EDUCATION:

B.A., Greek and English, Swarthmore College, 1965

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD :

• 1973-1976 Assistant Professor, New School of Liberal Arts, Brooklyn College, CUNY (on leave, 1974-1976)
• 1975 Staff Associate, Chancellor's Committee on Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring-Summer
• 1975-1976 Visiting Assistant Professor, UW-Madison, English Department and Women's Studies Program
• 1976-1981 Assistant Professor, UW-Madison, English Department and Women's Studies Program
• 1975-1981 Associate Chair, Women's Studies Program, UW-Madison
• 1981-1985 Associate Professor, UW-Madison, English Department and Women's Studies Program
• 1985-1992 Professor, UW-Madison, English Department and Women's Studies Program
• 1992-present Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies, UW-Madison
• 1994-1999 Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison.
• 1996-2002 Coordinator, Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, UW-Madison
• 1999-present Coordinator, Cultural Studies in Global Context, Sesquicentennial Hires, UW-Madison
• 2000 Senior Advisor to Dean of International Institute, UW-Madison
• 2001-2004 Chair, English Department, UW-Madison

ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS :

• Midwest Fellowship, Swarthmore College, 1961-1963
• Joshua Lippincott Fellowship for Graduate Study, Swarthmore College, 1965-1966
• ACLS Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1978
• Florence Howe Award, Best Essay in Feminist Criticism, 1978, Women's Caucus of the Modern
• Language Association
• University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grants, Summers or partial semester support 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981-1982, 1986, 1988, 1989-1990, 2005; Semester award, Fall 1992; Project Assistant: Summer and Fall 1983, Fall 1984
• University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research-Service Award, Summer 1980
• University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Research Center Awards, PAs, Summer and Fall 1980
• Outstanding Academic Books Award, Choice, 1981
• NEH Fellowship for Independent Study, 1981-1982
• American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, 1983-1984
• Vilas Associate in the Arts and Humanities, University of Wisconsin 1984-1985, 1985-1986
• Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Fall 1986
• University of Wisconsin Faculty Development Grant, Fall 1987
• ACLS Travel Grant, June 1988
• Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987-1988
• President, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 1992 (2nd and 1st Vice-President, 1989-91)
• ACLS Fellowship, 1989-1990
• Named One of UW-Madison Fifty Best Teachers, Wisconsin Student Association, 1990
• Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Named Professorship, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992-present (Research award)
• Teaching Award, UW English Department Graduate Student Association, 1994
• Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994-1999 (Research award; 50% research appointment for 5 years)
• Hilldale Award, UW-Madison, 1996-1997 (Career award)
• Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 1999
• Feminist Scholars' Fellowship, Women's Studies Research Center, Spring 2001
• Phi Beta Kappa, Award for Teaching, 2001
• Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professorship, 2003-present
• Sabbatical, 2004-2005

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

A Woman's Guide to Therapy, Susan Stanford Friedman, with co-authors, Linda Gams, Nancy Gottlieb, and Cindy Nesselson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979. 240pp.

Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D. Bloomington: Indiana UP, l98l. 332 pp. Named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice, 1981. Paperback edition, 1987. Excerpted in Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), ed. Harold Bloom (New York; Chelsea House, 2002).

Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 451 pp.

Signets: Reading H.D., eds. Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1990. 489 pp.

Joyce: The Return of the Repressed, ed. Susan Stanford Friedman. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993. 306 pages.

Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998. 314 pages. Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies, awarded by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 1999. Selected by Princeton University Press for e-book publication, 2002. Forthcoming in Chinese translation, 2005, Humanities and Culture series, Peking University.

Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher and Their Circle, ed. Susan Stanford Friedman. New York: New Directions, 2002. 667 pp. Introduction excerpted in The Chronicle Review. December 13, 2002. B4-6.

Journals, Special Issues (Edited):

H.D.: Centennial Issue, Contemporary Literature 27 (Winter 1986). Eds. Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Journal of Narrative Technique 20 (Spring 1990). Special issue based on 1989 Narrative Conference.

Books in Progress:

Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of Empire, Nation, and Diaspora. Chapters 1, 2, and 6 complete; chapters 3-5 will be developed out of book chapters and keynote addresses. Estimated date of completion: August, 2007.

Beyond Melting Pots and Mosaics: Diaspora and Migration Narratives. A transcontinental study of cultural theory and contemporary narratives, poetry, films, and memoirs. Research begun in the form of several articles, books chapters, and keynote addresses.

Articles and Book Chapters: Published, Forthcoming, and Accepted:

" 'Woman Is Perfect': H.D.'s Debate with Freud." Feminist Studies 7 (Fall 1981): 417-430. Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Susan Stanford Friedman.

"Authority in a Feminist Classroom: A Contradiction in Terms?" Gendered Subjects: The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching, eds. Margo Culley and Catherine Portuges. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. 203-209.

"Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)." Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 45: Modern American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series, ed. Peter Quartermain. Detroit: Gale Research, l986. 115-49.

"Palimpsest of Origins in H.D.'s Career." Poesis 6 (1985): 56-73.

"A Most Luscious Vers Libre Relationship: H.D. and Freud." The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol 14. New York: International Universities Press, 1986. 319-44.

"Emergences and Convergences." Iowa Review 16 (Winter 1986): 42-56.

"Forbidden Fruits of Knowledge: The Education of Women and Women in Education." The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 15. New York: International Universities Press, 1987. 353-74.

"The Writing Cure: Transference and Resistance in a Dialogic Analysis." The H.D. Newsletter 2 (Winter 1988): 25-35.

"Lyric Subversion of Narrative in Women's Writing: Virginia Woolf and the Tyranny of Plot." Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology, ed. James Phelan. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1989. 162-85.

"Against Discipleship: Intimacy and Collaboration in H.D.'s Analysis with Freud." Literature and Psychology 33 (1987): 89-110.

"Exile in the American Grain: H.D.'s Diaspora." Agenda 25 (Winter 1988): 27-50. Rpt. in Women's Writing in Exile, eds. Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989. 87-112.

"Post/Post-structuralist Feminist Criticism: The Politics of Recuperation and Negotiation." New Literary History 22 (Spring 1991): 465-90.

"Weavings: Intertextuality and the (Re)Birth of the Author." In Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, eds. Jay Clayton and Eric Rothstein. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991. 146-50.

"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: H.D.'s Rescriptions of Joyce, Lawrence, and Pound." Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture, ed. Suzanne W. Jones. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. 23-42.

"Hysteria, Dreams, and Modernity: A Reading of the Origins of Psychoanalysis in Freud's Early Corpus." Rereading the New, ed. Kevin Dettmar. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1992. 41-71.

"Virginia Woolf's Pedagogical Scenes of Reading: The Voyage Out, The Common Reader, and Her "Common Readers." Modern Fiction Studies. Special Issue on Virginia Woolf. 38.1 (Spring 1992): 57-76.

"Scenes of the Crime: Genesis, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Dora, and Originary Narratives." Genders 6. no. 17 (Fall 1993): 71-96.

"Identity Politics, Syncretism, Catholicism, and Anishinabe Religion in Louise Erdrich's Tracks. Religion and Literature 26 (Spring 1994): 107-33.

"Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Contemporary Theory and Women's Long Poems." Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory. Ed. Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993. 15-42.

"Spatialization, Narrative Theory, and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out. Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers. Ed. Kathy Mezei. Durham: U of North Carolina P, 1996. 109-36.

"Reading Joyce: Icon of Modernity? Champion of Alterity? Ventriloquist of Otherness?" Joycean Cultures. Ed. Vincent Cheng, Kimberley Devlin, and Margot Norris. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998. 113-33.

" 'Beyond' Gynocriticism and Gynesis: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (June 1996): 13-40. Trans. into Chinese for Selected Works in Gender Studies. Ed. Wang Zheng. Beijing: Sanlien Press, 1998. 423-60.

"Uncommon Readings: Seeking the Geopolitical Virginia Woolf." The South Carolina Review. Special Issue on Virginia Woolf International. 29.1 (Fall 1996): 24-44.

"Spatial Rhetorics of Feminism in the Age of Globalism." Emerging Rhetorics: A Symposium in Rhetoric. Eds. William Etinner, Stephen Souris, and Alfred Guy Litton. Mesquite, TX: Caxton's Modern Arts Press, 2000 (CD-Rom publication).

"Feminism, State Fictions, and Violence: Gender, Geopolitics, and Transnationalism." Communal/Plural 9.1 (2001): 112-129.

"Locational Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolitical Literacy." Feminist Locations: Global/Local/Theory/Practice in the 21st Century. Ed. Marianne DeKoven. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001. 13-36.

"Academic Feminism and Interdisciplinarity." Feminist Studies 27.2 (Summer 2001): 504-09.

"What Should Every Women's Studies Major Know?: Reflections on the Capstone Seminar." Locating Feminism: The Politics of Women's Studies. Ed. Robyn Wiegman. Duke UP, 2002. 416-37.

"Globalization and Feminist Cultural Theory: Identity in Motion." Translated into Spanish for Regional Training Program on Gender and Public Policies. Online publication for the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Argentina. 2002. 36 mss. Pp. Forthcoming in Italian, 2006.

"Modernism in a Transnational Landscape: Spatial Poetics, Postcolonialism, and Gender in Césaire's Cahier / Notebook and Cha's DICTÉE." Paideuma 32.1/2/3 (Spring, Fall, Winter, 2003): 14-39.

"Border Forms, Border Identities in Borderline: Contemporary Cultural Theory and Cinematic Modernity." Networking Women: Subjects, Places, Links Europe/American 1890-1939 Towards a Re-Writing of Cultural History, 1890-1939. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2004. 125-34.

"Schizoid Splitting and Doubling in Modernist Kunstlerromane: Narrative Poetics in Woolf's The Waves and H.D.'s Nights." New Comparison. Special Issue on The European Künstlerroman. No. 33-34 (Spring-Autumn 2002): 133-50.

"Migration, Encounter, and Indigenisation: New Ways of Thinking about Intertextuality in Women's Writing." European Intertexts: Issues and Methodologies. Eds. Patsy Stoneman, Vita Fortunati, and Eleanora Federici. Vol. 1 of multi-volume series. Peter Lang Publishers, 2005.222-76.

"Bodies on the Move: A Poetics of Home and Diaspora." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 23.2 (Fall 2004): 1-24. Forthcoming in Italian.

"Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things." Invited essay for The Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 192-205.

"Paranoia, Pollution, and Sexuality: Affiliations between E. M. Forster's A Passage to India and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Geomodernisms: "Race," Modernism, Modernity. Eds. Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 245-61.

"Networking Women on a Transnational Landscape: Globalism, Modernism, and Gender." Trans/National Connections. Eds. Giovanna Covi and Marianna Camboni. London: Mango Press, 2006. 14 mss. pp.

"Narrative Affinities: English and Indian Modernisms." Dialog (2005). 16 mss. pp.

"Virginia Woolf." Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Kevin Dettmar. 30 mss. pp.

"One Hand Clapping: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Spatio/Temporal Boundaries of Modernism." Modernisms. Ed. Irena Ramahlo Santos. Coimbra, Portugal, 2006. 40 mss. pages.

"Cultural Parataxis and Transnational Landscapes of Reading: Toward a Locational Modernist Studies." Approaching Modernism. Eds. Vivian Liska and Astradur Eysteinsson. Volume in the series Comparative History of Literature in European Languages, International Comparative Literature Association publication. Invited featured contributor. 2006. 37 mss pages.

Articles and Book Chapters in Progress:

"Migrations, Diasporas, and Borders." Introduction to Scholarship in the Modern Languages and Literatures. Ed. David G. Nicholls. New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming, 2007. 50 mss. pp. Invited essay currently under revision, for December 2005 deadline.

"The Future of Feminist Criticism." Invited essay for PMLA. Due, March 1, 2006; forthcoming Oct, 2006.

"Modernism's Geohistory and Post-Colonial Modernities." Invited expansion of 2005 Modernist Studies Association paper. Due, February 1, 2006; forthcoming, fall, 2006.

"Lyrical Elements of Woolf's Geographical Imagination." MLA paper to be revised and expanded for submission.

Work in Translation:

" 'I go where I love': An Intertextual Study of H.D. and Adrienne Rich." Signs 9 (Winter 1983): 228-45. Translated into Japanese, 1991.

"Women's Autobiographical Selves: Theory and Practice." The Private Self: Theory and Practice in Women's Autobiography, ed. Shari Benstock. Durham: U of North Carolina P, 1988. 34-62. Rpt. and trans. Teoría feminista del la autobiografia, trans. and ed., Angel G. Loureiro and Reyes Lázaro. Madrid: Ediciones Endymión, 1994.

" 'Beyond' Gynocriticism and Gynesis: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (June 1996): 13-40. Trans. into Chinese for Selected Works in Gender Studies. Ed. Wang Zheng. Beijing: Sanlien Press, 1998. 423-60.

" 'Border Talk', Hybridity, and Performativity: Cultural Theory and Identity in the Spaces between Difference." Portuguese translation by Joåo Paulo Moreira. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. 2002. Coimbra, Portugal. In German, Mittelweg 36 (Oktober/November 2003): 34-52. English, Portuguese, and German publication, Eurozine (online magazine based in Vienna, distributed throughout European Union), 2002, 2003.

"(Inter)Disciplinarity and the Question of the Ph.D. Degree in Women's Studies." Feminist Studies 24.2 (Summer 1998): 301-25. Translated into Chinese for Reader in Faculty Development Workshop, summer, 2001, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; to be published in anthology on women's and gender studies, ed. By Zhong Xueping, Fudan University Press.

"Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modernism/Modernity/Modern." Expanded version of Modernism/Modernity article, in Chinese in China Scholarship No. 2 (Fall, 2002): 1-44.

"Globalization and Feminist Cultural Theory: Identity in Motion." Translated into Spanish for Regional Training Program on Gender and Public Policies. Online publication for the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Argentina. 2002. 36 mss. Pp. Distributed throughout Latin America. Translated into Italian. Le Prospettive de Genere: Discipline Soglie Confini, ed. Raffaella Baccolini, (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2005). 265-90.

"Prefazione." Translated into Italian. Annarita Taronna. Trans/codificazioni. Ed. Paola Zaccharia. Rome: Meltimi, 2005. 1-5.

"Bodies on the Move: A Poetics of Home and Diaspora." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 23.2 (Fall 2004): 1-24. Trans. Adele D'Arcangelo. mediAzioni (2005).

"Cosmopolitan Education in the Modern University." Forthcoming in Chinese translation, China Scholarship, 2006. 38 mss. pp.

 

TEACHING IN WOMEN'S STUDIES:

Women's Studies 101: Meanings of Woman in Western Culture
Women's Studies 310: Androgyny
Women's Studies 410: Women in the Arts
Women's Studies 640: Advanced Seminar in Women's Studies
Women's Studies 900: Research Methods

TEACHING IN ENGLISH:

English 208: Introduction to Modern Literature II
English 250: Women and Literature
English 272: Course for Majors (Faulkner and Wright; Lawrence and H.D.)
English 500: Major Modern British Writer (Woolf)
English 501: Selected Major British Novelists, 1914-1945
English 515/571: Women in British and American Literature, 1914 to Present. (Women's Poetry; Women's Kunstlerroman; Woolf and H.D.; Woolf, H.D., Morrison; Woolf and Morrison)
English 727: Seminar in Problems in Literary Criticism (Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism)
English 737: Feminist Literary Theory
English 823: Seminar on Migration, Diaspora, Borders: Cultural Theory and Aesthetic Practice
English 866: Intensive Course in Modern Literature (Women's Poetry: Theory and Practice)
English 873: Seminar on Woolf, Joyce, and Cultural Studies
English 874: Seminar in The New Modernist Studies
English 975: Seminar on Narrative and Modernity, 1890-1930
English 939: Seminar in Feminist Literary Theory
Summer Forum 500 (1990): "The 'Classics' through New Lenses."

 

SELECTED CURRENT NATIONAL SERVICE:

• Editorial Boards: American Literature, 1993-1995 (elected position); Narrative, 1992-present; Modernism/Modernity, 2003-present; Modern Fiction Studies, 1996-present; Twentieth-Century Literature, 2004-present; Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1986-1987, 1990-present; Diacritica (Portugual), 2003-present; mediAzioni (Italy), 2004-present
• Board of Consultants: Contemporary Literature, 1981-present
• Board of Editorial Consultants: Feminist Studies, 1985-2003
• Advisory Board: The H.D. Society, 1994-present
• Advisory Board: Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 1997-present

SELECTED CURRENT WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM SERVICE:

• MA Committee: Chair, 1999-2000.
• MA Implementation Committee: 2005-06
• Associate Chairperson, 1975-1981.
• Chairperson, Curriculum Committee, 1976-1981.
• Curriculum Committee, 1975-1981, 1983-1984, 1988, 1991-1992, 1996-97, 1998.
• Personnel Committee, 1984-1985, 1985-86, 1988-1989, 1998.
• Search Committees: Women and Development (1984); Foreign Languages (1984-1985); U.S. Women of Color (1991-92); Chicano Studies (1997); Asian American Studies (1998-99); Lecturers for W.S. 101, 102, 103, 411, and 412.
• Outreach Committee, 1990-91.
• Multiculturalism Committee, 1994-1996.
• Chair Selection Committee, 1991-1992.
• Evjue-Bascom Chair Selection Committee, 1995-1996 (chair).
• International Gender Studies Circle, member, colloquium speaker (1996, 1997), 1996-present
• Faculty Advisor, Women's Studies Certificate students (1978-1979); Individual majors (1975-1979); graduate students (1975-1981).
• Program Coordinator for international visitors in conjunction with International Communications Agency (ICA): (a) two-week program for Japanese fellow; (b) two-day visit for Women's Delegation from China; (c) Seminar on Women and Politics for Senator Gemma Hussey, Ireland; (d) Seminar on Women's Studies for delegation from Nicaragua.
• Subcommittee on Curriculum Development (designed Certificate; began plans for major): 1978-1980.
• Beverly Youtz Scholarship Committee (Chair), 1979-80; 1980-81.
• Ruth Bleier Memorial Committee, Spring 1988.

RECENT KEYNOTE AND PLENARY ADDRESSES, ENDOWED LECTURES:

• Shannon-Clark Lecture. "Migrations, Diasporas and Borders" and "Traveling Tropes: The Globalization of Intertextuality in Women's Writing." Washington and Lee University. October, 2003. Endowed lecture.
• University of Texas Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities. "Whose Modernity? The Global Landscape of Modernism." Austin, Texas, February, 2004. Endowed lecture.
• University of Toronto Chancellor Jackman Distinguished Visitor. "Bodies in Motion: Musings on a Poetics of Home and Dislocation." Toronto. March, 2004. Endowed lecture.
• Arizona State University 10th Annual Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium. (Con)textual Identities: Formation and Re-formation. "Bodies in Motion: Musings on a Poetics of Home and Dislocation." Tempe, AZ. April, 2004. Keynote.
• International Forum on Cross-Culturalism and General Liberal Education. "Transnational Modernism: Undoing Eurocentrism in Modernist Studies"; "Transnational Education in the Modern University." National Cheng Kung University. Tainan, Taiwan. May 2004. 2 Plenaries.
• Conference on Women's/Gender Studies: Researches and Teaching. "Transnational Women's Studies: The Poetics of Home and Displacement." National Cheng Kung University. Tainan, Taiwan. May 2004. Keynote.
• Conference on Violence in the Middle East. "Violence in Imperial and Domestic Relations." Lebanese American University. Beirut, Lebanon. May 2004. Keynote.
• Symposium on Modern Fictions and the New Millennium, in celebration of 50th anniversary of Modern Fiction Studies. Purdue University, October, 2004. Keynote.
• Conference on Networking: Trans-European and Circum-Atlantic Connections. "Networking Women on a Transnational Landscape: Globalism, Modernism, and Gender." Florence, Italy. November, 2004. Keynote; panel respondent; and roundtable participant.
• MELUS-India Conference. "Diaspora Blues." Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. March, 2005. (plenary)
• Conference on Out of Bounds: Space, Play and Borders. "Diaspora Blues." University of Virginia. April, 2005. (keynote)
• Colloquium on Modernisms. Nucleus for Comparative Cultural Studies, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. June, 2005. (keynote)
• International Conference of the Italian Association of American Studies. "Diaspora Blues." University of Bari, Italy. October, 2005. (keynote)
• Conference on Indian Modernities, Hyderabad, India. "Beyond Postcolonial Belatedness: A Polycentric Approach to Multiple Modernities." Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, University of Hyderabad, India. January, 2006. (keynote)
• Humanities Center, Carnegie-Mellon University. Featured lecture related to 2005-06 theme of Migration and Identity. March, 2006.
• Virginia Woolf Society Conference. Keynote. Miami University. June, 2007.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES:

• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Flair Symposium on The State and Fate of Modernism. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Political Contexts of Modernism. University of Texas, Austin. February, 2004. (invited).
• Symposium on Globalism and Cross-Talk. Featured co-panelist with Edward Friedman. Cross- talking between Disciplines: The Rights and Wrongs of 'Universalism' and 'Transnationalism' in Political Science and English. University of Toronto, March, 2004. (invited).
• Symposium on Hong Kong and Shanghai: Competing Cities in Transition? "Shanghai and Hong Kong: Are They 'Westernized' Cities?" Beloit College. November, 2004 (invited)
• University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy. "What's Globalism Got to Do with Feminist Theory and Criticism?" November, 2004. (paper)
• University of Macerata, Italy. "Keys and Codes: Life, Fiction, Self-Censorship, and Self- Revelation." "Bodies on the Move: A Poetics of Home and Diaspora." November, 2004. (2 papers)
• Modern Language Association. Bryher and Marianne Moore: A Visa for Avalon. Philadelphia. December 2005. (panelist)
• Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Dubai Campus. "Bodies on the Move: A Poetics of Home and Diaspora." Dubai, United Arab Emirates. March, 2005 (invited)
• University of Delhi. "Virginia Woolf: Provincial or Cosmopolitan?" New Delhi, India. March, 2005. (invited)
• Panjab University. Valedictory Lecture: Refresher Course for College Teachers. "Revisiting the Classics: Then and Now." Chandigargh, India. March, 2005 (invited)
• International Conference on Narrative. "Borders, Bodies, and Migration: Narrating Violation in Shauna Singh Baldwin and Edwidge Danticat." Louisville, KY. April 2005. (submitted paper)
• Modernist Studies Association Conference. "One Hand Clapping: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Spatio/Temporal Boundaries of Modernism." Chicago. November 2005. (submitted paper)
• Modernist Studies Association Conference. Feminist Roundtable. November, 2005. (invited)
• Modern Language Association. "Traveling English: Transcontinental Modernisms."December, 2005. (invited paper)
• Modern Language Association. "Mimesis, Palimpsest, and Preservation: Religious Recuperation in Forster, H.D., and Hurston." December, 2005. (invited paper)
• MELUS-India. Hyderabad, India. "Collage as Dialogue: Shauna Singh Baldwin and Edwidge Danticat." January, 2006. (submitted paper)
• American Studies Research Center. University of Hyderabad, India. Lectures on modernism and diaspora. January, 2006. (invited)
• American Comparative Literature Association. "Comparativity: Cultural Collage and Indigenization." March, 2006. (submitted paper)