Invited Talks
“The Nabob and the Nobody; or, a Mystery on the Margins of Romantic-era Fiction.” Annual Lecture in Memory of Nadav Vardi, Tel-Aviv University, June 2024
Conferences Organized
Fits and Starts: Ninth National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. Feb. 5, 2025, Ben-Gurion University. (Co-organizer)
First Person: Eighth National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. March 19, 2024, Bar-Ilan University. (Co-organizer).
Sustainable SELI: Seventh National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. Feb. 1, 2023, Haifa University. (Co-organizer).
By the Book: Sixth National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. July 3, 2022, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Co-organizer).
Strange Days: Fifth National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. February 1, 2021 (virtual conference). (Co-organizer).
SELI Goes South: Fourth National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. February 3, 2020, Ben-Gurion University. (Co-organizer)
Keywords: Third Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. January 21, 2019, Tel-Aviv University. (Co-organizer).
Guilty Pleasures: Second National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. February 1, Bar-Ilan University. (Co-organizer)
Apro-Poe: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Edgar Allan Poe. January 10, Bar-Ilan University. Co-organized with Dr. Yoel Greenberg, Bar-Ilan University.
What Else is New? – Inaugural Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel. February 8-9, 2017, Haifa University. (Co-organizer)
Humanists at Work: On Research Riddles and the Pleasures of Pursuing Them. Bar-Ilan Humanities Faculty Conference, October 28-29, 2013. Co-organized with Dr. Yaakov Mascetti, Comparative Literature Department
Conference Presentations
“‘How Deadly Pale Thou Looks’t, My Love’: Repeating the Dead Male Body in Isabella Kelly’s Gothic Fiction.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, January 2025
"William Lane’s Minerva Press and the Ever-Malleable Author Function.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Toronto, April 2024
"Gothic Wedlock: Marriage Gone Bad in Late Eighteenth-Century Popular Fiction." Pulp Fiction Conference, Bar-Ilan University, May 2023
"A Woman’s Life in Men’s Archives: Looking for Isabella Kelly." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, St. Louis, March 2023
"Recovering the Minerva Woman Novelist as Reader." British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, January 2023
"Minerva’s Forgotten Women and the Advantages of Biography." British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS) Conference, Ormskirk, August 2022
"The Power of Marginalia: Book Annotation and the Study of Popular Novel-Reading in Romantic-Era Britain." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Conference, Amsterdam, July 2022
"Looking for Nobody: Biography and the Forgotten Woman Writer." By the Book: Sixth Annual Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel (SELI), Jerusalem, July 2022
"A Key in the Archives: From a Chance Discovery to a Forgotten Woman Writer's Secret Revenge." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) conference, Baltimore, March 2022
"On Not Judging a Book by Its (Silly) Cover: Finding More Ghosts! in Northanger Abbey." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) conference, Baltimore, March 2022
"How to Be Round: Forgotten Women Writers and the Narrative Trap of Literary History." Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (virtual), May 2021
"Burying the Body Yourself; or, Hardcore Things that Heroines Do in Forgotten Gothic Novels." Roundtable presentation, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) virtual conference, April 2021.
"Finding Nobody: Biography and the Generic Woman Novelist." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) virtual conference, April 2021.
"The Nabob and the Nobody: or, a Detective Story on the Margins of Romantic-Era Fiction." Departmental Seminar, Department of Foreign Literature and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, November 2019
“Annotation and the Elusive Reader of Romantic Popular Fiction.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) conference, Denver, March 2019
"Minerva Novels as Fan Fiction; or, What if the Macbeths Had a Teenage Daughter?" Roundtable on Eighteenth-Century Fan Fiction, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) conference, Denver, March 2019
"What's in a Name? The Other MA Program." Third National Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel (SELI), Tel-Aviv University, January 2019
"Clarissa Repurposed; or, How the Fictional Corpse Became Gothic." Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar, University of York, January 2019
"On Reading Minerva Gothics: The Case of Isabella Kelly." English Department Seminar, University of Haifa, December 2018
“Infamously Hybrid: The Monk of Udolpho and the trade-Gothic Reader.” International Gothic Association (IGA) Conference, Manchester, July 2018
"Beyond Catherine Morland; or, Doing Right by the Late Eighteenth-Century Gothic Reader." Reading Now: Practices, Pedagogy, Profession. Israel Science Foundation Workshop, Ben-Gurion University, June 2018
"Henry Fielding, the Dead Body, and the English Novel's Quest for Respectability." Symposium in honor of Prof. Leona Toker, Jerusalem, June 2018
"Forgotten but Familiar: Recreating the Pleasure of the Circulating-Library Gothic Reader." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Conference, Orlando, March 2018
"'The Most Poetical Topic in the World': Three Dead Beautiful Women Before Poe." Apro-Poe: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Edgar Allan Poe, Bar-Ilan University, January 2018
"In the Footsteps of the Minerva Novelist." Romantic Improvements: British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, York, 2017
“Miss Keppel’s Ordeal: A Dead Body’s ‘It-Narrative.’” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Conference, Minneapolis, March 2017
“Defoe’s Plague Narrative and the Mixed-Up Reader.” Roundtable Presentation, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Conference, Minneapolis, March 2017
“'The Itch of a Tale': Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and the Future of Horror." British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, UK, January 2016
"The Minerva Effect: Rethinking 'Female Gothic' from the Margins." Romantic Imprints: British Association for Romanticism Conference, Cardiff, 2015
"Gothic Wedlock: Beyond the Radcliffe 'Formula.'" British Women Writer's Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 2015
“The Competing Discourses of the Dead Body in Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year." Literature at the Crossroads: Knowledge and the Eighteenth Century. Haifa University, 2015
"Isabella Kelly and the Limits of Radcliffean Propriety." Radcliffe at 250: Gothic and Romantic Imaginations Conference, Sheffield, 2014
“Matthew Lewis’ Bloopers; or, From Gothic Stage Technology to the Future of Horror.” International Gothic Association Conference, Surrey, 2013
“The Uses of British Gothic in Early Jewish-American Drama.” British Association for Romantic Studies Conference, Southampton, July 2013
“Happily Ever After: Fairy-Tale Love and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” International Conference on “Theories of Love and the Novel,” Jerusalem, June 2012
“Facing the Dead: Defoe’s Corpses and the Future of the Plague Narrative.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Providence, March 2012
“Life Before Crake: Atwood and the Poetic Sorcery of Hybrid-Making.” American Society for Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Conference, Bloomington, June 2011
“Staging Words, Writing Spectacle: or, The Double Life of Matthew Lewis.” Romantic Adaptations Conference, London, March 2011
“Adapting the Booby-Trapped Text: Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’ and the Challenge of Adaptation.” Association of Adaptations Studies conference, Berlin, September 2010
“‘Good Natured Gentlemen Might Smile, and Sentimental Souls Might Weep’: Bartleby Goes to Hollywood.” International Conference on “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Jerusalem/ Tel Aviv, December 2008
“Margins and Mirrors: Ann Radcliffe Writes the Popular Author.” 16th Annual British Women Writers Conference, Bloomington, March 2008
“A Thing of Horror: The Dead Body in Anti-Gothic Criticism.” International Conference on Romanticism, Baltimore, October 2007
“The Violated Statue: Venus in the Gothic Novel.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Atlanta, March 2007
“Unruly Bodies and the Question of Narrative.” Narrative as a Way of Thinking: International Symposium in Honor of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Jerusalem, November 2005
“Specters in Steel: Walpole, Hamlet, and the Body.” International Gothic Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2005
“The Gothic Novel Answers Its Critics.” Politics and Poetics: School of Literatures Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2004 (in Hebrew)
“Women Gone Bad: Disgust and Female Transgression in The Monk.” International Gothic Association Conference, Liverpool Hope University College, Liverpool, U.K., July 2003
“The Horror of the Popular Author: On Writing, Status, and Stephen King.” Canonical Literature and Popular Literature – Interrelations: School of Literatures Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2003 (in Hebrew)