2024. From Pleasure to Plantains: Masturbation and female sexual agency in eighteenth-century medicine. Social History Society Annual Conference, Durham (forthcoming)
2024.‘An outrage on Nature’: Medical resistance to masturbatory therapies in Georgian England. Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference, Glasgow (forthcoming)
2024. The Lady and the Plantain: masturbation, rationality, and female sexual agency in Georgian medical discourse. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 53rd Annual Conference, Oxford
2023. Taking matters into her own hands: Women and masturbation in eighteenth-century England. Women’s History Network Seminar Series, online.
2023. ‘A sudden and resolute stand’: sentiment and salvation for the female onanist. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 52nd Annual Conference, Oxford
2022. ‘A salutary crisis – if I may so express myself’: decency, female pleasure and masturbatory therapies in eighteenth- century medical literature. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 51st Annual Conference, Oxford
2021. ‘Supplying the room of a Man’s Embraces’: Onania, John Marten and the masturbating woman. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 50th Annual Conference, Oxford
2019. ‘I cou’d not pass by setting a Stigma upon such Creatures’: unchaste and unstable femininities in early eighteenth-century anti-masturbation discourse. International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 15th International Congress on the Enlightenment, Edinburgh
2019. 3 Minute Thesis: ‘Going solo: The threat of the eighteenth-century masturbating woman.” Live public presentation, Newcastle
2018. ‘An evil and pernicious Practice’: Representations of the female masturbator Public talk at the Being Human Festival of the Humanities, Newcastle
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