Conference Papers (with Timo Frühwirth and Massimiliano Carloni), DH2025, University of Lisbon, 14-18 July 2025. PowerPoint available here . Celebrity Studies Journal Conference 2024, University of Amsterdam, 1-3 July 2024 (Panel „Politics and Celebrity in an Era of Revolution and Reform, 1830-1870“). (with Timo Frühwirth and Simon Brenner), 2022 Digital Humanities Conference, Tokyo (online), 25-29 July 2022. (with Timo Frühwirth), XII International Association for Biography and Autobiography World Conference, University of Turku, 14-17 June 2022. (with Timo Frühwirth and Simon Brenner), Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities, University of Lausanne, 9-10 June 2022. (with Barbara Straumann), DACH Victorianists: An Online Workshop, 3 December 2021. XXII Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, University of Macau, China, 29 July-2 August 2019. International Persona Studies Conference, Newcastle University, 25 June 2019. BAVS 2018 Annual Conference “Victorian Patterns,“ University of Exeter, 30 August 2018. Third Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28-30 June 2016. Workshop “Autobiographisches Leben – Autobiographical Lives.“ Vienna Biography Research Network, University of Vienna, 6 November 2015. BAVS 2015 Conference “Victorian Age(s),“ Leeds Trinity University, 27-29 August 2015. Workshop “World Authors and Translators in the Circulation of Global Capital,“ Authors and the World Project, Lancaster University, 2-3 July 2015. Conference “Victorian and Edwardian Lives and Letters,“ University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 July 2014. Second Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, Royal Holloway University of London, 19-21 June 2014. See my conference report . International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Conference “Urban Cultures,” Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 22-26 July 2013. with Julia Lajta-Novak. Annual Conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English (AAUTE), Salzburg, Austria, 26-27 April 2013. Inter-Disciplinary.net 2nd Global Conference: “Celebrity: Exploring Critical Issues,” Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 March 2013. Conference “Reconfiguring Authorship,” Ghent, Belgium, 15-18 November 2012. Conference “Ireland and Popular Culture,” University of Reims, France, 19-20 October 2012. IASIL Conference “Conflict and Resolution in Irish Literatures,” University of Leuven, Belgium, 18-22 July 2011. 6th Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) Conference “Interfaces Between Irish and European Theatre,” University of Pécs, Hungary, 29-30 April 2011. IASIL Conference “Irish Literatures and Culture: Old and New Knowledges,” NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 26-30 July 2010. with Barbara Pfeifer. European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) Conference “Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges,” University of Vienna, 3-6 September 2009. IASIL Conference “Irish Literatures – World Perspectives,” University of Glasgow, Scotland, 27-31 July 2009. Conference “Century’s End: Re-Evaluating Literature, Art and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (1880-1914),” Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12-13 September 2008. Conference “Ireland and Popular Culture,” University of Reims, France, 19-20 October 2012. IASIL Conference “Conflict and Resolution in Irish Literatures,” University of Leuven, Belgium, 18-22 July 2011. 6th Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) Conference “Interfaces Between Irish and European Theatre,” University of Pécs, Hungary, 29-30 April 2011. IASIL Conference “Irish Literatures and Culture: Old and New Knowledges,” NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 26-30 July 2010. with Barbara Pfeifer. European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) Conference “Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges,” University of Vienna, 3-6 September 2009. IASIL Conference “Irish Literatures – World Perspectives,” University of Glasgow, Scotland, 27-31 July 2009. Conference “Century’s End: Re-Evaluating Literature, Art and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (1880-1914),” Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12-13 September 2008. Writing1900 Workshop “Authorship, Authority, and Activism”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 27-28 September 2024. Writing1900 Workshop “Literary Love Tourism in the Nineteenth Century”, University of Copenhagen, 23-25 May 2024. With Timo Frühwirth. Workshop “Recent Advances in Digital Philology” , University of Vienna, 15 December 2023. With Massimiliano Carloni, Daniel Elsner, Timo Frühwirth, Dimitra Grigoriou. Workshop “Life Narrative and the Digital 2023” , Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 26 September 2023.

International Conference „Transforming Victorian Orality“ , University of Regensburg, 13-15 July 2023. with Timo Frühwirth, „Biografieforschung und -vermittlung im digitalen Raum“ , Workshop Biography Research Network, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna, 5 May 2023. „Refugee Tales: An Interdisciplinary Workshop“ , University of Vienna, 20-21 May 2022. (with Timo Frühwirth), workshop Biography Research Network, Vienna City Library, 6 May 2022. (with Timo Frühwirth, Peter Andorfer and Daniel Stoxreiter), ACDH-CH Research Lunch, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 7 December 2021. Online, via Zoom. MA Seminar “The History and Theory of Celebrity“, English Department, University of Zurich, summer term 2021, 2 June 2021. Pre-recorded / online Q&A. (With Julia Lajta-Novak). Lecture Series “Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts“, English Department, University of Vienna, winter term 2020/21, 8 January 2021. Pre-recorded / online Q&A. Lecture Series “Celebrity & Memory: Victorian & Neo-Victorian Perspectives“, English Department, University of Vienna, winter term 2020/21, 15 October 2020. Pre-recorded / online Q&A. “ Art & Action: Literary Authorship, Politics, Celebrity Culture. ” Art & Action webinar series opening address, Zoom online event, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 3 July 2020. “Art and Action: Authorship, Celebrity, Politics.“ Digital Research Forum, Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, 7 April 2020. “Performing the Celebrity Self: Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde.“ Guest Lecture British Studies Faculty Seminar, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 27 September 2019. Recording available here . “Lionism, Home Stories, Birthday Books: The Politics and Poetics of Victorian Celebrity Culture.“ Guest Lecture English Seminar, University of Zurich, 10 April 2019. “An Artefact of Commodified Culture: Trading Oscar Wilde in the Fin-de-Siècle Viennese Literary Marketplace.“ AHRC Decadence and Translation Network Workshop “Publishing Decadence in Translation,“ Birkbeck/Senate House, University of London, 12 February 2019. Workshop “Celebrity Cultures,“ English Seminar, University of Zurich, 2 December 2017. Distinguished Lecture Series “Screening Pleasure,“ University of Vienna, 28 March 2017. Colloquium “Celebiography: Celebrity and Life-Writing in Dialogue,“ The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, 19 November 2016. Symposium “Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics,“ The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, 24 March 2015. Podcast available here . Distinguished Lecture Series “Cultures of Celebrity,“ University of Vienna, 15 October 2015. Symposium “The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli: Fame, Legacy, Representations,“ The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, 24 March 2015. Life-Writers of London Postgraduate and Early-Career Researcher Colloquium in conjunction with the Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London, 9 March 2015. Wednesday Winter Lecture, National Trust Hughenden Manor , High Wycombe, 21 January 2015. OCLW Seminar “The Author in the Popular Imagination: Authorship, Fame and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain,“ The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW), Wolfson College, 14 November 2014. Roundtables & Panel Discussions Seminar co-organised with Sylvia Mieszkowski and Barbara Straumann, ESSE Conference 2024 , University of Lausanne, 26-30 August 2024 (chair; speakers: Charlotte Boyce, Stephan Karschay, Meredith Malburne-Wade). Recorded panel discussion with Ruth Scobie, Simon Morgan, and Hannah Yelin, „TORCH Book at Lunchtime“ , The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 31 January 2024 (speaker). Roundtable discussion with Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Anna Spitzbart, Christian Wachter, and Florian Windhager, „Life Narrative and the Digital 2023: An Interdisciplinary Workshop and Conference“ , Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, 27 September 2023 (chair). Interview with Anna Pincus and David Herd, „Refugee Tales: An Interdisciplinary Workshop“ , University of Vienna, 20 May 2022. (chair, together with Sylvia Mieszkowski) “The Writers‘ Activism of PEN,“ online panel discussion with Peter D. McDonald, Rachel Potter, Laetitia Zecchini, Carles Torner, and Margie Orford. Art & Action webinar series, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 18 September 2020. (chair) “Auto/Biographie, Gender und Celebrity,“ with Julia Lajta-Novak. Workshop Biography Research Network, University of Vienna, 15-16 November 2019. (speaker/chair) with Mary Luckhurst and Matt Hargrave. International Persona Studies Conference, Newcastle University, Newcastle, 25-26 June 2019. (speaker) with Timo Frühwirth and Helmut Neundlinger. W.H. Auden Begegnungstag, W.H. Auden Memorial, Kirchstetten, Lower Austria, 15 June 2019. (speaker) “Oscar Wilde in Vienna,“ with Stefano Evangelista, Mary Luckhurst, and Dominic Janes. The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), 8 February 2019. (speaker) with Charlotte Boyce, Danielle Dove, and Patricia Pulham. BAVS 2018 Annual Conference “Victorian Patterns,“ University of Exeter, Exeter, 29-31 August 2018. (speaker) with Hermione Lee, Elisabeth Bronfen, Gesine Krüger, Svenja Goltermann. University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1 June 2018. (speaker) with P. David Marshall, Rachel Potter, and Kirsty Gunn. The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, 14 May 2018. (chair) with Stefano Evangelista, Laura Marcus, Claudia Olk, Jürgen Schlaeger. The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, 17 March 2018. (chair) with Hermione Lee, Philip Bullock, Ruth Scobie, Lindsay Shapero. The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, 16 November 2016. (chair)