“Sagoyawatha and the Contented Mind” Native American and
Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Minneapolis, May 21-23,
2009.
Chair. “Gaming, Gambling, and Wagering in the Atlantic
World.” Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists
(SEA). Bermuda. Mar 6, 2009.
Chair and Respondent. “Mediating Gender: What Happens When
Newspaper Media Look at Women, 1829-1975.” Annual Conference of the
Organization of American
Historians (OAH). Mar 28, 2008.
“Race and Nation for the Haudenosaunee in the Age of Handsome Lake”
Prophetstown
Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies. Purdue
University. April 4,
2008.
“Red Jacket’s Role Playing and Literary Style.” American Society
for Ethnohistory. Tulsa, OK. November 8, 2007.
“Red Jacket, Tradition, and Public Relations after 1816.”
Annual Iroquois Conference.
Rensellaerville, NY. Oct. 7, 2007.
“Susanna Rowson and Dramatic Play.” Charlotte Temple and Beyond: a
Roundtable on Rowson Studies. Society of Early Americanists.
College of William and Mary. June 7, 2007.
“Nineteenth Century War Poetry: Whitman, Lowell, Dickinson” A
Presentation for the St. John’s Honors Society, Sigma Tau Delta.
February 21, 2007.
“The Case for Red Jacket.” Native American Literature Society
panel. MLA, December
30, 2005.
“Frederick Douglass’s Hustle” Douglass-Melville Conference. New
Bedford, MA May 23, 2005.
Invitational Lecture: “Is It Oratory?: Women’s Public Speech before
1848.” Conference of the American Antiquarian Society. June 11,
2005.
Invitational Lecture: “The “Failure” of Transcendentalism?” Walden
Conference. Roger
Williams University, Bristol, RI. February 25, 2004.
“The Old Truths: Frederick Douglass and the Kansas-Nebraska
Debates.” Sequicentennial Abraham Lincoln Conference. Roger
Williams University, Bristol, RI. June 26, 2004.
“‘When We Open Our Leaves’: the School Journals of Mary Ware
Allen.” Margaret Fuller Society Panel. Modern Language Association
(MLA) San Diego, CA December 2003.
“Dickinson’s Apocalypses” North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism
(NASSR). Fordham University, New York, New York. August 3,
2003.
“Frederick Douglass Lied.” American Literature Association (ALA).
Cambridge, MA. May 22, 2003.
Invitational Lecture: “Emerson and the Flux of Social Identity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bicentennial Conference. CUNY Graduate Center NY, NY. April 29,
2003.
Chair and organizer. “Punishment and Feeling in the Memoirs of
Stephen Burroughs.” Paper on “The Burronite’s Hay-Mow Sermon.”
Society of Early Americanists (SEA). Providence, RI. April 12,
2003.
“Women’s Oratorical Education, 1815-1835” Invited Paper. New York
Americanist Group (NYAG) December 7, 2002.
“U.S. Women’s Oratory Before 1848.” American Studies Association
(ASA).
Houston, TX November 15, 2002.
“Laughter and Loss: The Devolution of James Russell Lowell’s
Birdofredum Sawin” Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA).
Toronto, Canada. April 11, 2002.
“Caleb Bingham and The Lecturess.” Conference of College
Composition and Communication (CCCC). Chicago, IL. March 21,
2002
Invitational Lecture: “‘He Made Us Laugh Some’: Frederick
Douglass’s Humor” Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI. February
7, 2002.
“A Species of Language: Frederick Douglass’s Republican Rhetoric.”
American Studies
Association (ASA). Washington, DC. November 11, 2001.
“A New Leviathan: Cooper’s View of 1757” Panel on the French
and Indian War.Conference of the Society of Early Americanists
(SEA). Norfolk, VA. March 7, 2001
“‘We Are No More—We Are Forever’”: Little Tree and the Klan.” Panel
on The Lost Cause. Twentieth-Century Conference.
University of Louisville, KY. February 23, 2001.
“Cato and American Evangelism.” Panel on Rome and the
American Enlightenment.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference (ASECS). University of
Notre Dame. April 2, 1998.
Panelist on American Subcultures. Twentieth-Century Conference.
University of Louisville, KY. February 28, 1998.
“Grateful Dead and the Sound of Enthusiasm.” Southwest Popular
Culture Association.
Lubbock, Texas. January 30, 1998.
“Emerson and Collective Identity.” Thoreau Society Panel. MLA
Convention. Toronto, Canada. December 30, 1997.
“Voices of Instruction: Oratory and Discipline in Cooper’s The Last
of the Mohicans and The Redskins.” James Fenimore Cooper: His
Country and His Art: 1997 James Fenimore Cooper Symposium. Oneonta,
NY. July 11, 1997.
“Battles of Rhetoric: Oratory and Identity in Cooper’s The Last of
the Mohicans.”
Cooper Society Panel. American Literature Association (ALA).
Baltimore, MD May 24,
1997.
Respondent. “The International Dimensions of the Harlem
Renaissance.” Remapping the
Harlem Renaissance, SUNY Westbury. October 25, 1996.
“Emerson and the Transformation of the Postmillennial Citizen.”
Undisciplined: A Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center. April 22,
1996.
“Passing f/or Queer? The Uranian Aesthetics of Wallace
Thurman.” National Association of African-American Scholars,
Houston. February 15, 1996.
“To Do What’s Right: The Anti-Liberal Rhetoric of Frederick
Douglass.” MLA Convention, Chicago. December 28, 1995.
Panel introduction and organizer. “Oratory and
Nineteenth-Century American Fiction.” MLA Convention,
Toronto. December 29, 1993.
“Cornel West and How Intellectuals Matter.” The Role of the
Intellectual Conference, City University of New York, November 12,
1993.
“Paul Maas, Sigmund Freud, and the Systematized Follies of The
Crying of Lot 49.” Twentieth- Century Conference, University
of Louisville. February 26, 1993.
Co-Organizer, “Fatality and Banality in Cultural Studies.” National
Conference, CUNY
Cultural Studies Program, 1991