“Uncommon Ground.” Langston Hughes Society Program: “Langston
Hughes’s Audiences.” American Literature Association Conference.
Boston. May 2007.
“Gwendolyn Brooks and the Black Arts Movement: The Afrocentric
Modernism of In the Mecca.” The African Presence and Influence on
the Cultures of the Americas Conference. The City University of New
York: Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY, Nov. 2006.
“Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West and the Locations of Modern
Poetry.” Seminar Paper. Modernist Studies Association Conference:
“Other Modernisms, Modernism’s Others.” Vancouver, Oct. 2004.
“William Carlos Williams and Third-Phase Objectivism.” Modern
Language Association Conference. San Diego, Dec. 2003.
“Beyond Mecca: The Multiple Publics of Gwendolyn Brooks.”
American Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC, Nov.
2001.
“Amnesiac Modernism: Kenneth Fearing and the Erasure of Memory.”
Material Modernisms Conference. University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, July 2001.
“‘A Metamorphic Palimpsest’: The Underground Memory of Thomas
McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend.” National Poetry
Foundation Conference: “The Opening of the Field: North American
Poetry of the 1960s.” University of Maine, Orono, June 2000.
“‘Disc-tortions’ of a Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes, Bebop,
and the Idea of Social Justice.” MELUS 2000 Conference:
“Multi-ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice.” New
Orleans, March 2000.
“Claude McKay, American Imperialism, and the Harlem
Renaissance.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Dec.
1999.
“‘The Eagle and the Dollar’: Claude McKay and New World
Imperialism.” American Studies Association Conference: “American
Histories and the Question of Empire.” Seattle, Nov. 1998.
“Post-Americanist Williams.” William Carlos Williams Society.
American Literature Association Conference. San Diego, May
1998.
“Immigration and the Harlem Renaissance.” Northeast Modern
Language Association Conference. Baltimore, Apr. 1998.
“‘Dream within a dream’: Langston Hughes, Post-World War II
Harlem, and Black Counterpublic Spheres.” American Studies
Association Conference: “Going Public: Defining Public Cultures in
the Americas.” Washington, DC, Nov. 1997.
“‘Littered with Old Correspondences’: Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace
Stevens, and the 1930s.” Elizabeth Bishop Conference.
Worcester, MA, Oct. 1997.
“The Diagnostic Practice of William Carlos Williams.” New York
College English Association Conference: “The Healing Art of
Literature.” St. John’s University, Queens, New York, Apr.
1997.
“Remapping Oppen’s “Return.’” National Poetry Foundation
Conference: “American Poetry in the 1950s.” University of Maine,
Orono, June 1996.
“‘A material collapse that is Construction”: Gwendolyn Brooks’s
In the Mecca and the Poetics of Counter-Memory.” Modern Language
Association Conference. Chicago, Dec. 1995.
“‘The janitor’s poems of every day’: Sites of Waste, Sites of
Memory.” Canadian American Studies Association Conference: “TRASH:
Class, Culture, and Waste in America, 1607 to the Present.”
Vancouver, Oct. 1995.
“Objectivism, Feminism, and the Modernist Canon: Lorine
Niedecker and the Poetics of Impropriety.” Modern Language
Association Conference. San Diego, Dec. 1994.
“Utopian Space, Dystopian Place: History and Counter-Memory in
Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca.” California American Studies
Association Conference: “Cities on the Edge.” San Diego, May
1994.
“Vietnam, Historical Amnesia, and Joan Didion’s Democracy.”
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association
Conference. Chicago, Apr. 1994.
“Poetry, Property, and Propriety: Lorine Niedecker and the
Legacy of the 1930s.” National Poetry Foundation Conference: “The
First Postmodernists: American Poets of the 1930s Generation.”
University of Maine, Orono, June 1993.
“Technologies of Memory: Recollecting the Vietnam War in Jayne
Anne Phillips’ Machine Dreams and Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country.”
New England American Studies Association Conference: “The Cultures
of Technology: Science, Media, and the Arts.” Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA, May 1993.
“Rewriting the War: Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War.”
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association
Conference. New Orleans, Apr. 1993.
“Another Usable Past: On Teaching the Multiculturalism Debate.”
New England American Studies Association Conference:
“Multiculturalism and the Americas.” University of Massachusetts,
Boston, Apr. 1992.
“‘On the verge of vertigo’: George Oppen and Cold War American
Culture.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference.
Buffalo, Apr. 1992.
“On the Margins of Modernism: William Carlos Williams and the
American ‘Avant-Garde Tradition.’” Conference on “The Canon and
Marginality.” State University of New York, Binghamton, May
1991.
“Cultural Nationalism, Immigrant Ethnicity, and the Avant-Garde
Poetics of William Carlos Williams.” Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference. Hartford, Apr. 1991.
“Re-interpreting ‘The War’: Frank O'Hara’s Revision of Williams’
Objectivist Poetics.” Northeast Modern Language Association
Conference. Toronto, Apr. 1990.
Invited Presentations:
“US vs. Them” (with Dohra Ahmad): “Vietnam War Poetry.”
Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society) Series: “War: Poetry.” St.
John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Apr. 2007.
“History, Memory and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry,
1935-1968.” New York Metro American Studies Association Salon Talk.
Hunter College, New York City. Mar. 2007.
“The Art of Crossing Boundaries: Langston Hughes and the
Locations of Poetry.” Writing Center Series: “The Art of Digging.”
St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Mar. 2005.
“The Harlem Renaissance and Its Impact.” African Heritage Month
Program: “The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: A Rebirth in the Spirit
of Africa.” St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 2002.
“Claude McKay and American Imperialism.” City College of New
York, New York City, Apr. 2000.
“Segue to Bop: Langston Hughes and Post-World War II Harlem.”
English Department Graduate Colloquium. St. John’s University,
Jamaica, NY, Apr. 1998.
“‘A material collapse that is construction’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s
In the Mecca and the Poetics of Counter-Memory.” Arts and
Humanities Division Faculty Colloquium. Illinois Benedictine
College, Lisle, IL, Nov. 1995.
“Multiculturalism and Modernism: William Carlos Williams and the
Subject of American Literature.” Roberts Lecture. Grinnell College,
Grinnell, IA, Mar. 1994.