2010
“Mourning’s Mirrors: Problems of Loss and Abstract Equivalence”
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. 4/10 : “Articulation(s)” International Workshop
“Samuel Delaney and the Paraliterary”
New Orleans, LA. 4/10 : American Comparative Literature Association Meeting (pending)
2009
“Arithmetics: Algorithms, Codes, and the Production of Knowledge”
Washington University. St. Louis, MO. Keynote Address, Mellon-Mays Regional Undergraduate Conference
Guest Instructor, New Media Boot Camp : “Extensional Pedagogies”
The Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA) @ Rutgers University.
“Dominion/Domination: Justice, Memory, and the Environment in Hogan and Kogawa”
American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, Harvard University.
2008
“Haunted Methodology, or Foxy Brown and the Problems of Disciplinarity”
Department of Black Studies, Amherst College. Brown Bag Lunch Talk
“Doubled: From Consciousness to Subjectivity in African American Literary Geneologies”
Cité des Métiers, Le Raizet, Guadeloupe. The Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Meeting
Working Seminar: “Archives III”
Columbia University. New York, NY. Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers & the Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University
2007
“Reading Haunting and Displacement in African American Culture”
University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA. Invited talk
Five College Seminar: “A Conversation with Filmmaker Charles Burnett”
Amherst Cinema Arts Center. Amherst, MA. Co-sponsored by Five Colleges, Inc. & the Amherst Cinema Arts Center
Working Seminar: “Archives II”
Columbia University. New York, NY. Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers & the Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University
2006
“Hi-Profile, Lo-Fidelities: Angela Davis, Foxy Brown, and Memory’s Excesses”
St. John’s University. Queens, NY. Invited talk
Working Seminar: “Ideas of the Archive”
Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ. Sponsored by The Center for Cultural Analysis
“Hypertext : Hypermedia : Hyperliteracy”
Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. American Comparative Literature Association Meeting
2005
Respondent: “Canonical Revisions: Teaching World Literature from a Postcolonial Perspective”
MLA annual convention. Washington D.C. Special Roundtable Session.
“Spoken/Word: Ursula Rucker’s Sonic Intervention – a multimedia presentation”
University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Holland. Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis: Sonic Interventions Conference
“Memory, Haunting, and Allegory in Beloved and Paradise”
Cincinnati, OH. Fourth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society
2005
“Pungent and Composite: Another Country and Cane”
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. DuBois Fellows Colloquium (Public)
“On the Job Market: Who’s Looking for What?”
MMUF Mentoring Seminar. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
2004
“Passing and the Uncanny in Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars.”
Tufts University. Medford, MA. Conjuring Difference Conference
2003
Respondent: “Passing and the Law in Devil in a Blue Dress.”
Amherst College. Amherst, MA.
2002
Moderator: “Baraka: Examining a Legacy.” Amherst College. Amherst, MA.
“Graduate Students of Color and the Job Market: Who’s Looking for What?”
English Department. University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA.
“Trauma is for the Living: Gender, Transgenerational Haunting and the Limits of Empathy”
Five College Women’s Studies Resource Center. South Hadley, MA.
2000
School of Criticism and Theory. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.