“Excavating Exodus” British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists, May 2022
“New Black Gods in HBO’s Watchmen” Conference on Christianity and Literature Midwest Regional Meeting, June 2021
“‘The badge of servitude and toil’: Maternal Bonds and Mosaic Subjectivity in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s ‘Moses: A Story of the Nile’” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2020
“‘No religion but that which brings us liberty’: Mosaic Authority in Martin Delany’s Blake” Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st Century, October 2018
“That ‘tremendous indictment of slavery’: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Reading of David Walker’s Appeal” Modern Language Association, January 2018
“Sacred Poetry and Aesthetic Uplift in James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones” Midwest Modern Language Association, November 2016
“‘Vegetable monsters’: (Un)Natural Militancy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 2016
“‘An echo of the weird orgy’: Nervous Sensitivity, Sexuality, and Religious Conversion in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand” Critical Juncture, Emory University, April 2016
“‘Holy Women Dancing in Hot Sweet Rain’: Patriarchal Violence, Africana Religions, and Embodied Spirituality in Toni Morrison’s Paradise” LeMoyne College Religion and Literature Forum, October 2015
“The ‘angel is not’ing more dan de shark well goberned’: Dialect and Dialogism in Fleece’s Sermon to the Sharks in Moby-Dick” American Literature Association Symposium, February 2015
“‘Chanting Measures’: Dialect, (In)Coherence, and Rev. Shegog’s Easter Sermon in The Sound and the Fury” Auburn University at Montgomery Liberal Arts Conference, February 2015
