Invited Talks

February 2026, “Anthropology and the Human Voice,” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology

November 2024, “The Ethnography of Literature,” University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology

April 2021, “Reading Textual Memory: Heine’s ‘Das Sklavenschiff ’and Derek Walcott’s ‘The Sea is History,’” University of Wisconsin-Madison, German Department [Virtual]

Workshops

“Genealogies of Self-Reflection” Writing Workshop, 2025

“Feeling Around” Manuscript/Craft Workshop, 2025-2026

“Discontinuous Narratives”, 2025

“Writing the Ordinary”, 2024

“Genealogies of Self-Reflection” Writing Workshop/Faculty Seminar. Sponsored by the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2021-2025

Presentations

Roundtable Member,“Genealogies of Self-Reflection: Writing the Past in the Present,” (49th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Arlington VA), September 2025

Commentator, ”Heinrich Heine and Literary Identity,” (MLA 2025, New Orleans, LA), January 2025

Panelist, “Inherited, Adopted, Assigned: Shared Memories in Times of Displacement,” (Memory Studies Association Conference, Lima, Peru), July 2024

Organizer, “Heine and the Diasporic Experience,” (MLA 2023, San Francisco, CA), January 2023

Presenter, “Slavery, History, and Seascapes: Heine’s ‘Das Sklavenschiff ’and Walcott’s ‘The Sea is History’” (MLA 2022, Washington, DC), January 2022

Co-Organizer, Seminar “Multimedia Medea: Ethnic Difference and Adaptation,” (46th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX), September 2022

Roundtable Member, “Genealogies of Self-Reflection: Writing in the Wake of Trauma,” (46th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX), September 2022

Presenter, “Unpunctuated” Symposium, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMASS, Amherst, MA, April 2022

Co-Organizer, Seminar “Living on the Edge,” in Sister Insider: Intersectional Collaborations on the Uses of Anger by Women of Color, (45th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN [Virtual]), October 2021

German Studies Association: Plenary Member – “From Intent to Action- Inclusionary Practices for the GSA, (45th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN [Virtual]), October 2021

“Upended,” in “Genealogies of Self-Reflection: Writing in the Wake of Trauma Seminar,” (44th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C. [Virtual]), October 2020

“Grief and Loss in Edwidge Danticat’s Untwine” in “Reconsidering Audience: Edwidge Danticat’s Work for Children and Young Adults,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2019

“playact” in “Private Matters: Expanding the Margins of the Lebenslauf” (42nd Annual German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh PA), September 2018

Seminar Co-Organizer, “Lives in Transit: Subjectivity in the Age of Migration,” (Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA), April 2018

“Race and Empire: Heine’s ‘Das Sklavenschiff ’and Turner’s The Slave Ship in ‘“Disputation’: Literature and Politics; Heine and Beyond,” (Modern Language Association Conference. New York, NY), January 2018

“Creating Dangerously: Home and the World in Danticat’s Works,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2017

“Anatomy of the City: Body and Metropolis in Migration Narratives” on Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, (Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD), March 2017

“Grillparzer’s Rearticulation of Medea,” Austrian Studies Association, Chicago, IL, March 2017

Panel Chair, “Minorities and Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990: Intersections, Interventions, Interpolations,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 2017

“Why Blend the Humanities? A Critical Conversation,” Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, May 2016

“Blended Engagements with ‘Writing from the Diaspora’,” Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, May 2016

“Auerbach’s ‘Figura ’and Grillparzer’s Classical Women,” German Studies Faculty Seminar, Five Colleges, Inc. Amherst MA, September 2015

“The Imperfect Longing: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the Narration of Aporia,” Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora, (Re) Writing of Race and Space, Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University, Chicago IL, April 2013

“The Pragmatics of History-Narrative-Myth in Christa Wolf’s Medea.Stimmen” in “The Philosophical Turn to Human Rights after 1948: W.E.B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt and Christa Wolf,” (36th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee WI), October 2012

“The Multiplicity of Analysis in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Der Magnetiseur’,” (35th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Louisville KY), September 2011

“Edwidge Danticat and Osip Mandelstam: Reading, Writing and the Testimonial Voice,” Humanities Lecture Series, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, October 2010

“The Poetics of Adaptation and the Claims of Mythic Memory: Franz Grillparzer’s Medea and Christa Wolf’s Medea: Stimmen,” Konstanzer Kolloquium zur Erinnerungsforschung, Universität Konstanz, Constance, Germany, July 2010

“Migration, Empire and Sea-Change: Claiming Space in Andrea Levy’s Small Island, ”“Memory &Migration Workshop” Universität Konstanz /Australian National University Workgroup, Constance, Germany, July 2010