Selected Presentations & Appearances
“Pedagogy after Generative AI”
- AI and Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice Institute
· June 2024
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
University of Kansas,
Humanities Center
Can AI Be Creative?
- Dialogue with Sheila Heti and Tanja Grubnic
· March 2024
Other
Western University,
"Debabelization: Literature and Computational Culture"
· March 2024
Lecture
Stanford University,
Colonialism, Post, and Anti in the Digital Age Working Group
“TV Talk: The Social and Aesthetic Dynamics of Viewer Response on Reddit”
· October 2023
Invited Talk
University of Chicago,
Franke Institute
Attribution and Evasion
· March 2023
Lecture
Novel Theory Seminar,
Harvard University
Novel Dialogue: The Making of a Literary Podcast
- Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature.
· March 2023
Keynote/Named Lecture
University of Portland,
Attribution and Evasion
- Humanity+Technology Series
· October 2022
Lecture
Lawrence Technological University,
Communication, Computation, and the Icon Novel
- Rhetoric and Public Culture Summer Institute on Media Aesthetics
· July 2022
Lecture
Northwestern University,
Communication, Computation, and the Icon Novel
· April 2022
Invited Talk
Brown University,
Vic/Mods Group
Communication, Computation, and the Icon Novel
· February 2022
Invited Talk
University of Edinburgh,
Department of English
Communication, Computation, and the Icon Novel
· October 2021
Invited Talk
Stanford University,
Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Afterword
- The Language Challenge: Multilingual Modernisms in South Asia
· October 2021
Invited Talk
University of Washington,
Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Universal Language Revisited
· April 2020
Invited Talk
Vic/Mod Group. Brown University,
Canceled due to Covid 19
"Literacy" Seminar Co-Leader
· March 2020
Other
Society for Novel Studies. Oxford,
Canceled due to Covid 19
Universal Language Revisited
- 20th and 21st Century Cultures Group.
· February 2020
Invited Talk
University of Chicago,
“The Author as ‘Produser’”
· September 2019
Invited Talk
Post45. Notre Dame,
“Language’s Hope: Global Modernism and the Science of Debabelization”
- English Dept.
· July 2019
Invited Talk
University of Freiburg (Germany),
Genres of the Contemporary Novel
- Duke NOVEL Conference
· November 2, 2018
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
The Novel Project at Duke,
Duke University
“Global Modernism and Universal Languages”
- Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting
· November 2018
International Meeting or Conference
Modernist Studies Association ,
“Chimeras of Form”
- South Asian Graduate Students Association
· November 2018
Invited Talk
Ohio State University-Columbus. ,
Language’s Hope: Modernism and the Science of Debabelization
- NYNJ Modernism Seminar
· October 19, 2018
Invited Talk
Co-Hosted by Rutgers and Columbia University,
“The Digital Dream of Universal Communication, or, the Icon-Novel”
- Joint invitation from the American and British Literature Colloquia
· March 2018
Invited Talk
Harvard University,
“Universal Communication or the Emoji-Novel”
- Symposium on The Global/Contemporary
· March 2017
Invited Talk
University of Virginia,
Modernism and Amateurism Roundtable
- Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting
· November 2016
International Meeting or Conference
"The Amateur Spirit"
· April 2016
Invited Talk
Americanist Speaker Series, Duke-UNC Joint,
“Alternating Asymmetry: International Solidarity and Self-Deception in Joyce”
· October 2015
Invited Talk
Mods Reading Group, University of Pennsylvania,
“The Global Novel: Theories, Forms, Histories, Controversies”
- Organizer and Roundtable Participant for Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature
· January 2015
Other
Modern Language Association Annual Convention,
“Global Scale and Critical Form”
- Featured Seminar Guest
· November 2014
Other
Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting,
“Weak Theory”
- Roundtable Participant
· November 2014
Other
Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting,
“The Modernism of Others”
- Global Modernisms Symposium
· April 2014
Invited Talk
Ithaca College,
“The Multispecies Novel in a Global Age”
- Seminar on "Writing the Anthropocene"
· April 2013
Other
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting,
Chimeras of Form: Modernist Mutability and the Novel's Transnational Scope
· April 1, 2012
Lecture
Society of Novel Studies Meeting
Rabindranath Tagore's Bilingualism
- MSA (Modernist Studies Association) Annual Meeting
· January 7, 2012
Invited Talk
MSA (Modernist Studies Association),
MSA (Modernist Studies Association)
Colonial/Anticolonial Modernism
- MSA (Modernist Studies Association) Annual Meeting
· January 7, 2012
Invited Talk
MSA (Modernist Studies Association),
MSA (Modernist Studies Association)
Chimeras of Form
· January 7, 2012
Lecture
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Annual Meeting
Surface, Edge, Underneath: Deciphering South Africa's Cultural Contemporary
· November 1, 2011
Lecture
Reading Deliriously
· April 29, 2011
Lecture
NOVEL Forum
Rabindranath Tagore's Babu English
· April 3, 2011
Lecture
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
Service to the Profession
Vice President
·
2023
- 2025
Event/Organization Administration
Society of Novel Studies,
Board Member
·
July 2018
Event/Organization Administration
Society of Novel Studies,
Advisory Board Member
·
July 2018
Event/Organization Administration
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction,
Executive Forum
- 20th and 21st Century Global Anglophone Literature
·
2017
- 2022
Event/Organization Administration
MLA,
Chaired the Executive council in 2022-2023
Reviewer (Journals), Manuscript Reader
·
September 2012
Other
Divisional Delegate - 20th Century British Literature : MLA Delegate Assembly
·
2012
- 2015
Other
Book Reviews Editor - Contemporary Literature : Editorial
·
2011
- 2015
Other
Contemporary Literature - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Service to the Profession ; I select scholarly studies to be reviewed in the journal Contemporary Literature (British/Anglophone Lit Division), and edit book reviews for publication.
Service to Duke
Academic Council
(University)
·
2021
- 2024
Committee Service
Library Council
(University)
·
2019
- 2023
Committee Service
A&S Council - English Dept Representative
(University)
·
2012
- 2015
Committee Service