“Suheir Hammad and
the Poetics of Conciliation” (conference presentation).
Making Meaning of 9/11Conference, St. John’s University,
September 2011.
“Vernacular
Literature and the Limits of Authenticity” (invited lecture).
Sociology Department, City College, CUNY, April 2011.
“Multiple
Englishes in the Classroom” (invited lecture, with Dr. Shondel
Nero).
English Department, Hunter College, CUNY, April 2010.
“Multiple
Englishes” (invited lecture, with Dr. Shondel Nero).
English Department, Brooklyn College, CUNY, April 2010.
“Fundamentalism and Authenticity” (invited lecture).
Postcolonial Colloquium, New York University, April 2010.
“Varieties of
Fundamentalist Experience” (invited lecture).
English Department, Yale University, January 2010.
“Literature
and Terror” (conversation with novelist Dalia Sofer).
Columbia University, March 2009.
“Pakistani
Women Writers in the World” (panel moderator and presenter).
And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani
Women
City University of New York, December 2008.
“1968 in the
Global South” (panel moderator).
History Department, St. John’s University, November 2008.
“Vernacular
Literature: An Overview” (invited lecture).
Department of Teaching and Learning, New York University, October
2008.
“Rotten
English in the Classroom” (invited lecture).
English Department, University of Pittsburgh, March 2008.
“Dialect Use
in Education and Literature” (invited lecture, with Dr. Shondel
Nero).
Mid-Manhattan Library, January 2008.
“Not Yet
Beyond the Veil: Muslim Women in American Popular Culture.”
Junior Faculty Research Colloquium, St. John’s University, April
2007.
“Us vs.
Them?: The Clash of Civilizations in Contemporary Poetry and Public
Rhetoric.”
St. John’s University chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, April 2007.
“Assorted
Fundamentalisms in White Teeth” (conference
presentation).
Faith and Violence: Jihad and Holy War
Northeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature,
October 2006.
“Canonical
Revisions and World Literature” (moderator and session
organizer).
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December 2005.
“India in
America” (conference presentation).
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December 2003.
“Utopia and
the Nation” (conference presentation).
Society for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting, October 2001.
“Paradoxes of the Periodical Nation” (conference
presentation).
Re-mapping the Modern: Cultural and Aesthetic Transformation in
Asia
Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature, March
2001.