Recent Public Lectures

• Summer 2011 – “We Were Progressing, That Was Sure,” NEH Summer Workshop, Mark Twain House
• Summer 2011 – “The Site of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Stowe Society Annual Meeting, ALA National Conference, Boston
• Spring 2011 – “Faulkner at Virginia”/”Mark Twain, Virtually,” UVA Alumni Clubs in Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, Asheville
• Fall 2010 – “I Just Wanted to Go Somewheres,” En Route Symposium, Center for Twain Studies, Elmira College
• Summer 2010 – “Faulkner at Virginia,” Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, University of Mississippi
• Summer 2009 – “Huckleberry Finn – Classrooms and Controversy,” NEH
• Summer Workshop, Mark Twain HouseFall 2008 – “Mark Twain, Speechless,” Annual Mark Twain Dinner, Lotus Club, New York City
• Summer 2007 – “Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Film,” Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Web of Culture conference (which I co-directed), Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford
• Fall 2006 -- “Mark Twain, Virtually,” Center for Twain Studies, Elmira College
• Fall 2005 – “Mark Twain Tries to Get the Last Laugh,” Mark Twain Circle of America Annual Meeting, MLA National Convention
• Spring 2004 -- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture: 3 Works in Progress,” Vassar College
• Fall 2002 -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Web of Culture," The Huntington Library conference, Topsy-Turvy: Uncle Tom's Cabin Turns 150"
• Fall 2002 -- "The Site of Uncle Tom's Cabin," Gettysburg College (E-Lincoln Prize Speech)
• Spring 2001 -- "Teaching American Literature," Temple University English Dept.
• Summer 2000 -- "Virtual Unrealities: Black Figures and White Fictions," Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, Univ. of Virginia
• Spring 1999 -- "Criticism as Fiction," presented to the Poe Society Session, American Literature Association National Conference, Baltimore