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Guest Lectures and Invited Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026: \u00ab\u00a0Democratic Anarchy, Utopia, and the Possibilities of Literature,\u00a0\u00bb Literature, Theater, and the Future of Democracy, L\/T: Centre d’\u00e9tudes litt\u00e9raires et th\u00e9\u00e2trales, 19e-21e, UC Louvain, Belgium, March 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025: \u00ab\u00a0The Ethics of Teaching: Trigger Warnings, Cancel Culture, and Cultural Appropriation,\u00a0\u00bb Formation Continue, \u00ab\u00a0Dire\/Interdire dans la litt\u00e9rature et l’enseignement,\u00a0\u00bb UNIL\/EPFL, November 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025: \u00ab\u00a0Narratives and Poetics of Desire in Contemporary North American Literature,\u00a0\u00bb Lecture for SCOPE, English Department Student Organization, University of Lausanne, October 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025: Guest Lecture: \u00ab\u00a0New Narratives: Ecological and Democratic Practices,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Environmental Crisis and Societal Change,\u00a0\u00bb MA Course, taught by Guido Palazzo and Boris Vejdovsky, University of Lausanne\/EPFL, April 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024: Guest Lecture: \u00ab\u00a0Contemporary American Fiction,\u00a0\u00bb BA Course, taught by Patrick Vincent, University of Neuch\u00e2tel, April 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024: \u00ab\u00a0Democratic Anarchy and the Ends of Politics,\u00a0\u00bb Doctoral Workshop in Modern and Contemporary English Studies, CUSO, University of Geneva, March 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023: \u00ab\u00a0On Parasites: Literature and Philosophy,\u00a0\u00bb Doctoral Workshop in Modern and Contemporary English Studies, CUSO, \u00ab\u00a0Philosophy by Other Means,\u00a0\u00bb Robert B. Pippin, University of Geneva, May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022: \u00ab\u00a0Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of the Modern Short Story,\u00a0\u00bb Formation Continue, \u00ab\u00a0Less is More\u00a0\u00bb: Unpacking the Short Story as a Literary Genre, University of Lausanne\/EPFL, September 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022: \u201cBetween Two Emancipations: The Politics of Louise Erdrich\u2019s The Night Watchman<\/em>,\u201d English Department Lecture Series, University of Lausanne, March 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020: \u201cJacques Ranci\u00e8re: Art and Emancipation,\u201d ENGL775: Live Contemporary Theorists, Graduate Course, taught by Frances Restuccia, Boston College, English Department, November 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Conference Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022: \u201cRetelling a Story to Live: Figures of Emplotment in Colson Whitehead\u2019s The Nickel Boys<\/em>,\u201d Swiss Association for North American Studies<\/em> (SANAS), Fribourg, Switzerland, scheduled for November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021: \u201cCombat Literature: Fanon and Himes,\u201d American Studies Association <\/em>(ASA), Virtual Meeting, October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021: \u201cTautology and Structure: Reading as Rereading,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), Virtual Meeting, April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021: \u201cTautological Enumerations and Anagrammatical Blackness,\u201d Modern Language Association<\/em> (MLA), Virtual Meeting, January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021: \u201cDemocratic Equality: Nari Ward, Ocean Vuong, and the Politics of Aesthetics,\u201d Modern Language Association<\/em> (MLA), Virtual Meeting, January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019: \u201cDemocratic Anarchy: The Politics of Equality and the Asymmetries of Being,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), Washington, D.C., March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018: \u201cRefractions of the Subject: Identity Politics and Voting,\u201d American Studies Association<\/em> (ASA), Atlanta, GA, November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017: \u201cWalter Benjamin and the Destruction of Democracy,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), Utrecht, Netherlands, July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017: \u201cWilliam Gaddis, Failure, and the Crisis of Representation,\u201d American Literature Association<\/em> (ALA), Boston, MA, May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017: \u201cA Safe Harbor between the Self and Other: Community in Toni Morrison\u2019s Sula<\/em>,\u201d The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States <\/em>(MELUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015: \u201cWalter Benjamin: Toward an Experience of the Exception,\u201d Modernist Studies Association<\/em> (MSA), Boston, MA, November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015: \u201cPlasticity at the Violet Hour: The Waste Land <\/em>and the Problem of Form,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014: \u201cChester Himes, Frantz Fanon, and the Force of Blues Irony: Toward a New Humanism,\u201d Northeast Popular Culture Association<\/em>, Providence, RI, October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014: \u201cWallace Stevens\u2019 Infinite Finitude: Negativity as Aesthetic Experience,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association<\/em> (NeMLA), Harrisburg, PA, April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014: \u201cHenry James\u2019 \u2018impotent spectator\u2019: Messianism in \u2018The Jolly Corner,\u2019\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), New York University, New York, NY, March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013: \u201cA Radical Finitude: Recognition and Temporal Experience in T. S. Eliot\u2019s \u2018Marina,\u2019\u201d T. S. Eliot Society<\/em>, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013: \u201cRefigured Time and Space in Thomas Pynchon\u2019s Against the Day<\/em>,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013: \u201c\u2018Maps and mazes\u2019: The Road<\/em> and (Post-)Modern Time,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association <\/em>(NeMLA), Boston, MA, March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012: \u201c\u2018It\u2019s a Joke\u2019: The Recognitions <\/em>and the Value of Art in Post-WWII America,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), Brown University, Providence, RI, March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012: \u201c\u2018What is its virtue and power\u2019: Guido Cavalcanti\u2019s Place in T. S. Eliot\u2019s Thought and Poetry,\u201d T. S. Eliot Society<\/em>, Florence, Italy, February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Panels Chaired and Organized<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021: Panel Chair and Organizer, \u201cReading in Theory,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), Virtual Meeting, April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019: Panel Chair and Organizer, \u201cPolitics and Ontology,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), Washington, D.C., March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017: Panel Chair and Organizer, \u201cDemocracy and Liberalism in U.S. Literature and Politics,\u201d American Literature Association<\/em> (ALA), Boston, MA, May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017: Panel Chair, \u201cImmigration and Identity,\u201d American Literature Association<\/em> (ALA), Boston, MA, May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014: Panel Chair and Organizer, \u201cModernism and the (Im)Possible \u2018Time of the Now,\u2019\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association<\/em> (NeMLA), Susquehanna University, Harrisburg, PA, April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014: Panel Chair and Organizer, \u201cNew York City: Written, Erased, Rewritten,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association<\/em> (ACLA), New York University, New York, NY, March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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