Recent
Lectures
(for lectures post-2008 I refer you to my VBN
activities page)
Road Signs: Route 66 &
Cadillacs
as Global Cultural Texts
ISSEI 11, Helsinki, July 27 - August 2, 2008
Little
Magazines before and after the
Web: Evergreen Review
& The Case of Robert Gibbons
ESSE-9, Aarhus, August 22-26, 2008
Post
9-11 Fiction as Trauma Narrative:
Safran Foer
ICLP 25, Lisbon,
July 2-7, 2008
Icons
of Transgression: Patty Hearst and Charles Manson
EAAS, Oslo,
May 9-12, 2008
The
Cadillac as Cultural Text
12th Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference, Renvall
Institute, Helsinki, May
5-7,
2008
The
Cultural Kernel and the Transnational Subject: Meena Alexander
The Cultural Kernel, Reims,
March 15, 2008
Difference
and Otherness in Nella Larsen's Life and Work
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,
December 3, 2007
Ekphrasis
in Reverse: The Use and Abuse of Poetry in Popular Films
High Culture, Low Culture: Reprises, Recycling, Recuperations, Strasbourg,
France, November 23-25, 2007
Beat
Dreams? Jack Kerouac’s Book of Dreams
24. International Literature & Psychology Conference, Belgrade,
July 4-9, 2007
Fallen
Astronaut
– Violence, Bodies, and Moon Art
NAAS 2007, Tampere,
Finland, May 24-26, 2007
The
Beats as Cultural Others / Exotics in Recent Memoirs by Exile Poets
BAAS 2007, Leicester,
April 19-22, 2007
Neil
Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell’s Post-AIDS Lyrics:
Canadian Cultural
Critiques?
Poetry and Politics, Stirling,
July 16, 2006
The
Ambiguous Valorization of Madness in Beat Literature
23. International Literature & Psychology Conference, Helsinki,
July 1, 2006
Representations
of Big Sur in Late Modernist and Early Postmodernist American
Writing
Space, Haunting, Discourse, Karlstad,
June 16, 2006
Countercultural
Icon-work: Adversarial and Collaborative Uses of “Uncle Sam”
Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference, Helsinki,
May 17, 2006
Portraits
of Blacks: Nella Larsen and Early 20th C. Danish Paintings
Black Atlantic, KU,
May 5,
2006
The
Spools and Loops of Jack Kerouac and A.R. Ammons: Towards a Poetics of
Non-Conformism
EAAS, Cyprus,
April 8, 2006
Constructing
and Deconstructing Racism in Conrad
The Plurality of Interpretation, Reims,
March 11, 2006
The
Beats as Cultural Others/Exotics in Recent Memoirs by Exile Poets
20th Century Literature, Louisville,
February 24, 2006
Narratives
of Disorder - Disorders of Narrative
IPSA, University of Florida, Gainesville,
February 21, 2006
Tourette
as Reconstructions of Joy and Pain in Fiction: Lethem, Lefcourt, Hecht,
Rubio,
Byalick
HASE 6, The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens,
October 23, 2005
Beat
Dreams? The Books of Dreams of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs
Dream Writing, University of Kent, Canterbury,
October 15, 2005
The
Spools, Loops and Patches of Jack Kerouac and A.R. Ammons
AAU
Lecture, September 5, 2005
Tourette
in Fiction: Lethem, Lefcourt, Hecht, Rubio, Byalick
22. International Literature & Psychology Conference, Cordoba,
Spain, July 3, 2005
Poetics
and Materiality: The Spools, Loops and Patches of A.R. Ammons and Jack
Kerouac
NAAS 2005, Växjö,
Sweden, May 26, 2005
Sacred
and profane icon-work: Jane Fonda and Elvis Presley
Renvall
Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, April 22, 2005
“Let
us Space”: The Horror of the Iconic Page: Prose Icons, Chaos and Order
in M. Z.
Danielewski’s House of Leaves
Iconicity in Language and Literature 5, Krakow,
Poland, March 19, 2005
“Let
us
Space”: Chaos and Order in M. Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
L'ordre et le chaos / Chaos and Order, Reims,
March 12, 2005
Tales,
Titles, Tails: Negotiations of Genre in the Short Fiction of Alasdair
Gray
AAU
Lecture, February 7, 2005
