Public talks
“Diana in Nineenth Century France.” Invited talk, Annual Seattle French Fest, French Chamber of Commerce, Seattle Center, March 2014.
Conference Presentations
“Spectacles of Naturalism and the Spectacle of Paradise in Son Excellence Eugène Rougon,” Twenty-fifth International Conference on Zola and Naturalism, New Orleans, March 2014.
“Au Bonheur des Dames and the Limits of Orientalism,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association, Richmond, VA, October, 2013.
“A New Conversion Story: The Oriental Department Store as Modern French Megalith in Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Fresno, CA, March, 2013.
“Diana-Venus: The Impossible Transition in Son Excellence Eugène Rougon,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, October, 2012.
“The Religion of Language in Linda Lê’s Calomnies, A Deleuzian Reading,” Christianity and Literature: Belief and Unbelief in Postmodern Literature, Seattle Pacific University, May 2012.
“La Jouissance de la langue: Language as Play in the French Classroom,” World Languages Day, University of Washington, Seattle, March 2010.
“A Proposal for Reassessing Zola’s L’Argent,” Nineteenth Century French Studies, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2009.
“The Face of Medea in Revolutionary France,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, March 2008.
“Reconsidering ‘La Question des juifs’ or ‘The Jewish Question’ in Zola’s L’Argent,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Selinsgrove, PA, March 2007.
“The Tragic Void: Racine’s Phèdre in Zola’s La Curée,” Fourteenth International Conference on Zola and Naturalism, San Antonio, TX, October 2003.
“The Face of Medea in Post-Revolutionary France,” Modern Language Association Conference, New York, NY, December 2002.
“Phèdre Re-née,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NSCA), Savannah, GA, March 2002.
“Gender and the Phantom of Authority in Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes,” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, NV, February 2000.
“The ‘Oriental’ Coterie for Social Re-dress,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2001.
“Venus and the Modern Mother in Zola’s Nana,” Eleventh International Conference on Zola and Naturalism, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, September 2000.
“An Armchair Traveler’s Colonial Desires: Ingres’s Bain turc,” L’Esprit et le corps in French Cultural Production, Annual Graduate Student Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, April 1999.
“Breaking the Metronome: Community and Song in Maryse Condé’s Moi Tituba sorcière noire de Salem,” inaugural Francophone Voices Conference, University of Leeds, England, September 1999.
“‘La misère en robe de soie’: Women’s Places in Au Bonheur des Dames,” International Conference on Zola and Naturalism, University College of San Francisco, CA, October 1999
“La Mine/la mère: Hétérotopies infernales, Germinal,” International Conference on Zola and Naturalism, University of Glasgow, Scotland, September 1998.
Discussant
“Feminine Ambiguity,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association, Richmond, VA, October, 2013.
“Mapping Urban Spaces,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Fresno, CA, March, 2013.
“Stéphane Mallarmé,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association, New Haven, CT, October, 2011.
Campus or Departmental Talks
“Jules Michelet and the narrative of history.” Invited talk in 400-level History Seminar of History Professor Hazel Hahn. Seattle University, April, 2014.
“Venus and the Modern Mother in Zola’s Nana,” Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium of the Department of French and Italian, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, November 2000.
“Success with Technology, Overcoming Computer-phobia in the Language-Learning Classroom,” Symposium for Teaching with Technology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, March 2000.