Breaking the Spell of the Commonplace: Stories and Spiritual Vision in George MacDonald. Summer School 2025: Oxford University (Wycliffe Hall)

A Genius for Then and Now: George MacDonald’s Generative Relationality, Conference Keynote (with Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson), ‘The Genius of George MacDonald’ Conference, Yale University, December 2024

‘What Good Can Stories Do in Sickness?’: Curative Reading and Communion in Adela Cathcart, EVENT 2024, Lancaster University, September 2024

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