Conference Presentations

“Purging the Surplus: Precarity in Contemporary Body Horror,” Don’t Look: Representations of Horror in the 21st Century, Univ. Of Edinburg, Edinburg, Scotland, April, 2018.

“Baptism by Blood: The State in The Purge Trilogy,” Whither the State Symposium, Univ. of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 2018.

“Literary Studies in a Post-Tenure Age,” Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, January 2016.

“The Future of Now: Totaling Race and Art in Ben Lerner’s 10:04,” Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, Washington D.C., June 2015.

“Fortunato’s Fortune-Making Work: Affective Labor in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love,” Critical Conversations, Univ. of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2014.

“Faulkner’s ‘Cosmic Rule’: Modernist Autonomy, Neoliberalism, and the Poor,” Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, Banff, Canada, June 2014.

“‘The Cosmic Rule for Poverty’: Faulkner’s Pylon, Modernist Autonomy, Neoliberalism, and the Poor,” Art in Interesting Times presented by the Marxist Reading Group, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, March 2014.

“Misanthropos v. Capitalism: The Commodification of the Hero in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens,” The Image of the Hero presented by the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State Univ. Pueblo, March 2014.

“The Consuming Masses: Undead Capitalism and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, January 2014.

“‘Pretty Good Business,’ Or, Resignifying Feudalism in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables,” Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, Columbus, OH, June 2013.

“Whither Depth, Whence Surface: Symptoms of Late Modernity” (invited), English Department Research Symposium, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, May 2013.

Literary Theory Reading Group Poster Session, English Department Research Symposium, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, May 2013.

“Blood Money: Class in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables” English MA Conference, Graduate Conference, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, May 2013.

“After Disagreement: Surface Reading and Posthistoricism,” MadLit 2013: Between Surface and Depth, Graduate Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, February 2013.

“‘The First Loud Ding-Dong of Time and Doom’: Surface, Depth, and History in William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun,” Debates and Keywords in Literary Theory, Graduate Conference, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, December 2012.