Presentations

“The Settler Colonial University and the Perception of Land as Property.” Invited presentation for panel “(En)Closures: Spatial Confinement and Discursive Delineation in Early America.” German Association for American Studies’ Annual Conference. Rostock, Germany. June 2023.

“Companion Planting as Metaphor.” Opening workshop for Who Does Not Love This Feeling, performing arts piece by Charlie Geitlinger, with Lina Törpe. Leibniz Universität Hannover. April 2023.

“The Corporate University: Early American Educational Institutions.” DFG Network, Voices and Agencies: America and the Atlantic 1600-1865 Biannual Meeting, “Archives and Theories.” Universität Duisburg-Essen. July 2022.

“Academia and Autobiographies Roundtable.” Festival Theaterformen, Interdisciplinary Academic Conference in collaboration with the Leibniz University’s Center for Atlantic and Global Studies. Hannover, Germany. June 2019.

“Narratives of Enslavement.“ Schwarzmarkt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen (Black Market for Useful and Unuseful Knowledge). Staatstheater Braunschweig. April 2018.

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

“Community Engagement as Academic Service.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Baltimore, Maryland. October 2023.

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

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

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

“White Women's Pain: Anti-Black Sentiment and the Women's Christian Temperance Union's Appeals for Women's Enfranchisement.” German Association for American Studies Annual Conference. Heidelberg, Germany. June 2021.

“Professorial Service as Community Service: An Alternative Historical Trajectory.” European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference. Warsaw, Poland. May 2021.

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

“Jubal Early in Space: The Settler Colonial Hauntings of Joss Whedon’s Firefly.” German Association for American Studies Annual Conference. Hamburg, Germany. June 2019.

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

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

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

“The Radical Margaret Fuller.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Biennial Conference. Bordeaux, France. July 2017.

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

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

“Woman and Temperance: Women’s Auto/Biography as Nineteenth-Century Appeals to Citizenship.” German Association for American Studies Annual Conference. Osnabrück, Germany. May 2016.

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

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

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

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

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