Presentations 

A selection of recent lectures and presentations:

‘Arthurian Emotions: Circulation, Reception, Translation’, 27th Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society, Aix-en-Provence, France, 12-18 July 2024 (Keynote speaker) (to be presented)

‘Emotions in Medieval Romance’, The 18th Biennial Medieval Insular Romance Conference: Beyond Borders, University of Strasbourg, 9-11 April 2024 (Keynote speaker)

‘Emotions and Gender in Medieval Literature: a Comparative Perspective’, Gender, Emotion, and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages, University of Tübingen, 9-11 November 2023 (Keynote speaker)

‘Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature’, Charles University, Prague, 23 February 2023 (Invited Speaker)

‘Europe Then/ Europe Now: Revisionist Literary Histories’, 29th International Conference of Europeanists – Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias, University of Iceland, 27-29 June 2023

‘The Narrative Self, Mind and Emotion’, New Approaches to the Mind in the Early North, University of Iceland, 11-12 May 2023 (Keynote Speaker)

‘Að springa af stríði: Sorg og sársauki í Íslendingasögunum’, Félag íslenskra fræða (The Association for Icelandic Studies), 18 April 2023 (Invited Speaker)

‘The Performative Face in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar‘, Visages perturbés / Disturbed Faces / Verstörte Gesichter, International Conference, University of Geneva, 3-5 November 2022

‘Emotion as Generic Marker’, Emotion & Genre Conference, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, 22-23 September 2022

‘Revisionist Literary Histories’, Twenty-second Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress, Durhm, 11-14 July, 2022

‘Þeim var ek verst er ek unna mest: The Concept of Love in Old Norse Literature’, Love and Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Patterns, Formulae, Reality, University of Tartu, 27-29 January 2022 (Keynote Speaker)

‘The Enduring Myth of Charlemagne: Transnational Narrative in a Multilingual World – The Norse Context’, The MLA Annual Convention, Washington DC, 6-9 January 2022

‘Pain, Love and the Embodiment of Emotion in Old Norse Literature’, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 22 April 2021 (Invited Speaker)

‘Sorg og sársauki í Íslendingasögunum’ (Pain and Sorrow in the Icelandic Sagas), Annual Congress of the Medical Association of Iceland, 18-22 January 2021 (Invited Speaker)

‘Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature’, ONORS, University of Oxford, 24 November 2020 (Invited Speaker)

‘Embodied Emotion: Love and Pain in Old Norse Literature’, University of Oslo, 23 September 2019 (Invited Speaker)

‘Old Norse Literature in Context: Romance and Emotion’, Annual Guest Speaker, Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale, Universitè de Genève, 22 May 2019 (Invited Speaker)

‘The Poetic Sensorium and Form in the Middle English Pearl’, Arizona State University, 11 April 2019 (Invited Speaker)

‘Voicing Emotion: Mapping the Emotional Resonance in Old Norse Literature’, Research Colloquium Lecture, Universität Zürich, 22 October 2018 (Invited Speaker)

‘Death as Remembrance: Time, Memory and the Sense of Pastness in St. Erkenwald and Egils saga Skallagrímssonar‘, The Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, 10-15 July 2018

‘Emotional Communities in the North’, University College Dublin, 2 March 2018 (Invited Speaker)

‘Voicing Emotion in Old Norse Literature’, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Utrecht University, 12 October 2017 (Invited Speaker)

‘Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature’, The Many Faces of Pain Symposium, Centre for Cognitive Studies, Centre for Analysis and Design of Intelligence Agents, Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland, 1-3 September 2017

‘Emotive Performativity in Thomas de Bretagne´s Tristran and its Adaptations’, Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society, Würzburg University, Germany, 24-29 July 2017

‘Oceanic Networks’, Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, 2nd Biennial Conference, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, 3-5 April, 2017

‘Translatio imperii: The Formation of Emotive Literary Identities and Mentalities in the North’, UCLA, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 6 March, 2017 (Invited Speaker)

‘Poetic Voice and Interior Emotionality in Old Norse Literature’, The Northern Scholars Public Lecture, University of Edinburgh, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 13 October, 2016 (Invited Speaker)

‘Old Norse Romance in European Context’, University of Edinburgh, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Northern Scholars and the Department of European Languages and Cultures, 11 October, 2016 (Invited Speaker)

‘Affective Dying and Loving in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde’, Twentieth Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress, London, 10-15 July, 2016

‘Cultural Encounters and Movement Across the Northern Seas’, Interferences: Theories, Contaminations, Interfaces, Contacts, Transmissions, University of Verona, 26-28 May 2016 (Keynote Speaker)

‘Medieval Emotionality: The Feeling Subject in Medieval Literature’, Public Lecture at the University of Bristol, English Department, 13 October 2015 (Invited Speaker)

‘Empire of Emotion: The Formation of Emotive Literary Identities and Mentalities in the North’, Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, c. 900-1500, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 8–10  April, 2015 (Keynote Speaker)