Workshops and Presentations
UDL PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS and WEBINARS FACILITATED
2022 Trauma-Aware Pedagogy: A Holistic View. Cape Breton University UTP. August 16, 2022.
Accessibility Literacy: Considerations for Inclusion Teaching and Facilitations. CALL Ontario Conference. May 28, 2022.
2021 Using Twitter for Good: Accessibility Advocacy as Public Humanities. PAMLA. November 14, 2021.
Centering Needs and Possibilities for Trauma-Aware UDL Through a Discussion Group. Digital Pedagogy Institute. August 10, 2021.
What Is Accessibility?: Conflicting Definitions and Possibilities for Inclusion Online. Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). March 13, 2021.
Moments
that Create Movements: Trauma-Informed UDL. UDLHE Digicon. February 5, 2021.
2020 Holistic Approaches to Inclusive and Accessible Pedagogy. NAVSA Gender & Sexuality Caucus Webinar. September 5, 2020.
What are the Benefits of Universal Instructional Design and Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom? Tri-Campus Accessibility Professional Development Day. University of Toronto. May 14, 2020.
Inclusive
Curriculum and Instructional Design: Building Marketable Skills. Northeast
Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Boston. March 8, 2020
2019 A Holistic Framework for Inclusive Research and Pedagogy. Research in Teaching and Learning Conference. MacPherson Institute, McMaster University. December 5, 2019.
TEACHING and LEARNING CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2022 Trauma-Aware Considerations for Blended Teaching and Learning. Dalhousie University Conference on Teaching and Learning. May 4, 2022.
2021 The Syllabus as Foundational Document for Student and Instructor Mental Wellness. With Fiona Rawle and Nicole Campbell. CSSHE. June 1, 2021.
Instructional Technology and Active Learning: Possibilities for Inclusive English Classrooms. ACCUTE. May 30, 2021.
I'm So Tired: Moving Beyond Exhaustion to Build Systems of
Care and Hope in Remote Teaching and Learning. UofT Teaching and Learning
Symposium. May 13, 2021.
2020 Designing Assessments and Fostering Community While Teaching Math and Statistics Remotely. Teaching First Year Math and Stats Courses in Interesting Times Conference. University of Toronto-Mississauga. May 23, 2020.
2019 Mental Health
and Well-Being for Students: It Starts with the Syllabus. With Fiona Rawle. Research in Teaching and Learning
Conference MacPherson
Institute, McMaster University. December 5, 2019.
Pedagogy and Precarity: Designing and Delivering with (Un)Certainty. ACCUTE. Vancouver. June 3, 2019.
Towards a Holistic Classroom: Access in Entry-Level COMM Courses. NeMLA. Washington D.C. March 24, 2019
Training Designations, Consultancy, and Facilitation. NeMLA. Washington D.C. March 24, 2019
2015 Scaffolding Digital Literacy through Innovative Pedagogical Practice: Development and Flexible Delivery at Seneca. With Karen A. Spiers. Advancing Learning Conference. Algonquin College. June 3, 2015
The Victorian Experiential Classroom: Learning Through Touch. Midwest Victorian Studies Association (MVSA). University of Iowa. May 2, 2015
2013 Academic Research as Professional Development Roundtable CDOG Conference. Seneca College. June 3, 2013
2012 Networked Education: Apperception, Tactility, and Pedagogical Depictions in Hardy and Ruskin. North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). University of Wisconsin-Madison. September 28, 2012
Using Educational Technology to
Achieve a Truly Collaborative Pedagogy in English Classrooms. ACCUTE. University
of Waterloo. May 28, 2012
LITERATURE CONFERENCE PAPERS
2018 The Ethics of Simultaneity in The Hours. Midatlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA). Baltimore. November 10, 2018.
Recovering a Ruskinian Tactile Ethics of Architecture. Modern Horizons Conference. University of Toronto. October 27, 2018.
2017 Craft, Maker Culture, and Repurposing Materials in Toronto: Morris and Ruskin in Practice. Ruskin, Morris, and Craftsmanship Today Symposium. University of Toronto. June 3, 2017.
“Let us think that we build for ever”: Ruskin's Everlasting Form. NAVSA at ACCUTE. Ryerson University. May 28, 2017.
Ethics and Experience: Ruskin’s Educational Values. Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC). Vancouver. April 29, 2017.
“Knowing where to touch the most sensitive place”: A Tactile Ethics of Care in George Egerton. George Egerton Conference. University of Loughborough. April 7, 2017.
2016 The Tactility of Ruskin’s Art. NeMLA.
Hartford. March 20, 2016.
2015 Surface, Architecture, and Perception:
The Science of Art in Ruskin. Midwest Modern Languages Association (MMLA). Columbus.
November 13, 2015.
In Touch with Ruskin: Ruskin as Tactile Observer. Arts and Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Birkbeck, University of London. July 17, 2015.
2013 The Sense that Feels: Narrating the Gender Politics of Touch. Victorian Tactile Imagination Conference. Birkbeck, University of London. July 19, 2013.
“Hands tell age better than faces”: Subjectivity and Sexuality in Egerton’s “Gone Under.”NeMLA. Tufts. March 22, 2013.
2010 Crystal Science as Performative Ethical Architecture: Ruskin’s The Ethics of the Dust. NAVSA. McGill University. November 12, 2010.
Contesting the Liminal: Telepathic Touch in Hardy’s “The Withered Arm” and Gaskell’s “The Grey Woman.” The Border as Fiction, 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English. York University. June 17, 2010.
Ghosting Touch, Queering Tactility, and Renegotiating Sexuality in Teleny. NeMLA. McGill University. April 9, 2010.
2009 Ethically Touching Crystals as Ruskin’s Performative Architecture. Performance Studies Research Group. The University of Western Ontario. March 26, 2009.
2008 “A Wife to be Lett” and “Alan’s Wife”: An Ethical Continuum of Sight and Touch. With Sarah R. Creel. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS). McGill. October 15, 2008.
The Language of Embodied Experience: Touch as Discourse in “Theodora: A Fragment.” VSAO- ACCUTE. University of British Columbia. May 31, 2008.
2007 “I
exercise a malignant power”: Telepathic Touch in “The Withered Arm.” Hardy at
Yale. June 16, 2007.
2006 “Framing it with her Hands”: Touching George Egerton’s “Gone Under.” Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (VSAO). University of Western Ontario. October 17, 2006.
The Silence that Speaks: Ellipsis as a Barrier in George Eliot. ACCUTE. York University. May 28, 2006.
The Revolution of the Promise: Deconstructing the Promissory through Speech-Act Theory in St. Leon. York Graduate English Colloquium. March 22, 2006.
2005 Eliding
Laws and Language: Circumlocution in “Janet’s Repentance” and Ruth. Circulations: The Ins, Outs, and
Abouts of Exchange. York University Graduate English Colloquium. March 14, 2005.
PUBLIC LECTURES
2016 Ruskin's Guild: Craft, Nature, and the Influence on Morris. William Morris Society of Canada. University of Toronto. April 18, 2016.
2010 Telepathic Touch, Healing Power, and the Complex Ethics of Spiritualism. Imagined Healers. Stong College Panel Discussion. York University. March 26, 2010.
2009 Are Telepathic Touches
Ethical? Ghost Hands in Wilkie Collins, Hardy, and Teleny. The University of Western Ontario. McIntosh Competition.
May 7, 2009.
INVITED LECTURES
2022 Ruskin in the Media: Towards an Ethical Depiction. Ruskin Art Club. June 9, 2022.
2010 Mary, Mary Quite Contrary: Contradictions in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The University of Western Ontario. October 12, 2010.
Embodied Architecture: Proximity and Queer Relations in The Hours. The University of Western Ontario. March 29, 2010.
2009 Architecture, Proximity, and Contagion: The Hours as AIDS Narrative. The University of Western Ontario. April 1, 2009.
Temporality, Durée, and Architecture as Queer Relations in The Hours. Westminster College. Salt Lake City. February 18, 2009.