Recent Invited Lectures & Talks

“The Idea of American Literature,” Yale University, April 2009.

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