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  “Jemima Layton’s Spanish Tales,” Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, ed. April London (Cambridge University, Forthcoming 2023)      

 “Rousing Sardanapalus: Byron’s Dionysian Poetics,” Studies in Romanticism 59 (Summer, 2020): 69-94.        “Spanish Figures in Leticia Landon’s Romance and Reality,” in Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution: British Views on Spain, 1814-1823, eds. Bernard Beatty and Alicia Laspra Rodriguez (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019), 71-91.      

 “The Poetics of ‘Charmed Cup’ in Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon,” Studies in Romanticism, 53: 2 (Summer, 2014), 217-38.    

“The Historicity of Byron’s Promethean Agon,” Lord Byron and History, eds. Maria Schoina, Nic Panagopoulos, and M. B. Raizis. Collection of 35th International Byron Conference Papers. The Messolonghi Byron Society and International Byron Research Center (Greece, 2012).        

“Manfred’s Promethean Agon” Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Violence, eds. Matt Green and Piya Lapinski, (Palgrave, 2011), 102-117.        

“‘Read Your Fall’: The Signs of Plague in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man,” Studies in Romanticism 44.4 (Winter 2005): 581-604.       

 “The Specter’s Haunting: Fantastic Crossings in Frankenstein,” The Journal of Humanities 51 (June 2004) [Seoul National University, Korea]: 159-207.        

“The Double Formations of the Colonial Masculine Subjectivity,” Studies of English    Languages and Cultures 5 (1997), 139-164.       

 “Beatrice’s Gaze Revisited: Anatomizing The Cenci,” Criticism (Winter 1996): 27-68.


 “Crossing Temporal and Spatial Borders: Mary Shelley’s Intertextual Engagement with Dante in Valperga,” British Women Writers’ Conference, Baylor University, May 20, 2022.       

 “Transformative Poetics and Gender in Byron and Mary Shelley,” International Byron Society Conference, Tessaloniki, Greece on Zoom, June 28-July 2, 2021.       

 “Byron’s Promethean Agon in Don Juan,” Don Juan 200 Symposium, Chicago, Oct. 18-19, 2019.

  “Double Transgression in Hemans and Landon,” German Society of Romanticism and International Byron Association Conference, Vechta, Germany, Sept. 2019.      

  “A Home for ‘the Soul of Athens’: Byron and Hemans on the Elgin Marbles,”    North American Society of Studies in Romanticism, University of Chicago and University of Illinois, Chicago, August 8-11, 2019.

“The Mobility of Passion and Art in Byron’s Improvisational Poetics,” International Byron Society Conference, Ravenna, Italy, July 2-8, 2018.        

“The Trauma of Unnatural Catastrophe in Byron’s Cain,” Invited Lecture at the International Student Byron Conference, Mesolonghi, Greece, May 18-20, 2017.      

 “Species Extinction: Reading Cain from the Anthropocene Perspective,” in International Byron Society Conference, Paris, France, July 4-8, 2016.   

 “Madness as Proliferation of Meaning in Byron,” “Reality, Fiction, and Madness,” International Byron Society Conference, Gdansk, Poland, July 1-7, 2015.    

“Recovering Wonder: The Value of Literary and Critical Thinking” for Thomas Pfau’s Minding the Modern Roundtable (a Murphy Institute Forum), Feb. 11. 2015.        

“The Romance and Reality of Anglo-Spanish Relationships, According to Letitia Landon,” “Romanticism, Reaction, and Revolution Conference: Anglo-Hispanic Relationships 1814-23,” University of Oviedo, Spain, June 25-27, 2015.   

 “Staging ‘Eastern’ Women in Hemans and Landon,” NASSR, Tokyo University, Japan, June 13- 15, 2014.

 “Double Movement in Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon,” NASSR, Boston University, MA, August 8-10, 2013.        

“Deterritorializing Gestures in the Poetics of Hemans and Landon,” British Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Conference, Boulder, Colorado, June, 2012.      

  “‘All [Her] Melancholic Sounds’: Felicia Hemans,” Poetry and Melancholia Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland, July, 2011.        

“Spanish Minervans in Byron and Hemans,” International Byron Society Conference, University of Valladroid, Spain, July, 2011.        

“Curiosity beyond Morbidity: Hemans and Landon Raising the Dead,” British Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March, 2011.    

 “Creating Distances: Felicia Hemans’s Flight into the Foreign,” “Romanticism and the Tyranny of Distance,” Romantic Studies Associations of Australia, University of Sydney, Australia, February, 2011.

 “The Female Body and the Drinking Cup in Blake,” at the “Blake, Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century” Conference, Oxford, England, July, 2010.        

“The Historicity of Byron’s Promethean Agon,” “Byron and History,” International Byron Society Conference, University of Athens and Missolonghi, Greece, September, 2009.        

“Rethinking The Post-modern Prince through Reading Mary Shelley’s Critique of The Prince in Valperga.” Confele 2009: “Education, Labor, and Emancipation,” Bahia, Brazil, June, 2009.       

 “Byron Unmanned,” University of Minnesota 19th-Century Subfield Discussion Group, March, 2009.    

"The Charmed Cup of Fame: Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Felicia Hemans,” M/MLA (Midwest Modern Language Association), Minneapolis, November, 2008.       

“Transnational, Trans-historical Imagination in Mary Shelley’s Valperga: Question of Language of Romance within History,” North American Society in Studies in Romanticism, University of Bologna, Italy, March, 2008.        

“Crossing boundaries, Annihilating Identities: Thinking Post-identity,” M/MLA, Minneapolis, November, 2002.        

“Fame as Guilty Pleasure in Women’s Writing,” American Studies in Romanticism Annual Conference, Indiana University, Indiana, November, 1999.