Presentations
“Rape in Clarissa: Erotic Form
and the New Formalism.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, March 2011
“Frances Burney and Evelina: Some
Questions about Formalism.” Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, October 2010
“Reading Minds: Imagination, Abstraction, and
Empiricist Fictions.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, March 2010
“Dirty Minds: Eroticism and the
Eighteenth-Century Imagination.” University of Missouri-Columbia,
April 2009
“Pornography’s First-Persons,” American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 2009
“Erotic Form: The Aesthetic Pedagogies of
John Cleland and William Hogarth.” Penn Humanities Forum at the
University of Pennsvylania, February 2009.
“The Forms of Clarissa’s Rape,”
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, November 2008
“Adam Smith’s Looking-Glass,” American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2008
“Textual Arousals.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2007
“Fanny Hill and Aesthetic Philosophy.”
Modern Language Association, December 2006
“Sex and the Imagination: Reading the
Erotics of Eliza Haywood’s Fiction.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2006
“Exciting Language: Sexual Content and
Epistolary Form in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.” Modern Language
Association, December 2004
“The Sensible Origins of the Aesthetic.” Princeton University
Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2004.
“Reading Sex: Language, Vision, and
Imagination from Rochester to Cleland.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2004
“Pornographic Reading.” Northeast American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference
2002
“Burke’s Pornographic Aesthetic.” Group
for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Conference 2001