TALKS
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“Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident.” Vcologies VII, University of Chicago, Warren Woods Ecology Field Station, 2024

“Witnesses of Suffering”: Architecture, Ecology, and Indirect Perception. Vcologies VI, University of Mississippi, 2023

“One Vast Library: Ecology and the Nonhuman Witness.” Ecology and Religion in the 19th Century, Flightless Conference, Georgetown University, 2019 (video archive here)

“Transatlantic Climate and the Aesthetics of the Gulf Stream.” Vcologies IV: Disciplinary Approaches to Environmental Knowledge, University of Chicago, 2019

“Accident.” Workshop for The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities, Stanford University, 2018

“‘Down the Slant Towards the Eye’: Hopkins and Ecological Perception.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Banff, 2017

“Tempests in State: Towards an Ecology of the Social-Problem Novel.” Vcologies (Victorian Ecologies) II, University of Houston, 2017

“The Climate of Utopia.” 18th-/19th-century Atlantic Cultures Workshop and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, May 2017 (details here)

“‘Down the Slant Towards the Eye’: Hopkins and Ecological Perception.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), Philadelphia, March 2017

“The Mail-Coach” [De Quincey, Hardy, and Legal Actants] Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Phildelphia, 2017. 

​“Galton, Hardy, and the Composite Imagination.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Atlanta, 2016.

“The Climate of Utopia: Richard Jefferies and Boundary Ecology.” Inaugural Vcologies (Victorian Ecologies) Symposium, University of California, Davis, 2016.

“The Clouds and the Poor: Ruskin, Mayhew, and Moral Ecology.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), Asheville, 2016.​

“Life Among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Cambridge, 2016.​​

“The Crystal Orders: Accident and Structure in Victorian Aesthetics.” Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA), Providence, 2015.

“Serial Thinking: Hardy's Probable Realism.” ACLA, Seattle, 2015.

“Scripta Manent: Parody and Witness in J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands.” International Conference on Narrative, Chicago, 2015.

“Hesitant Verdicts.” [Wilkie Collins and Legal Uncertainty]
MLA Convention, Criminal Justice and the Literary Imagination, Chicago, 2014.

“John Venn’s Phenomenology of Evidence.”
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Pasadena, 2013.

“‘Blank is Less Than One’: Prediction and Probable Knowledge in Thomas Hardy.”
MLA Convention, Logic and Victorian Literature (panel organizer), Boston, 2013.

“Fielding’s Probability.”

• Narrative, Novel Counts: Numbers and Narrative Form (panel organizer), Las Vegas, 2012.
• Annual Graduate Symposium, English Department, Harvard University, 2011.

“‘Uncounterfeit Money’: Time, Grammar, and the Gift.”
MLA Convention, Recent Developments in Gift Theory, Seattle, 2012.

“‘Thoughts no bondage can restrain’: Freedom and Association in Wordsworth.”
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Park City, 2011.

“‘No Fixed Abode’: Movement and Consent in J. M. Coetzee.”

• Narrative, St. Louis, 2011.
• American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2009.
• Gesellschaft für die neuen englischsprachigen Literaturen (GNEL/ASNEL), Annual Conference, University of Münster, 2009.

“‘Vile Attentions’: Animals and the Limits of Attention in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians."
Dialogues on Animality, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, 2009.

“‘Trodden by No Human Foot’: Animals, Property, and the Environment in Cape Travel Narratives to 1830.”
​Annual Alexander von Humboldt Conference, Berlin, 2009.