“Conceiving Monstrosities: Frankenstein, Sexuality and Place”, The Gothic, the Abject and the Supernatural: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 31 October-2 November 2019
“Is there anything new to say about Frankenstein?”, MA student conference, Winchester University, May 15, 2019
“Frankenstein and Hidden Sexualities”, Keynote, 1818-2018: The Silent Revolution: Of Fears, Follies and the Feminine, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, 5-6 November 2018.
“Frankenstein’s Monstrous Sexualities”, Keynote 14th International Gothic Association Conference, Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinarity, Multi-modal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester Metropolitan University, 31 July-3 August 2018.
“Monstrous Dissections: Race, Performance Art and the Bride of Frankenstein”, Keynote lecture, The Bicentenary conference on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, University of Venice, Cà Foscari, Italy, 21-22 February 2018
“Strange Worlds of Angela Carter”, Receiving/Perceiving Angela Carter, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 25 May 2017
“Mechanical Man and Bolts from the Blue”, Animating the Inanimate: Automation and Frankenstein, Watershed, Bristol, 22 April 2016
“Gothic Writing, Slavery and Radical Women in late Eighteenth-Century Bristol”, Regional History Centre, M Shed, 17 September 2015
“Impact Case Study: Raising Awareness of Prisoners through Writing”, ACE Faculty Research Away Day: Planning for the Future, UWE, Bristol, Watershed, May 2014
“A paroxysm of abnormal excitement: Dracula and the Castrating Doctors”, Bram Stoker Birthday Symposium, University of Hull, 8 November 2012.
“Bristol: Gothic City”, Keynote lecture, Writing the West conference, M Shed, Bristol, May 2012
“The Forbidden Room: Gender and Adaptation in Bluebeard”, Keynote lecture, Gothic and Genre conference, Swansea University, 11 December 2010
“Celebrating Women’s Writing”, Keynote lecture co-presented with Janet Todd, Celebrating Women’s Writing Conference, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, June 2010
“Brides of Frankenstein: From Text to Flesh”, plenary lecture, Third Gothic Congress, The Monster in Art and its Different Manifestations, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, March 2010.
“Bluebeard and the Bulwers”, Keynote lecture, Women and Gothic, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, January 2010
“Goddesses of Reason and their Daughters: Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wheeler, Mary Shelley and Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, Keynote lecture, co-presented with Joanna Goldsworthy, Mothers and Daughters, Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837, Annual Workshop, Senate House, University of London, April 2008
“The Bloody Chamber: Anatomising Female Gothic”, Keynote lecture, Female Gothic Conference, University of Glamorgan, July 2004
“Bloody Women”, Spaces of the Mind Conference, Keynote lecture, Centre for Romanticism and Enlightenment Studies, University of Glasgow, February 2004
“Menstrual Mythologies: Vampires, Stigmatics and the Cult of the Medusa”, Keynote lecture, Menstruation: Blood, Body, Brand Conference, Institute of Feminist Theory and Research, Medical Institute, University of Liverpool, January 2003
“His Prints we Read”: The Masonic Narratives of Punishment and Jacobitism in William Hogarth and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”, invited plenary, Fifth Annual International Conference, Freemasonry in Music and Literature, Canonbury Masonic Research Centre, November 2003
“Hogarth’s Masonic Iconography: The metaphors of Secrecy, Perjury and Punishment”, invited plenary, Representation in the Eighteenth-Century, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Mainz, Germany, June 2003
“Writing for their Lives: Writers on America’s Death Row”, keynote lecture, “USA: Land of the Free?” Amnesty International Conference, Bristol, April 1999
“Dracula at the Millennium: Is there a Future for the Undead?”, keynote lecture, Bram Stoker Summer School, Dublin, July 1999
“The Lunacy of Rosina Bulwer Lytton: the Secret Sodomy Scandal” Victorian Gothic Conference, invited plenary, University of East Anglia, Norwich, April 1998
CONFERENCE PAPERS (REFEREED)
“Paula Rego and the Pendle Witches”, Crones, Crime and the Gothic, Falmouth University, 10-11 June 2022.
With Charlotte Crofts, “Angela Carter’s Place-Making: Memorialising an Iconoclast?”, Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience, Chichester Center for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, 5 March 2022
“A glitch in The Matrix and other interruptions in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman”, Gothic Interruptions, 16th International Gothic Association, Trinity College, Dublin, 26-29 July 2022
“Angela Carter, Engineering Desire and The Matrix”, Nomadic texts and subjectivities: Metamorphic itineraries in/of Angela Carters’ works, University of Angers, France, 22-24 June 2022
“Transcending gender boundaries: cross-dressing female jazz musicians from Billy Tipton to Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998)”, Bordering Genders/Genres/Genera: Crossings, Writings, Cultures, Pescara University, Italy, 26 March 2021
“Poison and Pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in Fiction and Real Life”, Captivating Criminality, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions, International Crime Fiction Association, Pescara, Italy, 12-15 June 2019
“From the Holy Family to the Manson Family; Religion, Gender and the Cult”, International Gothic Association, Pueblo, Mexico, 2017
“Religious Painting, Atheism and Gender in the Work of Angela Carter”, Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 9 January 2017
“The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and Hybridity”, Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil Conference, University of Sheffield, July 2016
“Migrations of Catholic Horror and Bleeding Women”, PCA/ACA national conference, Seattle, March 2016
“Masons and the Military in the Fiction of Rudyard Kipling”, Kipling conference, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2015.
“Migrating Medical Horror”, International Gothic Association, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, July-August 2015.
“Mary Shelley and Bristol: ‘Workshop of filthy creation’”? War, Revolution and the Romantic Era in South West England, M Shed, Bristol, 28 February 2015
“The Gothicisation of World War I”, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, 18-20 December 2014
“Gothic Excesses: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, All that Gothic: Excess and Exuberance, University of Lodz, Poland, 9-11 October 2014
“‘The Worse Woman I ever heard of’: Representations of Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, Victorian Lives and Letters conference, University of Hertfordshire and Knebworth House, 10-11 July 2014
“Slavery, Emancipation and Mixed Race”, Dark Latitudes: Mapping Gothic Sites and Mediums, University of San Jose, Costa Rica, December 2013
“Digitising the Bride of Frankenstein: Hand-ling Patchwork Girl”, Gothic Technologies/Gothic Techniques, International Gothic Association Biennial Conference, University of Surrey, August 2013
“Zombies, Pride and Prejudice and Vampires: Brand and Genre”, Pride and Prejudice: Celebrating 200 Years Conference, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, June 2013
“Sexual Surgery and Deadly Orgasms in Dracula”, Bram Stoker Centenary Conference: Bram Stoker and Gothic Transformations, Hull, April 2012
“Hand-ling Patchwork Girl”, Contemporary Women’s Gothic, Contemporary Women’s Writing Association conference, University of Brighton, November 2011
“From Celluloid to Cellulite: Dissection, the Art of Strip-Tease and the Brides of Frankenstein”, Gothic Limits/Gothic Ltd, University of Heidelberg, Germany, International Gothic Conference, August 2011
“Skin-Stripping: Unveiling the Bride of Frankenstein”, Reporting from the Front Line A Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, UWE, Bristol, June 2011
“Bleeding Nuns, Menstruation and Vampires”, Bloodwork: The Politics of the Body 1500-1900, University of Maryland, USA, May 2011
“Death by Orgasm: Castration as Cure”, Damaging the Body: Victorian Psychiatry, Gender and Bodily Injury workshop, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, University of London, September 2010
“Shadow of the Vampire: From Nosferatu to Hitler”, Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects International Gothic Association conference, Lancaster University, July 2009
“Gothic Totalitarianism: Jews, Nazis and Shadow of the Vampire”, Uncanny Media, Utrecht University, Holland, August 2008
“Poisonous Pens: Murder and Madness in the Marriage of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, International Gothic Association conference, Aix-en-Provence, June 2007
“Death and the Mason”, First International Conference of Freemasonry, Edinburgh, May 2007
“Demonic Stigmatics”, International Gothic Association conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2005
“The Gothic Apron” International Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, Hope University, Liverpool, July, 2003
“Brides of Frankenstein: Romantic Conflict in the Making of the Woman Writer” British Association for Romantic Studies Conference on “Romantic Conflict”, University of Warwick, July 2003
“The Man of Honour Disgraced: Mistresses and Madness in the Marriage of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton” British Association for Victorian Studies, University of Hull, September 2002
“From Viceroy’s Daughter to Suffragette Prisoner to working-class Seamstress: The radical life and relations of Constance Lytton” for conference on auto/biography Olive Schreiner and Company: Radical lives and works, 1855-1920, Sociology Department, University of Manchester, June 2002
“The Brides of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley, L.E.L. and Rosina Bulwer Lytton” Conference of British Women Writers, University of Kansas, March 2001
“The Goddess of Reason and the Hyena in Petticoats: The Revolutionary Mothers Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Wheeler and their Revolting Daughters Mary Shelley and Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, for Women and Change: Utopias, New worlds, New Ages, Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830 Conference, University of Colorado, Denver, November 2000
“Edward’s Knebworth and Rosina’s “Naughtworth: Demolishing Bulwer-Lytton’s Ancestral Pile”, The Inaugural Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, University of Hertford, September 2000
“The Battle of the Books and Strange Stories: Living out the Fictions of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, Bulwer 2000, University of London and Knebworth House, Herts, July 2000
“Rebel Irish Mothers and Rebellious Daughters”, Xth International Congress of Enlightenment, Dublin, July 1999
“Death by Orgasm: From Masturbation to Clitoridectomy in Dracula“, International Fourth Biennual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 1999
“Colonial Legacies From Tipperary to Queensland: The Rebel Women of Edward Bulwer-Lytton” Irish-Australia Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, September 1998
“Her Right His Name: Writing for Revenge: Insanity, Scandal and Sodomy in the life of Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, Scenes of Writing 1750-1850”, Gregynog Hall, University of Wales, July 1998
“Vampirism and Menstruation”, Dracula ‘97, Los Angeles, USA, 1997
“Mary Shelley’s Corpse in the Corpus”, Mary Shelley Conference, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, September 1997
“Menstrual Taboo, The Hysteric and the New Woman”, International Gothic Association Conference, St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, July 1997
“The Corpse and the Corpus: Reviving Wollstonecraft in Frankenstein”, Romantic Generations Conference, Leeds University, July 1997
“Her Right His Name: The Lunacy and Libel of Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, Women, Sexuality and Gender, Corpus Christi College, organised by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, July 1996
“Monsters from the Margins: The Hideous Progenies of Inter-Textuality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, Xth David Nichol Smith Seminar, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 1996
“Thoughts on the Education of Monsters: In Her Mother’s Footsteps”, Mary Wollstonecraft Conference, Uddevala, Sweden, September 1995
“Mothering the Unthinkable: Incest, Matricide and Necromancy in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein“, International Congress of Enlightenment, Münster, Germany, July 1995
“The Hideous Progenies of Inter-Textuality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Incest, Matricide and Necromancy”, The Second International Gothic Conference, Sterling, July 1995
“The Pathology of a Parasite: Dracula and the Doctors”, World Congress of Dracula, Bucharest, Rumania, May 1995
“Masculinity, Masonry and Millenarianism: Oscar Wilde and the Rose-Croix”, Conference on “The End”, Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain, March 1993
“Secrecy and Sexuality: Masonic Misogyny and the Appropriation of the Feminine”, ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), University of East Anglia, September 1991
“Who Wears the Apron? Female Freemasonry and Masonic Misogyny,” VIII International Congress on the Enlightenment, Bristol, July 1991
“The Cultural Influence of Freemasonry,” the Provincial Grand Lodge of South Wales Eastern Division, Cardiff, South Wales, January 1990
“”Women’s Clubs and Female Freemasonry “, Demystifying the Female: She-Devils, Saints and Signifiers Conference, Senate House, London University, November 1990
“Secrecy and the Scriblerians,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis, USA, April 1990
“An Extravagant Proposal: Swift’s Hidden Text,” Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference, Belfast University, Belfast, March 1990
“An Enlightenment Panacea: A Cure for Mortality”, British Society of Eighteenth- Century Studies Conference, University of London, December 1990
“The Iconography of Satire in Hogarth and Swift,” Images of Society Conference, Magdalen College, University of Cambridge, September 1989
“Mary Shelley and Rosicrucian Romanticism,” Reviewing Romanticism Conference, King Alfred’s College, Winchester, March 1989
“The Neglected Fiction of Mary Shelley” for the Women’s Studies Group, 1558-1837, Senate House, University of London, London, July 1988
“The Rosicrucian Novel”, MLA (Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association), San Francisco, l987
“Science and the Supernatural in Godwin’s St Leon,” VII International Congress on Enlightenment, Budapest, 1987
“The Masonic Enlightenment: The Influence of Secret Societies in Eighteenth- Century Literature”, MLA (Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association, New York), 1986
“Burns and Freemasonry”, Aberdeen and the Enlightenment Conference, University of Aberdeen, 1986
“Hogarth’s Criminal Iconography”, British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of London, January, 1984
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS (OTHER) AND GUEST LECTURES
“Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution”, Revolutionary Histories – Caribbean Literature, Slavery and the Gothic, Aarhus University, Denmark. 25 February 2021
“My research Journey”, Women in Research Workshop, UWE, online, 11 November 2020.
‘Frankenstein: Directions New and Old, lecture for teachers and school children, Vincenza, Italy, 25 October 2018, part of Frankenreads: An International Celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
“Stitching together the Bride of Frankenstein”, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2017)
“Race, Surgery and the Bride of Frankenstein”, University of Bern, Switzerland, May 2017)
Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics: The Holy Family Album – the producer John Ellis in dialogue with Charlotte Crofts and Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 9 January 2017
Interviewing Janet Todd, “Celebrating the feminist scholarship of Professor Janet Todd”, Mansfield College, Oxford, 18 June 2016
“Death by Orgasm: Masturbation, Sexual Surgery and Dracula”, Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar, Plymouth University, 30 September 2015
“Death by Orgasm: Onanism, Sexual Punishment and Dracula”, Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar, UWE, Bristol, February 2015
“Branding the Gothic Genre: A Tale of Transgression”, Gothic Publishing symposium, Society of Young Publishers, Old Library, Oxford, 29 October 2012
“Slavery, Miscegenation and the Bride of Frankenstein: Novel, Film and Performance Art”, Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar, UWE, Bristol, October 2012
“Enslaving the Bride of Frankenstein”, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2012.
“Victorian Poisoners: Marriage and Madness”, Staff Research Seminar, Department of English, University of the West of England, Bristol, June 2008
“Offstage Theatrics”, Staging the Page, Wales and the West Romanticism conference University of Swansea, April 2008
Co-contributor, “Planning and Implementing an 18th-century Module in the 21st Century, Teaching the Eighteenth-Century, University of the West of England, Bristol, September 2007
“Writing for their Lives”, LifeLines Conference, Bristol, May 2007
“Powers of Horror: Demonic Stigmatics”, Staff Research Seminar, School of English and Drama, University of the West of England, Bristol, June 2006
Reading of “The Letters of Edward and Rosina” edited by the 2nd Earl of Lytton, Henry Lytton Cobbold and Marie Mulvey-Roberts performed by Lucy and Gerald Dickens, great-grandson of Charles Dickens, at Bulwer’s Bicentennial Conference, Knebworth House, May 2003
Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “Manuscript found in a Madhouse and Monos and Daimos”, Bulwer’s Bicentennial Conference, Knebworth House (invited), May 2003
“Freemasonry in the Art of William Hogarth” Senatores Lodge of Installed Masters, Blackpool (invited), January 2003
“Hogarth on the Square: Masonic Iconography” Centre for Research into Freemasonry, The Centre for Research into Freemasonry, University of Sheffield (invited), 2002
“The Revenge of the Mad Wife: Edward’s Knebworth and Rosina’s Naughtworth” for the 50th year anniversary celebrations of the University of Hertfordshire, Watford, (invited) January 2002
“Death by Orgasm: Menstruation, Masturbation and Sexual Surgery in Bram Stoker’s Dracula” Colorado College, Colorado Springs, November 2000
“Sexual Surgeries in Dracula”, University of Colorado, Denver, November 2000
“Revolutionary Mothers and Revolting Daughters: Anna Wheeler, Mary Wollstonecraft, Rosina Bulwer Lytton and Mary Shelley”, Women’ Studies Group 1500-1820, University of London, October 2000
“The Public and Private Prisons of Lady Constance Lytton”, Biography and Autobiography Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1998
“Rewriting the Mother: Frankenstein, Wollstonecraft and Abjection”, Monash University, October 1998
“The Dark Science; Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1998
“Militancy, Martyrdom or Masochism? The Public and Private Prisons of Constance Lytton”, Women’s Southwest History Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, May 1998
“Understanding Hogarth in a Masonic Context”, The Livingston Masonic Library, New York, USA, 1997
“The Corpse and the Corpus: Reviving Mary Wollstonecraft in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, Trinity University College, Carmarthen, December, 1996
“Dracula and the Doctors: Bad Blood, Menstrual Taboo and the New Woman”, Work-in-Progress Seminar, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, August 1996
“Rosina Bulwer Lytton: Rebel Writer”, The British Council, Barcelona, Spain, January 1996
“The Cadaverous Mothering Text: The Wollstonecraftian Genesis of Frankenstein”, Tarragona University, Spain, January 1996
“Monsters and Mothers: Birth, Death and the Nuclear Family in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, August 1996
“Incarcerating a Rebellious Wife: The Madness and Mayhem of Rosina Bulwer Lytton”, Sydney University, Australia, August 1996
“Bad Blood and Menstrual Taboo in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”,Macquarie University, Australia, August 1996
“Monstrous Mothers and the Intertextuality of Frankenstein’s Hideous Progeny” University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, August 1996
“Editing Women’s Writing, Subversive Women and For Her Own Good”, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, August 1996
“Dracula and the Doctors: Bad Blood, Menstrual Taboo and the New Woman”, University of Queensland, Australia, August 1996
“The Importance of Being a Freemason”, Semper Fidelis Lodge, St Annes on Sea, November, 1996
“Thoughts on the Education of Monsters: Shelley and Wollstonecraft”, University of Glamorgan, 1996
“Visit to Parchman State Penitentiary, Mississippi”, LifeLines Conference, University of London, November 1996
“Subversive Ways to Earn a Living”, Swindon Business Women’s Breakfast Speaker, 1995
“Subversive Women”, Swindon Festival of Literature, May 1995
“Parenting the Unthinkable: Hideous Progenies of Wollstonecraft, Godwin and Shelley”, Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837, University of London, 1995
“Bad Blood: Menstrual Taboo in Bram Stoker’s Dracula“, Sheffield Hallam University, June 1995
Lecture on Perspectives in the History of British Feminism and Controversies in the History of British Feminism, Her Write His Name, and Subversive Women, Christies, London, 1995
“In the Footsteps of Frankenstein”, Trinity University College, Carmarthen, November 1993
“Frankenstein’s Footsteps in Scandinavia: Mary Shelley’s Feminist Legacy”, Copenhagen University, Denmark, May 1993
“Visit to Oklahoma’s Death Row”, Lifelines Conference, George Cadbury Hall, Birmingham, UK, May 1992
“Mary Shelley and the Politics of Gender”, Stockholm University, Sweden, September 1992
“Frankenstein in Sweden”, Uppsala University, Sweden, September 1992
“The Arts of the Craft: The Cultural Legacy of Freemasonry”, Freemasons Hall, Newport, South Wales, 1991
“The Mason’s Apron: Genealogy and Gender”, All Dressed Up, Nineth Biennial Conference, Society of Geneologists, New Horticultural Hall, London, November 1991
“Mary Shelley: Alchemy and Androgeny”, Restoration to Reformation 1660-1832 British political, Literary, Intellectual and Social History, Seminar, All Souls, Oxford, February 199l
“Women and Pope during the Eighteenth Century”, Wroxton College of Fairleigh Dickinson University, September 1990
“Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Monstrosity and Misogyny”, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, August 1990
“Alchemy and Androgeny in Mary Shelley”, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, August 1990
“Science and Gender in Mary Shelley”, University of New Mexico, Los Crucis, USA, August 1990
“Gender and Closed Societies”, May 1990, UWE, Bristol
“The Alchemy of Androgeny and the Politics of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross: Mary Shelley and Bulwer-Lytton”, Victorian Society Seminar, University of Indianapolis, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, April 1990
“Masons, Maids and Masculinity: Freemasonry in 18th Century Literature and Art”, Second Jerard lecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA, April 1990
“Men Only: Female Freemasonry and Masonic Misogyny”, Fordham University, New York, USA, April 1990
“The Cultural Heritage of Freemasonry”, Hendre Lodge, Province of South Wales – Eastern Division, Freemasons Hall, Cardiff, 25 January 1990
“Frankenstein: Movie Monstrosities”, Dracula Society, London, October 1990
“The Neglected fiction of Mary Shelley”, for the Women’s Studies Group, 1558-1837, Senate House, University of London, London, July 1988
“Men and Women in the Nineteenth-Century Novel”, Hartford University, Summer School, Bristol Polytechnic, Bristol, July 1989
“Augustan Underworlds”, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, September 1988
“The Influence of Freemasonry on Art and Literature”, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, USA, September 1988
“Public and Private Faces of two Eighteenth-Century poets”, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA, September 1988
“The Influence of Freemasonry on aspects of Eighteenth-Century Literature”, Human Sciences Seminar, Bradford University, 1986
“Poets and Secret Societies”, College of Adult Education, Manchester, 1986
“The Arts of Freemasonry: Hogarth, Smart and Burns”, Literature and Cultural Studies Seminar, University of Manchester, 1986
“Women and Writing”, Wigan College of Technology, Wigan, 1986
“Eclecticism in Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno“, for Graduate Poetry Seminar, English Department, University of Manchester, 1980
“Masonic Influences on Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature”, for Graduate Seminar, English Department, University of Manchester, 1979.