“Uncle Sam’s Sisters: Gendered Artifacts and the Shaping of ‘America.’” 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA), Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance. Hacettepe University Ankara. 14 May 2025.
“‘Thank U, India!’ How the Quest for India Shaped America’s Identity.” Keynote Lecture at at the International Conference “India’s America, America’s India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Representation.” Conducted by Parantap Chakraborty and Stefan Brandt, University of Graz (Research Area American Studies II) and Domkal Girls College (Dept. of English), 7 April, 2025.
2024
“Designing a Handbook of (Critical) Digital Humanities” (with Tatiani G. Rapatzikou and Frank Mehring), Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), 1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited, April 5, 2024.
2023
“Dreams of the Wild West: Simulation and Performance in Karl May’s Fictional Travel Narratives,” 11th IASA World Congress, Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, September 7, 2023
2022
“Burgeoning Selves: Transatlantic Dialogue and Early American Bildungsliteratur (1776-1860),” University of Graz, December 1, 2022.
“Daze of Doom: Globalization, Nationhood, and the Transformation of the ‘Human’ in U.S. American Eco Science Fiction,” 10th IASA World Congress Matters of Life: Human Scapes and Scopes, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (digital), November 22, 2022.
“Disney als Kunst: Experimentalkino und Popkultur von Fantasia bis Encanto,” Atlantic Academy Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, September 20, 2022.
2021
“A Poetics of Fact: Historiographic Metafiction and the ‘Terrible Truth’ Behind Words in Early Nineteenth Century American Literature,” International Conference Writing Facts, University of Graz, Centre for Cultural Studies, Doctoral Program Culture-Text-Act(ion), November 11, 2021.
“‘More than Meets the Ear’: Denunciation and Aural Aesthetics in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie,” Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), Creativity within Revolt, Panel Cultures of Denunciation, San Juan, Puerto Rico (online event), October 13, 2021.
“Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermediality and the Rhetorics of Islamophobia,” Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, guest lecture in American Culture in a Global Perspective, organized by Frank Mehring, September 30, 2021.
“Von Dumbo zur Eiskönigin – Das Walt Disney-Imperium und die Entwicklung der Zeichentrickklassiker,” Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, September 15, 2021.
“Coyote Practices – Ecomasculinities in Postmodern North American Literature,” Men, Masculinities, and Earth: Contending with the (m)Anthropocene, Series Climate Crises, Men, and Climate Justice, International MenEngage Ubuntu Symposium, February 25, 2021.
2020
“Portable Blackness: Marketing Ethnicities in American Popular Music from Elvis to Eminem,” University of Leipzig, Web Conference, December 3, 2020.
2019
“Daze of Doom: Globalization and the Transformation of National Paradigms in U.S. American Environmental Films,” Keynote Lecture, Conference The Humanities in the Age of Globalization, Akaki Tsereteli University, Kutaisi, Georgia, November 1, 2019.
“Breathing Words: Affect Theory and the ‘Gut Economies’ of Voices Heard and Unheard,” MLA International Symposium Remembering Voices Lost, Lisbon, Portugal, July 24, 2019.
“Fancied Emergency: Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Emotional Exceptionalism,” 9th IASA World Congress, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, July 9, 2019.
“Islamophobia and Negative Productivity: North Africa as the ‘Other’ in Early American Fiction,” HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin, July 4, 2019.
“Synecdoche New York 1.0: Masculine Vigor and the National Self in Jack Engle and Manly Health and Training,” Symposium Walt Whitman and New York, 12th Annual International Whitman Week Symposium, Grolier Club, June 1, 2019.
“Kings of the Road: Travel, Mobility, and U.S. American Identity,” Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Travel, organized by Susanne Knaller and Stephan Moebius, University of Graz, January 15, 2019.
2018
“Fire and Fury: Donald Trump – The Reality Show,” Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Populism, University of Graz, June 12, 2018.
“Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermedial Exchange and the Rhetorics of Islamophobia,” 65th Annual Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), American Counter/Publics, Freie Universität Berlin, May 26, 2018.
“Movie Daze: Hollywood Cinema as Rhizome,” International Conference Classical Hollywood Studies in the 21st Century, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener/Waterloo, Canada, May 12, 2018.
“Ghosts in the Desert: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (1992) and the Canadian Cultural Imaginary,” Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Canadian Cultures – Cultures Canadiennes, University of Graz, March 22, 2018.
2017
“‘The Walls Are Closing In’: Surveillance and Spatial Paranoia in the Cube Trilogy,” International Conference The Politics of Space and the Humanities, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, December 16, 2017.
“What’s in These Names? American Studies, Cultural Politics, and Drama in the Trump Era,” 44th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The Changing Nature of American Studies, University of Salzburg, November 4, 2017.
“The Wild Ones: Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination,” Conference Literature and the Environment, University of Graz, June 10, 2017.
“Fancied Emergency: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric of Emotional Exceptionalism,” Conference Trump’s America, University College Dublin, Clinton Institute, Ireland, May 6, 2017.
2016
“Political Animals: Mister Ed and the Civil Rights Movement,” Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), America through the Small Screen, Innsbruck, Austria, November 12, 2016.
“‘Riddles of the Painful Earth’: Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and the Aesthetic of the Common,” Symposium Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism, University of Mainz, July 8, 2016.
“‘The Grandest of All’: New York City in U.S. Cultural History,” University of Halle-Wittenberg, June 14, 2016.
“Finding Conferences in American Studies and Writing Proposals,” University of Graz, January 19, 2016.
2015
“Der Zauber des Anfangs: Amerika und das Motiv des kontinuierlichen (Neu-)Beginns,” Österreichisch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft Steiermark (ÖAG), December 14, 2015.
2014
“Open City, Closed Space: Urban Aesthetics in U.S. American Literature and Culture,” Guest Lecture, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, September 29, 2014.
“Transcultural Spaces in North America,” Austrian Consulate General, New York, April 29, 2014.
2013
“The American Revolution and Its Other: Indigenous Resistance as Performance,” Conference Rage, Rebellion, Revolution: Different Faces of Social Protest in Literature, Społeczna Akademia Nauk, Warsaw, Poland, May 24, 2013.
2012
“Postcolonialism and Performance Theory: Mimicry, Specularity, and Resistance in William Apess’s Writings,” Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 17, 2012.
“The Algerine Dilemma: How North Africa Became a Focal Point of U.S. Cultural Self-Fashioning in the 1780s and 90s,” International Conference Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective, University of Leipzig, April 27, 2012.