Events & Appearances
Please contact individual venues for further details. Dates and times are subject to change. Additional dates and locations will be added as they are confirmed.
2023
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- "Sancho's London: The Dignity and Survival of Black Georgian Londoners"
- Online presentation & conversation
- 2:00pm GMT / 9:00am EST
- Westminster Abbey
- London, UK
- Tickets
Previous engagements
- October 18, 2023
- "Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History"
- The National Archives
- London, UK
- June 30 - July 1, 2023
- Panelist
- 30th Anniversary Lecture Series
- The Mount
- Lenox, MA
- May 17, 2023
- "Mr. and Mrs. Prince"
- Community Reads Program
- Hadley Public Library
- Hadley, MA
- April 27, 2023
- "Abijah Prince at Northfield: From Enslaved to Entrepreneur"
- Trinitarian Church
- Northfield, MA
- April 13, 2023
- Troy Lecture: Colson Whitehead
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Amherst, MA
- Apr 11, 2023
- "Publishing Your Second Book" for the Five Colleges
- Sponsored by UMass Press
- Amherst, MA
- Mar 29, 2023
- Panelist
- Roundtable for the Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies
- Queen Mary University, London
- Feb 21, 2023
- Women's History Month Speech
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
- Feb 8, 2023
- Distinguished Faculty Lecture
- "Forgotten Lives: What They Mean and Why They're Important"
- UMass Amherst
- Gretchen will receive the Chancellor's Medal
- Oct 1 - 29
- UK Book Tour
- Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History
- Sep 15
- Invited Speaker
- "Revisiting and Revising an Earlier Book in Light of New Scholarship"
- Columbia University's Faculty Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Sep 11
- Speaker at Jane Austen Society of North America, New England
- Sep 9
- Panel moderator on Oates as a biographer
- Stephen B. Oates Memorial Conference
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- September
- Talk with Friends of Chawton House (Jane Austen's House and Library)
- June 17, 2022
- "Sanditon, Bridgerton and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England"
- Regency Fiction Writers Conference
- June 10, 2022
- "Rethinking Bloomsbury and Race in the Wake of BLM"
- Plenary Address
- Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
- May 14, 2022
- "How is Biography Addressing Nature and Climate Change?"
- Panel Discussion (Moderator)
- Annual Biographers International Conference
- April 30, 2022
- Speaker
- Jane Austen Society of North America, St. Louis
- "Sanditon, Bridgerton, and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in 18th and 19th Century England"
- April 24, 2022
- Speaker
- Jane Austen Society of North America, North Carolina
- June 13, 2021
- Panelist
- 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
- June 19, 2021
- "Lucy & Abijah Prince"
- Documenting the Early History of Black Lives in the Connecticut River Valley
- July 8, 2021
- "Boyhood and India in The Secret Garden"
- Boyhood: Re-examining an Edwardian Obsession
- Watts Gallery
- July 11, 2021
- Speaker
- Jane Austen Society of North America
- May 27, 2021
- "Professor, Mother, Woman of Color"
- Springfield (MA) Women Leaders Annual Conference
- May 16, 2021
- Panel on Group Biography
- Annual BIO (Biographers International) Conference
- May 16, 2021
- Leading Roundtable on Writing 17th and 18th Century Biography
- Anual BIO (Biographers International) Conference
- April 27, 2021
- "The Black Woman and Victorian Studies"
- University of North Carolina
- April 13, 2021
- Panel: "Publishing Your Second Book"
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- March 22, 2021
- Consultant for "Mary Seacole"
- "Homeschool History" Podcast (UK)
- More details
- March 3, 2021
- "The Black Woman in Nineteenth-Century Studies"
- University of Leicester
- February 17, 2021
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- Hartford, CT
- February 8, 2021
- "Sanditon, Bridgerton, and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England"
- Jane Austen Society of North America (New York Metro Region)
- December 10, 2020
- Five Colleges Lecture Series
- "Sarah E. Farro: What a Recently-Discovered African American Novel Can Tell Us about British Victorian Novels"
- December 1, 2020
- Biographer's International Conference
- Panel and workshop for first-time biographers
- November 30, 2020
- Lecture to the Department of English
- "Sarah E. Farro: What a Recently-Discovered African American Novel Can Tell Us about British Victorian Novels"
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, England, UK
- November 25, 2020
- "What's New in Black British History" Conference
- Interview discussion Britain's Black Past
- October 30, 2020
- Lecture to the Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, England, UK
- October 23, 2020
- Black History Month lecture to the English Department
- "Sarah E. Farro: What a Recently-Discovered African American Novel Can Tell Us about British Victorian Novels"
- University of Exeter
- Exeter, England, UK
- October 15, 2020
- Speaker for the "Fail!" series @ MIT
- Cambridge, MA
- October 4, 2020
- BBC's "Private Passions," giving choices on favorite classical music
- More details
- July 27, 2020
- "David Copperfield and Iola Leroy"
- Plenary panel conversation with Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody, to open the annual Dickens Universe conference.
- July 21, 2020
- "Black Women and Victorian Studies"
- Keynote for the British Association for Victorian Studies annual conference.
- June 20, 2020
- "Bijah and Lucy Prince"
- Artists and Activists Conference
- Northfield, MA
- November 1-3, 2019
- Panel speaker at Vassar College, for 50th Anniversary of the Program in Africana Studies
- Poughkeepsie, NY
- September 25, 2019
- Lead speaker for panel in honor of Toni Morrison. Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Amherst, MA
- September 17, 2019
- Launch of my new edition of three Frances Hodgson Burnett novels with Central Park Conservancy
- New York, NY
- May 18, 2019
- Panel speaker at BIO Conference (Biographers International), Leon Levy Center for Biography
- New York, NY
- July 13, 2018
- Invited guest (no speaking role) at conference in honor of Cornel West, Dartmouth College
- Hanover, NH
- March 4, 2018
- "My Journey to Faith and Back," inaugural lecture on Race and Faith. St. Thomas Church
- Hanover, NH
- December 4, 2017
- Speaking at Modern Language Association
- New York, NY
- November 15, 2017
- "Mr. and Mrs. Prince," Greenfield Public Library
- Greenfield, MA
- October 14, 2017
- Speaking at Brattleboro Literary Festival
- Brattleboro, VT
- April 20, 2017
- Panel speaker at Columbia University Faculty Seminar on 18th Century Europe. "Rediscovering Race in 18th Century Studies"
- New York, NY
- April 4, 2017
- "Mr. and Mrs. Prince," Grace Church
- Amherst, MA
- March 16, 2017
- Keynote speaker at Black British History Symposium, University of Central
- Lancashire, UK