Public talks

July 2023 at the T. S. Eliot International Summer School at the University of London, I discuss “Of Stage Spaces and Hyperlocality: Eliot at Midcentury”

March 2023 at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Film Studies program, I participated in “Alumni Spotlight: Research and Creative Work from FSCP Graduates”

January 2023 at the Bard High School Early College Dean’s Hour Talk, I spoke to a lively student audience on “Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Engendered Creativity”

October 2022 at Columbia University’s Women and Society Seminar, I was the faculty respondent for a presentation on “Revisioning the Poetry and Politics of Audre Lorde & Adrienne Rich”

October 2022 at the US Military Academy West Point English Department, I spoke with students about “Contemporary Poetry and Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas”

January 2022 at the Bard High School Early College Dean’s Hour Talk, I presented “A Room of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf, Judith Shakespeare, and Gendering Creativity”

August 2021 at the “Plenary of CUNY Faculty” for the Teach @CUNY Summer Institute at the Graduate Center, CUNY, I spoke about my pedagogic practices with doctoral students entering the classroom

January 2021 at the Bard High School Early College Dean’s Hour Talk, I presented “To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf, Women & War” 

November 2020 at the U. Wisconsin-Madison Community College Master Teacher Series, I presented on “Talking about South Asian Culture and History through Earth”

June 2020 at the Teach@CUNY Summer Institute, I spoke at the faculty plenary about literary studies and the CUNY undergrad to entering graduate students

January 2019 at the Bard High School Early College Dean’s Hour Talk, I discussed the politics of emplacement in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India 

October 2018 at the Faculty Roundtable of the Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference of the Comp Literature department at the Graduate Center, CUNY, I spoke about displacement as a useful pedagogic technique for teaching modernism

October 2018 at the Graduate Center, CUNY, I spoke on a panel about new directions in humanities research at the Mellon-funded Community Colleges and the Future of the Humanities conference

January 2018 at the Bard High School Early College Dean’s Hour Talk, I discussed Virginia Woolf and families in To the Lighthouse.
Listen here.

April 2017 at the Graduate Center, CUNY, I spoke on a panel about teaching humanities at community college. The panel organizer’s reflections are here.

March – May 2021 for the Transformative Learning in the Humanities at CUNY initiative, we organized a reading and discussion series named “Women Rewrite America.” We wanted to understand how contemporary women writers revisited ideas of US citizenship and global presence in fiction. Here are some reflections about the experience from my co-leads and myself and some post-activity reflections from our participants.

February 2019 at the podcast Indoor Voices, my writing group of CUNY women colleagues discussed the importance of university-level professional support and our development as “good feminists” at work. Listen to us here.

September 2017 on CUNY TV’s City Cinematheque program: I discussed Satyajit Ray’s movie Aparajito (1956) with Dr. Jerry Carlson.

June 2017 at the Difficult to Name Reading Series, I spoke about Virginia Woolf, feminism and war.

October 2016 at the Manor Club, I talked about Virginia Woolf, pacifism, and women’s education organized through the Humanities New York Public Scholars program.

September 2016 at the Smithtown-Kings Park Library, I discussed Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, and the concept of the American Dream organized through the Humanities New York Public Scholars program.