“O’Connor’s Displacements.” Invited talk presented with Christina Bieber Lake and Fr. Damian Ference at the “Placing Flannery O’Connor” Symposium in Savannah, Georgia, June 1-4, 2026.
“The Mystery of Origin: ‘The Displaced Person’ in the Archives.” Talk to be presented at the Flannery O’Connor Society panel at the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 20-23, 2026.
“‘But Even Above Grief, Wonder’: Wildcat and its Sources.” Presented at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA, May 21-24, 2025.
“A Mystery Box: Flannery O’Connor in the Archives.” Presented at the Conference in Celebration of Flannery O’Connor’s 100th Birthday. Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, March 25-26, 2025.
“A Mystery Box: Flannery O’Connor in the Archives.” Presented at the Flannery O’Connor’s Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back Conference. Milledgeville, GA, September 13, 2024.
“Flannery O’Connor in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing.” St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, October 1, 2018.
“Teaching Faith and Film: Developing Inspiration at St. Edward’s University.” Presented at the Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture. Waco, TX, October 23-25, 2014.
“‘A Greater Desire’: Revelations in Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal.” Presented at the South Central MLA Conference. Austin, TX, October 18-22, 2014.
“Catholicism in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window.” St. Edward’s University. Austin, TX, October 2012.
“‘Her Face Smiling Up at the Cloudless Sky’: Death and the Divine Eros in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction.” Presented at the 2012 South Central MLA Conference. San Antonio, TX, November 8-10, 2012.
“Flannery O’Connor and the Inspiration of Mary Ann Long.” Presented at the 2011 South Central MLA Conference. Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 25-27, 2011.
“O’Connor, Teilhard, Mary Ann: A Moment Towards Convergence.” Presented at “Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O’Connor Among the Philosophers and Theologians.” Loyola University, Chicago, October 6-8, 2011.
“A Small and Startling Figure: Mary Ann and the Modes of Good in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction.” Presented at the Flannery O’Connor Conference. Georgia College, April 14-16, 2011.
“Virginia Woolf, Visionary.” Presented as the public keynote lecture for Senior University Spring Semester. Georgetown, Texas, January 12, 2005.
“Ah, Satire … They’re the Big Boys: Satire, Gender and the Limits of Literary Theory.” Presented at the 24th Annual Southwest Texas PCA / ACA Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 12-15, 2003.
“Virginia Woolf and Celebrity Culture.” Presented at the Twelfth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Across the Generations. Sonoma State University, June 6-9, 2002.
“Coloring Outside the Lines: Anger in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.” Presented at the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds. University of Maryland, 2000.
“Laughing with Rebecca West: One Solution to Feminist Criticism.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the South Central Women’s Studies Association. University of Houston, 1998.
