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Presentations

Invited papers

‘On Looking and Not Looking at Manuscripts’ (keynote), Editing Reconsidered, Masaryk University, Brno (1 December 2022)

‘Palaeography and Literature’, University College Dublin (17 November 2020)

‘Incongruous Form: The “First English Sonnet”’, University of Cambridge (11 November 2020)

‘Material Evidence and Scholarly Process’, University of Turku (2 March 2020)

‘Reading Rhyme’, University of Yale (5 February 2020)

‘Practical Ideas of the Book: Books Present and Absent in Medieval Catalogues’, Harlaxton Medieval Symposium: The Medieval Book as Object, Image and Symbol, Harlaxton (24 July 2019)

‘Continental Codicology in Insular Teaching’, Teaching the Codex II, Oxford (6 May 2017)

Other papers

‘Models, Craft, and the Earliest English Couplets’, Sewanee Medieval Colloquium (24 March 2023)

‘Quantification and Absence’, The Seven Sages of Rome: A Global Narrative Tradition, Oxford-Berlin (12 November 2022)

‘Language for Fragments’, From Fragment to Whole, Bristol (17 September 2021)

‘Variant as Goad in the Editing of Middle English’, OCTET, Oxford (16 January 2020)

‘At Knowledge’s Edge: Lost Materials’, Dark Archives, Oxford (10 September 2019)

‘The Books We Lack’, Biennial Early Book Society Conference, Dublin (9 July 2019)

‘Reading Rhyme: Some Moves in Gothic Demonology’, Reading Then, Reading Now, Harvard (20 April 2019)

‘Whittling the Wycliffite Bible: Transcription’s Sharp Ends’, New Chaucer Society Congress, Toronto (13 July 2018)

‘21st-Century Edition Design: The Wycliffite Bible in Print and Online’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds (5 July 2018)

‘Manuscript Canonicity’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (11 May 2018)

‘“A legioun is my name”: Studying Large Manuscript Traditions’, Early Book Society and John Gower Society Congress, Durham (11 July 2017)

‘“Of the bridalis of Crist”: Explaining the Wycliffite Song of Songs’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds (4 July 2017)

‘Losing Manuscripts in Later Medieval England’, Understanding Material Loss, Birmingham (18 February 2017)

‘Rolling History: Rolls, Roll-Codices and Digital Imagery’, Digital Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (28 November 2016)

‘“Ferdful oostis”: Tackling Wycliffite Bible Manuscripts’, English Faculty Work in Progress Group, Oxford (16 November 2016)

‘Describing Missing Manuscripts in Lost Locations’, People, Places and Possessions, 1350–1550, Oxford (3 September 2016)

‘Rhymes without Lines: Reading for Balance’, New Chaucer Society Congress, London (14 July 2016)

‘Reading and Rearrangement: Speculum Vitae and the Reception of English Verse Pastoralia’, Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages, Kent (24 June 2016)

‘Rolling History’, Working Materials Group, Oxford (3 May 2016)

‘Balance and Completion: Controlling the Reading of Later Middle English Rhymes’, Discipline and Excess, Cambridge (15 April 2016)

‘Navigation, Agency and Control: Opening Manuscript Paratexts for Later Middle English Poetry’, The Beginning of the Book, Bristol (18 March 2016)

‘Getting Into Books: Later Medieval English Bindings and the History of Reading’, Biennial Early Book Society Conference, Oxford (5 July 2015)

‘Manuscript Presentation and the Success of The Prick of Conscience’, New Chaucer Society Congress, Reykjavik (16 July 2014)

‘Page, Verse, Margin: Some Shapes in English Books, c.1350–1500’, Writing Britain 2014, Cambridge (1 July 2014)

‘Bracing Compunction: Marking Rhyme in Copies of The Prick of Conscience’, Biennial Early Book Society Conference, St Andrews (5 July 2013)

‘Reading and Guiding: Navigation in Some Manuscripts of The Prick of Conscience’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (9 May 2013)