CONFERENCE PAPERS:

 

International/National:

 

          “Byron & the Conversazione: Don Juan’s Narrator as Saloniere.”  International Byron Society  (10-14 July 2007, Venice, Italy).

 

          Session organizer, three panels: “Venice in the Literary Imagination.”  Presenter, “Byron’s Venetian History Plays.”  American Association of Italian

Studies (3-6 May 2007, Colorado Springs, Colorado).

 

          Panel Organizer, “Constructing Italy: National Culture & the Culture of Nationalism.”  Presenter, “The 1848 Revolutions & the Italian Body Politic:

          Borders Between Literature & Activism.”   Empire Conference on Borderlands & Border Cultures  (16-18 March 2006, CSU Stanislaus).

 

          "Competing Representations of the 1848 Revolutions: Browning & Clough, Garibaldi & Mazzini."  The Browning Society Conference on Anglo-Italian

          Relationships 1845-1865 (28 September-2 October 2005, Vallombrosa, Italy).

 

          "Reading the Body in Verri & Beccaria: Juridical Torture as a Means of Truth Production."  American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (31 March

 - 3 April 2005, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

 

          "Wordsworth and the Wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny."  Maritime Empires (July 2001 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London UK).

 

          "Nostromo, Garibaldi, and Italian Republican Theory."  Conrad's Footsteps (June 2001 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin Poland).

 

          "Alfieri, Cellini, & Vico: Italian Autobiography & the Construction of Subjectivity." British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (January 2001 Oxford

          University).

 

          "Byron's Venetian History Plays and Pietro Verri's Osservazioni sulla tortura."  Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (November 2000 New

          Orleans).

 

"Walter Scott's The Pirate: The Unspeakable, The Unspoken, and Middle Class Values."  Sea Changes Conference on Maritime History and Literature

(July 2000 Greifswald, Germany).

 

          "Abandoned (M)others & Others: The Family as Site of Racial and Rational Anxiety in Wordsworth's Poetry."  Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century \

          Studies Conference (April 2000 Yale University).

 

          "Wordsworth's Elegies: Money, Nelson and Brotherly Love."  Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference (UC/Berkeley April 1997).

 

"Political Reform and the Short Fiction of Mary Shelley."  Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century British Women Writers (March 1997 UC/Davis).

 

"Wordsworth, Politics, and the Salisbury Plain Poems."  Wordsworth Summer Conference at Dove Cottage (August 1996 Grasmere, England).

 

"Politics, Identity, and Literary Piracy in Lord Byron's The Island."  American Conference on Romanticism (September 1995 Marquette University).

 

"Wordsworth, Parker, and Execution Tropes: The End of Ideology."  Wordsworth Coleridge Association, M.L.A. Convention (December 1994 San

Diego).

 

"Wordsworth and the Naval Mutinies in 1797."  Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference (April 1992 Loyola University).

 

 

Regional:

 

"Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows: Italian Nationalism & the Great Exhibition."  Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the

Western United States (October 2003 University of Texas at Austin).

 

 "Gladstone's Political Evolution: Dante, Pellico, Manzoni and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism."  Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the

Western United States (October 2002 University of Idaho).

 

          "Clough's Amours de Voyage, Mazzini's `duties,' and the Avoidance of History." Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United

          States (November 2001 U.C.L.A.).

 

          "Burney & Wollstonecraft: Images of Sea Captains as Tyrannical Fathers."  Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (February 2000 University

          of Nevada, Las Vegas).

 

          "Mary Shelley's Tales and the Politics of Reform."  Western Association of Women Historians (May 1997 Asilomar, CA).

 

          "Competing Ethnographies: Regency vs. Empire Visions of Captain Cook's 'Noble Savages.'"  Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (February

 1997 UC/Berkeley).

 

          "Political Success and Social Failure: Victorian Historiography and Carlyle's French Revolution."  Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the

          Western United States (November 1996 CSU/Northridge).

 

          "The King, the Hero, and the Body Politic: Cannibalism in Walter Scott's The Talisman."  Northwest Conference on British Studies (October 1996 Lewis

          & Clark, Portland OR).

 

          "Wrecking & Smuggling in Walter Scott's The Pirate: Constructing Nineteenth Century Morality from Eighteenth Century Criminality."  DeBartolo

          Conference (February 1994 University of South Florida).

 

          "The Construction of the Other in Mary Shelley's Short Fiction."  South American Modern Language Association (November 1993 Atlanta).

 

          "Wollstonecraft's Maria and the 'Other' Woman."  Southeast Women's Studies Association (April 1993 Vanderbilt University).

 

          "Godwin and Abolition: a Reading of Caleb Williams."  Southeast Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (March 1993 University of Alabama,

          Birmingham).

 

          "A Busy Day: Burney and Abolition."  College Language Association (March 1992 University of Tennessee, Knoxville). 

 

          "Material Culture and Burney's Comedy of Disruption."  Southeast Association for Eighteenth Century Studies (February 1992 Wake Forest University).

 

          "Dramatic Writing Techniques for Teaching Voice and Argument."  Conference on Computer-Assisted Composition (July 1990 University of Maine,

          Orono).