I am available as a guest speaker and workshop facilitator for a wide range of events, from library talks and book group discussions to conferences, classrooms and podcasts. I work with a variety of themes, including history, understanding and writing literature, and team building, always tailoring each session to the interests, experience level and size of the group.

As a historian and literary scholar, I bring depth and accuracy to my talks while keeping them accessible, engaging and conversational. Alongside lectures and discussions, I have extensive experience running workshops for both small and large groups. These sessions always include a creative, hands-on element to encourage participation and deeper understanding.

Talks and workshops can be delivered in English or German and are designed to be inclusive and flexible. If you are a library organiser, educator, book group, podcast host or organisation interested in a customised session, please get in touch to discuss formats, availability and rates.

If you are interested in working with me, please get in touch to discuss topics and availability.

Here’s what others have had to say about my talks:

“How do you introduce the academic concept of ‘intertextuality’ to the varied audience at an FOHL [Friends of Highgate Library] event? This was the challenge Alex Dold had set herself last Thursday evening, when she showed us what the concept means using the popular historical novels of Diana Gabaldon, Outlander. She first paid due tribute to the theoretical heavies associated with the term – Kristeva, who coined it, and de Saussure and Bakhtin’s theories of language – and swiftly moved on to explain that intertextuality exists in all fiction be it literary or popular: it is about the encounter between characters or the story in one text and cited characters or stories in other texts – Gabaldon’s volumes, Shakespeare’s plays, a 17^th century French fairy tale, or the real French Revolution, creating a ‘mosaic of quotations’.  Masterfully in charge of her material, Alex succeeded in showing that intertextuality is accessible to us all and can increase the pleasure and depth of reading, and a kind of complicity with authors”
Michele Cohen, Emeritus Professor at Richmond International University (October 2024)