Engagement
I am committed to fostering intellectual community and cultural awareness within the broader Syracuse community. My efforts have included public lectures before professional theater performances and PBS advance screenings, and coordinating a marathon reading of Frankenstein, in recognition of the novel’s 200th anniversary.
I gave a lecture entitled “Trailing Sherlock Holmes: The Adaptability of a Victorian Icon” for Syracuse Stage’s WEDS@1 series, prior to a performance of Ken Ludwig’s play Baskerville (May 25, 2016).
I lectured on “Jane Austen and Performance” for Syracuse Stage’s WEDS@1 series, prior to a production of Kate Hammill’s play Pride and Prejudice (March 27, 2019).
For WCNY (Syracuse’s PBS affiliate), I gave a lecture and answered questions in conjunction with a special advance screening of Andrew Davies’s Sanditon, a Jane Austen adaptation/continuation (January 8, 2020).
FRANKENREADS
On Halloween 2018, I coordinated Syracuse University’s participation in “Frankenreads,” an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Over the course of 10½ hours, sixty-three readers each assigned to read aloud for ten minutes, read the novel in its entirety to passersby (including Syracuse University mascot Otto the Orange!) in the lobby of the Schine Student Center on the Syracuse University campus. The lineup of readers included undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, Directors, and Deans. Covered by the Daily Orange and Citrus TV.
HELL’S PRINTING PRESS
In October 2020, I was interviewed by the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly for their blog, Hell’s Printing Press: the Blog of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly, about my research on Blake and viral media and about my new book Romantic Capabilities. See here.
