Conference Presentations
2022 | “Printing in the Margins: Early Modern Italian Printed Prayers between the Heterodox and the Orthodox,” RSA Virtual Conference 2022 |
2022 | “Recipes for Faith, Protection, and Healing: Translating the Power of Holy Text in Early Modern Italian Printed Prayers,” The Tangibility of Translation, University of Galway and Online |
2021 | “Protective Private Prayer Pouches in Early Modern Italy,” Pockets, Pouches & Secret Drawers Conference, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London |
2021 | “Praying with Popular Print in Renaissance Italy,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, virtual conference |
2019 | “Sensing Material Prayers: Touching, Hearing, and Tasting Devotional Text in Renaissance Italy,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada |
2017 | “Exhibiting Ugly Things: Bringing Tiny, Quotidian, and Visually ‘Unappealing’ Objects to Life,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois |
2016 | “The Writing on the Wall: Devotional Inscriptions in the Early Modern Italian Home,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA |
2016 | “Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Women’s Use of Holy Words in Early Modern Italy,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany |
2014 | “The Word Made Flesh: Text, Religion, & Women’s Bodies in Early Modern Italy,” Early Modern Women, Religion and the Body, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK |
2014 | “Devotional Things: ‘Ave Maria, Gratia Plena’: An Italian Enthroned Virgin and Child from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Marian Votive Offerings,” Thinking with Things, 1500-1900, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
2013 | “Fairest of them all: Reflections on the Mirror in Early Modern Italy,” Chiasmi 2013: Cultural Materials/Material Culture, Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies, Harvard University (in collaboration with Brown University), Boston, MA |
Invited Talks
2022 | “Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy,” Centre for Antique, Medieval, & Premodern Studies (CAMPS) Research Lab, University of Galway |
2022 | “Noble and Virtuous: Sensing the Textile Arts in the Work of Italian Women Artists,” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, invited in-person special tour in conjunction with the By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800 exhibition and co-sponsored by the Costume & Textile Society of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art |
2021 | “Noble and Virtuous: Women & the Textile Arts in Early Modern Italy,” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, invited virtual lecture in conjunction with the By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800 exhibition and co-sponsored by the Costume & Textile Society of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art |
2016 | “The Materiality of Miraculous and Intercessory Text in the Early Modern Italian Home,” Experiencing Devotion in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Sights, Sounds, Objects conference, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
2015 | “Consuming and Collecting the Ordinary and Everyday,” co-presented with Melissa Calaresu, Treasured Possessions Symposium, The Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
2014 | “‘Metezela adosso con devotione:’ The Efficacy of Devotional Text in Early Modern Italy,” Early Modern Catholicism Network and Early Modern World Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
Workshop & Seminar Presentations
2021 | “Printed Popular Prayers and Lay Piety in Early Modern Italy,” Print and Lay Piety, 1550-1800, November 5, 2021, Virtual interdisciplinary workshop |
2019 | “Sacred Stuff: A Case Study of Printed Protective Prayers in Early Modern Italy,” Wolf Humanities Center Mellon Seminar on “Stuff,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
2016 | “Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions,” Domestic Devotions Master Class, convened by Professor Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
2015 | “Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Women’s Use of Holy Words in Early Modern Italy,” Italian Department Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge |
2015 | “‘Il teniate a le case vostre:’ Devotional Words within the Italian Renaissance Home, Religion and Material Culture Workshop, invited participant, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands |