CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND TALKS
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Conference Presentations
2018 “Mobilizing Disgust and Compassion: Elpis Melena's Gemma;oder, Tugend und
Laster (1877) and the Anti-Vivisection Movement.” GSA Emotion Studies Network Seminar “Feeling Beyond the Human: Animals, AI, Machines.”
German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, September 27-30, 2018.
2018 “Keywords for Today and the Keywords Project.” Roundtable speaker for LSL
Language and Society Forum-sponsored session. Modern Language Association Conference, New York City, January 4-7.
2017 “Unalltägliche, unbürgerliche und differenzierte Gefühle”: Reading Thomas
Mann’s Buddenbrooks as a Literary Genealogy of Emotions.” German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 5-8. Submission accepted.
2017 “Subverting Feminine Shame and Liberating Love in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s
Fenitschka.” Women in German-sponsored panel on Feminism and the
Emotional Turn in German Studies. Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5-8.
2016 “‘Ein Mensch im gefährlichsten Zustand des Fanatismus, beschmutzt, zerrissen’: The Grotesque Body and Emotion in Wilhelmine Satire.” The Materiality and Corporeality of Emotions in German Culture since 1500 Seminar, German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, California, September 29-
October 2.
2015 “‘Das Beste, was wir haben, ist Mitleid’?: Navigating Different Styles of Social
Feeling in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest (1895).” German Studies Association Conference, Arlington, Virginia, October 1-4.
2013 “The Words Empfindung, Gefühl, Emotion from the Enlightenment to the
Present.” Emotion Studies Seminar, German Studies Association Conference, October 3-6, Denver, Colorado.
2011 “Investigating the Unexplained: Paranormal Perception and Belief in Kleist’s
Novellas.” Kleistian (pre-)Occupations Conference, University of California State Long Beach, October 28-29.
2011 “Treble Trouble or the Threefold Power of Music: Reading Foucault and Althusser
in Heinrich von Kleist’s ‘St. Cecilia.’” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (Lexington), April 14-16.
Poster Presentations
2017 “Rethinking Feeling in Fin-de-siècle German Literature.” Global Research in the
21st Century: Perspectives of the U.S. Humboldt Network. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Colloquium, Washington, D.C., March 2-4.
Panels and Seminars Organized/Moderated
2018 “Feeling Beyond the Human: Animals, AI, Machines.” Three-day seminar co-
organized with Derek Hillard and Erika Quinn, sponsored by the GSA Emotion
Studies Network, German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh,
September 27-30, 2018.
2015 “Negotiating Pasts and Futures in Europe.” Fulbright Student Panel co-organized
and moderated with Fulbright Fellows Jenny Kreiger and Melissa Guinan, 61st annual Fulbright Berlin Seminar, Berlin, Germany, March 15-19.
INVITED TALKS
2018 “Keywords for Today and Political Concepts: A Dialogue on the Terms We Use and
Don't Use.” Columbia University, November 15.
2016 “Anders denken, anders fühlen: Zur diskursiven Neuverhandlung von Emotionen
in der deutschen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende.” Invited lecture as part of joint talk on “Gefühl und Sprechausdruck um die Jahrhundertwende (1900)” with Susanne Voigt-Zimmermann. Seminar für Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, July 15.
2016 “Trauma” and “Spirit/Spiritual.” Keywords Project Seminar, Jesus College,
University of Cambridge, UK, July 7-8.
2015 “Well-being.” Keywords Project Seminar, Jesus College, University of Cambridge,
UK, July 2-3.
2015 “Feeling Differently at the Fin de Siècle.” Max Planck Institute for Human
Development Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, Germany, June 2.
2015 “Gegensätzliche Emotionen?: Zum Verhältnis von Mitleid und Ehre in Theodor
Fontane’s Effi Briest.” Doctoral Candidates’ Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, May 13.
2015 “Gefühle im Gespräch: Die literarische Darstellung von Emotionen um 1900.”
Interationales Studienzentrum Berlin/Max-Kade-Haus Lecture in Berlin, Germany, February 23.
2014 “‘Auf ein richtiges Gefühl, darauf käme es an’: Die Darstellung von Emotionen in
der deutschen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende (1890-1901).” Doctoral Candidates’ Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, December 5.
CAMPUS TALKS
2018 “Mutbürgerinnen: Courageous Women through German History.” Roundtable
speaker for Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures Spring
2018 Conference on Courage, James Madison University, April 12-13, 2018.
2015 “Heteropathia in the Novel: Conceptualizing the Mediation of Emotion in Fin-de- Siècle German Literature.” Writing-in-Progress Colloquium, University of
Pittsburgh, October 23.
2014 “Empathy.” Keywords Project Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, January 24-25.
2013 “Marketing Emotion: Selling Feelings in Neoliberal Germany.” Cultural Studies
Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, April 19.
2013 “Emotion.” Keywords Project Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, January 25-26.