Recent Invited Lectures & Talks

Keynote, Nordic Association of American Studies, Karlstadt University, Sweden, May 24, 2013.

New Directions in Studies of Kinship and Literature: Roundtable, Modern Language Association, Seattle, Jan 5-8, 2013.

Institute for Philosophical Research: "Racial Otherness Symposium," Hannover, Germany, October 17, 2012

"Going Global: Slavery, Modernity, and the Case of William Walker, President of Nicaragua," Indiana University Bloomington, February 21, 2012.

"Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons," MLA workshop panelist, Seattle, January 5, 2012.

"Where is American Literature?," John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, Oct 27, 2011.

“Childhood and Citizenship,” Respondent, American Studies Association, Baltimore, Oct 21, 2011.

"Gendering Hemispheric Studies," The USC Humanities Associates' Lectures in American Cultures, University of Southern California, October 7, 2011.

"Where is American Literature?," University of Buffalo (SUNY), Oct 4, 2011.

“Sex Abuse and the Study of Religion,” Yale University, September 23-4, 2011.

"Digital Americas/Digital Archives," NEH VECTORS Summer Institute: Digital Humanities and American Studies, University of Southern California, August 8, 2011.

“Flexible Networks: Transnational Area Studies,” 17th Humanities League Meeting (Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan), May 28, 2011.

Howard Crawford Endowed Lecture, “Gendering Hemispheric Studies: The Case of Loreta Velazquez,” Southwestern University, April 12, 2011.  

"Transnational Americas and the Literatures of the United States," Modern Language Association, January 2011.