TALKS
"Remediating the Studio System in May 1970: The Firesign Theatre's Don't Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers"
• Colgate University, 11 February 2025
• University of California, Davis, 15 March 2022
• Stanford University, 5 November 2021
"The Origins of the Barnes Foundation in Two Exhibitions"
• The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 23 April 2023
"Duplicity is the Double of Duality: Put-Ons, Propaganda, and Radio Archaeologies in the Firesign Theatre"
• University of California, Berkeley, 16 March 2022
"The Others Formation and the Société Anonyme"
• Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, 2 December 2017
"The Scandal of a Black Ulysses: Wallace Thurman, Richard Bruce Nugent, and the Harlem Reception of Joyce"
• Princeton University, 9 March 2016
"Provisional Institutions: Barnes, Phillips, Broad"
• ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art, Aarhus, Denmark, 20 January 2016
"From Icon to Discourse: Nancy Cunard in the Collection of Claude McKay"
• University of Oregon, 18 May 2015
• The Pennsylvania State University, 9 December 2013
"From Anthology to Archive: Reed's Osiris, Pound's Mumbo Jumbo"
• The Pennsylvania State University, 9 December 2013
"Justification and the Archive: On Ezra Pound, James Weldon Johnson, and Modernism’s Blackness"
• The University at Buffalo, 16 April 2012
"The Material Formation of the Field: Charles Abbott's and Carl Van Vechten's Archives of the Twentieth Century"
• Cornell University, 28 March 2012
• New York University 5 May 2011
• University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 19 November 2010
"Collections, Mediation, and Modernism"
• Indiana University, 25 March 2011. Plenary
• Stanford Humanities Center, 6 May 2008
• Cornell University, 5 December 2008
• University of California, Davis. 6 March 2008
• University of California, Berkeley. 3 March 2008
"The New Negro in the Field of Collections"
• Binghamton University, The State University of New York, 8 December 2010
"Information, Fiction, and The Grapes of Wrath"
• Cornell University New Student Reading Project, 23 August 2009
"The Re-Membering of Innovation: Ezra Pound's Anthologies"
• Stanford University Workshop in Poetics, 29 January 2008
"What Pound Saw in Barnes, or, the Anthologist as Art Collector"
• Bryn Mawr College, 27 April 2005
"Modernism's Midwives: Alain Locke, Ezra Pound, and the Delivery of the Signal Poem"
• Rochester University, 8 January 2005
• Princeton University, 13 January 2005
• University of Calgary, 19 April 2004
• University of Toronto, 14 January 2004
"Neurotic Cities: Barnes in Philadelphia"
• Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. 1 April 2004