Academic Publications

• “Marie Durand (1711-1776): Vicarious Strategies in the Letters of a Huguenot Detainee”, Women in French Studies, Special Issue ‘Women in Confinement’, 2024, pp. 38-50.

• Entry on the memoirist Jacques Fontaine for the Literary Encyclopedia: https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15015/

•  “Location and language in the memoirs and correspondence of the Ourry family,” Huguenot Society Journal, vol. 36, 2023, pp. 43-58.                

• “Les « mémoires » huguenots au lendemain de la Révocation”, Revue d’Histoire du Protestantisme, vol. 9, no. 2, 2024, pp. 265-272.                                     

• Book review of Un “miroir” calviniste: Les Emblèmes, ou Devises chrestiennes de Georgette de Montenay et Pierre Woeiriot, 1567/1571 by Pascal Joudrier in the Sixteenth Century Journal, volume 53, issue 4, 2022, pp. 1113-1115. 

•  “ Tiered Tolerance: Protestants and the ‘Other’ after 1685” in: Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses: global perspectives in the Early Modern Age, ed. Alessandro Saggioro, Beatrice Tramontano, Ludovico Battista, Maria Fallica, Equinox Press, 2024, pp. 296-322.

 • “Missionaries, colonists, historians, nurses? The multifaceted roles of nuns working in eighteenth-century Montreal”, in: Women-Work Interfaces across the Eighteenth-century Francosphere, ed. Síofra Pierse, Bucknell University Press, 2025 [forthcoming].

Outreach:

•    Podcast commentary on Cyrano de Bergerac for the TORCH Post-Show Conversations series:  https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/torch-post-show-conversations-cyrano-de-bergerac/

•    ‘Years of the French: why the Huguenots fled to Ireland’,  RTÉ Brainstorm, https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0216/1281144-huguenots-ireland-france-religion-persecution-17th-century/

•    ‘Pious Positions in Huguenot Memoir’, Institute for Modern Languages Research Living Languages Blog, https://modernlanguagesresearch.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/01/26/pious-positions-in-huguenot-memoirs/

•    ‘Louis Ourry: A French Protestant in the English Army’, Hampshire Archives and Local Studies Blog, https://hampshirearchivesandlocalstudies.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/louis-ourry-a-french-protestant-in-the-english-army/

•    The Spring – the Hecatomb for Diane, Sonnets VI and VII, translations of Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s poetry for Stanford University’s Global Medieval Sourcebook, https://sourcebook.stanford.edu/author/th%C3%A9odore-agrippa-d%E2%80%99aubign%C3%A9 

Madame de Maintenon with her niece, c. 1688

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Conference Presentations

 

•  ‘Adapting to the New, Reconciling the Past: Memoir Writing as Therapeutic Practice for Early Modern Protestant Refugees,’ Society for the History of Emotions Conference, University of Adelaide, 30th November 2023

•  ‘Stereotypes and Self-Preservation: Examples from Refugee Memoirs,’  Stereotypes Revisted Symposium, Kyoto University, 5th October 2023



•  ‘Huguenot Refugee Experiences of Anglicanism: Perspectives from Ego-Documents,’ International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Sapienza and Tor Vergata University of Rome, 3rd July 2023

 

•  ‘Missionaries, colonists, historians, nurses? The multifaceted roles of nuns working in eighteenth-century Montreal,’ Women and Work across the 18th-Century Francophone Globe, University College, Dublin, 14th October 2022



•  ‘‘Vous tenez mon corps en prison, mais mon âme est en liberté’: Finding freedom in early modern Huguenot narratives of captivity,’ Society for French Studies Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 29th June 2022

 

•  ‘Writing Traumatic Events in Post-Revocation Huguenot Writing,’ Huguenot History and Culture Workshop, Oxford Town Hall/The Queen’s College, 21st June 2022. 

 

•  ‘Searching for Stability in Huguenot Refugee Narratives’, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, National Taiwan Normal University/Online, 16th June 2022

 

• «La correspondance comme lieu de résistance spirituelle : le cas de la huguenote Blanche Gamond», Colloque Femmes en correspondances (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Université de Montréal, 9th June 2022

 

•   ‘« Vous l’avez tiré de l’Écriture sainte »: Belief and intertextuality in post-Revocation Huguenot memoirs,’ Saints, Scriptures, and the Sacred Symposium, Newnham College, Cambridge, 28th March 2022



•   ‘ “Trop grand précheur pour être prophète”: The Mystic and the Mundane in Huguenot Accounts of the Galleys,’ Cambridge French Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge/Online, 20th May 2021

 

• ‘ “Une patience vrayement chrétienne”: Jean-François Bion’s Compensation for his Catholic Past,’ Early Modern French Seminar, Maison Française d’Oxford/Online, 13th May 2021

 

•   ‘Huguenot Women’s Writing and Self-Representation’, Studying Herstories: Women’s History Network International Women’s Day Student Conference, Online, 8th March 2021

 

• ‘“Illustrious among Refugees”: Huguenot Memoir and Social Standing in Exile’,’ Ideas of Community in the Early Modern World Conference, 1500-1700, Lincoln College,Oxford/Online, 7th December 2020. 

 

•   ‘”Distingués par leur piété”: The Social Value of Suffering in Huguenot Memoir,’ Oxford French Graduate Seminar, All Souls College Oxford/Online, 10th November 2020.

 

•   ‘Violence, Victims and Virtue in Huguenot Memoir,’ Society for French Historical Studies Conference/George Rudé Seminar, University of Auckland/Online, 27th July 2020.