Selected Presentations & Appearances
The Modernist as Event Planner
· December 8, 2010
Lecture
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The Bourgeois Virtues in Film and Fiction
· December 1, 2010
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies and The Liberty Fund, Marina del Rey, California
It may be well if we go to school in Asia: Pound, Yeats, Avant-garde Theatre and Noh Drama
· November 1, 2010
Lecture
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
· October 1, 2010
Lecture
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Where the Bodies are Buried: Seamus Heaney and the Troubles in Northern Ireland
· October 1, 2010
Lecture
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Freedom and Utopia: Advanced Topics in Liberty
· May 1, 2010
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies and The Liberty Fund, Arlington, Virgina
The Future of Literary Studies
· May 1, 2010
Lecture
The State and Stake of Literary Studies: A Conference, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
Liberty, Individualism and Rebellion in the Films of John Ford and Akira Kurosawa: Advanced Topics in Liberty
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies and the LIberty Fund, Marina del Rey, California
Constitutionalism and Freedom in Kant and Hegel
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Liberty Fund, San Diego, California
Manners, Morals, and Commercial Society
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Liberty Fund, Hermosa Beach, California
The Globalization of Culture
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
Art and the Marketplace
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
A Portrait of the Artist as a Good Man: The Lives of Others
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
American Political Science Association Convention, Toronto, Canada
Literary Alexandria: C.P. Cavafy, E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Duke Alumni College in Egypt, Alexandria, Egypt
The Lives of Others: Art and Tyranny
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
Literary and Cinematic Dystopias
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
Egypt and Opera: From Mozart's The Magic Flute to Verdi's Aida
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Cairo, Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz: Egypt's Nobel Laureate
· January 22, 2009
Lecture
Duke Alumni College in Egypt, Lake Nasser, Egypt
Liberty and Responsibility in War Photography
· February 2, 2008
Lecture
Liberty Fund, Washington, DC
Wealth, Commerce, and Corruption in the Thought of Adam Ferguson, David Hume, and Adam Smith
· February 2, 2008
Lecture
Liberty Fund, BIg Sky, Montana
Liberty, Property, and Native America
· February 2, 2008
Lecture
Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana
Literature and Politics: Advanced Topics in Liberty
· February 2, 2008
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies and the Liberty Fund, San Diego, California
Liberty, Progressivism and the Administrative State
· February 2, 2008
Lecture
Institute for Humane Studies and the Liberty Fund, Arlington, Virginia
Liberty and Development of Self
· February 2, 2008
Lecture
Liberty Fund, Clearwater, Florida
Sovereignty and the Right of Revolution
· February 2, 2008
Lecture
Duke University, Durham, NC
Ethics and narrative in Thomas Mann's "The Table of the Laws"
· January 29, 2008
Lecture
University of Toronto
Aesthetic Education in "The Lives of Others"
· January 29, 2008
Lecture
University of Toronto
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Co-convener - Working Group on Cinema and Modernity
· 2014
- 2016
Projects & Field Work
Co-convener - Working Group on Political Theory
· 2006
- 2013
Projects & Field Work
Service to the Profession
Contributing Editor
- Reason
·
2015
Editorial Activities
Contributing Editor
- Reason
·
2015
Editorial Activities
Co-Editor
- Modernist Cultures
·
2015
Editorial Activities
Director
- Graduate Studies Advisory
·
2014
- 2015
Committee Service
Director
- Graduate Studies Advisory
·
2011
- 2013
Committee Service
Editorial Board
·
2009
Other
Director
- Graduate Studies Advisory
·
2005
- 2006
Committee Service
Conference Program Subcommittee
·
2004
Committee Service
ALSC,
General Editor
- Forum: a Publication of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
·
2003
- 2006
Editorial Activities
General Editor
- A Publication of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
·
2003
- 2004
Editorial Activities
President
·
2003
- 2004
Event/Organization Administration
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics,
Executive Council
·
2002
- 2005
Committee Service
ALSC,
Vice President
·
2002
- 2003
Event/Organization Administration
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics,
Conference Program Subcommittee
·
2002
Committee Service
ALSC,
External Honors Examiner
·
2002
- 2003
Other
Swarthmore College,
Chair
- Executive Committee
·
2000
Committee Service
MLA Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group,
Director
- Graduate Studies Advisory
·
1999
Committee Service
Nominations Committee
·
1998
Committee Service
ALSC,
Consultant
·
1996
Consulting
Nine Colleges International Consortium,
Executive Committee
·
1996
- 2001
Committee Service
MLA Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group,
Editorial Board
- Modern Fiction Studies, jouvert, Context.
·
1995
- 2005
Editorial Activities
Journal x,
Executive Council
·
1995
- 1998
Committee Service
ALSC,
Consulting Scholar
·
1994
- 1995
Consulting
National Humanities Center,
Service to Duke
Co-Director
. PAL/FHI-MELON Seminar on "Melodrama"
·
2015
- 2016
Curriculum Innovations
Faculty Search
(Department)
·
2015
- 2016
Committee Service
Provosts Committee for Five-Year Review of the Dean of Trinity College & Vice Provost for Undergraduate Eduation
(University)
·
2012
Committee Service
Trinity College,
Duke University
ECAS Interim Academic Standards
(Other)
·
2010
Committee Service
Faculty Search
(Department)
·
2006
- 2007
Committee Service
Duke Mitchell Fellowship
(Foundation)
·
2001
- 2003
Committee Service
Gerst Program for Political, Economic and Humanistic Studies
(Department)
·
1998
Committee Service
Duke University Athletic Council
(University)
·
1997
- 2003
Committee Service
Subcommitee On Programs, ECGF
(Program)
·
1997
Committee Service
SAC Self Study Steering
(Other)
·
1996
- 1997
Committee Service
SAC Subcommittee on Graduate Education
(Other)
·
1996
- 1997
Committee Service
Executive Commitee, Graduate Faculty
(University)
·
1995
- 1997
Committee Service
The Libray Council
(University)
·
1995
- 1998
Committee Service
Director of Graduate Studies
(Department)
·
1994
- 1996
Committee Service
20s Series
(Student Organization)
·
1994
- 1986
Committee Service
Executive Committee, Arts & Sciences Council
(University)
·
1994
- 1995
Committee Service
Graduate Placement
(Department)
·
1994
- 1996
Committee Service
Mentor
. Preparing Minorities for Academic Careers
·
1993
Consulting
Perkins Library Four Millionth Volume
(University)
·
1991
- 1992
Committee Service
Representative
. Arts and Sciences Council
·
1991
- 1995
Other
Academic Council
(University)
·
1991
- 1993
Committee Service
Interviewer
. B.N. Duke Fellowships
·
1990
Consulting
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies
(Department)
·
1988
- 1989
Committee Service
Academic Council
(University)
·
1988
- 1989
Committee Service
Guest Lectures
(Department)
·
1987
- 1988
Committee Service