“La poésie de la ville et la ville de poésie: Comment le Festival de Poésie de Montréal a pu “libérer” ses rues,” French and Francophone Literature Panel, Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), November, 2021.
“Trajectoires de traductions: la tentation d’un caméleon?” Featured Speaker at the St. Petersburg University School of Translation and Foreign Languages (Russia), June 17, 2021.
« Jacques Rivettes’s 36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup where the Medieval and Italian Theater Synergize,” Synergy of Language and Cultures conference, St Petersburg State University (Russia), Sept 25-26 2020 (via Zoom)
“Délier les lieux (des festivals): Déambulations et la poésie du quotidien, » Colloque « Scènes du poème au Québec. De la Nuit de la poésie à aujourd’hui, » Université de Montréal, Feb, 2020.
«Jacques Rivettes’s Circus of Life and Cathartic Clowns: Death and Rebirth in the Languedoc,” French Studies Panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA), San Diego, CA, Nov, 2019.
« Transforme des mines de plomb en or: Webster et l’alchimie du nous (en rap), » le 29e Colloque de l’APLAQA « Figurations littéraires et médiatiques de l’Autre », Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, October, 2019.
“Brina Svit et la liberté des frontières, » « Liberté : textes et contextes des deux côtés de l’Atlantique », Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, August, 2019.
“Tikkun among Steve Stern’s Golems and Rabbis,” Jewish Studies panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA), Bellingham, Washington, Nov, 2018.
« “Entre l’horloge et le lit” : la “mélanchronique” de François Rioux, » 28e Colloque de l’APLAQA, intitulé Contrôle(s) de Chronos, l’Université Sainte-Anne, Pointe-de-l’Église, Nova Scotia, 18- 21 Octobre 2018.
« Adventures in Nature Writing : Infraordinary and Dystopian Accidents » – Participation in a roundtable discussion at the Festival de Poésie de Montréal, « La Grande Table: écriture du territoire » with Jean Sioui, Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau, JR Léveillé, Renée Olander, Peter Schulman, » Animé par : Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui
« La nature et le geste, la grande lecture Festival de Poésie de Montréal » (poetry translated by Peter Schulman) with music, « Ecriture territoire » with Jean Sioui, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau, Renée Olander, Peter Schulman, Mahigan Lepage, Joséphine Bacon, Gabriel Robichaud, Serge Patrice Thibodeau. Musique: Creatures of the Ice Age / Créatures de l’ère de glace (Ian Ferrier et Elizabeth Lima).
« Histoire(s) transgressive(s): Aki Shimazaki et le brisement des tabous collectives, » Transgression(s), déviance(s), norme(s) et limite(s) dans les arts et les lettres, Mount Royal University, Calgary, CA, April, 2018.
“ Février ’68 : The Resurgence of Chiac in Contemporary Acadian Culture,” at the 20th/21st French & Francophone Studies conference, “Sous les pavés », Brown University, Providence, 12-14 April 2018.
“Family Foes? Jules Verne’s Obstructionist Bachelors,” at the “2nd Symposium on Nineteenth-Century Literature: Family Plots,” University of Lisbon, Portugal, Projecto RIAL – Realidade e Imaginação nas Artes e na Literatura, 7 December 2017.
“In Search of Place: The Importance of Chiac in Contemporary French Acadian Poetry,” Keynote Speaker for the American Society of Geolinguistics Annual Convention, New York, June 2017
“Tristes Utopiques: Ruines et mélancolie dans l’oeuvre d’Orhan Pamuk,” Colloque Ruines et Vestiges, Mulhouse, France, May 2017.
“Fragmentation of Identity in Laurent Cantet’s Films,” F.I.T. (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York, invited talk as part of the Modern Language Department’s Contemporary French Cinema lecture series, April, 2017.
“Dark Matter: Spaces of Occupation, and the Occupation of Spaces in Danielle Darrieux’s filmsof the early 1940s,” Colloque International Danielle Darrieux, Bordeaux, France, May 2017.
“Aki Shimazaki’s Melancholic Japan,” Pacific Modern Language Association Conference, Pasadena, California, November, 2016.
“Rues étrangères (à nous-mêmes): “le chez soi” de Sarah Marylou Brideau,” L’espace dans tous ses états, 26ème colloque de l’APLAQA, University of Moncton, New Brunswick, CA, October 2016.
“Sands of Desire: Lee Miller’s Egyptian Period and Surrealist Photography,” Invited Talk for the Seligmann Center Lecture Series 2017, The Seligmann Center for Surrealism, Chester NY, August, 2017.
“Adventures in Translating: The Hidden Charms of Some of Jules Verne’s Unpublished Plays” 23rd Annual North American Jules Verne Society Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July, 2016.
“’Acoustic Shadows’: Civil War Spaces in Contemporary Song and Poetry,” Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth, conference on ecopoetics, Perpignan, France, June, 2016.
“The Challenges of Translating a Marie Nimier into English,” GTT International Colloquium, Theatre and Theatrical Translation, May 30-June 1, 2016 (Remote Section via Skype), Pampulha, Brazil.
“Unbearable Lightness of Beings in Jacques Rivettes’s 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup,” Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference, Portland, Oregon, November, 2015.
“La “voix claire” d’Aki Shimazaki: Nouveau Monde, Nouvelle(s) histoire(s) du Japon,” CIEF conference, Winnipeg, CA, June 2015.
“Voices from the Grave: Ghosts of Irish Nationalism in Yeats and Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear,” UGC International Conference, “Of the Indian, Literary Constructs and Responses,” Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, India, March, 2015. *Plenary Session Featured Speaker.
“Habits of Fear: Irish Nationalism in the work of Yeats and Dorothy Salisbury Davis,” Crime and Literature Conference,” Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, March, 2015.
“Songs of the Wandering Aengus: Echoes of the Political Yeats in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear,” “Yeats and Kipling: Retrospectives, Perspectives” conference, Bharati College, Delhi India, March, 2015.
“Tango Express: La littérature monde de Brina Svit,” SPFFA Conference NYU , Guerre et Conflits, Oct 2014.
“Gestes perdus: La langue derrière le timbre” dans le théâtre de Marie Nimier,” Marie Nimier: Absence and Loss Colloquium, Reid Hall/University of Kent, Paris, France, July 2014.
“Melancholic Mirages: Jules Verne’s Vision of a Saharan Sea,” 21st Annual North American Jules Verne Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2014 (with the cooperation of the Alliance Française of New Orleans).
“Fragmegration” of Identity in Laurent Cantet’s Ressources humaines and L’emploi du temps, FFS Money Conference, 20th-21st century French Studies Conference, New York City (Columbia University/NYU/CUNY).
“Jules Verne on the Frontiers of Decolonization: L’invasion de la mer,” 39th Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Conferences, “Thresholds and Horizons,” Richmond, VA, Oct, 2013.
“’Osteria’: Christian Oster’s Male Hysteric,” French Literature after 1870, “Masking and Unmasking the Subject,” SCMLA Convention, New Orleans, LA, October 2013.
“Golems, Frozen Rabbis and Dybbuks: Steve Stern’s Mystical Humor,” Panel on Jewish Humor, at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel, July 2013
“”Melancholies of Loss: Fragmented Love in Natacha Appanah’s Latest Works,” at the Transcultural Imaginaries: Making New, Making Strange conference at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, June, 2013.
“Mood Indigo: Jacques Réda’s Jazz Walks,” Special Session on “Flâneurs,” SCMLA Convention, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 2012
“Jacques Rivette’s Metaphysical Circus: 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup,” Crossings, Fictions, Fusions, 20th-21st-Century French Studies Conferences, Long Beach, CA, March 2012
“Tristes utopiques: l’hüzün à travers l’Istanbul d’Orhan Pamuk,” Colloque Utopies et Orients, Université de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Dec, 2011.
“A Fin de Siècle Golem? New Takes on an Ancient Golem in Recent New York Writings,” SCMLA Convention, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Oct, 2011
“Myriam Beaudoin et la notion de l’amour de l’autre,” Association Coréene d’Etudes Québecoises, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, May, 2011 (Invited Speaker).
« The Golems Take Manhattan: The Resurgence of the Golem in the work of Cynthia Ozick and Thane Rosenbaum,” Conference on Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, March, 2011.
« Histoire(s) d’Aki Shimazaki : Mitsuba, » ACQS (American Council for Quebec Studies ), Burlington, Vermont, November, 2010.
« Les histoires d’une Histoire ‘pas propre’: Aki Shimazaki et la voix claire », Congrès du CIEF, Montreal, July, 2010.
« Fred Vargas : Debout les morts »,Maison Française, Columbia University, May, 2010 (« invited talk for Danielle Lasser’s Book Series »)
« Lubljana-Paris-Europe: Brina Svit et l’art d’être ‘extra-communautaire », Colloque Dialogue des Cultures dans l’Espace Méditerranéen, Athens Greece, March, 2010.
“Found in Translation,” panel organized by the division of Twentieth-Century French Literature, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, 2009.
“Sophie Calle’s Jerusalem: Finding Peace in a Turbulent City,” SCMLA Conference “Continuities and Displacements”, Baton Rouge, LA, 2009.
“Jacques Reda’s [Sub]Urban Islands,” ASLE Conference, Victoria BC, June 2009 (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment).
“The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: Fathers and Sons at work” for a panel on Michel Verne at the Eaton Conference, “Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond,” May, 2009.
“Celine Zins’s Zen Reactions to Cataclysms,” 20-21st Century French Studies Conference, University of Minnesota, March, 2009.
““Wings” of Desire: William Wellman and the Birth of the Aviation Epic.” “La conquête de l’air, naissance d’un nouvel imaginaire ? 1900-1920” conference in Le Mans, France, November 2008.
“Symbols of Change in a Shattered World: Jules Verne’s Begum’s Millions”, for a panel on “Science Fiction and Symbolic Communication,” ISSEI Conference, Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.
“L’Asie et son double: Aki Shimazaki et Ying Chen” for a panel on “La problématique de l’entre-deux dans l’écriture francophone moderne et postmoderne” at the APFUCC, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2008.
“Représentations de la mort dans la Chine de Claudel et de Verne,” Modernismes/Postmodernismes, University of Saint-Petersburg (Russia), March 2008.
“Sophie Calle’s Eruv: Meditative Constraint in Jerusalem,” 20th-21st-Century French Studies Conference, “Limites/Limits,” Georgetown University, March 2008.
« Where the Dark Streets Really Go: Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Priests and the Quest for the Self,” MLA Convention, Chicago, December 2007.
« Aki Shimazaki and the Korean Question, » Hong Kong University Dept of Modern Languages, Hong Kong, June 26, 2007 (Invited Talk).
“Secrets and Identity Quests in Aki Shimazaki’s Novels. » Asia and the Other Conference, Taiwan Normal University, June 23, 2007.
« Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman Reconsidered, » North American Jules Verne Society Conference, Volcanoes and Sky Vessels, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 7-10, 2007.
« Crimes et secrets: Aki Shimazaki et la quête de la vérité, » L’Asie au Canada, University of Montreal, Montreal Canada, May 2-3, 2007
« Remembering Next Year: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Lieu de Mémoire in Contemporary American Fiction, » Imagining Brooklyn Conference , Brooklyn College, New York, May, 2007.
« Jules Verne’s Invisible Man, and Other Discoveries, » invited talk for « What If…Science Fiction and Fantasy Lecture Series, » Library of Congress, Washington, DC, November, 2006.
« Jules Verne’s American Perspectives: Dystopia and Melancholy in The Begum’s Millions, » American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, October, 2006 (Invited Talk)
« Alternance de pouvoir chez Jules Verne: L’utopiste et son double,@ Colloque Discours et Relations de Pouvoir, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, October, 2006
« Stealth Destruction: Wilhelm Storitz, Verne’s Invisible [Bachelor] Machine, » Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, October, 2006.
« Le poids des secrets: Hidden Mirrors of Identity in Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy,” 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, April, 2006.
« Aki Shimazaki: A la recherche d’une/des identité(s) » Colloque SPPFA pour le Centenaire Lépold Sédar Senghor, Fordham University, March, 2006.
« Comment peut-on être Persan? Satrapi’s Persepolis and the Quest for Forgetfulness, » panel on l’extrême contemporain, MLA Convention, Washington, DC, 2005.
“Les Fantômes de Jules Verne: Le célibataire mis-à-l’oeuvre dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz” invited talk given at L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), New York City, December, 2005.
“The Nostalgic Pitch: Representations of the Brooklyn Dodgers in Contemporary American Fiction.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Modern Language Association, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November, 2005.
“The Quest for the Infra-ordinary: Jacques Réda’s Ex-Centered Wanderings,” CCCP: CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry, City University of New York Graduate Center, November, 2005.
“The Eccentric Sage: Valentin Brû as Clinamen.” Raymond Queneau Symposium, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas- Austin, September, 2005 (by invitation).
“Ellery Queen Mystère Magazine: Ellery Queen’s Popularity in France,” Panel on the Influence of Ellery Queen, Mystery Writers of America Bouchercon 36, Chicago, Sept, 2005 (by invitation).
“L’aventure de la solitude: L’horreur célibataire dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz de Jules Verne.” Congrès Mondial du CIEF, Ottawa, Canada, July, 2005.
« L’esthétique de la disparition: Solitude et fantastique dans Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz. » Colloque Jules Verne dans les Carpathes, Cluj-Narcopa, Romania, May, 2005 (by invitation).
« Wandering the Sepulchers of the World: Lee Miller’s Haunting Surrealism », 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainsville, FLA, April, 2005.
« L’espace du célibataire fantastique: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz, » Mondiale Jules Verne- Centenaire Jules Verne, Amiens, France, March, 2005 (by invitation).
« Ghosts in the Machine: Narratives of Disappearance in Contemporary French Fiction, » (invited talk), Dept of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, March, 2005.
« Jules Verne: Friend or Foe? Verne’s Vision of America » (invited talk), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Feb, 2005.
« Living in the Golem State: Duvivier’s Le Golem as Social Critique, » (with David Metzger), MLA Convention, Philadelphia, 2004.
« De la Tour Eiffel à la thèse de doctorat: Que représentent les études françaises pour les Américains ? » (invited talk), Chuo University, Tokyo Japan, October, 2004.
« Jules Verne’s Very Far West: America as Testing Ground in Les 500 millions de la Bégum,” 19th-century French Studies Colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, St.Louis, Mo., October, 2004.
« Jules Verne’s Peculiar Utopias, » Colloque Utopie: Mémoire et Imaginaire, » Le Centre de Recherche de l’Imaginaire, University of Haifa, Haifa Israel, May, 2004.
« Identité personnelle, identité corse: le journal de Marie di Lola, » 20th-21st Century French Studies Colloquium, Florida State University, Talahassee, FLA, April, 2004.
« Paris au Xxème Siècle: Résistance et renaissance à l’heure de la mondialisation, » invited talk, University of Guelph, March, 2004.
« Alone in Paris: Cédric Klapisch and the Female Bachelor, » Women in French, MMLA Convention, Chicago, November, 2003.
« A Change in France, A Change in Verne: Thanatos and Dystopia in Les 500 Million de la Bégum, » 19th-century French Studies Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tuscon, October, 2003.
« No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Birth of the Cool, » Colloque Jazz Hot and Cool, Seysses, France, July, 2003.
« Sensibilités modernes, sensibilités anciennes: La Notion du quartier chez Cédric Klapisch, » Congrès Mondial du C.I.E.F., New Orleans, LA, June 2003.
« A la recherche de soi-même: le cas du célibataire,» Colloque: Conceptions du masculin », University of Haifa, May, 2003.
« Jazz and the French Bachelor,» Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington KY, April 2003.
« Echenoz and Oster: Flight, Disappearance, and the Modern Bachelor, » Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Champaign-Urbana, March, 2003.
« [De]Constructing the Bachelor’s Space: Des Esseintes, Folantin, and Fogg, » MLA Convention, New York, December, 2002.
« A la recherche du rayon vert: Jules Verne’s Bachelor Chronotopes, » Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October, 2002.
« Jouer le jeu: The Poetry of Jacques Réda’s Jazz Criticism, » Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Hartford, April, 2002.
« Jacques Réda: The Jazz Critic as flâneur, » MLA Convention, New Orleans, December, 2001.
« La Notion du génie chez Jules Verne: erreurs et clinamen, » International AIZEN conference, Philadelphia PA, October 2001.
« Les Mille et une nuits de Jean-Pierre Melville: les espaces du célibataire, » Society for French Studies Conference, University College, Dublin, Ireland, July 2001.
« Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne’s Error-Driven Geniuses, » Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2001.
« Chacun cherche son… »: Infra-ordinaire et excentricité dans le 11ème arrondissement de Cédric Klapisch, Twenty-First Century Studies Conference, University of California, Davis, March 30-April 1, 2001.
«’ Mon cher ami…’: Hetzel’s Fatherly Rejection of Paris au Xxème siècle », Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois-Urbana, October 2000.
« Le Noir à l’écran: Feuillade, Clouzot, Melville, » Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, March 30-April 2, 2000.
« Le Vent, le bus, le regard: La Poétique du quotidien de Jacques Réda et de Louise Herlin », Yves Bonnefoy and Contemporary French Poetry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, CA, Sept, 1999.
“Paris en jeu de l’oie: Nestor Burma ou l’espace du célibataire,” 51st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington KY, April 1999.
“Les Réfractaires à ‘l’ère du vide’: un retour à l’infraordinaire,” invited talk, Tufts University, March, 1999.
“Paris au XXème au XIXème: Eccentricity and Revolt in Jules Verne’s Vision of the Nineteenth Century,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Penn State University, October 22-25, 1998.
“Le ‘stylo caméra’: Léo Malet vu par Jacques Tardi,” Littératures populaires: mutations génériques, mutations médiatiques, Limoges, France, May 1998.
“Fin(s) de siècle(s) Blues: Les beaux dimanches du célibataire,” NEMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, April, 1998.
“La Liberté des rues: le quotidien engagé de Jacques Réda,” Création et Réalité d’Expression Française, Fordham University, March, 1998.
“Duras et Vercors: Deux perspectives de l’Occupation,” NEMLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, April, 1997.
“Beauté Suburbaine: Jacques Réda’s Mapping of the Parisian banlieue,” MLA Convention, Washington DC, December, 1996, 20th-Century Panel.
“The Evolution of the Word Excentrique in France: From the Clinical to the Metaphoric,” International Colloquium on Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Toronto, October, 1996.
“Autour de l’excentricité de Phileas Fogg et du Capitaine Nemo,” Colloque de la Société Jules Verne, Saint-Malo, France, April, 1996.
“The Modern French Eccentric,” invited talk at the University of Texas at Arlington, March 1995.
“Céline, est-il excentrique?” NEMLA Convention, Pittsburgh, PA., April, 1994.
“Albert Memmi, Simone Weil, qui êtes-vous?” International Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies, Boulder, CO., March 1993.
“A rebours d’une fin de siècle à l’autre: des personnages à la découverte de…?” Conference on “The Word and the World of Discovery,” Atlanta, Ga., October, 1992.
“Mallarmé’s Sacred Use of Poetic Language: `The White Waterlily,’ I.S.S.E.I. Conference on European Integration and the European Mind, Aalborg University, Denmark, August, 1992.
“A la recherche du `moi’ perdu, à la recherche de La Place de l’Etoile,” Graduate French Literature Colloquium, Columbia University, May, 1992.
“Le Pierrot d’Alain-Fournier: vers un imaginaire poétique,” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May, 1992.
“Déracinement et gommages de l’identité: Europa, Europa,” NEMLA Convention, Buffalo, N.Y., April, 1992.