talks (a selection)
March 2024
Dante’s Divine Comedy transformed in Lil Nas X’s 2021 video MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, Boston, USA
December
Lavinia’s erotic reversal in 1641 lost opera Le nozze d’Enea con Lavinia (Monteverdi, librettist unknown) Durham University Centre for Classical Reception & Department of Classics and Ancient History workshop The Afterlives of the Aeneid’s Women, online
2023
A lover and a writer: baroque impersonations of Ovid as lasciuus auctor NYU Italian Department and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò symposium Eros: Thinking, Feeling, Writing Love from Classical Antiquity to Early Modernity, New York City, USA
Una biblioteca della letteratura universale: Elena Ferrante & Sulpicia (with Cheikh Tidiane Gaye and Matteo Bianchi, by Stella N’Djoku) POESTATE literary festival, online
Translation as a form of poiesis & fragmented annotations on a 1573 edition of Castiglione's Il cortegiano (1528) American Association for Italian Studies conference, Fort Worth, USA
2022
Emotional extremes in Pietro Michiel’s Ovidio a Corinna and Michelangelo Torcigliani’s Corinna ad Ovidio (1640) Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies conference, online
Dedica: omaggio a Pier Paolo Pasolini (with Stella N’Djoku) POESTATE literary festival, Lugano, Switzerland
Corinna writes back: Michelangelo Torcigliani’s Corinna ad Ovidio (1640) Australasian Society for Classical Studies conference, online
2020
Heroides ventriloquism of voice in seventeenth-century Italian poetry MA completion seminar, University of Melbourne, online
2019
Imitate da Ovidio: gendered voice remembered in Seicento poetry Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar, Mulubinba/Newcastle, Australia
Navigazioni possibili: Ovid lost and found Australasian Centre for Italian Studies conference, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa