2o26
Roundtable Participant: “Making an argument for/about the Middle Ages,” with Jenny Adams, Sonja Drimmer, Sara Lipton, and Matthew Vernon, Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. Amherst, MA. March 19-21.
Presentation: “‘Be the serpent beneath’: Negotiating power and patriarchy in Reign and The Serpent Queen.” United Queendom: Legacies of Gendered Power in the Early Modern British World. Huntington Library. San Marino, CA. February 27-28.
2025
Seminar Participant: “Fortune’s Pageant: The Tragic Arcs of Eleanor of Gloucester and Margaret of Anjou,” for “Rethinking Fidelity in Adaptations of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. March 21-23.
Presentation: “Fandom quondam, fandom futurus: A Fan Studies Approach to Arthuriana.” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. Cambridge, MA. March 21-23.
2024
Presentation: “We Stan a Queen: (A)Historical queenship in Reign and The Great.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. March 22-24.
2022
Roundtable Participant: “Our Flag Means Death,” Fan Studies Network North America. Virtual Conference. October 14-16.
Panelist: “Global Medievalisms in Popular Culture,” 57th International Congress of Medieval Studies. Virtual Conference. May 9-14.
Seminar Co-Convenor: “Early Modern Fan Cultures,” with Emily Jones and Jessica McCall, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. April 6-9.
Plenary Roundtable Participant: “Medievalisms and Medieval Studies Today,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. 10-12 March.
2021
Roundtable Participant: “Academic Labor Justice in Medieval Studies,” with Julie Orlemanski, Boyda J. Johnstone, Lisa M.C. Weston, Abby Ang, Rafael Jaime, and Amy Conwell. 56th International Congress of Medieval Studies. Virtual Conference. May 10-15.
Seminar Participant: “Race-ing and Queering Queens” Seminar at Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Virtual. April 1-4.
2020
Panelist: “From the Enormous Dunghill to the Garishly Diverse: Shakespeare and Anti-Fandom,” with Johnathan Pope, Sophie Hanson, Ronan Hatfull, Taarini Mookherjee, and Edel Semple. Fan Studies Network North America, 2020 Meeting. 16 October.
Roundtable Participant: “Expanding the MedievALL: Inclusive programming beyond and off the Tenure Track,” with Anne Lester, Marie Richards, Alison Walker, Sarah Davis-Secord, and Laura Morreale. MAA CARA [Centers and Regional Associations] Annual Meeting. 29 March. YouTube Link.
Presentation: “La belle inconnue: Reinscribing the history of a forgotten effigy,” Medieval Academy of America Virtual Meeting. 27 March.
2019
Presentation: “Fandom quondam, fandom futurus: Arthuriana as transformative fanfiction.” Fan Cultures and the Premodern World. History Faculty, University of Oxford. July 5-6.
Presentation: “Beautiful, wilful, and dead before her time”: Reclaiming female characters in A Song of Ice and Fire and its fandom.” New England American Studies Association. Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA. June 8.
Presentation: “Our Shakespeare, Ourselves: Fannish Reading and the Problem of the Sonnets.” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 9-12.
Organizer & Participant: “Collaborative Pedagogy in Medieval Studies: A Scaffolded Workshop Series,” with Daniel Kline, Lauryn Mayer, Joy Ambler, Alex Mueller, and Myra Seaman. 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 9-12.
Presentation: “Watch the Queen Conquer: Reimagining Early Modern Queenship in the CW’s Reign.” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. April 17-20.
2018
Organizer and Panelist: “Whiteness in Medieval Studies 2.0: A Workshop,” with Geraldine Heng, Dorothy Kim, and Carla María Thomas, 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13.
Roundtable Participant: “Medievalism-A Manifesto,” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13.
Roundtable Participant: “Medievalism, Racism, and the Academy,” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13.
Presentation: “Decolonizing Popular Medievalism: The Case of Game of Thrones,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. March 1-3.
2017
Presentation: “La belle inconnue: Tomb effigies, mistaken identities, and the afterlives of the medieval dead.” 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 11-14.
Presentation: “‘Many straunge sygnes and tokyns’: The Emotional Arc of Thomas Malory’s Palomydes.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. January 5-8.
Presentation: “‘Mother of Dragons, Slayer of Lies’: Orientalism, Hagiography, and the Gendering of Power in Game of Thrones.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. January 5-8.
2016
Presentation: “‘Semper Eadem’: Portraiture and Iconography in Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth Duology.” In the Light of Gloriana Conference. London, UK. November 18-20.
Presentation: “‘Men go to battle, women wage war’: Gender Politics in The White Queen.” 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 12-15.
2015
Presentation: “The Fallen Angel of the House: Women and Monsters in Penny Dreadful.” Northeast Popular Culture Association. New London, NH. October 30-31.
Presentation: “‘All Men Must Die’: Medievalism, Feminism, and Realism in Game of Thrones.” 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 13-17.
Presentation: “Fannish Paratexts and their Early Modern Roots.” Popular Culture Association of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 1-4.
2014
Presentation: “‘All Men Must Die’: Medievalism, Feminism, and Realism in Game of Thrones.” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 16-19.
Seminar Participant: “Richard III, CSI, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe,” for “Creative/Critical Shakespeares” Seminar at Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. April 9-12.
2013
Presentation: “Iconography in Cinematic Depictions of Elizabeth I.” 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 9-12.
Organizer: “The Merchant of Venice: Pre-Texts, Texts, and After-Texts” and “Shakespeare and Material Culture,” 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-12.
Seminar Participant: “Twice-Told Tales: Approaches to Gender in Shakespeare’s Histories and Transformative Works,” for “Gender and Sexuality in Adaptations of Shakespeare” Seminar at Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Toronto, ON. March 28-30.
Presentation: “‘Of whom proud Rome hath boasted long’: Intertextual ‘Conversations’ in Early Modern England.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. March 21-24.
2012
Presentation: “The 1571 Mirror for Magistrates: A Study in Evolution.” Fame and Fortune: The Mirror for Magistrates 1559-1946. Oxford, UK. September 14-15.
Presentation: “Adultery, Witchcraft, and the Legacy of Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester.” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 10-13.
Organizer: “Macbeth: Pre-Texts, Text, and After-Texts” and “Performing Gender in Shakespeare.” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 10-13.
Presentation: “Exemplary Historiography: Margaret of Anjou as de casibus heroine,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. January 5-8.
2011
Presentation: “Bloodlines and Blood Spilt: Historical Retelling and the Rhetoric of Sovereignty in Henry VI, Parts II and III.” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 12-15.
2010
Presentation: “Romancing the Succession: Narrating Queens in the Fifteenth Century.” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 13-16.
Seminar Participant: “Processes of Historiography in Shakespeare’s 2 and 3 Henry VI,” for “What is a History Play” Seminar at Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 1-3.
2009
Conference Organizer: ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-c.1700, Christ Church, Oxford, UK, June 13. AHRC Funded conference.
Conference Organizer: Abundance and Austerity: English Graduate Conference, English Faculty, Oxford, UK, June 5.
Seminar Participant: “From Princess to Prophetess: Genre, Rhetoric, and Subversion in the First Tetralogy,” for “The 1590s Style” Seminar at Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. April 9-11.
Conference Organizer: Place and Space in Children’s Literature, Keble College, Oxford, UK, March 27-28.
Presentation: “‘A queen in jest?’: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy,” Role and Rule: History and Power on Stage. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, UK. February 6-8.
2007
Presentation: “Knowledge Enormous Makes a God of Me: Faustian Narratives in Later Romantic Poetry.” Retelling Tales Postgraduate Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland. May 19-20.
2006
Presentation: “Good Omens, Bad Angels: The Lucifer Figure in the Works of Neil Gaiman,” (dis)junctions 2006. University of California Riverside’s Thirteenth Annual Humanities Conference. April 4-6.
Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn 