“Foreclosing Black Sentimentalism, Recovering John Jacobs,” Panelist, “Forestalled/Foreclosed Ends in African American Literature and Scholarly Editing,” C19, Pasadena (Mar. 2024)
“Rising from the Humanities’ Ruins: A Roundtable on Experimental Histories from Below,” Organizer, C19, Pasadena (Mar. 2024)
Berlant’s America, Panelist, “Pedagogy,” Northwestern University (Oct. 2023)
Roundtable participant (virtual), The Matter of Biography, University of Manchester (May 2023)
“Ahab and the Matter of Monomania,” Panelist, Melville Society, Sorbonne Université, Paris (July 2022)
“A Genealogy of the Flying African,” Participant, Pain: A Symposium, University of Oxford (June 2022)
“Prisoners of Loss,” Speaker and Organizer, Cruel Optimisms, C19, Coral Gables (Apr. 2022)
“Black Nostalgias: Race, Freedom, and Death, Harriet Jacobs to Octavia Butler,” Panelist (virtual), “The Labor of Pain in the Long Nineteenth-Century,” American Studies Association, San Juan (Oct. 2021)
“John Jacobs: Mariner, Renegade, Castaway in Victorian London,” Race Matters: Interrogating Race and the Global Writing of History, University of Warwick (Nov. 2019)
“The Whiteness of the Will II: Race and the Matter of Monomania,” Melville Society, New York University (June 2019)
“The Whiteness of the Will I: Race and the Matter of Monomania,” Melvilles’ Emotions, American Literature Association, Boston (May 2019)
“African American Diasporic Radicalism in the London Emancipation Society,” British Association of American Studies, University of Sussex (Apr. 2019)
“Bondservant of Liberty: The Jacobs Family and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793,” Invited Speaker, Department of History, University of Connecticut (Mar. 2019)
(Earlier version presented at Abolitionism, Quakerism, and the Principled Life, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Apr. 2018)
“The Whiteness of the Whale: Moby-Dick and Homicidal Monomania,” Invited Speaker, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford (Jan. 2019)
“Black Gold: John Jacobs in the Pacific, 1850-1857,” Speaker, Geographies and Genealogies of Western Print Culture, Modern Language Association, Chicago (Jan. 2019)
“Harriet and John Jacobs’s Rochester,” Frederick Douglass: Across and Against Times, Places, and Disciplines, Paris (Oct. 2018)
Speaker and Roundtable Organizer, “Black Utopias,” ASAP/10 New Orleans (Oct. 2018)
“What was Black Nostalgia? Two Ways to Study the Affective History of Slavery,” Stanford Humanities Center (Apr. 2018)
“The Wreck of Reason,” Invited Speaker, Vanderbilt University English Department (Apr. 2018)
Interview with Tom Thurston for “Slavery and Its Legacies,” a podcast of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University (Nov. 2017)
“What was Black Nostalgia?,” Invited Talk, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick (Sept. 2017)
“Passages to Freedom: Worlding the North American Slave Narrative,” Digital Humanities Lab, Yale University (Aug. 2017)
“Race and Genre in Israel Potter,” Seminar Presenter, “Melville and the Non-Human,” Melville Society, Kings College, London (July 2017)
“Harriet and John Jacobs and the Science of Feeling: Medicine, Humanitarianism, and Black Fugitive Narration,” Invited Panelist, American Literature Association, Boston (May 2017)
“Harriet and John Jacobs and the Science of Feeling: Medicine, Humanitarianism, and Black Fugitive Narration,” Invited Panelist, American Literature Association, Boston (May 2017)
“The ‘Police’ before the Police,” Roundtable Discussant, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis (March 2017)
“American Literatures: Translation Dimensions,” Invited Panelist, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia (Jan. 2017)
Empire of Nostalgia: Travel, Confinement, Nutrition, Symposium Organizer and Panelist, Vanderbilt University (Nov. 2016)
“Slave Nostalgia in the Americas,” Presenter, Rutgers Nineteenth-Century Workshop (Oct. 2016)
“Mistranslation in the Americas,” Panel Co-Organizer and Panelist, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pennsylvania State University (March 2016)
“Melville and the Materialist Turn,” Panel Co-Organizer and Chair, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pennsylvania State University, State College (March 2016)
“Rethinking Ahab,” Panel Co-Organizer and Chair, Modern Language Association (Jan. 2016)
“Before Biopolitics: Foucault and Quantitative History,” Panelist, Society for Science, Literature & the Arts, Rice University (Nov. 2015)
“Dying of Nostalgia at Andersonville Prison,” Seminar Presenter, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College (June 2015)
“Americanist Criticism, Backwards and Forwards,” Seminar Co-Organizer and Presenter, American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle (March 2015)
“Literary Questions, Digital Evidence,” Panelist, Modern Language Association, Vancouver (Jan. 2015)
“Database Archaeologies,” Panelist, The Digital Crucible: Arts & Humanities & Computation, Dartmouth College (Oct. 2014)
Fabricating Color: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Color and Method, Conference Organizer and Panelist, University of Chicago (April 2014)
“Database Epistemology,” Panelist (with Rebekah Baglini, Linguistics), Society for Novel Studies, University of Utah (April 2014)
“The Medicalization of the Will,” Panelist, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg (March 2014)
“The Weakness of the Whale,” Panelist, Society for Science, Literature & the Arts Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame (Oct. 2013)
“After the Romance is Over (Nostalgia, Cather, Love),” Seminar Presenter, Modernist Studies Association, Sussex (Aug. 2013)
“Melville’s Civil War Nostalgia,” Panelist, Melville Society Conference, George Washington University (June 2013)
“The Bostonian’s Two Civil Wars,” Panelist, Henry James Society Conference, University College London (June 2012)