SEMINARS & RESIDENCIES:

Full Scholarship, intensive Italian language study, University of Turin. University Study Abroad Consortium. (June 2007).

Conducted research at the British Library and the Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum. (London, 4 January-4 February 2005).

Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "New Perspectives on Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento." Directors: Prof. John Davis, University of Connecticut, and Prof. David Kertzer, Brown University. (The American Academy in Rome, June 30-Aug 1, 2003).

Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome. During my CSU sabbatical, conducted research (on Byron, British writers in Italy, Italian history, and the Grand Tour) in Rome at the Biblioteca Vaticana, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, and the Keats-Shelley House Library, and at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. (March-May 2002).

"Footsteps of Conrad." Two week directed tour of significant places in the life of Joseph Conrad, including Kasmerez-Dolney, Warsaw, Lublin, and Krakow. Director: Prof. Wieslaw Krajka, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. (June 2001).

Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Campania Felix: Nature, Mythology, and the Works of Man." Directors: Prof. Jean D'Amato Thomas, Louisiana Scholars' College, and Prof. Richard Monti, University of Wisconsin. (Villa Virgiliana, Baia, and Naples, Italy; 28 May-1 July 2000).

Wordsworth Summer Conference at Dove Cottage (27 July-10 August 1996 Grasmere, England).