Professional Activities

Conference Presentations

Relational Pedagogy in D.H. Lawrence’s Croydon Sketches. 15th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, July 2022. (Taos, NM)

“Curious Props”: Functions of the Soliloquy in The Waves. Woolf and Ethics: 31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2022. (Beaumont, TX; online)

“The Greatest of These: Conceptual Functions of Love in Walcott, Proust, Hardt/Negri, Brooks, hooks, and Clifton.” AfterAffects: New Methods in Affect Theory (A Virtual Symposium), May 2022. (Chicago, IL; online)

“An Unwritten Life.” Profession and Performance: 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2021. (Vermillion, SD; online)

Exploring Pedagogical Problems in D.H. Lawrence’s The White Peacock (Panel title: Modernism, Pedagogy, and Structures of Relationality). Panel co-organizer. Upheaval and Reconstruction: Modernist Studies Association Conference, October 2019. (Toronto, ON)

Meeting Needs, Making Room: Investigations of Woolfian Love. Woolf and Social Justice: The 29th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2019. (Cincinnati, OH)

Essaying Affects: D.H. Lawrence’s Apocalypse as Pedagogical Criticism. Staging the Space Between: The Space Between Society’s Annual Conference, May 2019. (Brookings, SD)

Grandeur at the End: On the Sublimity of Wallace Stevens’s Old Philosopher. John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, October 2018. (Vermillion SD)

Training Tastes, Essaying Affects: The Pedagogic Criticism of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Graphic Modernisms: Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 2018. (Columbus, OH)

Woolfian Love in Aggregate: Feminist—Queer—Posthuman. Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace: 28th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2018. (Canterbury, UK)

Tentacles of Tenderness: Maternity, Feminism, and the Philosophical Pessimism of Olive Moore (Panel title: Modernism and Maternity: Medicine, Technology, Philosophy). Panel organizer. The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2018. (Louisville, KY)

The Problem of Philosophy in G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and Virginia Woolf. The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 2017. (Louisville, KY)

Silence, Sleep, Shadow: Figures of Late Sublimity in Wallace Stevens’s Late Poems. Culture Industries: Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 2016. (Pasadena, CA)

Kindling Taste, or How I Went Paperless and (Finally) Became a Common Reader. 131st Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 2016. (Austin, TX)

Intimations of Cosmic Indifference in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Olive Moore’s Spleen. Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries: 25th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2015. (Bloomsburg, PA)

A Good Deal of Looking Back: Passionate Aging in T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens. T.S. Eliot Society 2014 Annual Meeting, September 2014. (St. Louis, MO)

Virginia Woolf’s Late Philosophy of Worlds and the Anthropology of Saba Mahmood. Woolf Writing the World: 24th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2014. (Chicago, IL)

Sensibility and Parochiality: Reading Woolf with Spivak and Mahmood. Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary Woolf: 22nd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2012. (Saskatoon, SK)

The Sense of the Middest in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. 20th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 2009. (Boston, MA)

Transgressive Simulation: The Mobility of Violent Reality in Extreme Championship Wrestling. Northeast Modern Language Association 40th Annual Convention, February 2009. (Boston, MA)

The Interplay of Fate and Chance: The Metafiction of David Mitchell. The Louisville Conference on Language and Literature Since 1900, February 2009. (Louisville, KY)

Public Lectures

Finding Love in Literary Studies. Fall 2021 USD Department of English Colloquium Series, October 2021. (Vermillion, SD)

Multiplicity, Soliloquy, and Attachment in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. Third International Webinar, Department of Studies in English Language and Literature, Institute of Higher Education, ACECR, May 2021. (Khouzestan, I.R. Iran)

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: Form, Critique, Life. Fall 2018 USD Department of English Colloquium Series, October 2018. (Vermillion, SD) 

Early Lawrence: Teacher, Poet, Novelist. English at the Public Lecture Series, March 2018. (Brookings, SD)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Theory. Fall 2017 USD Department of English Colloquium Series, December 2017. (Vermillion, SD)

Learning to Love, Finally, in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. The USD Humanities Research Forum 2016–2017, April 2017. (Vermillion, SD)

“I will continue—but can I?”: British Modernism Between the Wars. Fall 2016 USD Department of English Colloquium Series, October 2016. (Vermillion, SD)

Encounters with an Otherwise: D.H. Lawrence and the Problem of Love. URI English Faculty/Fellows Presentations Series, January 2012. (Kingston, RI)

Seminars and Seminar Papers

Seminar: Is Modernism Relatable? Paper: Resituating the Relatable: Student Judgment, Recognition, and Modernist Criticism. Upheaval and Reconstruction: Modernist Studies Association Conference, October 2019. (Toronto, ON)

Seminar: Modernism and Education. Co-organizer. Graphic Modernisms: Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 2018. (Columbus, OH)

Seminar: “Cruel Modernism.” Paper: Tracing Cruelty and Pedagogy through Joyce, Woolf, and Lawrence. Culture Industries: Modernist Studies Associations, November 2016. (Pasadena, CA)

Seminar: Reading Religiously. Paper: Une manière amoureuse: Love and Devotion in the Reading Ideals/Practices of D.H. Lawrence, Gilles Deleuze, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, March 2016. (Cambridge, MA)

Seminar: Age and Generation. Paper: This Sadness Without Cause: Negotiating Aging in Late Wallace Stevens. Confluence and Division: Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 2014. (Pittsburgh, PA)

Seminar: Positioning Love and Affect. Paper: Little Wanderings: Lawrence, Deleuze, and Compositional Love. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 2013. (Toronto, ON)

Seminar: Accidents in Literature and Theory. Paper: Readying for Encounters: Loving- and Thinking-Otherwise in Lawrence and Deleuze. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, March 2012. (Providence, RI)

Seminar: Modernism and Religion. Paper: Groundwork for a Future Project: Foucault, Modernism, and the Study of Religion. Structures of Innovation: Modernist Studies Association Conference, October 2011. (Buffalo, NY)

Seminar: Modernism and Death. Paper: Scenes of Death and Scenes of Reading in Virginia Woolf’s The Common Reader. Modernist Networks: Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 2010. (Victoria, BC)