Recent Selected Talks
2024, ‘Boiled Eyes, Served Cold: Jean Rhys & Faces of Modernism.’ Figurements: A Symposium on Literature and the Face, University of Melbourne (29 November)
2024, ‘Head Itself: Laura Riding, Authenticity & Automation.’ Modernist Portraits and/or Anti-Portraits. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Chicago (7 November)
2024, ‘Gimmick Surveillance: Espionage, Exposure, Entertainment.’ The 6th CRISP online seminar. Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance, & Privacy, UK (6 November)
2024, ‘Alice’s Adventures, Ambiguity & AI.’ AI & Other Scientific Fables. School of Cybernetics, Australian National University (25 July)
2024, ‘The Eco-Algorithmic Unconscious: Borders, Surveillance, Contemporary Fiction.’ (with Keyvan Allahyari). Borders as Both Site and Method Conference, University of Melbourne (18 July)
2024, ‘Internet, Novel, Form.’ Australian Literary Studies Convention, Order and Chaos, Sydney, Australia (4 July)
2024, ‘Cute Surveillance: Intimacy Crisis and Loveable Machines in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes.’ The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference, Surveillance in an Age of Crisis, Ljubljana, Slovenia (29 May)
2024, ‘‘I’m a dragon!’: Surveillance as Play.’ Center for Digital Narrative, Seminar Series. University of Bergen, Norway (15 May)
2024, ‘Surveillant Subjectivity & Distributed Cognition in the Contemporary Social Media Novel.’ Literature & Science: Medical & Digital Humanities Seminar Series, Stuttgart University, Germany [1 May online]
2023, ‘Surveillance Aesthetics & Machinic Poetics in Contemporary Literary Fiction.’ Surveillance Imaginings, Sorbonne Université, Paris (1 December)
2023, ‘Universally Acknowledged: Literature, Data, Truth.’ Exo-Mnemonics: Memory, Media, Machines Symposium, University of Western Sydney, NSW (6-7 November)
2023, ‘Boiled Eyes, Served Cold: Light, Night, Faces, Streets in Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight.’ Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conference, Brooklyn, NY (26-29 October)
2023, ‘I am, I am, I am: Artist, Poet, Spy’ Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) Deep Dives with the University of Melbourne, Sheapparton VIC (21 October)
2023, ‘Pixel, Partition, Persona: Facial Recognition in Contemporary Speculative Fiction.’ 38th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies, Presence and Virtuality Conference, University of Leipzig (24-27 September)
2023, ‘Façade, Fashion, Flâneur: Virginia Woolf’s London Faces.’ Fashioning London: Streets, Styles and Storytelling. Literary London Conference, London (6-7 July)
2023, ‘Writers Inc.: Australian Literature & the Visual Arts.’ Panel on: ‘Network not Nation: Digital Methodologies in Australian Literary Studies.’ Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference, Melbourne (4-6 July)
2023, ‘One Eye Open, One Eye Closed: Contemporary Poetics and Facial Recognition Surveillance.’ The Face and/In World Literature. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference. Chicago, USA (16-19 March)
2023, ‘Australian Cultural Data: Biography, Gender, Politics.’ Data Optics: Recognition, Events, Crisis. King’s College London & Kings Digital Lab. London, UK (30 January)
2022, ‘Return the Eye: A Counter-Visual Poetics of Facial Recognition Surveillance.’ Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World. Canberra, ACT (5-7 December)
2022, ‘I Have No Face: Lyric Distortion, Subjectivity, Masks.’ Disturbed Faces/Visages perturbés. University of Geneva and the Swiss Association of General and Comparative Literature, Geneva (3-5 November)
2022, ‘Laura Riding’s Lyric in the Facial Recognition Age.’ The Lyric Now. University of Adelaide (14 October)
2021, ‘The Way the Portal Wrote: Dataveillance, Subjectivity, Language.’ Literature & Culture and/as Intelligent Systems. University of Stuttgart Institute of Literary Studies [online]
2021, ‘Facing the Strange: Literature, AI and Emotion Recognition.’ Critical Borders: Radical (Re)Visions of AI. Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) and the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge. (19-20 October 2021)
2021, ‘The Point is to the Change the World: Capitalist Realism and its Negation in Ali Alizadeh’s Transactions’ (2013).’ University of Sydney English Department Seminar Series [online] (with Keyvan Allahyari)
2021, ‘Genre, Gender & the Gaze: Digital Approaches Towards a Critical Literary History of the Face.’ Gale Cengage ‘From Archive to Argument’ Symposium [online]
2021, ‘The Point is to the Change the World: Capitalist Realism and its Negation in Ali Alizadeh’s Transactions’ (2013). Texts and Their Limits: Australia’s Triennial Literary Studies Convention [online] (with Keyvan Allahyari)
2021, ‘Towards a critical history of the face in Jane Austen’s Emma. Or, why the long face?’ English and Theatre Studies Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne [online] (with Stephanie Trigg, Joe Hughes & Guillemette Bolens)
2021, ‘Identity is Cruel: Capital, Gimmick and Surveillance in the Australian Post-Diasporic Short Story.’ English and Theatre Studies Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne [online] (with Keyvan Allahyari)
2021, ‘Trying on the Words’: The Cognitive Poetics of Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance.’ American Association of Australasian Literary Studies. [online]
2021, ‘Digital Decolonisation: Narration, Digitisation, and Infrastructure.’ (with Rahul K. Gairola and Tully Barnett) MLA. Toronto, Canada [online]
2021, ‘Surveillance, Sexuality, Subversion: A Digital Poetics of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin’s FBI Files.’ MLA. Toronto, Canada [online]
2020, ‘Capital and Surveillance in the Australian Post-diasporic Short Story’ (with Keyvan Allahyari). The Short Story and Its Readers: Words and the World. [online]
2020, ‘Surveillance, Sexuality, Subversion: A Digital Poetics of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin’s FBI Files.’ Digital Humanities 2020 (DH2020). [online]
2020, ‘Digital Literary Studies: Narration, Digitisation and Infrastructure for Social Justice.’ Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) [online]
2020, ‘Poetry, Privacy, Paranoia: (Wire)Tapping into the American Dream.’ Telepoetics –Crossed Lines. London, UK [online]
2019, ‘Digital Lyric: Contemporary Poetry, Surveillance and Big Data.’ Forms, History, Narrations, Big Data: Morphology and Historical Sequence. Turin, Italy
2019, ‘Digital Lyric: Poetry, Big Data, Subjectivity.’ Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data.Goldsmiths, University of London
2019, ‘Mosaically Speaking: Lionel Fogarty’s Contemporary Poetics.’ Contemporary Australian Poetry Symposium, The University of Melbourne
2018, ‘Beyond Big Data in Digital Humanities.’ Melbourne Digital Humanities Pathways Forum, The University of Melbourne
2017, ‘Lionel Fogarty and the Anti-Essay.’ Poetry and the Essay. Wellington, New Zealand
2017, “in a parenthesis! said the moon’: Astronomy and Typography in E.E. Cummings.’ The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, Kentucky
2017, ‘Unutterable Transports: Deception and Observation in Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.’ Romanticism Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA) Transporting Romanticism Conference, Wellington, New Zealand