Invited Lectures and Symposia
“Reading Jane Eyre,” invited participant in panel discussion and author of program notes for Daniel Kramer’s My Jane, Chester Theatre Company, Chester, MA, July 2016.
“The Politics of Sympathy: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Gender in the Work of Millicent Garrett Fawcett,” invited participant in “The Age of Unnatural Disasters: an Interdisciplinary Working Group,” an American Association of Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) grant-funded symposium sponsored by Ellen Boucher, Amherst College, October 2015.
“Five College Digital Humanities and Women’s History,” invited participant in “Prospects for Digital Humanities and the Arts,” a colloquium sponsored by the Council for Library and Information Resources (CLIR) at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, April 2015.
“‘Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn?’ Romance, Fantasy, and Consumption in Popular Women’s Fiction and Film of the 1920s,” guest lecturer, Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London, October 2014.
“How Not to Be a Domestic Goddess: Feminist Responses to the Sexualization of Domesticity,” invited lecturer, Marlboro College, January 2010.
“The Iconography of the Shopgirl,” invited panelist for a special session of the Victorian Markets and Marketing Conference, VSAWC-VISAWUS, Vancouver, BC, October 2009.
“Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre,” invited speaker for the Kinsmen of the Shelf Reading Group, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA, September 2007.
“George Eliot and Emily Dickinson,” invited speaker for the Kinsmen of the Shelf Reading Group, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA, September and November 2005.
“Remapping English,” invited speaker for faculty panel, Five College Departments of English, Smith College, February 2004.
“Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading in Late Victorian England,” guest lecturer, Hampshire College Center for the Book Faculty Seminar, April 2002.
“The Fabric of Empire: Gender, Globalization and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century,” invited participant in a roundtable series on Gender, Globalization and European Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 2002.
“The Dangers of the Romance,” invited participant in a panel entitled “Writing and Reading the Popular in Nineteenth-Century England,” NEMLA, Hartford, CT, March 2001.
“Reading the Romance: Women and Popular Fiction,” guest lecturer, Hampshire College Women’s Center, March 2000.
Conference Presentations
“E. M. Hull’s The Sheik and the Desert Romance in Print and Visual Media,” part of a self-designed panel entitled “Scenes of Desire: Fantasy and Female Pleasure in Transatlantic Print Media and Silent Cinema,” Modernist Studies Association conference (MSA 18), Pasadena, CA, forthcoming November 2016.
“A Modern “Odd Woman”: Winifred Holtby’s Reformist Vision,” seminar paper for “Resistance and Reform: Modernist Women and Social Engagement,” organized by Deirdre Egan-Ryan and Julia Lisella, Modernist Studies Association conference (MSA 17), Boston, MA, October 2015.
“Imperialism, Patriotism, and Gender in the Work of Millicent Garrett Fawcett,” panel presentation for the NAVSA-BAVS-AVSA supernumerary conference on the Global and the Local, Venice, Italy, June 2013.
“The Garrett Sisters and Their Circle: The Politics of Reform,” panel presentation for the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference on Victorian Networks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2012.
“Between Women: Reforming Friendship in Winifred Holtby’s The Crowded Street,” panel presentation for the Modernist Studies Association’s conference on Structures of Innovation, Buffalo, NY, October 2011.
“Gender and the Politics of Happiness in the Life and Work of Millicent Garrett Fawcett,” panel presentation for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association’s conference on The Pursuit of Happiness, Skidmore College, April 2009.
“The Garrett Sisters and Their Circle: The Politics of Reform,” panel presentation for the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association’s conference on Politics and Propaganda, Florida International University, April 2008.
“The Garrett Sisters: Gender, Class, and the Politics of Reform,” panel presentation for the Victorians Institute Conference on Gender and Reform, Converse College, October 2006.
“The Fabric of Empire: Gender, Globalization and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century,” panel presentation for the Northeast Conference on British Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October 2005.
“The Sensational Death of the ‘Universal Provider’: The Whiteley Murder and the Late Victorian Department Store,” panel presentation for the Victorian Sensations Conference, British Association of Victorian Studies, Keele University, September 2004.
“Absorption, Distraction, and Mass Culture in Late Victorian and Edwardian England,” panel presentation for the Northeast Victorian Studies Association’s conference on Technologies and Media in the Nineteenth Century, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2003.
“Absorption and Distraction as Modes of Reading in Late Victorian and Edwardian England,” panel presentation for the Places of Exchange Conference, University of Glasgow, July 2002.
“The Futures of Feminism: Transgenerational Collaboration and Utopian Imagining,” panel presentation for the Third Wave Feminism International Conference, University of Exeter, July 2002.
“Figuring the Female Body: Labor, Desire, and the Victorian Department Store,” part of a self-designed panel entitled “‘They Also Serve’: Working Women and the Public Sphere, 1880-1930,” a special session at the MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, December 1999.
“‘Worldly Pleasures’: Censorship and the Early Cinema Audience in London, 1890-1917,” Cinema/Identity/History Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, July 1998.
“Imitation and Mimicry: Colonial Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century English India,” panel presentation, MMLA, Chicago, IL, November 1997.
“Popular Transgressions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of ‘Victoria Cross’,” Sixth Annual Conference on 18th & 19th C. British Women Writers, Davis, CA, March 1997.
“Remembering Rape as the Uncanny: Hysteria, Nostalgia, and Traumatic Memory in Last Year at Marienbad,” Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium, University of Wisconsin at Madison, March 1996.
Teaching Workshops
“Keeping Up With Your Reading,” speed reading and reading comprehension workshop for first-year students, Hampshire College, February 2016, October 2014, October 2013, February 2012.
“Talking About Teaching: Working with Students with Disabilities,” panel presentation, Center for Teaching and Learning, Hampshire College, February 2012.
“Talking About Teaching: The New Division I Writing Cumulative Skill,” panel presentation, Center for Teaching and Learning, Hampshire College, November 2010.
“Issues of Ethics and Authority in the Classroom,” panel presentation for the Workshop on Teaching at Chicago, sponsored by the Pew Foundation and the Graham School for General Studies, Chicago, IL, October 1998.