“Stopovers or Homelands?: The Search for Home in Diasporic
Indo-Caribbean Literature,” American Comparative Literature
Association Conference, Harvard University, March 2009
"L’Inde Perdue, L’Inde Retrouvée: Literary Representations of
Francophone Indo-Caribbeans,” Indo-Caribbean Literature and Culture
conference, Warwick University, UK, June 2008
“Rethinking the Sacred and Profane: Religion in Postcolonial
Literature," Invited Lecture, English Honor Society Sigma Tau
Delta's GOD& lecture series, St. John's University, May
2008
“Slavery and the Fictional Imagination,” Caribbean Studies
Association Conference, Brazil, May 2007
“The ‘Race’ for the Professional,” Panel Presentation, Modern
Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December
2006
“Rolling up de Tassa: Chutney and Chutney Soca in the Caribbean
and its Diasporas,” Caribbean Studies Association Annual
Conference, Trinidad, June 2006
Turning to the Past: Uses of History in Caribbean Culture
and Social Movements, Panel Organizer, Caribbean Studies
Association Annual Conference, Trinidad, May 2006
“Masking the Past: The Politics of Memory in Patricia Powell’s
The Pagoda,” Caribbean Studies Association Annual
Conference, Trinidad, May 2006
“Frustrated Homelands: V.S. Naipaul and Caribbean Indianness,”
American Cultures Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago,
October 2005
“Reading and Writing the Indo-Caribbean: V.S. Naipaul’s The
Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street,” Caribbean Studies
Association Annual Conference, Dominican Republic, 2005
“The Nobel Prize and the Caribbean,” Invited Lecture,
Westchester Writers Round Table, New York, 2004
“Francophone versus Anglophone Indo-Caribbeans: Local
Particularities of Indian Identity in the Caribbean,” Beyond
the Islands: Extending the Meaning of Caribbean Cultures
conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
April 2004
“Creole Indians?: Representations of Indo-Caribbeans in the
Twentieth-Century Caribbean Novel,” Caribbean Studies Association
Annual Conference, St. Kitts, June 2004
“Stopovers and Homelands: Cultural Productions of Indianness in
the Caribbean,” Caribbean Studies Workshop, The University of
Chicago, Chicago, March 2003