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.

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