in Calcutta and Tehran in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Pacific and Ancient Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Las Vegas, NV, November 2021
‘The Pleasures Social Intercourse Gives’: Colonial Castration, Sexuality, and The Figure of the Eunuch in Hartly House, Calcutta’s Eighteenth-Century India. Modern Language Association (MLA), Seattle, WA, 2019
Snakes, Spirits, and Sex: Divine Love and Queer Domesticity in Alifa Rifaat’s ‘My World of the Unknown.’ UCSB Envisioning LGBTQIA+ Wellbeing Graduate Student Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 2018
Events
Global Women’s Travel Histories
A lecture on early modern women’s travel narratives and their impact. The talk explores cross-cultural exchanges and gender roles.
Rhetoric in Modern Composition
An academic presentation on evolving practices in rhetoric and composition studies. Focuses on pedagogical strategies.
Academic Portfolio
This section highlights my scholarly presentations, conferences, and lectures focused on composition, rhetoric, translation, and women’s travel narratives from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. It reflects my contributions to public humanities and academic discourse.
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