Presentations
“The Public Sphere Transformed: Garrison’s Uncommon
Sense,” 1991 Annual Convention, California American Studies
Associations, San Jose, CA
“Empire of Tears,” 1993 Cooper Seminar, Oneonta, NY,“Sentimental
History: Cooper and Nationalism” 1993 Annual Convention, Canadian
Association of American Studies, Halifax, NS
“Walden as City Planning,” 1994 Annual Convention, California
American Studies Association, San Diego, CA
“How to Sell a Person: Abolition and Authorship,” 1994
Annual Convention, Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago
IL
“Everybody’s Faneuil Hall,” 1995 Annual Convention, Northeast
Modern Language Association, Boston, MA
“Listening to Frederick Douglass: A Critique of Judgment,”
1995 Annual Convention, Group for Early Modern Culture Studies,
Dallas, TX
“Abolition: Sign of History,” 1996 Annual
Convention: Society for the Study of Narrative Literature,
Columbus OH
“Racial Amalgamation and Public Space,” 1996 Annual Convention,
Group for Early Modern Culture Studies, Pittsburgh, PA
“‘Female Excitement’ and ‘Foreign Scoundrels’: Democracy
by Any Other Name, 1997 Annual Convention, American Studies
Association, Washington, DC (also panel organizer)
“Frederick Douglass’s Liberator: Identity Politics in
Black and White,” 1997 Annual Convention, Modern Language
Association, Toronto, ON
“Pleasure, Pain, and the Aesthetic Sense: The Signs of
Antislavery,’” 1998 Dartmouth Institute of American Studies,
Hanover, NH
“The Traffic in Oratory: Frederick Douglass and the Limits
of Citizenship,” 1999 Annual Convention, American Studies
Conference, Montreal, QB (also panel organizer)
“Frederick Douglass’s ‘Colored Newspaper’: Identity
Politics in Black and White,” Sept. 2000, Trinity College American
Studies Program and the Connecticut Historical Society
(honorarium)
“Antislavery and Social Pleasure: Civility in America,”
2001 Annual Convention, American Studies Association, Washington D.
C. (also panel organizer)
“New World Dandies,” 2002 Annual Convention, Modern Language
Association, New York, NY (also panel organizer)
“Civic Culture and Public Sex: Race Riots in Marie,” 2003
Annual Convention, American Studies Association, Hartford, Conn.
(also panel organizer)
“Abolition,” Keywords in American Studies Panel, 2003 Annual
Convention, Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA
“Miscegenation as Globalization: Lydia Maria Child’s
Appeal,” 2004 Annual Convention, American Studies Association,
Atlanta GA
“Tocqueville on Race,” 2005 United States-Europe Seminar, City
University of New York, New York, NY
“The Foreignness of Americanist Discourse: Colonial Racial
Politics in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,” 2006 Annual
Convention, American Studies Association, Oakland, CA
“Comparative Miscegenation Studies: The Exception of the
United States.” 2007 World Congress of International American
Studies Association, Lisbon, Portugal
“Creolization and Americanist Discourse: Las
Casas/Raynal/Jefferson,” 2008 Annual Convention, American Studies
Association, Albuquerque, NM
Roundtable, “Circulations,” 2008 Annual Convention of the Metro New
York American Studies Association, New York, NY