Teaching Victorian Literature at Elizabeth Gaskell Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Anglia Ruskin University, 2023)
Liberating Texts: James Cone, James Baldwin and the Theological Work of Literary Criticism at Society for the Study of Theology (University of Warwick, 2023)
Literature and Liberation: Reading James Baldwin with James Cone at International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (University of Chester, 2022)
How Heathcliff came to Halifax: Emily Bronte at Law Hill at Locating the Brontes (University of Sheffield, 2019)
In God We Trust: The Contested Sacred Spaces of American Horror Film at Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, by Invitation (University of Sheffield, 2019)
Natural Theology and the Romantic Imagination in Patrick Bronte's Poetry at Ecology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (Lancaster University, 2019)
"Face to face she speaks with God": Charlotte Bronte and the Ruskinian Artist at Ruskin and his Contemporaries (Anglia Ruskin University, 2019)
"I wanna see how it ends": Buffy and the Contemporary Gothic Apocalypse at Buffy and the Bible (University of Sheffield, 2019)
'Becoming the Brontes: The Creativity and Craft of the Juvenilia' , by Invitation (Institute of English Studies, 2019)
‘The Victorian Texts that Never End’, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Death and the Sacred, 2019)
'Ghost Writing: Emily Bronte and Spectrality at A Peculiar Music: Emily Bronte Bicentenary Conference (York, 2018)
"Say Something Religious!": Contemporary Gothic and the Problem of Theological Language at Gothic Hybridities: International Gothic Association (Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018)
Contemporary Gothic and the Problem of Theological Language at Society for the Study of Theology (University of Nottingham, 2018)
Tainted Cities: Adam Nevill's Austerity Gothic at The Urban Weird (University of Hertfordshire, 2018)
'Observing Grief: A Symposium on Literature, Religion and the Work of Mourning', by Invitation (Lancaster University, 2017)
'Holy Ghosts: Spectres of the Sacred in Contemporary Gothic Fictions', by Invitation (Gothic Manchester Festival , 2015)
The Apocalyptic Imagination (Gladstone's Library, 2015)
'Much Ado About Nothing: Privation Theory and the Ontology of Evil in Peter Straub's Fiction', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Contemporary Gothic Study Day, Lancaster University, 2014)
'Christianity and the Words of Faith in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Poetry', by Invitation (Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews, 2012)
Event Roles
What Have Poems Got To Do With Freedom? Reading Literature with Black Liberation Theology at God, Ethnicity and Social Justice, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Lancaster Castle, 2023)
Dark Imaginings: Emily and Heathcliff at Bradford Literature Festival, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Bradford, 2023)
The Gothic Mode of Charlotte Bronte's Villette at Brontes in Brussels Lecture, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Online, 2022)
'In the dead of night I suddenly awoke': The Gothic Mode of Charlotte Bronte's Villette at Teesside University English Departmental Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Teesside University, 2021)
Apocalypse Not Quite Yet: Waiting for the End in Mid-Victorian Literature at Nineteenth-Century Studies Unit, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Anglia Ruskin University (online), 2020)
The Brontes' Evangelical Romanticism at Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, University of Huddersfield, 2020)
The Lives and Works of the Brontes at 91 Club, Saddleworth, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Oldham, 2019)
Panel discussion on Emily Bronte with Lily Cole, Bonnie Greer and Michael Stewart, by Invitation (RRU News, FACT Liverpool, 2018)
'Emily Bronte: Heretic or Mystic?', by Invitation (Bradford Literature Festival, 2018)
Examination Roles
University of Sheffield, PhD (2020)
Lancaster University, PhD (2020)
Teesside University, BA English Studies (2019)
Keele University, PhD (2018)
Lancaster University, PhD (2017)
University of St Andrews, PhD (2016)
Media Appearances
Contributor to special episode on the Emily Bronte Bicentenary, BBC Songs of Praise (Invited, July 2018)
Professional Body Memberships
International Gothic Association (Member, 2019 - present)
British Association for Victorian Studies (Member, 2017 - present)