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Selected Previous Talks

Loving Character: Shakespeare, MacDonald and the (Spiritual) Practice of Reading, ‘George MacDonald & The Prophetic Imagination: A Bicentenary Conference,’ Wheaton College, May 2024

George MacDonald, Imagination, and ‘The Light Princess,’ The University of Buckingham, January 2024

George MacDonald, Art, and the Holy Imagination, Wycliffe Hall, The University of Oxford, June 2023

Re-reading Victorians: Repetition, Literature, and the Cure of Souls, Nineteenth-Century Seminar Series, Anglia Ruskin University, November 2022

Religious Justice Roundtable,  ‘Just Victorians’, Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Lehigh University, September-October 2022

Attending to the Dead: George MacDonald and Reading as Necromantic Conversation, ‘Unsettling Victorian’ Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, online, March 2022

Reading with George MacDonald, Oxford C. S. Lewis Society, February 2020

Prayer, Poetry, and the Face of God in Nature, Ecology and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Lancaster University, September 2019

Reliable Guides? George MacDonald and the Place of Truth in Poetry, ‘The Place of Truth,’ Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture, University of Uppsala, September 2018

Too Good To Be True? The Spirit of the Commonplace in MacDonald and Lewis, C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Conference, ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University of Iași, November 2018

Breathing New Life: the Role of the Poetic Imagination in MacDonald’s Literary Criticism, ‘George MacDonald’s Scotland’ Conference, University of Aberdeen, July 2017

‘What does it matter how many names if the person is one?’ Revealing Divinity in the Fairytales of George MacDonald and Charles Kingsley, ‘George MacDonald and the Cambridge Apostles’, Conference of the George MacDonald Society, Trinity Hall, The University of Cambridge, July 2016