Oct. 2023 ‘“All Men Divine’: Gnostic Political Theology in Emerson’s Antebellum Essays.” PAMLA. Portland, OR.
October 26th – 29th , 2023.
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Oct. 2023 “Technology, Literature, and the Body.” Panel Facilitator. PAMLA. Portland, OR. October 26th – 29th , 2023.
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Nov. 2021 ‘“Held by this electric self’: Walt Whitman’s Anthropocentric Porousness.” PAMLA.
Las Vegas, NV. November 11th – 12th 2021.
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Nov. 2016 “The only sin is limitation:” Ralph Waldo
Emerson’s American Secularism. Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, MO. Nov. 10th- 13th 2016.
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Feb. 2016 “I who have no weapon but poetry:” The Redemption of History in Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight,” and “The Sea is History.” MadLit: Boundaries & Intersections.
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Feb. 2015 “Between Heavenly Father and Earthly Father: Emily Dickinson’s Fathers’ Laws.”
American Literature Association Symposium on God and the American Author. San Antonio, TX.
April 2015 “ Intrusions into the Infinite: Emily Dickinson’s Incarnational Sublime.” Craft, Culture, Critique. University of Iowa.
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2019 “Fault Lines in American Identity,” University Bookman. Online. Review Essay.
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2015 “The Secular Body: Anthropocentric Knowledge in the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert.” Anamnesis Journal.
Conference Presentations
Referred Publications
Writing & Scholarship
2020 ‘“Faith’ is a fine invention’: Emily Dickinson’s Critique of Empiricism.”
Religion & Literature. 51.3-52.1. (2020): np
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2019 "'[A] wholly new and original poetic genius': Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emily Dickinson, and Literary Immortality." The Emily Dickinson Journal. 28.1 (2019): 43-61.
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2017 ‘“Moulder[ing] into nothingness among the rocks:’ Sharpshooters in Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War.” Configurations: The Journal of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. 25.4 (2017): 447-473.
Public Scholarship & Reviews
Creative Publications
2022 "Smoke Season," The Point. Nonfiction.
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2019 “To Smolder, Burn Slow,” Guernica: Global Arts & Politics. Online. Nonfiction/Photography.