{"id":573,"date":"2025-06-03T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso-stg.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/?page_id=573"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:55:47","slug":"presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/thomas.austenfeld\/presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESENTATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Conference Presentations \/ Public Lectures \/ Continuing Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Post-Retirement Activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>140. Two classroom workshops for <em>Liceo <\/em>students at the <em>Liceo di Mendrisio<\/em>, on &#8220;Understanding Poetry&#8221; and &#8220;William Faulkner&#8217;s &#8216;Barn Burning&#8217; as Coming-of-Age Story,&#8221; March 26 and 27, 2026. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>139. SEMP visit to Nord University, Bod\u01ff, Norway, March 13-17, 2026.  Lectures on Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and on Tarell Alvin McCraney&#8217;s play <em>Choir Boy<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>138. &#8220;Music for the Human Voice: Teaching Poetry in the <em>Coll\u00e8ge<\/em> Classroom.&#8221;  Continuing Education Center, University of Fribourg, October 29, 2025. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>137. &#8220;The AI Debate in the Humanities: too much, too fast, too late.&#8221; Guest lecture, Tor Vergata Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Roma. October 16, 2025. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>136. &#8220;Pathos and Prosody: Why Should We Read Poetry in the 21st Century?&#8221;  Guest lecture, Tor Vergata Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Roma, October 15, 2025. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>135. &#8220;Music for the Human Voice: Teaching Poetry in the <em>Liceo <\/em>Classroom.&#8221;  Teacher Development Day, Liceo Lugano Tre, October 6, 2025. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Fribourg <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>134. \u201cAdrienne Rich\u2019s Wreck and Robert Lowell\u2019s Dolphin.\u201d 5th INSL Conference, Montr\u00e9al, June 6, 2025.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>133. \u201cHere We Are Not Afraid.\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Farewell Lecture<\/strong>&nbsp;to the Faculty of Humanities, University of Fribourg, May 9, 2025.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>132. \u201cImmigration and How to Teach It: Continued.\u201d One-day workshop at the University of Fribourg Continuing Education Center, March 19, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>131. \u201cJohn Steinbeck and Thomas Hart Benton: Textual and Visual Documents of the 1930s.\u201d Guest presentation in Prof. Siegfried Weichlein\u2019s class, March 25, 2025.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>130. \u201cMarilyn Monroe and the \u2018Quixotic Cowboys\u2019: The Story of Arthur Miller\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Misfits.<\/em>\u201d Lecture at The Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, December 4, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>129. \u201cImmigration and How to Teach It.\u201d One-day workshop at the University of Fribourg Continuing Education Center, November 13, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>128. \u201cSix Keys to Unlock T.S. Eliot.\u201d&nbsp; Agr\u00e9gation Seminar, Aix-Marseilles Universit\u00e9, invited by Prof. Anne Reynes, September 18, 2024.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>127. \u201cEthics, Poetry, and Our Future.\u201d Roundtable contribution to \u201cVisions of the Future: Literary Studies and Crisis,\u201d organized by Matthew Scully.&nbsp; ESSE Conference Lausanne, August 27, 2024.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>126. Keynote \u2013 Annual Fourth of July Obama Lecture at the Obama Institute, University of Mainz:&nbsp; \u201c\u2018World-losers elsewhere, conquerors here!\u2019 The Fourth of July in American Poetry.\u201d&nbsp; July 4, 2024, Mainz University.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>125. \u201cLowell in Context: Religion.\u201d&nbsp; Presentation at the American Literature Association Conference, Chicago, May 25, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>124. \u201cTeaching Southern Literature Today.\u201d One-day workshop at the University of Fribourg Continuing Education Center, September 20, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>123. \u201cEdgar Lee Masters and the Power of Pathos.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;IAUPE Conference Rome, Italy, July 11-14, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>122. \u201cPoetry is Tuning!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Poetry. Experience. Attention.&nbsp;<\/em>The International Network for the Study of Lyric Conference,&nbsp;&nbsp;Oslo, Norway, June 6, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>121. \u201cForm and Voice: Contemporary Poets and Musical Conventions.\u201d Panel \u201cPoetry from the Page to the Ear,\u201d organized by Thomas Austenfeld, American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, May 26, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>120. \u201cHistory, Theory, and Anglophone African Literature\u201d: Guest Lecture for Prof. Julia Straub\u2019s lecture, \u201cWriting the 21st-Century: Perspectives on Contemporary Anglophone Literature,\u201d Fribourg, May 4, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>119. MOVETIA visit to Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University (Istanbul) for eight hours teaching on (1) Modernist American Poetry and (2) Toni Morrison\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Mercy<\/em>, April 22-26, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>118. \u201cTeaching Southern Literature Today.\u201d One-day workshop at the Liceo Cantonale di Mendrisio, February 17, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>117. Journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tudes, s\u00e9minaire de l\u2019Agr\u00e9gation, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, January 12, 2023. Lecture and discussion: F. Scott Fitzgerald,&nbsp;<em>Tender is the Night<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>116. \u201cT.S. Eliot and&nbsp;<em>The Waste Land<\/em>: Modernism a Hundred Years Onwards.\u201d Guest lecture University of Bern, upon invitation by Prof. Thomas Claviez, April 12, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>115. \u201cAfrican Anglophone Literature: History, Theory, and Teaching Practice.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;One-day workshop&nbsp;&nbsp;at the Scuola Cantonale di Commercio, Bellinzona, February 25, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>114. \u201cTeaching Southern Literature Today: A Workshop.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Palacky University, Olomouc, November 4, 2021 (online).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>113. \u201cA Poem and Its Voices: \u2018Memories of West Street and Lepke\u2019 by Robert Lowell.\u201d CUSO Workshop: \u201cWorking with Poetry\u201d directed by Julia Straub and Gabriele Rippl, University of Fribourg, June 11, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>112. \u201cAmerican Sestinas: A Century of Aesthetic Paradoxes.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Presented at the conference&nbsp;<em>Contrainte cr\u00e9atrice : la fortune litt\u00e9raire de la sextine dans le temps et dans l\u2019espace<\/em>, directed by Marion Uhlig.&nbsp;&nbsp;University of Fribourg, May 19, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>111. \u201cTitle\/Abstract\/Thesis: How to Prepare Your Dissertation for the Academic Market of Ideas.\u201d Guest lecture to doctoral seminar in Foreign Language Department at Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, upon invitation by Prof. Francesco Rognoni, May 4, 2021 (online).&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>110. \u201cRecent African American Women Poets: Tracy Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Rankine.\u201d Guest Lecture upon invitation by Prof. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausanne, April 27, 2021 (online).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>109. \u201cKatherine Anne Porter and Kay Boyle: Expatriate Women Writers.\u201d Guest lecture upon invitation by Prof. Sandra Spanier, Pennsylvania State University, March 31, 2021 (online).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>108. \u201c\u2019a swamp \/\/ where graves had been. I recall\u2019: Natasha Trethewey\u2019s Monumental Work of Memory.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Doing Southern Studies Today<\/em>&nbsp;conference, January 13, 2021.&nbsp;&nbsp;Humboldt University Berlin (online).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>107. Respondent to Keynote Address by Prof. David Caplan, \u201cOn Erasure,\u201d Conference&nbsp;<em>New Poetries\u2014New Poetics?<\/em>, University of Konstanz, February 14-15, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>106. \u201cAmerikanische Literatur nach 1945: Weltmacht, Protest, Vietnam, Vielfalt.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Ringvorlesung&nbsp;<em>First Came America<\/em>. Volkshochschule Z\u00fcrich, 5. Februar 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>105. \u201cBetween Lyric and Epic: The Challenge of Walt Whitman.\u201d Guest Lecture, Universit\u00e4t Trier, January 22, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>104. \u201cWhat Poets Do With History: Derek Walcott\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Omeros<\/em>&nbsp;and the Battle of the Saint(e)s.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Guest Lecture, Muhlenberg Center at Martin-Luther Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg, January 14 and 15, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>103. Convocation Address: \u201cSpots of Time and Ice Cream Sundaes.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Franklin University 50th&nbsp;Anniversary Convocation, September 27, 2019, at Franklin University, Sorengo (Lugano), Switzerland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>102. \u201cImpersonating Poems: The Lyric\u2019s Voice Between Speaker and Audience.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;International Society for the Study of Lyric (INSL) Conference, Lausanne, June 4, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>101. \u201c<em>Life Studies<\/em>&nbsp;at Sixty.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 25, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>100. \u201cRhetorical Appeal in Kay Boyle\u2019s Poetry: The Place of Pathos.\u201d American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 24, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>99. \u201cVictorious Figures of Bravado: Lowell\u2019s Pathos.\u201d British Association of American Studies Conference, Brighton, April 25, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>98. \u201cPathos in the Poetry of Kay Boyle: Channeling Emotion in 20th-century Protest Poetry.\u201d SAAS Conference, Salamanca, April 9, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>97. \u201cConfessional Poetry and The Cold War.\u201d American Studies Week, University of Flensburg, December 3, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>96. \u201cPathos: The Genre of Poetic Address.\u201d SANAS conference Lausanne,&nbsp;<em>The Genres of Genre<\/em>, November 2, 2018.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>95. \u201c\u2018To prepare a face\u2019: Faces in 20th-century Literature and Philosophy.\u201d Australian Literary Studies Association, Canberra, July 4, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>94. \u201cAmerican Poetry: Pleasure, Pathos, Prosody.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Invited Guest Lecture at the University of Klagenfurt. Austria.&nbsp;&nbsp;January 10, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>93. \u201cThe Pathos of Modernist Poems.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture given at a Symposium to honor Prof. Hans Bak on the occasion of his retirement, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, December 15, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>92. \u201cA Plea for Pathos: Recovering an Essential Paradigm for the Lyric.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Situating Lyric&nbsp;<\/em>Conference, Boston University, June 7-11, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>91. \u201cGestures of Faith in Contemporary American Poetry.\u201d Presented at the conference&nbsp;<em>Spiritual Networks: Religion in Literature and the Arts, 1700 to the Present<\/em>, University of Halle-Wittenberg, May 18-10, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>90. \u201cSelf-surveillance: Conscience and Control in Dave Eggers\u2019&nbsp;<em>The Circle<\/em>.\u201d Closing Presentation in the series&nbsp;<em>\u00dcberwachungsR\u00e4ume \/ Spaces of Surveillance<\/em>, a lecture series at the University of Flensburg, Germany, January 30, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>89. \u201cAn Ecocritical Approach to Robert Lowell.\u201d American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 26, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>88. \u201c<em>South Pacific:<\/em>&nbsp;Love, War, Orientalism, and Tolerance.\u201d Lecture on the occasion of a Swiss European Mobility visit to the Department of American Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, December 3 and 4, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>87. \u201cReassessing the Age of Lowell.\u201d American Studies Colloquium Series at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland, November 12, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>86. \u201cGiving \u2018The Age of Lowell\u2019 its Due.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 23, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>85. \u201cRobert Lowell and the History of Poetic Self-Revelation.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Distinguished Professors\u2019 Lecture Series, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, March 27, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>84. \u201cKatherine Anne Porter and the Problem of Europe.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Guest lecture as part of the SEFOC program, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, March 19, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>83. \u201cRobert Lowell and the Age of Identitarian Poetry.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Guest lecture, University of Uppsala, February 18, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>82. \u201cAmerican Poetry: History, Developments, How and Why to Teach it.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Continuing Education Workshop to the English Teachers of the Kantonsschule Baden, March 5, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>81. \u201c\u2018to braid her hair for the journey home\u2019: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s<em>&nbsp;Americanah<\/em>.\u201d Guest lecture in Professor Hans Bak\u2019s class on North American Fiction, Radboud University Nijmegen, December 4, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>80. \u201cBibliography in a Digital Age: (Re)covering Kay Boyle.\u201d Faculty Colloquium talk, English Department, Radboud University Nijmegen, December 4, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>79. \u201cLowell\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dolphin<\/em>: Shame, Guilt, and the Fate of Confessional Poetry.\u201d SANAS conference, Basel, November 21-22, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>78. \u201cConfess\u2013disclose\u2013proclaim: The Trope of Self-revelation in American Poetry Since the Sixties.\u201d SEFOC Conference at Palacky University, Olomouc, October 17, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>77. \u201cKay Boyle Scholarship: Trends and Opportunities.\u201d American Literature Association Conference, Washington, DC, May 22, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>76. \u201cCatholicism in the United States: History, religious practice, social place.\u201d Guest Lecture in the Dept. of Sociology, University of Fribourg, October 17, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>75. \u201cMemoir, not Autobiography: Lowell\u2019s Self-Articulation Reexamined.\u201d A presentation in two forms. Thirty minute-version: Editorial Institute, Boston University, October 30, 2013. Twenty-minute-version: PAMLA Conference, San Diego, November 2, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>74. \u201cThe Drama of Staging a Lyrical Moment: An Introduction to the Work of Dana Gioia.\u201d 2013 Triennial Conference of IAUPE, The International Association of Professors of English, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 16-20, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>73. \u201cOccasional Poets: Kay Boyle and Katherine Anne Porter.\u201d Alternative Modernisms Conference, Cardiff University, May 16-17, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>72. \u201cTransposing the Key: Tracking the Confessional Voice from Poetry to Memoir and Beyond.\u201d&nbsp; The Poetics and Politics of Crossing in the U.S.: 11th Conference of the Spanish Association of American Studies, University of &nbsp;La Laguna, Tenerife, March 20-22, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>71. Keynote Lecture<\/strong>: \u201cFleeing, Flying, Staying, Leaving: Escape and Ecology in American Literature.\u201d Conference&nbsp;<em>In Fuga<\/em>, Catholic University of Milano, Italy, March 1, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>70. ERASMUS visit to the University of Salamanca, February 20-22, 2013. &nbsp;Presentation to graduate students and faculty: \u201cLibrary and Database Research Using Remote Catalogues.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>69. ERASMUS visit to Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, December 6-7, 2012. Presentations: (a) \u201cAmerican Pastoral: Intertextuality and \u2018the past undetonated&#8217;\u201d to a class of Agr\u00e9gation students. (b) \u201cA Question of Voice: Lowell, Didion, and literary history\u201d to LERMA, Laboratoire d\u2019\u00c9tudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone, at Aix-en-Provence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>68. \u201cFoer the Love of Schulz! An Archaeological Reading of&nbsp;<em>Tree of Codes<\/em>.\u201d In Search of the Lost Original: Comparative Perspectives on Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). Conference at the University of Fribourg, November 30, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>67. ERASMUS visit to University of Rome \u201cTor Vergata,\u201d Rome, Italy, November 22-23, 2012. Presentations: (a) \u201cEmily Dickinson: Context, Scholarship, Philology.\u201d (b) \u201cLibrary and Database Research Using Remote Catalogues.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>66. Guest Lecture \/ guest instructor: \u201c<em>Love Medicine<\/em>&nbsp;as part of contemporary American Literature.\u201d Radboud University Nijmegen, October 17, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>65. Keynote Lecture<\/strong>: \u201cWhatever Happened to the Confessional Voice in American Poetry?\u201d ELLE Conference, Partium Christian University, Oradea (Romania), September 15, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>64. Roundtable contribution, \u201cCelebrating 50 years of Katherine Anne Porter\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Ship of Fools<\/em>.\u201d American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 25, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>63. \u201cTransatlantic Literary Journeys.\u201d<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em><a href=\"\" title=\"\">Narrenschiff \/ Ship of Fools. A Transatlantic Encounter<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/homeweb.unifr.ch\/austenfe\/pub\/A5_Narrenschiff__RZ_WEB.pdf\">.&nbsp;<\/a>Conference at the University of Fribourg, directed by Thomas Austenfeld, May 11-12, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>62. \u201cNobody\u2019s Nation: What Remains of Multiculturalism in American Literature?\u201d&nbsp;<em>Tertium Datur: Hybridisierung, Synkretismus, Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/em>Interdisziplin\u00e4res Kolloquium Universit\u00e4t Fribourg, April 20, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>61. \u201c<em>The Last Report:&nbsp;<\/em>Louise Erdrich between Communities\u2014A Comparative Analysis.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Native America: Indigenous Self-Representation in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.<\/em>&nbsp;Conference at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, February 24-25, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>60. ERASMUS visit to Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, February 9-11, 2012. Presentations: (1) \u201cLibrary and Database Research Using Remote Catalogues.\u201d (2) \u201cRobert Lowell\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Life Studies&nbsp;<\/em>and the Obsession with Cleanliness.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>59. \u201cRobert Lowell in the Bathroom.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Mid-Twentieth-Century Poets and Cultural Change.<\/em>&nbsp; PAMLA Conference, November 6, 2011, Scripps College, Claremont, CA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>58. \u201cEuropean Perspectives on the American West.\u201d Invited Lecture, California State University Bakersfield, November 3, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>57. \u201cLooking for \u2018Siegfried\u2019:&nbsp;<em>Generation Without Farewell<\/em>&nbsp;and the Life Story of a German Journalist.\u201d American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 28, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>56. \u201cRecollection and Revolution: Katherine Anne Porter and Kay Boyle as Poets.\u201d American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 28, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>55. \u201cMule and Wagon vs the Dixie Limited: Transportation in Flannery O\u2019Connor.\u201d SAUTE Conference, Bern, May 7, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>54. \u201cViolence in American History, Literature, and Culture.\u201d Invited Lecture, Partium Christian University, Oradea (Romania), April 15, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>53. \u201cTerrorism as Satire: America\u2019s Tacky Empire and Chuck Palahniuk\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Pygmy<\/em>.\u201d Presented at the conference \u201cTerrorism through the Lens of Literary Epistemology: Historical Imagination and Narrative Practice,\u201d University of Fribourg, December 3, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>52. \u201cParallel Lives: Kay Boyle, Tamara de Lempicka, and Cool Modernism.\u201d SANAS joint conference with AAAS Innsbruck, November 12, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>51. \u201cPigs, Ghosts, and a Ship of&nbsp; Fools: Modernist American Women Writers and Totalitarian Europe.\u201d SAGVL Conference \u201cAutorit\u00e4re Moderne \/ Modernit\u00e9 et Autorit\u00e9\u201d in Fribourg, Switzerland, October 8-9, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>50. \u201cThe Voice of the Academic Writer: Nonfiction Essays and the Question of Authority.\u201d&nbsp; Conference of the European Association of English Studies (ESSE) in Torino, Italy,&nbsp; August 25, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>49. \u201cTranscontinental Hemingway.\u201d International Hemingway Conference Lausanne, Switzerland, June 29, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>48. \u201cThe Age of Lowell and the Discontinuities of American Poetry.\u201d Invited Guest Lecture, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy, March 20, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>47. \u201cInformation Literacy for Ph.D. students.\u201d Invited Guest Lecture, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy, March 18, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>46. \u201c\u2018Drowning is not so pitiful\u2019: Matchimanito Lake as historical, therapeutic, and demiurgic locale in Louise Erdrich\u2019s work.\u201d Spanish Association for American Studies Conference, Barcelona, April 2, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>45. \u201cBetween Homage and Autobiography: Learning and Teaching in David Levin\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Exemplary Elders<\/em>&nbsp;(1990) and Frank McCourt\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Teacher Man<\/em>&nbsp;(2005).\u201d Academic Autobiography Conference, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, March 28, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>44. \u201cRosicky\u2019s Neighbors: Values, Virtues, and the Contingency of Criticism.\u201d Invited Guest Lecture, English Department of the University of Bern, Switzerland, March 9, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>43. \u201cGenre, Voice, Identity: Nonfiction Prose and the Personal Essay.\u201d Swiss Society of General and Comparative Literature, University of Fribourg, March 7, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>42. \u201cArthur Miller\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Misfits<\/em>: The Last Frontier of the West.\u201d University of Lausanne English Department, December 5, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>41. \u201cRosicky\u2019s Neighbors: Values, Virtues, and the Contingency of Criticism.\u201d English Department of the University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, November 21, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>40. \u201cLocked Up Underground: Kay Boyle and Prisons.\u201d Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of North American Studies, Cr\u00eat-B\u00e9rard, November 15, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>39. \u201cTeaching Lowell Beyond the Alps: A Multilingual Approach to&nbsp;<em>Imitations<\/em>.\u201d American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 23, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>38. \u201c<em>Four Visions of America<\/em>: Beyond the&nbsp;<em>Unum<\/em>.\u201d Biennial EAAS (European Association of American Studies) Conference, Oslo, May 11, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>37. \u201cRosicky\u2019s Neighbors: Values, Virtues, and the Contingency of Criticism.\u201d<strong>&nbsp;Antrittsvorlesung \/ Le\u00e7on Inaugurale<\/strong>, University of Fribourg, April 30, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>36. \u201cThe Fret of Modernism: The Discourse of Fear in American Culture, 1917-1941.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Miroirs de la Peur<\/em>. 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[with Tanya Bennett] \u201cBegin Here: Introducing African-American Literature into General Education\u201d at Kennesaw State University\u2019s conference \u201cStepping Up to the Plate: Best Practices in Diversity Education,\u201d April 26, 2003.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>22. \u201cPeter Taylor\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Summons to Memphis<\/em>: Duty Ethics and American Individualism.\u201d&nbsp; 20th&nbsp;Century Literature Conference, Louisville KY, February 27 \u2013 March 1, 2003.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>21. \u201cAmerican Women Writers in Europe.\u201d&nbsp; Invited Theme Day Lecture, Drury University, Springfield MO, February 20, 2003.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20. 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20th&nbsp;Century Literature Conference, Louisville KY, February 22, 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drury<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>14. \u201cTeaching Values through Western&nbsp;<em>haecceitas<\/em>:&nbsp; Western Stories, Lived Experience, Ethical Models.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cSpiritual Frontiers\u201d Conference at Brigham Young University, Provo UT, March 30-April 2, 2000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>13. \u201cLanguage as a Tool of Honesty.\u201d (Workshop: Language as a Tool).&nbsp; Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa (Israel), August 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12. \u201cTravellers, Not Tourists:&nbsp; The Trope of Travel as Acculturation.\u201d&nbsp; (Workshop: Perceptions of the Arts and Texts of the Twentieth Century).&nbsp; Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa (Israel), August 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11. \u201c\u2018Fear in a Handful of Dust\u2019: Foreigners Experience the West in Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Bean Trees<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; 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