Vorträge

“The Settler Colonial University and the Perception of Land as Property.” Eingeladener Vortrag für das Panel “(En)Closures: Spatial Confinement and Discursive Delineation in Early America.” Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien. Rostock. Juni 2023.

“Mischkultur als Metapher.” Eröffnungsworkshop für Who Does Not Love This Feeling, Theaterstück von Charlie Geitlinger und mit Lina Törpe. Leibniz Universität Hannover. April 2023.

“The Corporate University: Early American Educational Institutions.” Zwiejähliches Treffen des DFG Netzwerkes, Voices and Agencies: America and the Atlantic 1600-1865, “Archives and Theories.” Universität Duisburg-Essen. Juli 2022.

“Academia and Autobiographies Roundtable.” Festival Theaterformen, Interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftliche Tagung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Center for Atlantic and Global Studies der Leibniz Universität, Hannover. Juni 2019.

“Narrativen der Versklavung.“ Schwarzmarkt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen. Staatstheater Braunschweig. April 2018.

“’I Thought You Knew!’”: 1920s Student Revolt at Black Colleges and Universities.” Jahrestagung der American Studies Association. Montreal, Quebec. November 2023.

“Community Engagement as Academic Service.” Jahrestagung der National Women’s Studies Association. Baltimore, Maryland. Oktober 2023.

“Women’s Studies, Pregnant Academics, and the Climate of Change at US-American Universities of the 1970s.” Symposium des European Association for American Studies’ Women’s Network. Debrecen, Hungary und online. April 2023.

“Thinking Compost Instead of Waste: Comparisons of Nature and Capitalism in Progressive Era Literature.” Zweijährliche Tagung der European Association for American Studies. Madrid, Spain. April 2022.

“Reimagining the Lost Colony of Roanoke: Lydia Sigourney’s Anachronisms as a Tool for Reform.” Tagung der Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Baltimore, Maryland. November 2021.

“White Women's Pain: Anti-Black Sentiment and the Women's Christian Temperance Union's Appeals for Women's Enfranchisement.” Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien. Heidelberg. Juni 2021.

“Professorial Service as Community Service: An Alternative Historical Trajectory.” Zweijährliche Tagung der European Association for American Studies. Warsaw, Poland. Mai 2021.

“The Institutionalization of Women’s Studies and the Undercommons.” Viertes Symposium des European Association for American Studies Women’s Network. Warsaw, Poland. Mai 2021.

“Jubal Early in Space: The Settler Colonial Hauntings of Joss Whedon’s Firefly.” Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien. Hamburg, Germany. Juni 2019.

“The Technoscience of Women’s Temperance Writings.” Drittes Symposium des European Association for American Studies Women’s Network. Thessaloniki, Greece. April 2019.

“Practicing Utopia: Protection Rhetorics and the Mobilization of Support for ‘Homes’ in 1890s Chicago.” Jahrestagung der National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, USA. November 2018.

“Imagined Architecture: Self-Definition, Temperance, and Public Drinking in the Age of Social Darwinism.” Jahresttagung der National Women’s Studies Association. Baltimore, USA. November 2017.

“The Radical Margaret Fuller.” Zweijährliche Tagung der Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Bordeaux, France. Juli 2017.

“Toward a Transnational Feminist Methodology in the American Literature Survey Classroom.” Zweites Symposium des European Association for American Studies Women’s Network. Lausanne, Switzerland. März 2017.

“Bringing Black Temperance Home: Antebellum Anti-Alcohol Agitation, Race, and Abjection.” Jahrestagung der American Studies Association. Denver, USA. November 2016.

“Woman and Temperance: Women’s Auto/Biography as Nineteenth-Century Appeals to Citizenship.” Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien. Osnabrück, Germany. Mai 2016.

“Transnational Temperance: The American Temperance Society and European Anti-Alcohol Reform in the Nineteenth Century.” Zweijährliche Tagung der European Association for American Studies. Constanta, Romania. April 2016. 

“The American Self-Made Man Under Threat: Alcoholism, Liberal Individualism, Masculinity, and Prohibition.” Jahrestagung der Northeast Modern Language Association. Hartford, USA. März 2016.

“Rupturing Structure: Reading Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments as Affect Theory.” Jahrestagung der Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Montreal, Canada. Oktober 2014.

“Performing ‘Stable’ Identities: Standpoint Theory and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.” Jahrestagung der Midwest Modern Language Association. Milwaukee, USA. November 2013.

 “The Tricoteuse: Knitting in Public in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities.” Jahrestagung der Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Seattle, USA. Oktober 2012.