Invited
“Far From the Maddening Crowd: Women, Archives, and the Limits of
Personal Narrative,” University of California, Davis. February
2006.
“Bridewell and Beyond,” for the panel “Correcting Courtesans”
Renaissance Society of America, NYC. April 2004.
“Prostitution, Pornography, and the Public Sphere.” University
of Vermont. March 2000.
“Prostitution, Pornography, and the Public Sphere.” SUNY
Plattsburgh. March 2000.
Respondent, “Politics, Friendship, and Sexuality at the Turn of
the Eighteenth Century” Western Society for British Studies,
Denver. October 2000
"From Within Their Own Ranks: College Newspapers and the
Rhetoric of Feminism," at the National Popular Culture Association
Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 1995
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“Closer to the Maddening Crowd: Restoration Studies and a New
Hermeneutics of Collectivity,” ASECS, Atlanta. March 2007
“Remapping the History of Eighteenth-Century Subalterity,”
Cultural Studies Roundtable, ASECS, Atlanta. March 2007.
“Closer to the Maddening Crowd: Restoration Studies and a New
Hermeneutics of Collectivity,” GEMCS, Chicago. March 2007
“Poor-Whore’s, Apprentices, and Citizens: The Bawdy House Riots
and the Imperative of Collectivity” for ‘Straws in the Wind’
Conference at University of California Santa Barbara. February
2006.
“Writing about Women’s Agency: Fetishizing Gender in the Early
Modern Archive” for “Early Modern Women in the Archives,” MLA,
Philadelphia. December 2004.
“Fetishizing the Archive” at the roundtable, “New Directions in
Sexuality Studies,” ASECS, Boston. March 2004.
“Between Punishment and Discipline: Early Modern Workhouses and
Public Women,” a workshop organized with Cristine Varholy, CUNY
John Jay and Jane Kromm, SUNY Purchase for the Attending Early
Modern Women Conference, University Of Maryland, College Park.
November 2003.
“Beyond Bridewell: The History of Pornography or the Pornography
of History,” CUNY Eighteenth-Century Studies Group. February
2003.
“Whores, Prostitutes, and other Notorious Women,” ASECS,
Philadelphia. April 2000.
“Of Saints and Factions: The Tory Deployment of Catherine of
Braganza,” MLA, Chicago. December 1999.
“Pornography and the Politics of Reading,” NEASECS, New
Hampshire. December 1999.
“Jades at Livery and other Prostitutes,” GEMCS, Newport, RI.
November 1998.
“Sex, Class, and Dissent: the 1668 Bawdy House Riots,” GEMCS,
Chapel Hill, NC. December 1997.
“Crypto-Racism, Resurgent Nationalism and the Conservative
Deployment of White Women's Bodies as the Standard of Civic
Identity,” Border Subjects 2: Bodies of Evidence, Normal,
IL. October 1997
“Dressing Up and Dressing Down: Women's Costume and the National
Marketplace,” American Historical Association, New York. January
1997
“Bring It on Home: Feminism, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the
Politics of Community,” MLA, Washington DC. December 1996.
“The Face of Liberal Racism: Anita Hill and Clarence
Thomas,” NEMLA, Montreal, Canada. April 1996.
“Pregnant Pauses: Roe v. Wade and Enlightenment Subjectivity,”
Conference on Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism: Nation, Identity,
and Self, Washington, DC. October 1995.
“Meal-tubs and Midwives: Elizabeth Cellier and the Politics of
Disembodied Truth,” GEMCS, Dallas, TX. October 1995.
“The Romance of Politics: Aphra Behn, the Exclusion Crisis, and
Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister,” Conference on
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. March 1995.
“Bodies that Matter, Voices that Register: Reimagining the
Humanities Classroom,” Kansas State Cultural Studies Symposium:
"Western Humanities, Pedagogy, and the Public Sphere." March
1995
“From Within Their Own Ranks: College Newspapers and the
Rhetoric of Feminism,” Midatlantic Conference for Popular Culture,
Wheeling, WV. October 1994
“Feminism, History, and the Possibility of Justice.” GRIP
(Group for Research in the Professions): "Knowledges: Production,
Distribution, Revision," Minneapolis, MN. April 1994