PRESENTATIONS

Academic Talks and Presentations

  • “Why Form Matters When We Read About Motherhood”, CUSO Workshop “Mothers and Their Others”, University of Fribourg, February 2025.
  • ““Lots of writers have children” – Motherhood and Female Intellectualism in Contemporary Literature”, ESSE conference University of Lausanne, June 2024.
  • Participation in the roundtable “Susan Sontag at Sixty”, ESSE conference University of Lausanne, June 2024.
  • “Literary Reviewing in the Digital Age.” Guest lecture at the University of Konstanz, June 2024. (by invitation)
  • “Writing after the Internet Novel.” CUSO Workshop University of Bern, September 2023. (by invitation)
  • “Writing Literary Histories in Early America.” DFG Research Network Workshop “Voices and Agencies”, University of Hannover, July 2023. (by invitation)
  • “Facebook Blue and Filter Bubbles.” Guest lecture at the University of Basel, December 2022. (by invitation)
  • “Filters, Fame, and Faux Celebrity: Photographs and Online Identities in Contemporary American Fiction.” Embodied Acts and American Photographs, University of Halle-Wittenberg, July 2022,  (online; by invitation).
  • “Words Meet Images: Intermedial Approaches to English and American Literature.” PhD colloquium University of Pescara, June 2022 (online; by invitation).
  • ““So uncontactable” – The Digital and Literary Form in Contemporary English Fiction.” SAUTE AGM 08, University of Bern, April 2022 (by invitation).
  • “Facebook Blue and Filter Bubbles: Perspectives on Digital Culture in Contemporary British Fiction.” University of Fribourg, February 2020 (by invitation).
  • “Mit Blick auf die Welt: US-Literatur heute.” Volkshochschule Zürich, February 2020 (by invitation).
  • “The Value of Hashtags and Goodreads: Theorizing the Canon in Digital Culture.” Anglistentag  Leipzig, September 2019.
  • ““Lost in transnation”? Performing Identity in a New Black Atlantic”. Transatlantic Literary Authority: Material Networks, Symbolic Economies, University of Heidelberg, July 2019 (by invitation).
  • “Cultural Memory and Its (New) Media in Early America.” University of Lausanne, November 2017 (by invitation). 
  • “Beyond the Paradox.” Authenticity Workshop. University of Freiburg, May 2017 (by invitation). 
  • “The Memory Work of Early American Anthologies.” Biennial conference of the Society of Early Americanists, University of Tulsa, March 2017.
  • “The Digital Imaginary and the Cultural Work of New Media Representations.” Guest lecture at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, December 2016. 
  • “Authorship and Subjectivity in Colonial America.” Guest lecture at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, December 2016. 
  • With Scott Loren. “National Melodramas: Mass Media, the Syrian Exodus and Mother Merkel.” Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, University of Vechta, October 2016.
  • with Scott Loren. “National Melodramas: Mass Media, the Syrian Exodus and Mother Merkel.” Annual Convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 2016.
  •  “Making It New? Digital Media and Their Epistemologies.” Invited guest lecture at the University of St. Gallen, September 2015.
  • “Tales, & c.”: The Place of Short Narratives in the Eighteenth-Century Periodicals Archive.” OIEAHC-SEA Conference, Chicago, June 2015.
  • “The Massachusetts Magazine, January 1789: Reading Early American Magazines.” Inaugural lecture as “Privatdozentin”, University of Bern, May 2015.
  • “Towards a New Conversational Philosophy: Perspectives from Contemporary Literature.” SANAS 2014 Biannual Conference: Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives, University of Basel, November 2014.
  • “The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century.” Transatlantic Research Day, University of Plymouth, July 2014 (by invitation).
  • “Translating Cultural Authority: Reflections on the Transatlantic Reception of Dante in the Nineteenth Century.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, April 2014 (invited).
  • “Intermediality and Contemporary Canadian Poetry.” University of Trier, January 2014 (invited).
  • “The Magazine as a Museum Project in Eighteenth-Century America.” Präsenz und Evidenz fremder Dinge im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts. Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, September 2013 (invited).
  • “Virtual Museums in Early America: The Magazine and Transatlantic Cultural Memory.” Roots, Routes and Routs: American and British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century. Plymouth University, July 2013.
  • “Reading the First Early American Anthologies as Cultural Texts.” Guest lecture at the University of Mainz, June 2012 (invited).
  • “Early American Literature and the Canon: The Mobility of Literary Value in the Eighteenth Century.” Mobility in English and American Culture 1500-1900, University of Giessen, November 2011 (invited).
  • “The Visualisation of Dante’s Beatrice in Victorian Culture.” Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar, University of Warwick, November 2011 (invited).
  • “The Literary Canon in 18th-Century America: Mobility versus Fixity.” 13. Internationaler Kongress zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts, University of Graz, July 2011.
  • “Bad Timing/Bad Tidings: Discontinuities in Melodrama.” Melodrama – zwischen Populärkultur und ‘Moralisch-Okkultem’? Komparatistische und intermediale Perspektiven, University of Augsburg, April 2011.
  • “Pathetic Copycats: Gestures of Female Melodramatic Victimhood.” SANAS Conference 2010, University of Innsbruck, November 2010.
  • “Transatlantic Mobility and British-American Literature of the Eighteenth Century.” Anglistentag 2010, University of Saarbrücken, September 2010.
  • “Conceptualizing Authorship in Colonial America.” Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES) Conference 2011, University of Geneva, June 2010.
  • “Early American Literature and the Canon.” The Idea of Influence in American Literature, University of Oxford, March 2010.
  • Round-table participation BAVS/NAVSA Konferenz Past versus Present, University of Cambridge, UK, July 2009.
  • “Authorship and Authenticity: Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park.” ESSE 2008, University of Aarhus, Denmark, August 2008.
  • “Seeing Beatrice: The Visualisation of Dante’s Beatrice in Victorian Culture.” Dante in the Nineteenth Century, University of York, UK, July 2008.
  • “The Ethics of Signature: Séan Burke and Jacques Derrida.” Haunted Narratives II, Graduate Conference, University of Bern, May 2008.
  • “Transmediality and Myths: A Victorian Example.” Transmediality and Transculturality, University of Mainz, December 2007.
  • “Drawn Within the Circle: The Rossetti Family and the Legacy of Dante.” Legacies, University of Zurich, September 2007.
  • “Richard Wollheim’s Germs: Life-Writing as Therapy.” Haunted Narratives: The Politics and Poetics of Identity Formation and Life Writing. University of Tartu, May 2007.
  • “Myths and Intermediality: A Victorian Example.” Annual Conference of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE), University of Zurich, May 2007.
  • “‘The Broad Oak-Trees of the Future’: The Religion of Nature and the Victorian Quest of the Self in Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean.” The Red and the Green: Ecology and the Literature of the Left. Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, March 2007.
  • “‘Diaphaneitè’ and Dante: A New Perspective on Dante’s Early Essay.” Walter Pater: New Questions, Latent Questionings, International conference held by the “International Walter Pater Society“, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, July 2006.
  • “On the Difficulty of Writing about Childhood: Richard Wollheim’s Germs.” Workshop Bern-Tartu, University of Bern, July 2006.
  • “A Victorian Muse: The Presence of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature.” York Graduate Conference, University of York, May 2006.
  • “Between Media, Between Texts, Between Cultures: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Translation of Dante.” Betwixt and Between: Memory and Cultural Translation, Queen’s University, Belfast, April 2006.
  • “‘Not Anything to Do with Love’: Patterns of Redemption in the Fiction of A. L. Kennedy.” New Trends in Literary Studies, University of Göttingen, July 2005.