“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