3 Minute Thesis
I am driven to communicating the relevance of literature, language, and culture, in academia and to wider audiences across disciplines.
My effort earned me the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) First Prize Award, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools regional final.
Watch the TikTok version of my 3MT talk on the Brandeis University account!
3MT Presentation: Master-Servant Relations in Early Modern Drama
Recent Presentations
Paper: “Teaching Shakespeare and early modern colonialism through data visualization tools.” Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students Digital Symposium. Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART), December 4, 2023
Plenary session: “Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®): People’s Choice Competition and Roundtable Discussion”. Council of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting in San Francisco, December 10, 2022.
2022 3MT (Three Minute Thesis), Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools regional final. April 28, 2022.
2022 Panel organizer: “Servants, domestic service and other voices from the margins.”
Paper: “Apprentice spirits and noble slaves: the limits of service and slavery in Shakespeare’s The Tempest”.
American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting, June 15-18.
2021 Paper: “A Parasite for Any Humor: Jonson’s Mosca, Disguise, and Social Mobility.” Renaissance Society of America Virtual 2021 Conference, April 20.
2019 Paper: “Master-Servant Relations, the Body and its Passions in Early Modern Drama”
Panel: New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium, December 6. Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
2019 Panel organizer: “Poetics and Politics of Translation and Rewriting in Early Modern Literature in English.”
Paper: “The Woman, Courtier, and Poet in the Anachronisms of the Imagery of Mary Sidney’s Psalter.” Northeast Modern Language Association. 50th Anniversary Convention. Washington, DC, March 23.
2018 Lecture: “Francis Quarles’s Emblems, Devine and Moral; Together with Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man” (with Prof. William Flesch). Close Looking Series. Brandeis University, November 28.
2018 Paper: “Relics, Landscapes and Legends. Sacred Space and Typology in the Southwest of Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop.”
Displacement 2018. An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. The Graduate Center, CUNY, November 2.
2017 Paper: “An Actor in a Mist: Bosola, Melancholy and Metatheatricality in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.” UMass Graduate Interdisciplinary Renaissance Conference. October 28