conference papers

“Accessibility and Discoverability of in situ Manuscript Fragments.” 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA, 24 Feb 2023. (refereed)

“Fuzzy Data and the Manuscript Cataloguer in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” Stanford Manuscript Sciences 6th Collegium: Uncertainty and the Handmade. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 27 January 2023. (invited; delivered virtually)

“Bound With: Towards a Typology of Hybrid Codices.” Research Group on Manuscript Evidence 2022 Autumn Symposium. 15 Oct 2022. (invited; delivered virtually)

“Recycling and Upcycling Culture in the Middle Ages: Hidden Collections in the Bindings of Codices.” International Medieval Congress 2022. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 5 Jul 2022. (refereed; delivered virtually)

(with K. A. Kapitan) “Next-Gen Manuscript Descriptions: A Case for the Reconsideration of the Manuscript Description Module of the TEI Guidelines.” Text Encoding Initiative Conference and Members’ Meeting 2021. 26 Oct 2021. (refereed; delivered virtually) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5748463. [open access]

“The Rediscovery of Manuscripts and the Reconstruction of Libraries Lost.” Seventeenth Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society: Precarious Lives: Loss, Recovery and/or Survival of MSS and Early Printed Books, 1350–1550. Bangor University, Bangor, UK. 13 Jul 2021. (refereed; delivered virtually)

“More than the Sum of Its Parts: Cataloguing Physical Attributes of Manuscripts.” International Medieval Congress 2021. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 6 Jul 2021. (refereed; delivered virtually)

“The Long History of the Trojan Brutus: The Translingual Manuscript Evidence.” Brut in New Troy. 25 Jun 2021. (refereed; delivered virtually)

“Medieval Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Phillippica at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library of the University of Kansas.” 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, 11 May 2021. (refereed; delivered virtually)

“The Missing Piece of Hernando Colón’s Library: Copenhagen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, AM 377 fol.” 18th International Seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 Apr 2021. (refereed; delivered virtually)

“Transtextual Networks in the European Middle Ages: A Digital Corpus of the Trojan Narrative in Latin Manuscripts.” 13th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 18-20 Nov 2020. (refereed, pre-recorded lightning talk delivered virtually)

“The Codex as a Compilatio: Historiography in Multitext Manuscripts.” International Medieval Congress 2020. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 7 Jul 2020. (refereed; delivered virtually)

“Ferdinand Columbus and the Rise and Fall of His Biblioteca Colombina.” 22nd Biennial New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies. New College, Sarasota, FL, USA, 12-14 Mar 2020. (refereed; cancelled due to COVID-19)

“From Medieval Booklists to Digital Catalogues: Manuscript Data Then and Now.” 12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 23 Nov 2019. (invited)

“The Making of Ferdinand Columbus’s Book of Epitomes: Marginalia in København, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, AM 377 fol.” International Medieval Congress 2019. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 3 Jul 2019. (refereed)

“Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Digital Facsimiles vs. Digital Catalogues of Manuscripts.” 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 8 Mar 2019. (refereed)

“Manuscripts in Context: The Trojan Narrative in the Icelandic Saga Tradition.” 17th International Saga Conference. University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, 17 Aug 2018. (refereed)

“The Story of Troy: Facts and Figures, or Texts and Manuscripts.” International Medieval Congress 2018. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 4 Jul 2018. (refereed)

“Patterns and Outliers: Late Antique Trojan Narratives in Medieval Manuscript Compilations.” 17th International Seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 Apr 2018. (refereed)

“The Story of Troy in Medieval Manuscripts.” 21st Biennial New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies. New College, Sarasota, FL, USA, 8 Mar 2018. (refereed)

“The Story of the Trojan Origins of the Franks: A Carolingian Legacy?” 44th Annual New England Medieval Conference. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 7 Oct 2017. (refereed)

“From Dares of Phrygia to Geoffrey of Monmouth: The Trojan Origins of the British in Manuscripts.” International Medieval Congress 2017. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 5 Jul 2017. (refereed)

“Looking Back at the Fifth Century: Revisiting the Origin of the Franks.” Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XII. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 23 Mar 2017. (refereed)

“A New Look at the Trojan Heritage of the Franks.” Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages XX: New Directions in the Early Middle Ages I. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria, 2 Mar 2017. (invited)

“The Art of History-Making in Eighth-Century Francia: The Case of Historia Daretis Frigii de origine Francorum.” Collecting Knowledge, Creating Knowledge: Medieval Miscellanies between Authorial Strategies and Selective Reception. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 27 Feb 2016. (invited)

“The Transformation of Troy from Homer to Fredegar.” International Medieval Congress 2015. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 6 Jul 2015. (refereed)

“Texts in Context: Troy in Medieval Manuscripts before 1100.” Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages XVIII. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 14 Dec 2014. (invited)

“The Trojan Narrative and the Making of the Regnum Francorum.” International Medieval Congress 2014. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 7 Jul 2014. (refereed)

“Writing the Past Anew: The Trojan Narrative in Early Medieval Culture.” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, 11 May 2014. (refereed)

“‘The Past is a Foreign Country’: The Significance of Troy in Early Medieval European Historiography.” I Encontro Internacional de História Antiga e Medieval na Amazônia. Universidade Federal do Pará, Bragança, Brazil, 8 Apr 2014. (invited)

“Forging History: The Case of Troy.” Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages XVII. École normale supérieure, Paris, France, 16 Nov 2013. (invited)

“The Trojan Narrative as a Migration Myth in the Early Middle Ages.” British Comparative Literature Association XII International Conference. Migration. University of Essex, Essex, UK, 10 Jul 2013. (refereed)

“The Origins and Identity of the Franks: The Trojan Narrative in Early Medieval Historiographical Texts.” International Medieval Congress 2013. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 4 Jul 2013.  (refereed)

“Before and After the Chronicle of Fredegar: The Trojan Narrative and the Franks.” Seventh Century Colloquium. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 28 May 2013. (refereed)

“The True History of the Trojan War: Dares of Phrygia’s De excidio Troiae historia.” Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages XVI. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria, 26 Jan 2013. (invited)

“The History of the Trojan War in the Middle Ages: Manuscripts Containing Dares of Phrygia’s De excidio Troiae historia.” International Medieval Congress 2012. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 9 Jul 2012. (refereed)

“The Trojan Origins of the Franks: The Construction of a National Identity throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” 3rd Biennial Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium. Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7 Jul 2012. (refereed)

“Memories of War: The Troy Story.” School of History Conference. Cultural Transmission. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 14 May 2012. (invited)

“İngiliz ve Fransız Ortaçağ Historiyografik Metinlerinde Troya Soyundan Gelenler” [‘Trojan Descent in English and French Medieval Historiographical Texts’]. 1st International Comparative Literature Conference. New Trends, Methods, and Practices in Comparative Literature. Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey, 16 Oct 2003. (refereed)

“Marriage, Usurpation, Custody: The Introduction of Christine de Pizan’s Manuscripts to England.” Leeds Symposia. Love and Friendship: Personal Relationships in Western Iconography and Literature. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 3 Jul 2003. (refereed)

“‘Seulette suy et seulette veuil estre’: The Allegory of Emplacement in Christine de Pizan’s Cité des dames.” Seventh International Cultural Studies Symposium. Selves at Home, Selves in Exile: Stories of Emplacement and Displacement. Ege University, İzmir, Turkey, 9 May 2002. (refereed)

“A Medieval Gateway to Feminist Education: Christine de Pizan’s Subversive Revision of Boccaccio.” Culture & Texts: Interrelations & Subversions. Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 28 Mar 2002. (refereed)

“Louise Labé ve Şeref Hanım’da Lirik Kavramı” [‘The Concept of Lyric in Louise Labé and Şeref Hanım’]. 1st National Comparative Literature Symposium. Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey, 7 Dec 2001. (refereed)

“Shakespeare’s Sources: Is Richard II Fiction or History?” Patterns, Perceptions, Projections. Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 29 Mar 2001. (refereed)

round tables and panels

Panel respondent: “Manuscript Catalogues as Data for Research.” Text Encoding Initiative Conference and Members’ Meeting 2022. 15 Sep 2022. (refereed)

Roundtable discussant: “Fragments and Fragmentology.” 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, 10 May 2022. (refereed; held virtually)

Panel presenter: “Digital Humanities and Libraries.” European Summer University in Digital Humanities. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 12 Aug 2021. (invited; held virtually)

Roundtable discussant: “New Technologies and Renaissance Studies VII: Digital Collaborative Editing Best Practices: View from La Sfera.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Virtual 2021. 15 Apr 2021. (refereed; held virtually)

public lectures

(with P. White) “Exploring the Universal Library: Hernando Colón’s Book of Epitomes.” First Annual Joint Institute for Medieval Studies-Classics Research Seminar. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 9 Mar 2023. (invited)

“Understanding the Ripon Cathedral Fragments and Their Context.” A Special Kind of Stowaway: Piecing Together Our Fragmented Heritage. Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 4 Feb 2023.

“From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Trojan Narrative in Manuscripts.” Classical & Medieval Studies, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA, 7 Apr 2021. (invited, delivered virtually)

“In the Archives: Medieval Manuscripts from the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.” University of Missouri–Kansas City Medieval Studies Society Lecture. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, 17 Nov 2020. (invited, delivered virtually)

“Rethinking Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae [‘The History of the Kings of Britain’] in Light of Manuscript Evidence.” Medieval and Early Modern Seminar. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, 18 Sep 2020. (invited, delivered virtually)

“Classical Heritage in the Middle Ages: The Case of Troy.” Lunch & Learn. Department of Classics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, 18 Feb 2020. (invited)

“The Spanish Manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Collection: Contents and Provenance.” Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 Mar 2019.

“Publish or Perish 2.0: Open Access Publishing.” The Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse Inaugural Workshop: Trends and Challenges in Early Career Scholarship. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 Oct 2017.

“Troy in Medieval Imagination: Transmission of Texts and Dissemination of Manuscripts in Latin.” AMS forskermøder. Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 Sep 2016.

“The Story of Trojans in Early Medieval Manuscript Compilations.” Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, the Hague, the Netherlands, 28 Oct 2014.

“History and Legend in the Making in the Early Middle Ages.” Institute for Medieval Studies Medieval Group Seminars. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 28 Apr 2014.

“Depiction of the Past in a Late Eighth-Century Compilation: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, latin 5018 and latin 7906.” Institute for Medieval Studies Work-in-Progress Seminars. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 19 Feb 2014.

“A Late Medieval History Roll: MS 100 in the Brotherton Collection of Leeds University Library.” Leeds University Union Medieval Society Talks: The Medieval Manuscripts in the Special Collections of the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds – An Insight. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 1 Nov 2013.

“The Trojan Narrative in the Early Middle Ages: A Survey of the Manuscript Evidence.” Institute for Medieval Studies Work-in-Progress Seminars. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 6 Feb 2013.

“An Introduction to the Medieval Story of Troy: The Chronicles of Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius.” Institute for Medieval Studies Work-in-Progress Seminars. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 25 Apr 2012.

“Britanya’da Bizans İzleri: Ruthwell Haçının Gizemi” [‘Traces of Byzantium in Britain: The Mystery of the Ruthwell Cross’]. Department of Architecture Colloquium Series. İzmir Institute of Technology, İzmir, Turkey, 13 Nov 2003.