UPCOMING EVENTS/TALKS:

PAST EVENTS:

PAPERS READ AT PAST ACADEMIC CONFERENCES: 

• "Cultural Memory and the Ethics of the Archive: Writing the 1745-46 Jacobite Uprising in the Era After Culloden," Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies, Montreal, Que. October, 2019. 
• ’Be Thou Near to Learn the Song”: Women Writers and National Song in the Romantic-Era British Archipelago,” Women in Book History Symposium (Simon Fraser University), August, 2018.
• “Networks of Memory and the 1715-16 Jacobite Uprising,” Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS), Unviversity of Glasgow (July, 2018). 
• “The Sound of Spectacle and the Spectacle of Sound: Phillip Astley and Circus Songs,” Song and the City Symposium, University College, London, October, 2017.
• “Cultural Memory and Cultural Amnesia: Ireland and the Glorious Revolution,” Roundtable for Race and Empire Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Society Conference,(ASECS), Pittsburgh, PA (March, 2016). 
• “Inscripting Irish Events After 
the Glorious Revolution: Mapping the War of the Two Kings in1689,” ASECS Conference, Pittsburgh (March, 2016).  

• "Mediating 1688: Orality, Print and Manuscript,” After Print: Manuscript Culture in the Eighteenth Century Symposium, UC Santa Barbara Centre for Early Modern Studies (April, 2015).  
• “Inscribing the Glorious Revolution in 1688-89,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,SFU, Vancouver, BC (October, 2015). 
• "Re-membering the 1715 Rebellion in 1745," ASECS Conference, Los Angeles, March, 2015. 
• “Remembering to Forget: Ireland in the Glorious Revolution,” MLA conference, Vancouver (January, 2015).  
• "Of Pretenders and Palimpsests: Newspapers and the 1745 Rebellion," World Congress of ScottishLiteratures, U. of Glasgow (July, 2014).
• "On the Edge of History: Media Change, the 1745 Rebellion and the Creation of Cultural Memory,”"On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies," SFU, Vancouver, BC (June, 2013).
• "Archipelagizing the Glorious Revolution," American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, Virginia (March, 2013).
• "Scotland, British Poetry and the Transnational Turn," ASECS Conference, San Antonio, TX (March, 2012). 
• “’The Burns of Canada’: Alexander McLachlan and Transatlantic Romanticism,” BritishAssociation for Romantic Studies, Glasgow, Scotland (July, 2011). 
• “Finding a “Canadian Virgil”: Walter Scott, Daniel Wilson and Transatlantic Transport,” Walter Scott Conference, Laramie WYO (June, 2011)
• “Mediating Revolution,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver (March, 2011)
• “Robert Burns and the 1859 Centenary,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (August, 2010)
• “Between Nation and Empire: Scotland’s Darien Venture,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, NM (March, 2010)
• Participant in roundtable on “Scotland, Ireland and Wales,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, NM (March, 2010)
• “Connecting Four Nations Studies with Global Studies,” roundtable presentation, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque (March, 2010)
• “Robert Burns and Cultural Memory,” Robert Burns in a Transatlantic Context, SFU Harbour Centre (April, 2009)
• "Remediating Irish Song: Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry," Centre for the Study of Print and Media Culture workshop, SFU, April 2008. 
• "Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry and Irish Popular Song,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon. March 2008.
• "Mediating Popular Culture: Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century  Studies, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 2007.
• "The Printer As Patriot: James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems,” Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture, Saskatoon, Sask;, May 2007. 
• "From Picts to Pixels: Scotland, Cyberspace and Global Technologies of Nostalgia," Scottish Romanticism and World Literature, University of California, Berkeley, September 2006.
• "Articulating Scotland c. 1707: James Watson’s Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems and George Mackenzie’s Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Montreal (April 2006)
• “Crossing Borders: Orality and Print in 18th-Century Scottish Song Collections," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of British Columbia (October, 2003).
• "Contesting the Spectacle of Colonialism: Irish Music and the Politics of Aurality in the Eighteenth-Century," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. U. of Saskatchewan (October, 2001)
• "Echoes of Resistance: Sidney Owenson's Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies and The Wild Irish Girl," Women in the Republic of Letters Conference, U. of Saskatchewan (October, 2000)
• "Sidney Owenson, Gender and the Construction of the Nation," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia (March, 2000) 
• "Eighteenth-Century Scottish Music," Culture, Community and Nation: Scotland at Home and Abroad Conference, SFU Harbour Centre (March, 2000) 
• "From Fingal to Fingal's Cave: Scotland, Music and Romanticism," Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago (December, 1999)
• "Gender, Music and the Nation in Sidney Owenson's Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dublin, Ireland (July, 1999) 
• "Writing Woman/Rewriting Man: Charlotte Brooke's Revisions of Joseph Cooper Walker in the Reliques of Irish Poetry," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI (March, 1999) 
• "Hailing the Hibernian Muse: Music, Print Culture and Irish National Identity," SHARP Conference, Vancouver, B.C. (July, 1998) 
• "Joseph Cooper Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards," ASECS Conference, Notre Dame, IN (April, 1998) 
• "N(ot)ational Generations: George Petrie's The Ancient Music of Ireland," British Association of Romantic Studies, Leeds, Engand (July, 1997) 
• "Culture and Violins: Music and National Identity in George Petrie's The Ancient Music of Ireland", Institute on Culture and Society, Corvallis (June, 1997) 
• "Nation and Notation: Turlough Carolan and the Commodification of Irish Identity in the Eighteenth Century", American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Nashville (April, 1997) 
• "Harping on the Past: Turlough Carolan and the Construction of Irish Nationalisms in the Eighteenth Century", Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Berkeley (February, 1997) 
• "Canonical Crossings: The Case of Felicia Hemans" (with Margaret Linley), North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston (November, 1996) 
• "Nation and Notation: The Indeterminacies of National Identity in Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Music" Eighteenth-Century Ireland Conference, Limerick, Ireland (May, 1996) 
• "Pretending Fictions: Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and the Rebellion of 1745," Conference on "Jacobitism and the 1745 Rebellion," organized by the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland (August, 1995)
• "Talking Notes: Music, Nationalism and Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Music" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Tucson, Arizona (April, 1995). 
• "The Politics of Hypochondriasis: James Currie's Works of Robert Burns," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (October, 1994). 
• "Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies and the Colonized Nation," British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, London, England (September, 1993) 
• "Gender, Genre and Writing the Nation: Henry Brooke's and Charlotte Brooke's Ireland," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, London, Ontario (August, 1993) 
• "English Bards and Scots Reviewers: The Debate Between William Wordsworth and Francis Jeffrey," British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland (July, 1993) 
• "Acts of Union: Writing the Nation in 1707," Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Santa Barbara, California (February, 1993) 
• "Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies and the Deconstruction of the Irish Nation," Tri-Universities Conference, Victoria, B.C. (March 1992) 
• "Re-birth of a Nation: Female Patriotism and the Woman Writer in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry, Department of English Colloquium, Simon Fraser University (January, 1992) 
• "Bounded to a District Space: Robert Burns and the Borders of English Romantic Poetry," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Calgary, Alberta (October, 1991) 
• "Harping on the Past: James Macpherson's and Thomas Moore's Re-presentations of National History," American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (October, 1991) 
• "Burns, Wordsworth and the Effects of Original Genius, " Department of English Colloquium, Simon Fraser University (January, 1991) 
• "James Macpherson and the Forging of the Nation," English Department Graduate Colloquium, University of Berkeley, California (December, 1989)