Presentations

"Marketing Shakespeare in the Boydell Gallery," a special panel sponsored by Shakespeare Yearbook, Modern Language Association, Dec. 2007.

"Tracing the History of Texts," SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publication, Minneapolis, July 2007

"The Thrill of Discovery: Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Research," College English Association, April 2007

Featured Speaker
"Who represents English Studies? Whom does English Studies represent?" Featured Session sponsored by National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 2007

Invited Public Lecture
"Marketing Beauty in the mid-nineteenth-century Book Trade," Textual Studies Working Group, Texas A & M University, February 2007

Invited Keynote
"Marketing Beauty: Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington and the mid-nineteenth-century Book Trade" Manuel Davenport Keynote Address for the American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Divison, Santa Fe, July 2006

"Finding Funding: Tips and Tactics," College English Association, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

Invited
"Teaching Documentary Editing in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom." Association of Documentary Editing, Denver, CO, October 2005.

"Sentiment and Science: The 'Rhetoric' of Flowers in early Nineteenth-century Britain and America." North Atlantic Society for the Study of Romanticism, Purdue University, September 2006. Only 57% of submitted proposals accepted.

"Resources for Book History Research and Teaching at Texas Tech University," Tex(t)net, Austin, TX, May 2006.

"The Rhetoric of Flowers in early Nineteenth-century Britain and America." Natural History & the Art & Literature of Place. Texas Tech Center for the Southwest, Lubbock, February, 2006.

"The 'value' of a title: Marketing the Countess of Blessington's Gems of Beauty." South Central MLA, New Orleans, LA, October 2004.

"Disraeli, Byronism, and the Manuscript of Venetia." Rocky Mountain MLA, Boulder, CO, September 2004.

"Reception and the Image of the Author(ess): the case of Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington's Victims of Society (1837)." North Atlantic Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boulder, CO, September 2004.

"A 'New Tone' for the Poetess: Constructing Social Satire in Blessington's Victims of Society." Women and Material Culture, Chawton House, Chawton, England, July 2004.

"Disraeli, Byronism, and the Manuscript of Venetia." Presentation for New Scholars Award, Bibliographical Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 23, 2004.

"Bibliography in the General Education Classroom: Undergraduates as Readers and Researchers." College English Association, Richmond, VA, April 2004.

"Engraving Gender in the mid-Nineteenth Century Giftbook." College English Association, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2003.

"Madwoman at the Exhibit Hall: Frances Burney's 'Adventure' at Boydell's Shakspere [sic] Gallery." South-central Eighteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, April 2003.

"Reading Blessington's Gems of Beauty / L'Ecrin: Nationalism and Gender in the Mid-Century Book Trade." Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, March 2003.

"Seeing Sights: Frances Burney, Theatricality, and Visual Culture." College English Association, Cincinnati, OH, April 2002.

"Mrs. Barbauld's 'Insensible Education.'" Kentucky Philological Association, March 2002.

"'Emblem' of a 'Fit' Education: Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Evenings at Home." Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, December 2001.

"Mrs. Baillie's Testicles: Byron's Reading of De Monfort." American Conference on Romanticism, Oxford, Ohio, November 2001.

"Marketing Shakespeare: The Growth of the Boydell Shakspere Gallery, 1788-1804." College English Association, Memphis, TN, April 2001.

"An Industry in herself: The Countess of Blessington's Giftbook Annuals." Kentucky Philological Association, March 2001.

• Paper chosen as "Best of Section."
• Abstract published, Kentucky Philological Review, March 2002.

Invited
Preparing Future Faculty in the Arts and Humanities. Sponsored by the University of Kentucky Teaching and Learning Center. Lexington, KY, February 1, 2000.

"Finding A Voice: Using the Atlantic Monthly in the Composition Classroom." Kentucky Philological Association, 2000.

• Paper chosen as "Best of Section."
• Abstract published, Kentucky Philological Review, March 2001.

"White Gloves and Hard Hats: Images of the Junior League in Contemporary Literature." Popular Culture Association of the South, Nashville, 2001.

"Fallen without Falling: L. E. L. and The Countess of Blessington." College English Association, Charleston, SC, April 2000.

"The Ideal Woman in Blessington's Victims Of Society." Kentucky Philological Association, March 1999.

• Paper chosen as "Best of Section."
• Abstract published, Kentucky Philological Review, March 2000.

"Rediscovering the Countess of Blessington." Kentucky Philological Association, March 1998.

"Responding to the 'Furious Sappho'": Manfred, Glenarvon and the Politics of Revenge." SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 1997.

"Revenge, Love and the Byronic Hero." Kentucky Philological Association, Richmond, March 1997.

"N. Bates at the Hotel again: Students, Satire and Contemporary Native American Literature." College English Association, New Orleans, LA, 1996.

"Byron's Letters and the Creation of Narrative Voice." MLA, Chicago, IL, December 1995.

"Wordsworth as Psychological Truth: 'Nutting' and the Guava Episode in Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents." American Women Writers of Color Conference, Ocean City, MD, 1995.

"If Eve were an Indian Goddess and God were Coyote's Dream: Christianity, Ethnicity and Gender in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." Midwestern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Greenville, IL, 1995.

"Testing the Canon: Student Responses to Texts by Medieval Women in English Literature Surveys." College English Association, Orlando, FL, April 1994.

"Byron's Letters, Autobiography, and the Composition of Parisina." Kentucky Philological Association, Frankfort, KY, March 1994.

"'Her lips suck forth my soul': Romantic Revisions of Marlowe's Helen in Manfred and Frankenstein." Re-Reading Romanticism, Duke University, November 1993.

"'Belonging to the Other Powers': Literary Intertexts, Astarte, and Byron's New World-View." Kentucky Philological Association, Murray, KY, March 1993.

• Paper chosen as "Best of Section."
• Abstract published, Kentucky Philological Review, March 1994.

"'A Devil of a Mannerist': Color, Italian Art, and Byron's Manfred." Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Tampa, FL, April 1992.

"Bringing the East Home: The Idea of Justice in Byron's Parisina." International Byron Seminar, London, England, July 1991.