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“An Old Man Finally Dribbles, Same as a Fresh Calf”: McMurtry’s Masculine Metamorphosis from Streets of Laredo to Lonesome Dove.
Delivered at Lonesome Dove at 40: McMurtry, Mythmaking, and the Reimagining of the American Southwest, 14th and 15th November 2025, Southern Methodist University.
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“Maybe it Needs Our Bones in the Ground Before That Time Will Come”: Necropolitics, Native Americans, and the Nation in the 1950s American Western
Delivered at GRACLS Conference, 8th and 9th November 2025, University of Texas at Austin.
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“Fighting Back, Writing Back: Monologues of the Marginalised in Neo-Victorian Media”
Delivered at I19 Conference 2025, 2nd – 3rd May 2025, Virtual Conference.
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A Return to Convent-ion: Feminism, Faith, and the 50s in Modern Nun Media
Delivered at History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in Popular Culture, 27th and 28th March 2025, Virtual Conference.
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“Blonde Bimbo Girls”: Barbie’s Legacy on the Material Culture of Plastic Surgery
Delivered at History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in Popular Culture, 27th – 28th March 2025, Virtual Conference.
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State(s) of the Nation: Regionalism and the Recurrence of the Wagons West series
Delivered at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s 2025 Conference, 19th – 22nd February 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico. While critiques of Noel Bertram Gerson’s idealistic biographies of historic figures have long prevailed in academic circles, his historical fiction has so far evaded critical attention. Whether dismissed as a topic of enquiry due to assumptions about the value…
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Gendering the Ghost: The Spectacle of the Woman Spectre in Dickens’ Wider Works.
Delivered at I19 Conference 2024, 2nd – 3rd May 2024, Virtual Conference.
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Masculinity, #MeToo and Misleading Marketing: The Unmet Sexpectations of the American Gigolo Remake
Delivered at Like A Version: Adaptations, Reboots and Remakes in Popular Culture Symposium, 1st – 2nd December 2023, Virtual Conference.
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Inside Outsider/Outside Insider: Irish-American Homosociality in the Italian-American Narrative
Delivered at Italian American Studies Association Conference, 26th – 28th October 2023, University of Arkansas.
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The Godfather: A Legacy of Legacy
Delivered at The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series, 12th July 2023, Taormina, Sicily.