“Edith Wharton and the Railroad,” Edith Wharton Society, Modern
Language Association Convention, Washington D.C., December
2005.
“Injury: The Battle of Soldier’s Heart and the American Civil
War,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia,
December, 2004.
“Scientists of Affect: The Politics of Emotion and the
Professionalization of Reading Pain,” MLA Convention, Philadelphia,
December, 2004.
“On Personal Quantity: Psychic Injury in Henry James’s The
Golden Bowl,” New York Americanist Seminar, Fordham University,
February 21, 2004.
"The Soul has Bandaged Moments", New York Americanist Seminar,
New York University, Draper Center, Invited Paper, October 6,
2001
“Boys Don't Cry?” Just Feelings: Citizenship, Justice, and
The Emotions. Symposium at the Center for 21st Century
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Invited Featured
Speaker, April 27-28, 2001.
"Women in the Academy," American Association of University
Women, Manhasset, New York, March 22, 2001
"Liberationists, Keepers, and Weepers: Men and Emotions at the
Millennium," American Studies Association, Montreal 1999
"Economies of Feeling: Henry James and the Emergence of
Emotional Distress," Modern Language Association Conference,
Toronto, 1997
"Emotional Distress: Literary and Cultural Configurations of
Pain," The Newberry Library, November, 1997
"Pain, Modernity, and Literary History," Gender and Modernity:
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series, Illinois State,
March,
1997
"Emotional Injury and the Price of Protection in
Turn-of-the-Century-America," Modern Language Association
Conference, Chicago, 1995
"Literary and Cultural Configurations of Pain," Third Annual
Forum of Women's Studies Scholarship, Featured Presenter, Brandeis
University, May 1995