2019
March 28 • 4:00 pm
Gipson Institute for 18th-Century Studies • Lehigh University
“I have no master”: Marriage and/as The Transatlantic Slave Trade
2018
February 23
Five College Global Cultures of the Nineteenth Century
Mount Holyoke College
March 13
University of Missouri
April 18
Hunter College, CUNY
2017
August 7- 11
September 19 and 20
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
October 25
University of North Texas
October 26- 29
International Conference on Romanticism
November 14
Keynote: Mellon Conference on Diversity and Inclusion
Queens College, CUNY
November 17
Roundtable National Women’s Studies Association
Moderator: Chris Cynn (VCU) Panel: Eve Dunbar (Vassar), Mel Michelle Lewis (St. Mary’s), Ashley Lucas (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
February 17 (postponed)
Five College Global Cultures of the Nineteenth Century
Mount Holyoke College
1:30
2016
December 2
Written/Unwritten Book Event
Barnard College
12:00
November 18
“Scholars and Editors on Social Media”
AAUP (live stream)
12:00
March 8
“Lessons from the Collection: Written/Unwritten in Theory and Practice”University of California, Merced. Faculty Senate Committee on Diversity and Equity.
2015
November 17
“Reading Percy through Mary: Intersectional Politics in Prometheus Unbound and Valperga”
Unbinding Prometheus Project . University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
6:00 PM Skyline Seminar Room. Van Pelt Dietrich Library Center.
November 12
Sneak Peek: “Pride and Prejudice”
Kasser Theater • Upper Balcony
6:00-7:00
June 25-27
British Women Writers Conference
The Graduate Center CUNY
“Belle” in Context/ “Belle” in the Classroom:
Female Sentimentality, Sugar, and British Abolitionist Literature
May 21-22
Women’s History in the Digital World
Bryn Mawr College
“Seeing Gender, Seeing Race: White Women, People of Color, and British Abolition: 1790-1830”
March 2 (postponed)
Yale University
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
“The Pedagogy of Diversity”
2014
September 25-28
International Conference on Romanticism
“Sick Texts and Female Conduct: Medical Discourse and Disease in Romantic-era Fiction”
April 8
Montclair State University
In Conversation with Ayad Akhtar and Fawzia Afzal-Khan
March 26-29
College Language Association
“Roundtable Confessions of the Black Academic”
Panelist
2013
November 7
Montclair State University
Let’s Talk Race (panelist)
Speaking Silence Creative Writing Collective
July 22-23
Barnard
Feminism, Race, and Connections (facilitator)
June 4-6
2013 Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies (participant)
Romantic Science and the Romantic Imagination
April 12
Rutgers British Studies Center
“Debunking Phrenology: Mary Shelley’s Valperga and the Management of the Interior”
April 11-13
Interdisciplinary Conference on Race
“Written/Unwritten: Myths of Meritocracy and Diversity”
April 4-6
British Women Writers Conference
“Slave Metaphors, Canonical and Non: The Woman of Colour, A Tale and Mansfield Park“
March 16
“Speaking Silence: Race, Racism, and Feminism in the Academy”
THATCamp East
Barnard
March 13
‘won’t you celebrate with me’–Feminism for Everybody
Centenary College of Louisiana
Women’s History Month Lecture
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