Research / Events
Endless Dissolution of Spatial Geometry in Ciaran Carson’s Belfast Confetti
Paper to be presented at the 2024 ACIS Conference in Limerick, Ireland. This paper argues that the textual space of Carson’s collection Belfast Confetti exists as a crisis heterotopia, one dependent upon the poetics of space enacted internally through the language of the text and one that invites inclusion over the fear-driven exclusion that motivates deviation heterotopias.
Angel to Apparition: The Ghost of the House in the Poetry of Rosamund Marriot Watson
Participation in the Roundtable on “Reading Victorian Periodical Poetry” at the 2024 NAVSA conference in Waco, TX. Building on recent debates about the usefulness of Victorian poetry in periodical studies, I’ll illustrate how Victorian poetry, when read as serialized, reveals how the periodical offered space to slowly subvert subjugating beliefs about the role of wife.
Green Heron Bookshop Poetry Reading
Literary reading at The Green Heron Bookshop in San Marcos, TX.
Living Archive: Immanence through Compression in “Krapp’s Last Tape”
Paper presentation during the ACIS National Conference 2023 in San Jose, CA. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of the event and the plane of immanence, this paper explores how anxiety and the material world, illustrated through Krapp’s reworking of his past on tape, allows him to compress space, time and self into the event, in this case his impending death in relation to the totality of his life, states which cannot be divided.
Scrying a Sequence: Transnational Irish Poetry from the Southwest
Poetry presentation at the 44th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference in Albuquerque, NM.
