Readings & Presentations

READINGS

• Montclair State University, Live Literature Series, in Montclair, NJ. 29 March 2016.
• “Death, if You Don’t Mind, Please Come to the Front of the Class,” on the Sugar House Review blog. 11 May 2013. Web.
• “Takeoff.” Reading at KGB Literary Bar in New York City, NY. 17 September 2011.
• “Lucky Strikes.” Reading at the Coffee Cave in Newark, NJ. 18 January 2011.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “‘Where War and Grace Are Closest Linked’: Rebecca West’s Journalism and Wartime Feminism.” Paper presented at the 47^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 17-20 March 2016, in Hartford, CT.
• “The Fugitive Self: Anonymity and Dissociation in Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde.” Paper presented at the 46^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 30 April-3 May 2015, in Toronto, ON, Canada.
• “Aesthetics, Nationalism, and Colonial Critique in the Critical Nonfiction of Hugh MacDiarmid.” Paper presented at the 46^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 30 April-3 May 2015 in Toronto, ON, Canada.
• “Stealth Modernism and Double-Agent Aesthetics: Melancholia, the Cold War, and Late Modernism in Ian Fleming’s James Bond Novels.” Paper presented at the 25^th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, 6-8 November 2014, in Baltimore, MD.
• “Redeeming Richard III: Blurring Historicism & Nationalism in Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time” at the 45^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 3-6 April 2014, in Harrisburg, PA.
• “Stories of the Dead: Narrative, Temporality, and the Spectral Past in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway” at the 2014 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, 20-22 February 2014, in Louisville, KY.
• “Colonizing Draco: A Postcolonial Reading of Dragonheart” at the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference, 7-9 November 2013, in Atlantic City, NJ.
• “Clipping ‘the Wing of Madness’: American Depression Memoirs and the Myth of Creative Melancholy” at the 2013 Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 27-30 March 2013, in Washington, D.C.
• “Irish Nationalism, Memory, and Counter-Memory in Yeats’s Cathleen ni Houlihan and Joyce’s ‘The Dead’” at the 44^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 21-24 March 2013, in Boston, MA.
• “Fearing (and Adoring) Virginia Woolf: Bridging Modernism and Postmodernism in Ian McEwan’s Atonement” at the 43^rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 15-18 March 2012, in Rochester, NY.