Past Presentations
6/3/2023
“Disowned: Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima and the
Drama of Class.” America and Ownership: Territory, Slavery, Jubilee. 69th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies, University of Rostock
2/22/2023
“Criminal Associations: Law, Causation, and Allan Pinkerton’s The Mollie Maguires and the Detectives.” The Newberry Seminar in American Literature. Newberry Library, Chicago.
6/17/2022
“Hyacinth’s Curse: Unsettling Performatives in Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima.” Unsettling Law. 24th Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Emory University School of Law.
12/4/2019
“‘Law for man, and law for thing’: Emerson and the Right to Property.” Invited Lecture, Department for English and American Studies, University of Osnabrück
9/13/2019
“Secret Societies, Deception, and Detection: Allan Pinkerton’s The Mollie Maguires and the Detectives.” Secrets. Biennial Conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies & 22nd International Colloquium of American Studies, Palacký University Olomouc
11/21/2018
“Spies, Secret Societies, Agents Provocateurs: Allan Pinkerton’s True Crime.” Surveillance and Social Order – Visibility, Invisibility, and the Blurring of Boundaries, Lecture Series, Free University Berlin
11/2/2018
“Allan Pinkerton’s The Mollie Maguires and the Thriller of Prevention.” The Genre of Genres: A Conference on Form, Format, and Cultural Formations, Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies, University of Lausanne
4/6/2017
“Describing Murder: Anna Katharine Green’s Criminal Procedure,” The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Cultures Workshop, University of Chicago
4/1/2017
“Foresight: O. W. Holmes Jr.’s Time Travels,” Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Stanford Law School
3/4/2017
“‘Shot! Murdered!’: Anna Katharine Green’s The Leavenworth Case and the Logics of Action,” Criminal America: Reading, Studying and Teaching American Crime Fiction, American Literature Association Symposium, Chicago
12/06/2016
“Writing Statistics: Jefferson, Biopolitics, and the Form of Notes on the State of Virginia.”American Cultures Working Group, University of Chicago
06/09/2016
“Milly’s Last Will and Testament: The Wings of the Dove and the Logics of Inheritance.” Commemorating Henry James / Commemoration in Henry James, 2016 International Henry James Conference, Brandeis University.
03/19/2016
“Melville’s Victorian Style: Reading Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.” Unsettling, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, State College, Pennsylvania
1/30/2015
“Utopian Calculations: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward.” Data Fictions: Naturalism, Narrative, and Numbers, Free University Berlin.
12/01/2014
“On Consequences: Temporalities of Law in American Literature.” Habilkreis, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.
10/23/2014
“Jefferson’s Statistics: The Method of Notes on the State of Virginia.” Invited lecture, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello.
6/18/2014
“On Consequences.” Interdisciplinary Forum, Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University Berlin.
12/13/2012
“Jefferson’s Statistics: Governmentality in the Notes on the State of Virginina.” Empires and Imagination in Early America and the Atlantic World, European Early American Studies Association Conference, University of Bayreuth.
6/28/2012
“Melville’s Victorian War Poetry.” Invited lecture, English Department, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
6/20/2011
“The Territorial Nature of War: Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War.” American Imagetexts, University of East Anglia.
1/6/2010
“Geography, Democracy, and the Aesthetics of Space in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia.” Time and Space, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 39th Annual Conference, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford.
6/28/2008
“Emerson and the Politics of the Land.“ “Divided We Stand / United We Fall” Perspectives on Inclusions and Exclusions in America, Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University Berlin.
3/8/2008
“Sherman’s Campaign: Barnard, Melville, and the Movements of War.” Traveling in War Zones, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University.
2/28/2008
“Emerson’s Territories: Landscape, Property, and the Politics of Antebellum America.” Formen des Lebens und Weisen des Wissens, Workshop of the Graduiertenkolleg “Lebensformen und Lebenswissen,” Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University.
3/30/2007
“Landscape and Territory in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers.” Wide Open Spaces, English Student Association Conference, CUNY Graduate Center.
3/29/2007
“Wastelands and Wilderness.” Respondent to Peter Galison, Life: The Saving Word, Conference of the Graduiertenkolleg “Lebensformen und Lebenswisen” and the Poetics and Theory Program, New York University.
11/13/2006
“The Poetics of Nation-Building: Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and the Ordinances.” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology.