Recent Invited Lectures & Talks

"The Geography of Gender: Katherine Anne Porter's Hemispheric Borderlands," Harvard University, Spring 2010.

"Where is American Literature?: U.S. Writing Along the U.S./Mexico Border," Huntington Library, August 15, 2009.

“Archiving the Americas,” Yale University, April 17, 2009.

"Digitizing the Americas," Keynote, Andrew Mellon Seminar, "Digital Archivalism, the Liberal Arts College, and the Humanities," Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, April 4, 2009.

“Provocations” and “Where is the Archive?,” Chair, Modern Language Association 
Annual Meeting, December 28, 2008.

“These Children of Our America: Childhood and Hemispheric Studies,” American
Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 2008.

"The Hemispheric South," University of Mississippi, September 18-19 2008.

“The Landscape of American Literary Studies,” Council on Library and Information Resources, September 2008.

“Future Direction for Research in the Arts and Humanities,” Enhancing Research Excellence, Iowa State University, March 2008.

“Afro-American and Latino Literary and Cultural Connections,” Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights,” University of Texas, Austin, March 2008.