PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Invited Talks

2021               “Writing Across the Color Line.” Virtual Book Talk for the American Antiquarian Society, Program in the History of the Book in American Culture.

2020 “Writing Across the Color Line.” Fireside Chat for The Library Company of Philadelphia.

2019                        “Black Writers and Boston Publishing: Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem.” Framingham Public Library, Lifelong Learning Lecture Series, Framingham, MA.

2019                        “María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, J.B. Lippincott, and Commission Printing.” Bibliographical Society of America, Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

2016                        “Sociologies of U.S. Ethnic Literature.” Boston College English Graduate Program, Chestnut Hill, MA.

Panels Organized

2019                        “Anonymity, Access, Absence: Challenges of Recovering Nineteenth-Century Literature.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA.

2018                        “Minor Print Cultures of the Nineteenth-Century United States.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Pittsburgh, PA.

2015                        "The Potential and Peril of Cross-Racial Connections in Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far." American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA.

2014                        “Race and Reception,” NeMLA Convention, Harrisburg, PA.

Papers Presented

2019                        “Seventy Millions: The National Circulation of The Souls of Black Folk” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Amherst, MA.

2019                        “Sensational Job: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, J.B. Lippincott, and Commission Printing.” Bibliographical Society of America, Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

2017                        “Chesnutt’s Procrustes: The Body of the Black Book.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA.

2017                        “Harboring Dissent: Anonymity and the Publication of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Cambridge, MA.

2017                       “‘A Book About Americans’: Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance and the A.C. McClurg & Co. Target Audience.” Modern Language Association Convention,         Philadelphia, PA.

2016                        “Zitkala-Ša and the Atlantic Monthly: An Indian Writer Among U.S. Publishers.” New England American Studies Association Conference, Weston, MA.

2015                        “The Social Production of Mrs. Spring Fragrance: A.C. McClurg & Co., Francis G. Browne, and Sui Sin Far.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA.

2015                        "W.E.B. Du Bois, A.C. McClurg & Co., and the Exterior of The Souls of Black Folk." Boston College English Graduate Conference, Chestnut Hill, MA.

2014                        “Selling Race: Charles Chesnutt, Houghton Mifflin, and the Racial Paratext.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture Biennial Conference, Madison, WI.

2014                        “Future Readers: The Souls of Black Folk, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, and the A.C. McClurg Backlist.” Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, IL.

2013                        “‘R-readin’ in th’ Pa-apers’: Empire, Satire, and Finley Peter Dunne.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA.

2013                        “The Canonicity of Sui Sin Far,” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

2013                        “‘To Say Nothing’: Invisible Man and the Mis-Reading of Booker T. Washington.” University of New Hampshire First Friday Speakers Series. Durham, NH.

2012                        “Ruth Hall, Womanhood, and Popular Print Culture.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA.