Invited Lectures and Presentations:
“Intensive Culture: Aesthetics and Purity in the Eugenic Novels of Sarah Grand.” Women’s Studies Lunch Lecture, Texas A&M University. March 2008.
“‘Implicit Faith in the Deception’: Misanthropy, Curiosity, and Natural History.” Morning Lecture. The Dickens Universe, UC Santa Cruz..
August 2003.
“Sanitizing Sublimity: Romantic Art/Victorian Dirt.” Department of Art and Art History, Texas State University, January 28, 2003.
“Sanitizing Sublimity: A Seminar.” Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Studies Group (NICE), Rice University. December 14, 2002.
“Dirty Pictures: John Ruskin and the Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art.” British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin. April 5, 2002.
Selected Conference Papers:
“Hyperaesthesia: Art After Ruskin.” North American Victorian Studies Association. New Haven: Nov. 14-16, 2008.
“Brown Studies: Painting and Pestilence in Late-Victorian Fiction.” NAVSA, Charlottesville. September 2005.
“Home Trading: Domestic Economy, Political Economy, and Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife.” Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature, Lousiville. March 2005.
“Victorian Dust Traps.” Modern Language Association, New York City. December 2002.
“‘Art or Dirt’ William Morris and Late-Victorian Sanitary Aesthetics.” North American Conference on British Studies. Baltimore, November 2002.
“Dado or Dust-Trap? Aesthetic Borders and the Late-Victorian ‘Healthy House.’” Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Chicago. April 2002.
“Sanitizing Sublimity: Romantic Art/Victorian Dirt,” Modern Language Association, Washington D.C. December 2000.