“Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, and the Figure of the Artist"
16th Dublin International Symposium on Jonathan Swift
Dublin, Ireland
11/2017
“Global Literatures and Anglophone Fiction after Postmodernism”
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Annual Convention
The Catholic University of America
10/2016
“Love, Death, and Documents: Horror fiction and le mal d’archive”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
University of Connecticut
03/2016
“Haunted Reportage: Vollmann’s Ugly American and Journalistic Exception”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
University of Connecticut
03/2016
“Looking with Vollmann: Affect, Intention, Transformation”
PechaKucha presentation
Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, IL
01/2014
“Picturing William T. Vollmann’s Imperial"
Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
Boston, MA
05/2013
“Metamorphosis as Historiography: Ovid and Vollmann”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
Tufts University, MA
03/2013
“The Self-Study Committee: Assessing Boston University’s College of General Studies Program from the Inside Out”
Poster session (with Davida Pines and Kathleen Vandenberg)
American Association of Colleges and Universities
Network for Academic Renewal Conference: General Education and Assessment: A Sea Change in Student Learning
Boston, MA
02-03/2013
“Chasing the Abject with Coover and Vollmann"
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
St. John Fisher College, NY
03/2012
“Postmodern Sacrality and Paranoiac Epistemology in Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fiction”
American Literature Association Symposium: Mysterious America: Crime Fiction in
American Culture
Georgia Southern University, GA
09/2011
“Critical Hermeneutics, Weak Theology, and Autobiographical Prolepsis: William T.
Vollmann’s Moral Calculus and Symbolic History”
Modern Language Association Convention
Los Angeles, CA
01/2011
"Voodoo Child: Muldoon’s Hendrix (Slight Return)"
The Country of the Young: Interpretations of Youth and Childhood in Irish Culture: American
Conference for Irish Studies New England Regional Conference
Framingham State University, MA
11/2010
“Merrill’s Menagerie”
James Merrill Conference
Stonington, CT
08/2009
“Transtextuality and Discursive Conflict: Toward a Structural Stylistics of Museum
Exhibition”
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Biennial Conference
McGill University, Canada
07/2009
“‘Thou Western Athens’: Dickens and Trollope in Boston”
Boston and the New Atlantic World: Biennial Symbiosis Conference
06/2009
“Lies and Silence in Hemingway’s In Our Time”
Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
Boston, MA
05/2009
“At the Edge of the Wor(l)d: Susan Howe, Jean Mohr, María Negroni, and Thomas
Pynchon and the Limits of the Periphery”
Global Languages, Local Cultures: Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association
03/2009
“Ideology, Ontology, Ecology: Constructions and Functions of Place in William T.
Vollmann’s Seven Dreams”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
02/2009
“Paul Muldoon’s America: Murderous Colonies, Marvelous Countries”
Marvels and Monuments: American Conference for Irish Studies New England
Regional Conference
11/2008
“Aztec and Anarchist, Iroquois and Jesuit: Re-representation of American
Colonization in Thomas Pynchon and William T. Vollmann”
Arrivals and Departures: Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature
Association
California State University, Long Beach, CA
04/2008
“‘All your ages … lie at once’: Time, the Poetics of Space, and Berryman’s
Bradstreet”
Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Philological Association
Austin Peay State University, TN
02/2008
“The Question of Irish Modernism, or, James Joyce’s Postmodernity Re-Viewed”
Varieties of Irishness: Annual Conference of the International Association for the
Study of Irish Literatures
University College, Dublin, Ireland
07/2007
“‘For all that may yet be true’: Narrative Salvation in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason &
Dixon”
Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact: Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico
04/2007
“Medusae, Odalisques, and Intrigue: Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, David
Foster Wallace, Art-House Cinema, and the Changing Face of the Conspiracy
Novel”
Joint Conference of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture
Association
Boston, MA
04/2007
“‘Voice and aspect, copied to the life’: Authorial Elision and Narrative Innovation in
James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover”
International Conference on Narrative
03/2007
“‘This Machine Kills Fascists’: World War II Era Folk Music as Propaganda”
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Biennial Conference
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
07/2003
“James Merrill’s Supernatural Seconds”
Annual Washington Area Consortium Graduate Student Colloquium
George Washington University, DC
05/2003
“‘This yohou and that houmonymh’: Finnegans Wake and the Exile of Jonathan
Swift”
American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Pennsylvania State University at Abingdon, PA
11/2001
“Putting the Pieces Together: Thomas Kinsella’s Quest”
American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
10/1999