Below is a selection of my public and academic presentations, by year.
2012
Coming soon!
2010
"'Nature is what We know – / But have no Art to say – ': Meadows and Moors as Creative Inspiration in Dickinson and the Brontës." Emily Dickinson International Society Conference. "'were I Britain Born': Dickinson’s Transatlantic Connections." Oxford University; Oxford, England, August 6-8, 2010.
2005
"'Fondly, Aunt Emily.': Reading Dickinson's Correspondence to Ned, Martha, and Gib." Emily Dickinson and Family. Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting. Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, July 29, 2005.
"Narratives from Elmira and the Biography of Mark Twain." Mark Twain Conference. Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College, Elmira, NY, August 1, 2005. Invited presenter.
2004
"The Ample Life of Thomas Gilbert (Gib) Dickinson, Age 8." New Directions in Dickinson Scholarship. Emily Dickinson International Society 5th International Conference, "Realms of Amplitude," Hilo, Hawaii, July, 2004. [This work was generously presented in my absence by Georgiana Strickland].
"'sweet velocity': The Story of Emily Dickinson and Her Young Nephew, Gilbert." "A Little Madness in the Spring": Week-long Grand Opening Celebration, The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens, Amherst, Massachusetts. Inauguration of public tours of The Evergreens nursery. April 3, 2004. Invited lecturer.
2003
"'Of Crickets – Crows – and Retrospects': First Publications of Dickinson Poems in Nineteenth Century Juvenile Periodicals." Little Known Children's Publications by Better Known American Women Writers. Society for the Study of American Women Writers. 2nd International Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, September, 2003.
2002
"Head Girl Meets the Muggle Classroom: The Education of J. K. Rowling," Children's Literature Association, Wilkes-Barre, PA, June, 2002.
2001
"A Lifetime with Mark Twain: Katy Leary’s 30-Year Memoir of Domestic Work and ‘Potent Influence.'" Ireland and America Conference. Drew University, March, 2001.
"Climates of the Writer’s Process: Dickinson’s Epistolary Journal." Emily Dickinson International Society 4th International Conference, "New Climates in Emily Dickinson," Trondheim, Norway, August, 2001.
"The House That Emily Built: Dickinson Rebuilds Bradstreet House 200 Years After Fire!" Emily Dickinson International Society Panel. Society for the Study of American Women Writers 1st International Conference, San Antonio, TX. February, 2001.
"'I check my busy pencil – ': Dickinson’s Imagery of the Writer’s Instrument." Emily Dickinson International Society Panel. American Literature Association Conference. Cambridge, MA, May, 2001.
"Little House That Could: Pioneering Laura Ingalls Wilder’s House Motif." Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, OH. Nov., 2001. [This work was generously presented in my absence by a fellow panelist].
"Risky Crossings: Toni Morrison’s and Anne Tyler’s First Picture Books for Children." Children’s Literature Association Conference, Buffalo, NY. June, 2001.
2000
"'I will sone be home’: Margaret Maher, Emily Dickinson, and an Irish Trunkful of Poems?" An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger/Irish Famine): An Interdisciplinary Assessment. Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT. Sept. 2000.
"Nature is what we know-- / But have no art to say--': Emily Dickinson and the Creative Process." American Women Nature Writers Conference. Castleton, VT. June, 2000.
"Spiteful, Loud, and Quiet: 124 Bluestone Road and the Motif of House in American Literature." Toni Morrison Society Conference, Lorain, OH. September, 2000.
"Teaching Composition and Literature from a Distance: Which is Better—Online or Video Conferencing?" Conference of the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities. East Stroudsburg University, PA. October 26, 2000.
"Toys Are Us: A Toy Story of the Twentieth Century Told Through the Evolution of Characters and Playthings in American Children’s Literature." American Literature Association Conference. Long Beach, CA. May, 2000.
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