Fiona O'Brien

MA, University of Toronto

BA, University of Toronto

•  “The Nature of Things: Female Reproductive "Crime" in the Bridewell,” Sixteenth-Century Society Conference [Forthcoming, October 2026] 
• “Juniper Berries and Brownian Motion: Plants, Chaos, and a Fractaled History of Pregnancy in the Brigham Family Receipt Book,” Written in the Waves Journal, vol. 1 “Sailing” [April 2026] 
• “To ‘bring forth yong:’Reproductive Healthcare as the Catalyst for the Natalist English Colonial Project,” The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI), Rutgers University [April 2026] 
• “‘Words are but the shell:’ Can Plants Help Us, Historically?” Nursing Clio [February 2025] 
• “‘All Manner of Fluxes:’ Plants and the Natalist Conquest of British Colonial America,” The Recipes Project, Special Issue [November 2025]   
• “The Nature of Things: Sixteenth-Century Social Perceptions of Natal Death from the Bridewell Hospital,” Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library Chicago [January 2026] 
• "Haudenosaunee and Galenic Medical Botany for Reproductive Health as the Catalyst for the Natalist English Colonial Project,” NYSAEH Annual Conference, University of Albany [October 2025] 
• Forthcoming: “Qui Numquam Fallit, Probatum Est: A Comparison of Fertility and Birth Rituals in the Late Middle Ages to Remedy in the Early Modern Period,” Graduate Student Voices Conference, Boston College [April 2025]
• “Our Groans to God: The Synching of Sensory and Emotional Experience During the Early Modern Birth Process,” Fifteenth Annual CUNY Graduate Center Conference, City University of New York [March 2025]
• “Her ‘Frigid Herbs’: Women’s Identities and Reproductive Health Networks in Early Modern English Receipt Books,” Humanist Principles in Early Modern Europe, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies & University of Toronto [March 2023]