“Multiple Englishes in the Classroom” (with Dr. Shondel
Nero). Invited lecture, Hunter College, CUNY (April 2010)
“Multiple Englishes” (with Dr. Shondel Nero). Invited lecture,
Brooklyn College, CUNY (April 2010)
“Fundamentalism and Authenticity”. Invited lecture, New York
University (April 2010)
“White Teeth: Varieties of Fundamentalist
Experience”. Invited lecture, 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).
“Vernacular Literature in the Classroom.” Invited lecture, New York
University, October 2008.
“Rotten English in the Classroom." Invited lecture, University of
Pittsburgh, March 2008.
“Dialect Use in Education and Literature.” Co-presented with Dr.
Shondel Nero, Mid-Manhattan Library, January 2008.
“Not Yet Beyond the Veil: Muslim Women in American Popular
Literature." Junior Faculty Research Colloquium, St. John’s
University, April 2007.
“Us vs. Them?” Presentation for Sigma Tau Delta's "War/Poetry"
series, April 2007.
“Assorted Fundamentalisms in White Teeth." Faith and Violence:
Jihad and Holy War, 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." Modern Language Association Annual
Convention, December 2003.
“Utopia and the Nation." Society for Utopian Studies Annual
Meeting, October 2001.
“Paradoxes of the Periodical Nation." Re-mapping the Modern:
Cultural and Aesthetic Transformation in Asia, Rutgers University
Program in Comparative Literature, March 2001