Selected Presentations

2024 “Comrades and Co-operators”: The Politics of Community in American Left-Wing Magazines, 1911–1929.” The Politics and Poetics of Community, Sorbonne Université / Paris Nanterre University.

2023 “The New McCarthyism(s)?” Nordic Association for American Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.

2022    “Unfriendly Artists Before HUAC,” Dissent in Transatlantic Perspective, Charles University, Prague.

2021    “World-Building as Revolt: Pete Seeger’s Prescient Environmental Vision,” American Studies Association, Online.

2020    “The Appalachian Sonnet: Maggie Anderson and her Poetic Labor,” Sonnets from the American Symposium, Online.

2020   “Down by the Riverside: Pete Seeger’s Radical Environmental Pedagogy.” Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative, Georgia Southern University, Online.

2019    “‘Hvoru Megin Stendurðu?’” Performing Labor History in Iceland,” Working-Class Studies Association, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

2019    “Leifur Eiríksson: Monument, Myth, Symbol.” Nordic Association of American Studies, Bergen, Norway.

2018    “Transnational Dissent: Case Studies in Cold War Cultural Containment.” Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.

2018    “An Icelandic Novelist in Hollywood: Halldór Laxness’s Democratic Vision.” NeMLA, Pittsburgh, PA.

2017    “Go Left Young Writers: New Masses 1926-29.” Is Economic Inequality Also a Literary Problem? Uppsala University, Sweden.

2016    “Occupying the American Barracks: Political and Cultural Contact in Devil's Island,” Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2015    “Outside the Frame: Writing for Documentary Film.” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference,” Minneapolis, MN.

2015    “Mystical Corporealities.” Ekphrasis Roundtable. Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto.

2015    “Constraint and Resistance: The Making of Art Brut in the American Asylum.” How to Do Things with Art, Aalborg University, Denmark.

2015    “Ascent and Descent in Outsider Art.” International Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.

2015    "The Pariah and the Power Chord: Ragnar Bragason’s Málmhaus." National Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, LA.

2015    “The Word Made Object: Ebon Heath’s Typographic Sculptures.” Object Emotions: Revisited, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Yale University.

2014    “The Activist-Auteur: Documentary Filmmaking and Social Change.” Northeast Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference.

2014    “Pete Seeger: Poet, Performer, Participant.” Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.