Selected Presentations & Appearances
Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
· November 2018
International Meeting or Conference
Denver, CO
Sobered Speakers, Wasted Words: Washingtonian Spectacle and Temperance Autobiography in Antebellum America
- UNC-Duke Americanist Speakers Series
· March 2018
International Meeting or Conference
Durham, NC
Demon Rum and Drunken Men: Delirium Tremens Scenes in the Nineteenth-Century Tavern
- C19 Biannual Conference
· March 2018
International Meeting or Conference
Albuquerque, NM
Storms! Shipwrecks! Disaster!: Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Advertising and the Promise of a Working-Class Revolution
- American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference
· November 2017
International Meeting or Conference
Chicago, IL
“Popularizing the Plantation: Private Parlor Theatre and Claiming Stowe for the Middle Class.” American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference
· May 2017
Lecture
Boston, MA
"City of Brotherly Love and War: Reprogramming the Working-Class Street Spectator." Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference
· January 2016
Invited Talk
Austin, TX
"Performers First, Reformers Second: Postbellum Women Readers and the Carnival of Authors." Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
· November 2015
Invited Talk
Philadelphia, PA
"Slumming from Home: Parlor Props and Temperance Tourism on the Amateur Stage." American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference
· October 2015
Invited Talk
Toronto, Canada
"Domestic Creatures, Animal Attractions: P.T. Barnum and Middle-Class Parlor Performance in Victorian America." American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Annual Conference
· November 2014
Invited Talk
Baltimore, MD
“Picturing the Page: Tableaux Vivants and Performing Middle-Class Literature in Victorian America.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference
· November 2014
Invited Talk
Los Angeles, CA
"Story Paper (Anti-) Heroines: Reading Alcott's Potboilers in the Digital Archives." American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference
· May 2014
Invited Talk
Washington, DC
"Philadelphia Falling: Reverend William Miller, George Lippard, and the Millenarian End of Days." New England Modern Language Association (NEMLA )Annual Conference
· April 2014
Invited Talk
Harrisburg, PA
"George Lippard's 'Theatre of Hell': Apocalyptic Melodrama and Working-Class Spectatorship in the Quaker City." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference
· November 2013
Invited Talk
San Diego, CA
"The Drunkard's Directions: Mapping City Streets in the Antebellum Temperance Drama." Nineteeth Century Studies Association Annual Conference
· March 2013
Invited Talk
Fresno, CA
"Parlor Play: Home Stagecraft and Private Performance in Victorian America." American Antiquarian Society Fellows Talk
· October 2012
Invited Talk
Worcester, MA