Upcoming Presentations
Keynote speaker, U Tennessee Knoxville NEXUS Conference. Upcoming.
“The ‘Inner Light’ of Gender.” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia. Upcoming.
Selected Recent Presentations
“Against the Clinical Gaze on Life Writing: Louisa May Alcott and Self-Narrated Gender.” MLA, Toronto. January 2026.
“Stone Butch Bluestockings: Literary Dysphoria, Collectivity, and Class.” ASA, Baltimore MD. November 2024.
“Magnetism and the Strange Child: Spiritualist Prehistories of Transness in Cecil Dreeme.” C19, Pasadena, CA. March 2024.
“Trans Whiteness and Eugenics: Sexual Science and White Supremacy in The Female Impersonators.” MLA, Philadelphia, PA. January 2024.
“White Solidarity and the Trans Settler: Making Sense of Queer Disguise and the Bribe of Whiteness in the Colonial Romance.” American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada. November 2023.
“‘Who is not proud to own the influence of her wisdom?’: Co-constructing Womanhood Through Antebellum Black Women’s Literary Societies” Society of Early Americanists, University of Maryland, June 2023.
“Method and Desire: Literary Transness Through Archival Fracture in Fuller and Howe” (updated title) at MLA 2023.
“Woman in the Nineteenth Century and the Anti-politics of Reprinting, 1845-1970.” C19, 2022.
“Theories of the Two-fold Soul: Toward a Spiritual Genealogy of Transness in America, 1776-1860.” MLA 2022.
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