Talks and Guest Lectures
“Postcolonial Writers and the Global Literary Archive: Authorial Identity, Material Mobility, Institutional Placement.” “Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access,” Annual Conference, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), University of Reading, 3 July 2024.
“Invested in Art: Female Economic Agency in Anne Brontë’s Fiction.” “Women, Money and Markets (1700–1950),” International Symposium, University of Sussex, Brighton, 14 June 2024.
“Authors’ Papers in the Archive: Oxford and Beyond.” Visiting Fellow Talk, Exeter College, Oxford, 27 May 2024.
“Teaching Authorship and the Literary Marketplace.” Pedagogy Workshop “Economics and the Eighteenth Century,” DePauw University, Greencastle (USA), 17 November 2023.
“Eighteenth-Century Black Writers and the Global Print Market.” Invited Keynote Lecture, English Department, DePauw University, Greencastle (USA), 16 November 2023.
“Mediated Presence: Romantic Manuscripts and Modern Authorship (Ireland, Shelley, Keats).” “Romanticism and Its Media,” International Conference, German Society for English Romanticism, University of Leipzig, 5 October 2023.
“Verschleppung, Flucht, Exil: Schwarze Autor:innen um 1800 im Spannungsfeld von fremd- und selbstbestimmter Migration.” [“Abduction, Escape, Exile: Black Authors around 1800 between Involuntary and Voluntary Migration”] “Fluchtgeschichte(n): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Verbannung und Vertreibung um 1800,” Workshop, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, 22 July 2023.
“Across Time and Space: The Early Black British Book Beyond Borders.” “Books in and out of Time: Media, History, and Print Culture, 1700–1900,” International Conference, University of Passau, 13 July 2023.
“Eighteenth-Century Black Poetry and Prose: Publication, Translation, Reception.” Invited Talk, University of Bayreuth, 15 June 2023.
“Postwar Paper Fictions and the Rise of the Modern Literary Archive.” Invited Talk, English Department, University of Münster, 6 June 2023.
“Literaturarchiv / Archivliteratur: Anglophone Perspektiven nach 1945.” [“Literary Archive / Archive Literature: Post-1945 Anglophone Perspectives”] Book Studies Colloquium, Centre for Book Studies, University of Munich (LMU), 19 May 2023.
“Language and Identity: Black British Writing in Translation, 1770–1810.” Regensburg-Passau Research Colloquium, University of Passau, 12 May 2023.
“Shakespeare’s Fake Library: Book Ownership and Doctored Evidence.” “Shakespeare’s Libraries,” Annual Conference, German Shakespeare Society, Weimar, 22 April 2023.
“Auktoriale, textuelle und materielle Migrationen (in) der Lyrik des schwarzen Atlantiks.” [“Authorial, Textual, and Material Migration in/of the Poetry of the Black Atlantic”] “Migrationen der Lyrik um 1300, um 1800,” German Research Foundation Symposium, Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, 20–25 March 2023.
“Begriff, Epoche, Datenpunkt: Romantikforschung zwischen Ideengeschichte und Digital Humanities.” [“Concept, Period, Data Point: Romantic Studies between the History of Ideas and the Digital Humanities”] Invited Talk, Workshop “Ideengeschichte als Provokation der Literaturwissenschaft? Alte und neue Zugänge zur literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Ideenhistoriographie,” German Department, University of Heidelberg, 2 December 2022.
“The Limits of Sympathy: Negative Affect and Victorian Negotiations of Racial Difference.” “Victorian Antipathies,” International Conference, University of Stuttgart, 5 November 2022.
“Diasporic Papers: Nobel Laureates and the Global Archive Economy.” Invited Conference Talk, “Literature in the Nobel Era: Regimes of Value,” International Symposium, German Literature Archive, Marbach, 25 August 2022.
“Paper Fictions and the Rise of the Modern Literary Archive.” “Literature as Cultural Heritage: Manuscript, Philology, Archive,” International Symposium, International Academic Forum, University of Heidelberg, 30 July 2022.
“Late-Victorian Paper Fictions.” Project Presentation, Second Online Workshop of the DACH Victorianists Network, 1 July 2022.
“Automatic Writing: George Gissing’s ‘Private Papers.’” Invited Talk, Regensburg-Passau Research Colloquium, University of Passau, 23 June 2022.
“Übersetzung, Texttreue und (Ver-)Fälschung im deutsch-britischen Vergleich (William Henry Ireland, August Wilhelm Schlegel, George Moir).” [“Translation, Textual Fidelity, and Falsification in German-British Comparison (William Henry Ireland, August Wilhelm Schlegel, George Moir)”] Invited Conference Talk, “Die Shakespeare-Übersetzungen von August Wilhelm Schlegel und des Tieck-Kreises: Kontext – Geschichte – Edition,” International Conference, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, 14 June 2022.
“Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft und britische Romantik, 1933–1945.” Spring Colloquium of the DFG Research Network “Aktuelle Perspektiven der Romantikforschung: Theorien, Methoden, Lektüren,” University of Frankfurt, 9 April 2022.
“Victorian Authorship and Gender.” Invited Guest Lecture, English Department, University of Fribourg, 1 April 2022.
“Manuscript Fictions: Literature and Cultural Heritage from the Nineteenth Century to the Digital Revolution.” Work-in-Progress Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 12 January 2022.
“Contagious Others.” Roundtable “Radicals, Rakes and the Righteous: Problematising the ‘Norm’ in Eighteenth-Century Fiction,” Annual Conference, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 5 January 2022.
“Philosophie und Narratologie der Zeit in Thomas Manns Der Zauberberg.” [“The Philosophy and Narratology of Time in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain”] Invited Guest Lecture, Institute for German Philology, University of Munich (LMU), 7 December 2021.
“Migrating Authors and Migrating Books in the Early Black Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Francis Williams, Olaudah Equiano.” “Migrations of the Book,” International Conference, Texas A&M University Libraries, 15 October 2021.
“Romantik(en): Alte und neue Antworten auf eine literaturgeschichtliche Problemkonstellation.” [“Romanticism(s): Old and New Answers to a Literary-Historical Problem”] Autumn Colloquium of the DFG Research Network “Aktuelle Perspektiven der Romantikforschung: Theorien, Methoden, Lektüren,” University of Frankfurt, 6 October 2021.
“Shakespeare zwischen Handschrift und Druck: Frühneuzeitliche Autorschaft und forensische Philologie (um 1600/um 1800).” [“Shakespeare between Handwriting and Print: Early Modern Authorship and Forensic Philology (c. 1600/c. 1800)”] Invited Conference Talk, “Handschrift im Druck: Annotieren, Korrigieren, Weiterschreiben, 1500–1800,” International Conference, German Department, University of Heidelberg, 24 September 2021.
“Aesthetic Experience, Affective Response: (Post-)Critique and Attachment in Zadie Smith and Ben Lerner.” “Moved by Movement in Novels: Phenomenological Approaches,” International Workshop, University of Mainz, 10 September 2021.
“Archival Economies: Valuing the Papers of Twenty-First-Century Nobel Laureates.” “Literature in the Nobel Era: Comparative, Theoretical, and Archival Approaches to the Nobel Prize in Literature,” International Symposium, German Literature Archive, Marbach, 26 August 2021.
“Coetzee, Dylan, and the Living Dead: Prize Granting and Antehumous Archiving in the Contemporary Literary Field.” Invited Keynote Lecture, Graduate Conference, English Department, University of Heidelberg, 25 June 2021.
Panel Co-Moderation, “Publishing, Gatekeeping, Patronage: Participation and/in the Literary Field,” Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, 19 June 2021.
“‘I Cannot Afford to Paint for My Own Amusement’: Art Economies and Gendered Professionalism in the Novels of Anne Brontë.” “Female Economies: Women, Money and Markets 1600–1900,” International Conference, University of Zurich, 9 June 2021.
“Artefactual Possession: A. S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, and the Manuscript Novel.” Invited Talk, Institute for English and American Studies, University of Hamburg, 19 February 2021.
“Zirkulierende Papiere: Literarische Manuskripte und/als kulturelles Erbe.” [“Circulating Papers: Literary Manuscripts and/as Cultural Heritage”] Invited Talk, Research Colloquium “Literaturwissenschaft und Cultural-Heritage-Forschung” (Professor Dirk Werle), German Department, University of Heidelberg, 12 January 2021.
“Modern Literary Manuscripts as Cultural Heritage: Valuation, Archivization, Digitization.” Project Presentation, Flagship Initiative “Transforming Cultural Heritage,” Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage, 17 December 2020.
“Individual and Society in Eighteenth-Century Pandemic Narratives.” Interview Podcast, Lecture Series “Separation, Isolation, and Community,” English Department, University of Heidelberg, 23 November 2020.
“Literature, Introspection, (Self-)Surveillance.” Invited Guest Lecture, English Department, University of Fribourg, 12 November 2020.
“Literature, Introspection, (Self-)Surveillance.” Invited Guest Lecture, Department of English, University of Bern, 30 March 2020.
“Art, Gender, Market: Anne Brontë, Virginia Woolf, and the (Post-)Victorian Künstlerroman.” “Anne Brontë at 200: Exploring Her Literary Works and (After)Life,” Conference, University of Bonn, 18 January 2020.
“Total Recall? Digital Humanities Corpora and the Literary-Historical Record.” “Recent Trends in English Studies,” Research Colloquium, English Department, University of Heidelberg, 17 December 2019.
“Material Exchange, Symbolic Recognition: Weltliteratur as Discourse and Practice in Goethe, Carlyle, and Emerson.” “Literature in the World: Material Networks of Books to and from Goethe’s Weimar,” International Symposium, St John’s College, University of Oxford, 7 November 2019.
“Canon, Corpus, Archive: Selection and Valuation from Romantic Criticism to the Digital Humanities.” “Canonization in Times of Globalization and Digitization,” Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of English, Department of British Studies, University of Leipzig, 23 September 2019.
“‘Hyper-Germanized’ vs. ‘Thoroughly Saxon’: Nationality, Race, and Style in Carlyle’s Early Transatlantic Reception.” 12th Biennial Symbiosis Conference, University of Dundee, 12 July 2019.
“From Page to Stage: Carlyle, Emerson, and Anglo-American Literary Culture.” “Transatlantic Literary Authority: Material Networks, Symbolic Economies,” International Conference, International Academic Forum, University of Heidelberg, 5 July 2019.
“Performing Nationhood on the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Circuit” Symposium of the DFG Research Training Group “Authority and Trust,” Frankenstein, 11 May 2019.
“‘Spiritual Commerce’: World Literature and Cultural Nationalism in Goethe, Carlyle, and Emerson.” Nineteenth Century Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 4 April 2019.
“Networked Distance: Infrastructural Transatlanticism and Anglo-American Literary Culture at Mid-Century.” Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar Graduate Conference, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 19 January 2019.
“Between Autonomy and Heteronomy: Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and the Status of the Literary.” “Transcendentalist Intersections: Literature, Philosophy, Religion,” International Conference, University of Heidelberg, 27 July 2018.
“Paleo-Nationalism: Rhetorical Patterns and Argumentative Strategies in Nineteenth-Century British and American Writing about Literature and the Nation.” “Writing, the State, and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Concerns,” International Conference, Boston University College of General Studies, London, 30 June 2018.
“Authority and Authorization in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Print Culture.” Symposium of the DFG Research Training Group “Authority and Trust,” Annweiler, 22 June 2018.
“The Limits of ‘the Limits of Critique’: Historicizing the (Re-)Turn to Affect.” “(Literary) Theory after Post-Structuralism,” English Department Graduate Conference, University of Heidelberg, 30 May 2018.
“Weltliterarische Räume, nationalkulturelle Verteilungskämpfe: Pascale Casanovas La République mondiale des Lettres und die anglo-amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft.” [“World-Literary Spaces, National-Cultural Distribution Battles: Pascale Casanova’s La République mondiale des Lettres and Anglo-American Literary Studies”] “Austausch, Transfer, Verflechtung: Methodische Begegnungen mit Frankreich im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert,” Research Colloquium, Institut Culturel Franco-Allemand, Tübingen, 15 February 2018.
Response to Donald Pease (Dartmouth College), “Re-Mapping the Transnational Turn.” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, 4 December 2017.
Response to David Damrosch (Harvard University), “‘Those Reprobates at New Youth’: Modernist Magazines in Asia and the West.” Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg, 29 November 2017.
“Bardolatry and Bardoclasm in Transatlantic Perspective.” Doctoral Symposium of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Heidelberg, 12 November 2017.
“Shakespearean Negotiations: Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Culture and the Poetics of (De-)Nationalized Authorship.” Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, University College Cork, 11 July 2017.
“Nineteenth-Century Lecture Culture and Literary Historical Narratives of the ‘Fall into Institutionality.’” “Literature and Institutions,” International Symposium, Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Gießen, 21 June 2017.
“Friendly Fire: Struggles for Recognition in Thomas Carlyle’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Anglo-American Cultural Criticism.” “Spaces of Confrontation,” Third International Conference in Transatlantic Studies, Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, 12 May 2017.
Panel Moderation, “Literary Struggles in the Nineteenth Century.” “Spaces of Confrontation,” Third International Conference in Transatlantic Studies, Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, 12 May 2017.
“Transatlantic Literary Studies: Institutional Trajectories, Methodological Turns.” Doctoral Symposium of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Bad Homburg, 21 March 2017.
“Transatlantic Authorization: Emerson and English Literature.” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 27 May 2016.
“Orestes Brownson and the World Republic of Letters.” “American Literature in the World,” Graduate Conference, Yale University, 8 April 2016.
“American Transcendentalism and Wordsworth’s Transnational Uses.” Wordsworth Summer Conference, Rydal (UK), 7 August 2015.
“Economies of Value: American Transcendentalism and the (Literary) Market.” “Value,” English Faculty Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, 5 June 2015.
“Negotiating Cultural Authority: New England Intellectuals and the Challenge of the English Literary Tradition.” “New England and the World,” Graduate Student Association Conference, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, 25 October 2014.
“‘I Won’t Tax Your Patience’: David Foster Wallaces Postumer Roman The Pale King (2011).” [“‘I Won’t Tax Your Patience’: David Foster Wallace’s Posthumous Novel The Pale King (2011).”] “Literatur und Kultur in Obamas Amerika,” Symposium, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, 25 June 2011.