Conferences and Invited Talks
- “‘This Flattering Millennium Theory’: Denominationalism Against Millennialism in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Crater,” Millennialism and Providentialism in the Era of the American Civil War Conference (upcoming), October 2010, Rice University, Houston, Texas
- “Theorizing an Online, Interactive Red Schoolhouse (and Pouring Its Foundations),” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference (upcoming), July 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab and the National Endowment for the Humanities, May 2010
- “‘Taken Possession of’: Hawthorne’s ‘Celestial Railroad’ in the Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Canon,” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Inaugural Conference (upcoming), Nineteenth-Century American Literature and New Media panel, May 2010, State College, Pennsylvania
- “Digital Archives and Future Bibliographies,” University of Virginia Bibliographic Society Annual Meeting, Pre-Doctoral Scholars’ Forum, May 2010, Charlottesville, VA
- “‘Coming to an End for Certain’: Apocalyptic Skepticism in Poe and Lippard,” Poe Studies Association’s Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference (The Bicentennial), “Poe, Lippard, and Place” panel October 2009, Philadelphia
- “Thoreau’s Walden and Freshman Comp,” American Literature Association (ALA), “Teaching Thoreau in the Twenty-First Century” roundtable sponsored by the Thoreau Society May 2008, San Francisco
- Moderator and respondent for the “Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nineteenth-Century Religious Communities” panel, sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, ALA, May 2008, San Francisco
- “‘The Light Which Puts Out Our Eyes’: The Spring Apocalypse in Thoreau’s Walden,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), “Promethean Visions and Communities of Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” panel, November 2007, Bellingham, WA
- “‘Dim and Wondrous Imagery’: Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the End of Time,” Popular and American Culture Associations of the South (PCAS/ACAS), “Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Antebellum Culture” panel, September 2007, Jacksonville, FL
- “Mas’r isn’t good to himself’: Temperance Rhetoric in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ALA, “Future Directions in Stowe Scholarship” panel, sponsored by the Stowe Society, May 2006, San Francisco
Invited Talks
- “Mining for Hawthorne,” Scholars’ Lab Digital Therapy Luncheon, February 2010.
- Panelist, Professionalization Workshop on Academic Publication, University of Virginia Slavic Department, December 2009. Panelist, “Geospatial Data and Tools in Humanities Research” session, NEH and UVA Scholars’ Lab’s “Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship,” University of Virginia, November 2009.
- “Apocalypse in Antebellum America,” guest lecture in Prof. Judith Kovac’s “Revelation to John” course, Religious Studies Department, University of Virginia, January 2008 and November 2008
