Scholarly Presentations
Invited Lectures
  • "Using the Internet as a Morrisian Socialist Tool [Rich Text]." Invited Lecture. Morris in the 21st Century. William Morris Society 50th Anniversary Conference. Royal Holloway, University of London. London, UK. 7-10 Jul. 2005.
  • "The Spread of Pre-Raphaelite Idea(l)s via the Mass Media [Rich Text]." Invited Lecture. CUNY Victorian seminar. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. 31 Mar. 2004.
  • "Egypt and Pre-Raphaelite Furniture [Rich Text]." "The Pre-Raphaelites in Other Media." William Morris Society special session. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. 27-30 Dec. 1999.
National and International Conferences
  • "The Construction of a Blended Geography of Empire in British Periodicals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, or, Around the World in Eighty Pages [Rich Text]." Victorian Geographies. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Annual Conference. New York, NY. 14-15 Sep. 2006.
  • "The Politics of Small Victorian Art Periodicals [Rich Text]." Victorian Periodicals and Politics. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Annual Conference. Washington, DC. 16-18 Sep. 2005.
  • "The Periodical as Cultural Bellwether in Fin-de-siécle England and Japan [Rich Text]." Enriching the Empire: Social, Scientific, and Cultural Developments at Home and Abroad. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Annual Conference. Ann Arbor, MI. 16-17 Aug. 2002.
  • "The Newspaper Press and the Pre-Raphaelites [Rich Text]." Artifacts of Victorian Culture: Social, Cultural, and Historical Influences that Shaped a Society. Fifth Annual Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association (VISA) Conference. University of California at Los Angeles, CA. 20-22 Oct. 2000.
  • "The Reader as Editor in John Ruskin's Defense of Pre-Raphaelitism in the Victorian Press [Rich Text]." Victorian Encounters: Publishers, Editors, and Readers. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Annual Conference. Birkbeck College, London, UK. 20-22 Jul. 2000.
  • "New Views of the Old Views of the Pre-Raphaelites: Periodical Criticism in the Later Nineteenth Century [Rich Text]." "New Views of the Pre-Raphaelites." William Morris Society special session. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA. 26-30 Dec. 1998.
  • "Access Versus Accuracy: A Case Study of Preservation Techniques at The Pre-Raphaelite Critic Web Site [Rich Text]." The Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. 21-22 Jul. 1998.
  • "The Foundations and Borders of Physical Form: A Study of Transformation Theory in Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland [Rich Text]." The International Conference on Foundations and Borders in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema. State University of West Georgia, Atlanta, GA. 23-25 Oct. 1997.
  • "The Desire to Despair: Undermining Freud in D. H. Lawrence's Saint Mawr [Rich Text]." The International Conference on Desire and Despair in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema. West Georgia College, Atlanta, GA. 31 Oct.-2 Nov. 1996.
  • "The Perfect Evil: The Theme of Evil and the Writings of Hawthorne and Melville [Rich Text]." The International Conference on the Sacred and the Profane in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema. West Georgia College, Atlanta, GA. 18-20 Oct. 1995.
Local / Regional Conferences
  • "Parodies of Pre-Raphaelitism in the Nineteenth-Century Press [Rich Text]." Victorians in Sight and Sound. Midwest Victorian Studies Association (MVSA) Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. 15-16 Apr. 2005.
  • "The Rise of the Internal Consciousness between 1100 and 1500 [Rich Text]." The Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest. Kent State University, Stark Campus, Canton, OH. 24-26 Sep. 1998.
  • "Dead-White-Male Feminism: Women as Colonized Others in The Mayor of Casterbridge [Rich Text]." The First Annual Red River Conference on World Literature. North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. 23-24 Apr. 1998.
  • "The Relationship Among Author, Author-Function, the Authorial Mask, and the Texts in the Short Fiction of Ernest Hemingway [Rich Text]." Sport and the Author in Hemingway's Fiction. English Graduate Organization Colloquia series. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. 17 Apr. 1998.
  • "'This Is My Body': Leon Battista Alberti's Re-discovery of Linear Perspective Theory in the Italian Renaissance [Rich Text]." Corporeal Discourse: Writings on the Body and Bodies of Writing. Fifth Annual Association of Graduate English Students Conference. Kent State University, Kent, OH. 13-14 Mar. 1998.
  • "The Creation of the Historical Sublime in Joanna Baillie's "Legend of William Wallace [Rich Text].'" English Graduate Organization Colloquia Series. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. 17 Apr. 1997.
  • "We Three Kings: How Shakespeare Defines Linguistic Borders [Rich Text]." "Beyond Borders" Graduate Student Conference. Simmons College, Boston, MA. 10-12 Apr. 1997.
  • "An Essay In Reactive Criticism [Rich Text]." Borders and Frontiers: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. 23 Nov. 1996.
  • "La Buona, Sana Cucina: A Guide to the Renaissance Tuscan Table [Rich Text]." Lecture and Cinquecento dinner. Indiana State University Arts Endowment series. Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. 3 Dec. 1995.
  • "A Flower for My Love: Color Symbolism in Madame Bovary [Rich Text]." The Indiana College English Association Conference. Anderson University, Anderson, IN. 13 Oct. 1995.

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