Consortium For Humanities Centers & Institutes: LACSU Conference
April 25-27, 2024
Amherst College
“Leading Centers Through COVID: Going Digital, Staying Digital”
A. K. Smith Visiting Scholar
April 3, 2024
Trinity College
Climate Change, The Public Environment, & The New Liberal Education
March 27-28, 2024
Grand Valley State University
“Life, and Other Sentimental Nonsense”
C19: The End (8th Biennial)
March 14-16, 2024
Pasadena, CA
C19 Americanists & Critical University Studies Roundtable
Mark Twain’s Illiberal Imagination Roundtable
High Theory Podcast
February 15, 2024
Project Narrative
February 15, 2024
Ohio State University
Money On The Left
January 1, 2024
The Trouble Begins Lecture Series
November 27, 2023
Center For Mark Twain Studies
Books That Shaped America Podcast
October 20, 2023
C-SPAN
2023 Quarry Farm Symposium
Mark Twain: Invention, Technology, & Science Fiction
Sep. 30-Oct. 2, 2023
Center For Mark Twain Studies
The Trouble Begins (Hartford Edition)
August 23, 2023
Mark Twain House & Museum
Joint Conference of American Humor Studies Association & Comedy Studies Scholarly Interest Group of Society for Cinema & Media Studies
July 12, 2023
Saratoga Springs, NY
The Workspace of Comedy & The Infrastructure of Prestige
After Neo(g)liberalism
Reunion Weekend
June 23, 2023
Elmira College
The State of Television: A Q&A with David Bianculli & Matt Seybold
Future Trends Forum
Apr. 20, 2023
America’s Boating Club
Apr. 15, 2023
Elmira, NY
The Quaker City, the Alonzo Child, the Kanawha, & the Steamship America: The World of Mark Twain’s Watercraft
English Department Mentoring Program
Apr. 14, 2023
Penn State University
Academic Podcasting Workshop
English Department
Mar. 7, 2023
SUNY – Fredonia
Cosmos Club
Feb. 2, 2023
Washington, D.C.
Is Shakespeare Dead?: Mark Twain & Literary Celebrity
MLA Convention (138th Annual)
Jan. 7, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Literary Criticism: New Platforms (Roundtable)
MLA Webinars on the Public Humanities
Oct. 4, 2022
2022 Quarry Farm Symposium
Abolition Studies
Sep. 30-Oct. 2, 2022
Center For Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
Hidden Landmarks
August 19, 2022
Quarry Farm
Elmira, NY
International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies (9th Quadrennial)
August 4-6, 2022
Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
#VelshiBannedBookClub
July 30, 2022
MSNBC
My Jewish Learning
April 6, 2022
C19: Reconstructions (7th Biennal)
March 31, 2022
Coral Gables, FL
Reconstructing Emancipation Day, 1880
Threadable Guided Reading Group
February 28 – March 14
History of California Podcast
November 23, 2021
Americanists Reading Group
Nov. 17, 2021
Cornell University
Podcasting & Public Humanities Workshop
2021 Quarry Farm Symposium
Mark Twain & The West
October 1-3, 2021
Center For Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
Hidden Landmarks
August 20, 2021
Grove Park
Elmira, NY
High Theory Podcast
August 14, 2021
Hidden Landmarks
February 26, 2021
Quarry Farm
Elmira, NY
You, Me, Them, Everybody Podcast
February 24, 2021
Mariella Frostrup: Life & Times
February 4, 2021
Time Radio London
The Trouble at Home
January 26, 2021
Mark Twain House & Museum
The Trouble Begins Lecture Series
October 14, 2020
Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
C19: Dissent (6th Biennial)
October, 2020
2020 Quarry Farm Symposium
American Humor & Matters of Empire
October 2-4, 2020
Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
The Trouble At Home
August 20, 2020
Mark Twain House & Museum
Interview with Joe Lemak & Betsy Maguire
C19 Podcast
December 17, 2019
Holiday Concert
Orchestra of The Southern Finger Lakes
December 7, 2019
Clemens Center, Elmira NY
40th Annual Meeting of The T. S. Eliot Society
September, 2019
Washington University in St. Louis
Money – especially foreign money – is fascinating’: The Lloyds Bank Monthly Column, 1923-24
Chemung Valley Museum
September 5, 2019
Elmira, NY
Hidden Landmarks
August 30, 2019
Chemung County Historical Society
Elmira, NY
Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum
July, 2019
Hannibal, MO
The Devil’s Joke: The Econo-Literary Contexts of Cairo, Illinois
ALA Conference (30th Annual)
May, 2019
Boston, MA
Reverse Engineering the USA Newsreels
ResidencyUnlimited
April 27, 2019 (7 PM)
360 Court St.
Brooklyn, NY
Asian Humanities, Global Markets, & Emerging Theory Workshop: “The Aesthetics of Neoliberalism”
April 25, 2019
Cornell University, Ithaca
Mark Twain’s Music Box
Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes
February 8th, 2019
Park Church, Elmira
The Park Church Culture Into Which Mark Twain Married [Introductory Address]
2018 Quarry Farm Symposium
American Literary History & Economics in The New Gilded Age
October 5-7, 2018
Center For Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
Neoliberal Rationality in the Old Gilded Age [Introductory Address]
150th Anniversary of Mark Twain in Elmira
September 14, 2018
Center For Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
Humor in America Conference
July 15, 2018
Roosevelt University, Chicago
Joke, Joke, Jeremiad: A Poetics of Neo(g)liberalism
Women’s History Month Series
March 29, 2018
Women’s & Gender Studies Program, Elmira College
Only the Men Survive: The 2008 Financial Crisis & The Glass Cliff
MLA Convention (133rd Annual)
January 4, 2018
New York, NY
The Sound & Fury of Economics From Ricardo to Keynes
Make It Visible: The Long 19th Century & New Economic Criticism Special Session
38th Annual Meeting of T. S. Eliot Society
September, 2017
Washington University in St. Louis
The Economic Consequences of T. S. Eliot
International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies (8th Quadrennial)
August, 2017
Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
Chimerica Rising: The Prophetic Political Economy of ‘Fable of The Yellow Terror’
ALA Conference (28th Annual)
May, 2017
Boston, MA
John Dos Passos & Cultural Keynesianism
Chemung Valley Museum
September 29, 2016
Elmira, NY
The Making of Chimerica: Globalization, Economics, & Mark Twain’s ‘Fable of the Yellow Terror’
The Trouble Begins Lecture Series
May 18, 2016
Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
The Rhyme of Crisis: Mark Twain on Banks, Bubbles, & Bailouts
“Bezzles & Black Swans: Disputed Terrains of Economic Imagination,” Revisiting the Archive: Finance & Contemporary Literature Seminar
ACLA Annual Meeting
March, 2016
Harvard University
“Politicum e-conomico est: Mark Twain, Behavioral Economist,” Re-Presenting Twain Panel sponsored by Mark Twain Circle of America
MLA Convention (131st Annual)
January, 2016
Austin, TX
“Is Anybody A Keynesian?: Misunderstanding Mixed Economy in the Great Recession,” Literary Finance: Why Now? Seminar
ACLA Annual Meeting
March, 2015
Seattle, WA
“Literature of Mass Destruction: Atlas Shrugged, Free to Choose, & the Rhetorical Origins of the Income Gap”
UA Symposium on English & American Literature
March, 2015
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
“A Nation of Suckers: The Rhetoric of Refinancing in ‘The Ownership Society,’” Credit/Debt/Crisis/Literature/Analysis Panel
MLA Convention (130th Annual)
January, 2015
Vancouver, BC
“John Dos Passos & The Mainstream of America,” Midcentury Panel
John Dos Passos Conference (Inaugural)
October, 2014
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
“Astride the Dark Horse: Eliot & the Lloyds Bank Intelligence Department”
35th Annual Meeting of T.S. Eliot Society
September, 2014
Washington University in St. Louis
“‘The False Pretense of Being a Linguist’: Eliot’s Economy & the Poetics of Corporate Banking,” Eliot Society Panel
ALA Conference (25th Annual)
May, 2014
Washington, DC
“The Rhyme of Crisis: Speculative Euphoria, Confidence Multipliers, & Intellectual Bubbles,” Chronicling Financial Crisis Panel
MLA Convention (129th Annual)
January, 2014
Chicago, IL
“More Reality Than Real Life Can Show: Economic Narratology & The Fictions of Finance,” Interdisciplinary Studies Panel
South Central MLA Conference (70th Annual)
October, 2013
New Orleans, LA
“Living a Fiction: Finance & Fraud in The Confidential Clerk”
34th Annual Meeting of T. S. Eliot Society
September, 2013
Washington University in St. Louis
“Use Her Eyes, Use Her Voice, Use Her Soul: Gendered Cons & The Economics of Evangelism in Elmer Gantry,” Feminine Figures & Scientific Discovery: Current Criticism in Sinclair Lewis Panel
ALA Conference (23rd Annual)
May, 2012
San Francisco, CA
“The Conman Cometh: Speculative Euphoria, Crisis Capitalism, & the Rhetoric of Confidence”
Stony Brook Graduate English Conference (23rd Annual)
March 2011
CUNY – Stony Brook
“‘Conning you con at peril’: The Intrusion of Confidence,” Americanist Depiction of the Law Panel
Covering the Law Symposium
November, 2009
University of California, Irvine
“Free Agency & The Fire Next Time,” African-American Literature Panel
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