Events

Public talks

‘The Silence of Solitude’, Penny Lecture series, Morley College, London (Oct 2019)

 ‘Eighteenth-Century Physicians and the Poetic Search for Life’, Huntington Society of Fellows Scholarly Sustenance Programme , California (July 2018)

‘Lucretius and eighteenth-century afterlives’, Life Writing and Death: A day of explorations, King’s College London (May 2018)

‘POET: Eighteenth-century doctor-poets and the wonder of life’, Medicine Unboxed, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham (Nov 2016)

Academic papers

‘Poetic mourning in the darkness of solitude’, David Nicholl Smith Seminar in 18th-Century Studies (Dec 2020)

‘The sad nurse of care’: Solitude and Eighteenth-Century Physician Poets’, International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Edinburgh (July 2019)

‘Atomistic cycles and the Lucretian ‘hurl’d/world’ in Erasmus Darwin’s The Temple of Nature’, British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford (January 2018)

‘James Thomson’s The Seasons and the Equivalencing Effect of Lucretian Personification’, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies , Minneapolis (March 2017)

‘Connections with ancient atheism: Lucretius as an adaptive eighteenth-century poetic influence’, Lines of Connection: An International Conference on Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Oxford (July 2016)

‘Finding life in atoms: Lucretius and eighteenth-century doctor poetics’, University of Oxford Long Eighteenth-Century Research in Progress Seminar, Oxford (May 2016)

‘Life and the Human’ (Shared panel with Prof. Nikolas Rose), The Order of Things at 50: Foucault and the Humanities, King’s College London (May 2016)

‘Lucretius in the Scottish Graveyard: Death, darkness, and atomism in Blair’s The Grave’, Death and Dying in Scotland from Medieval to the Modern, Edinburgh (January 2016)

‘Thomas Creech and the creation of an eighteenth-century Lucretius’, British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford (January 2016)