Invited Lectures
“The Kinesthetic Turn: Ruth Page, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and the Machinery of Dance Modernism,” Columbia University Seminar “Studies in Dance” Series, New York, NY, March 24, 2025
“Reckoning with Sexual Harassment in James Joyce Studies,” James Joyce Society Lecture Series, virtual, September 15th, 2023
“Larsen’s Harlem, Joyce’s Dublin: Notes on Racial Legibility,” James Joyce Society Lecture Series, Glucksman Ireland House (New York University), March 15, 2023
“The Queer Visualities of Nella Larsen’s Passing,” Washington University, St. Louis, MO, March 6, 2023
“Black Women, Strong Theory: The Importance of Critique in Times of Crisis,” Tulane University Pandemic Speaker Series, New Orleans, LA, April 19, 2021
“Digital Virginia Woolf: Working with the Archives of Mrs. Dalloway,” California State University, Fresno, CA, March 4, 2021
Conference and Workshop Presentations
“Novella Theater,” Society for Novel Studies Biannual Conference, May 29-June 1, 2025, Duke University, Durham, NC
“‘This Guileful Thing’: Ulysses, Penelope, and the Craft of Private Life.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Black Trans Woman,” International James Joyce Symposium 2024, June 14-19, 2024, Glasgow, Scotland (panel organizer and presenter)
“After the New Modernist Studies,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 4-7, 2024, Philadelphia, PA (panel co-organizer and chair)
“Making Generations: Gayl Jones and the Challenge of Memory,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 4-7, 2024, Philadelphia, PA
“W.E.B. Du Bois and Joseph Conrad: Thinking Revolution in Nostromo,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, October 26-29, 2023, Brooklyn NY
“Precarious Modernisms and Aesthetic Futures,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, October 26-29, 2023, Brooklyn, NY (panel organizer and chair)
“Crossing Harlem to Bronzeville: Intersections in Ann Petry and Gwendolyn Brooks,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, October 26-29, 2023, Brooklyn, NY
“Tenement Air; Or, Ann Petry’s Art of Breathing,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 6-9, 2023, San Francisco, CA
“Transracial Circuits, Transnational Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, October 27-30, 2022, Portland, OR (seminar leader, with invited participants Paul K. Saint-Amour and Juno Jill Richards)
“Anger Between Women and the Lessons of Nella Larsen,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, October 27-30, 2022, Portland, OR
“Self-Erasure in Revelation: Ruth Page’s Dance Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, October 27-30, 2022, Portland OR (panel chair and respondent)
“Public Interiors: Race and Subjectivity in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,” International James Joyce Symposium 2022, June 12-18, 2022, Dublin, Ireland (panel organizer and presenter)
“Women’s Caucus,” with Katherine Ebury and Laura Gibbs, International James Joyce Symposium 2022, June 12-18, 2022, Dublin, Ireland (co-organizer and presenter)
“Black and Irish at One Hundred,” 2022 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 6-9, 2022, Washington, DC
“What Is This ‘Black’ in Black Modernism?” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 6-9, 2022, Washington, DC
“Life-Writing as Mind-Writing: Autobiography and The Waves,” 30th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, June 11-14, 2021, University of South Dakota, virtual
“The Persistence of Vital Matter in Henry James, 1880-1898,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 7-10, 2021, virtual
“Queer Persistence: Chance Encounters and Revision in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Page Proofs,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 7-10, 2021, virtual
“The Limits of Sympathy in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace,” 32nd Annual Multi-Ethnic Literature in the U.S. Conference, March 21-24, 2019, Cincinnati, OH