“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 the International Conference “India’s America, America’s India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Representation.” Organised by Parantap Chakraborty and Stefan Brandt, University of Graz (Research Area American Studies II) and Domkal Girls College (Department 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, 5 April 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, 7 September 2023
2022
“Burgeoning Selves: Transatlantic Dialogue and Early American Bildungsliteratur (1776–1860),” University of Graz, 1 December 2022.
“Daze of Doom: Globalisation, Nationhood, and the Transformation of the ‘Human’ in US American Eco Science Fiction,” 10th IASA World Congress Matters of Life: Human Scapes and Scopes, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (online), 22 November 2022.
“Disney as Art: Experimental Cinema and Pop Culture from Fantasia to Encanto,” Atlantic Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, Kaiserslautern, 20 September 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 Programme “Culture-Text-Act(ion)”, 11 November 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), 13 October 2021.
“Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermediality and the Rhetorics of Islamophobia,” Radboud University Nijmegen, guest lecture in American Culture in a Global Perspective, organised by Frank Mehring, 30 September 2021.
“From Dumbo to Frozen – The Walt Disney Empire and the Development of Classic Animated Films,” Atlantic Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, Kaiserslautern, 15 September 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, 25 February 2021.
2020
“Portable Blackness: Marketing Ethnicities in American Popular Music from Elvis to Eminem,” University of Leipzig, online conference, 3 December 2020.
2019
“Daze of Doom: Globalisation and the Transformation of National Paradigms in US American Environmental Films,” Keynote Lecture, Conference on The Humanities in the Age of Globalisation, Akaki Tsereteli University, Kutaisi, Georgia, 1 November 2019.
“Breathing Words: Affect Theory and the ‘Gut Economies’ of Voices Heard and Unheard,” MLA International Symposium Remembering Voices Lost, Lisbon, Portugal, 24 July 2019.
“Fancied Emergency: Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Emotional Exceptionalism,” 9th IASA World Congress, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 9 July 2019.
“Islamophobia and Negative Productivity: North Africa as the ‘Other’ in Early American Fiction,” Humboldt University of Berlin, 4 July 2019.
“Synecdoche New York 1.0: Masculine Vigor and the National Self in Jack Engle and Manly Health and Training,” Symposium on Walt Whitman and New York, 12th Annual International Whitman Week Symposium, Grolier Club, 1 June 2019.
“Kings of the Road: Travel, Mobility, and U.S. American Identity,” Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Travel, organised by Susanne Knaller and Stephan Moebius, University of Graz, 15 January 2019.
2018
“Fire and Fury: Donald Trump – The Reality Show,” Interdisciplinary Lecture Series on Populism, University of Graz, 12 June 2018.
“Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermedial Exchange and the Rhetorics of Islamophobia,” 65th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), American Counter/Publics, Freie Universität Berlin, 26 May 2018.
“Movie Daze: Hollywood Cinema as Rhizome,” International Conference Classical Hollywood Studies in the 21st Century, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener/Waterloo, Canada, 12 May 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, 22 March 2018.
2017
“‘The Walls Are Closing In’: Surveillance and Spatial Paranoia in the Cube Trilogy,” International Conference on The Politics of Space and the Humanities, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 16 December 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, 4 November 2017.
“The Wild Ones: Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination,” Conference Literature and the Environment, University of Graz, 10 June 2017.
“Fancied Emergency: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric of Emotional Exceptionalism,” Conference Trump’s America, University College Dublin, Clinton Institute, Ireland, 6 May 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, 12 November 2016.
“‘Riddles of the Painful Earth’: Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and the Aesthetic of the Common,” Symposium on Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism, University of Mainz, 8 July 2016.
“‘The Grandest of All’: New York City in U.S. Cultural History,” University of Halle-Wittenberg, 14 June 2016.
“Finding Conferences in American Studies and Writing Proposals,” University of Graz, 19 January 2016.
2015
“The Magic of Beginnings: America and the Theme of Continuous (New) Beginnings,” Austrian-American Society of Styria (ÖAG), 14 December 2015.
2014
“Open City, Closed Space: Urban Aesthetics in US American Literature and Culture,” Guest Lecture, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 29 September 2014.
“Transcultural Spaces in North America,” Austrian Consulate General, New York, 29 April 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, 24 May 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, 17 November 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, 27 April 2012.