KEYNOTE LECTURES
- “Volcanoes and Industrialization in Early Anthropocene Literature.” Wild Romanticism Conference. University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. 25 May 2018.
- “Intellectual Love and the Affective Turn.” Alabama Symposium on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies. University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama. 1 October 2016.
- “Representing Climate Change, 1784–2015.” English Graduate Association Colloquium. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. 16 April 2016.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- "Gothic Sympathies." Panel Organizer and Chair. Alabama College English Teachers Association. Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama. 26 February 2021.
- "Volcanoes and Industrialization in Early Anthropocene Literature." North American Victorian Studies Association. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 17 October 2019.
- “Skype Interviews: Thoughts from Both Sides of the Screen.” MLA Annual Convention. New York, New York. 6 January 2018.
- “Representing Climate Change, 1784–2015.” MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 6 January 2017.
- “Affect Studies and British Romanticism.” Session Organizer and Chair. MLA Annual Convention. Austin, Texas. 8 January 2016.
- “Romantic Clouds: Climate, Affect, Hyperobjects.” German Society for English Romanticism. University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany. 9 October 2015.
- “A Pedagogy of Love: William Wordsworth, Literary Love, and the Survey Course.” Alabama Symposium on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 3 October 2015.
- “John Clare’s Poetics of Love and the Vanishing of Subjectivity.” MLA Annual Convention. Vancouver, Canada. 9 January 2015.
- “The Story of Joy and the Affective Turn.” Alabama Symposium on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies. Birmingham, Alabama. 4 October 2014.
- “Love’s Knowledge in Shelley’s Poetry and Prose.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Washington, D.C. 10 July 2014.
- “Rethinking the Romantics’ Love of Nature.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. 4 October 2013.
- “Hemans and the Affections.” International Conference on Romanticism. Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. 28 September 2013.
- “Affect and Environmentalism in the Nineteenth Century.” Panel Organizer and Chair. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 29 May 2013.
- “Rethinking the Romantics’ Love of Nature.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 29 May 2013.
- “The Violence of Form in Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy.” MLA Annual Convention. Boston, Massachusetts. 4 January 2013.
- “Beauty and the Ecological Sublime in Wordsworth and Shelley.” International Conference on Romanticism. Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 3 November 2011.
- “I (heart) Romanticism: Love, Poetry, Poetics.” International Conference on Romanticism. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. 11 November 2010.
- “‘A vein of melancholy love’: Felicia Hemans and an Epistemology of Love.” Midwest Conference on British Studies. Baldwin-Wallace College, Cleveland, Ohio. 10 October 2010.
- “New Formalisms, the Frankfurt School, and Percy Shelley.” British Modernities Group. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. 24 April 2010.
- “‘Something far more deeply interfused’: Wordsworth and the Urban Aesthetic.” International Conference on Romanticism. The City College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York, New York. 6 November 2009.
- “‘Something far more deeply interfused’: Wordsworth’s Deep Ecology.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 27 March 2009.
- “Beyond New Historicism: Percy Shelley and the Critical Work of Romanticists.” International Conference on Romanticism. Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. 18 October 2008.
- “Shifting Audiences: Shelley’s Godwinism in Queen Mab and The Mask of Anarchy.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 23 August 2008.
- “The World of Ideas and the World of Practice: Romanticism and Online Writing Centers.” East Central Writing Centers Association. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 11 April 2008.
- “(Inter)Disciplining Literary Criticism: Byron Studies in the Twenty-First Century.” Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: A Conference on Performance between Disciplines. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 13 April 2007.
- “A Poetics of Self-Consciousness: Medievalism and the Literary Heroes of Tennyson and Byron.” International Conference on Medievalism. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 14 October 2006.
- “Robert Browning’s Poetic Dialectic and the Ruins of the Dark Tower.” Spring Graduate Colloquium. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 25 May 2006.
INVITED LECTURES
- "Early Anthropocene Literature." Guest Lecture in Dr. Clare Simmon's Victorian Literature Graduate Seminar. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 9 February 2021.
- "Romanticism and the Anthropocene." Guest Lecture in Dr. John Havard's English 2500: English as a Field of Study. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 25 September 2019.
- "Literary Tourism in England." Guest Lecture in Dr. Robert Klevay's MLA 6010: Fantastic Voyages and Personal Identity. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 15 October 2018.
- "Romanticism and the Anthropocene." Guest Lecture in Dr. John Havard's English 2500: English as a Field of Study. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 26 September 2018.
- "Romanticism, Ecocriticism, and the Environmental Humanities." Guest Lecture in Dr. Alex Kaufman's English 2500: English as a Field of Study. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 11 October 2017.
- "Live Discussions Using Skype." Faculty Development Institute Flash Talks Event. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 22 February 2017.
- “Great Assignments, Great Expectations.” Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 29 March 2016.
- “Student-Created Digital Scholarly Editions.” Technology Speed Dating Event, Faculty Development Institute. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 25 February 2016.
- “Romanticism and the Emotions.” Guest Lecture in Dr. Darren Harris-Fain’s English 2500: English as a Field of Study. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 30 September 2015.
- “Weebly Website Design.” Technology Speed Dating Event, Faculty Development Institute. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 18 February 2015.
- “Percy Shelley and Plato’s Symposium.” Guest Lecture in Dr. Aaron Cobb’s MLA 6010: Love and Friendship. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 3 September 2014.
- “Writing with Weebly.” Technology Speed Dating Event, Faculty Development Institute. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 26 March 2014.
- “What’s a Weebly?” Invited Lecture, Lunch and Learn Series, Faculty Development Institute. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 26 February 2014.
- “Romanticism and Ecocriticism.” Guest Lecture in Dr. Darren Harris-Fain’s English 2500: English as a Field of Study. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. 9 October 2013.