Seminars

“Re-Examining the Modernist Lyric Self.” Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, ON, October 17–20, 2019.

Papers

“Addressing One’s Assassins: Terrance Hayes and Poetic Justice.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Austin, TX, September 25–27, 2025.

“‘The Life of Significant Soil’: Ecological Time in Eliot’s ‘The Dry Salvages.’” Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, IL, November 7–10, 2024.

“Notes on Earned Simplicity in Lyric Poetry.” Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Critics, Scholars, and Writers, Houston, TX, October 12–15, 2023.

“Lyric Possibility and the Loneliness Epidemic: Triangulated Address in Contemporary Poetry.” Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Niagara Falls, NY, March 23–26, 2023.

“Beyond the Urban Pastoral: The Modernist Poem and the Green City.” Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Portland, OR, October 27–30, 2022.

“Mark Strand and the Spectral Space of Lyric.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Austin, TX, October 14–16, 2021.

“Refusing Silence: The Logic of Deferment in Waiting for Godot and Endgame.” Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, ON, October 17–20, 2019.

“Basil Bunting and Epistemological Humility.” Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Amsterdam, NL, August 10–13, 2017.

“From Borderline to The Gift: Hope in H.D.’s Imagist Aesthetic.” Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, CA, November 17–20, 2016.

“Untruth and Beauty: Positioning D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, New Orleans, LA, October 15-17, 2015.

“Melvin Tolson’s Unfashionable Hope.” 46^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, ON, April 30–May 3, 2015.

“Black Comedy and the Modernist Aesthetic: Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust.” 2014 Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference, Saint Catherines, ON, May 24–27, 2014.

“Of Sympathy and Skunks: The Politics of Affect in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies.” 44^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, March 21–24, 2013.

“‘Borne on shoulders, at last’: Sympathy in Ashbery’s Early Poetry.” 43^rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Rochester, NY, March 15–18, 2012.

“T.S. Eliot on Literature and Mass Culture.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for American Studies, Ottawa, ON, November 3–6, 2011.

“‘This is what matters for now’: Ashbery, Eliot, and the Question of Temporality.” Annual Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April 20–23, 2011.