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“The Measure of Nothing in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fragmentary Fictions.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (June 14, 2018)
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“Hustlers, Swindlers and Fake News in Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now.” Invited talk. Maine Humanities Council Winter Weekend (March 10, 2018)
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“‘A struggle on behalf of freedom’: William Gaskell, the Unitarian Herald and the Victorian Politics of Print.” Invited talk. The Dr. Williams’s Library (January 17, 2018)
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“Dust, Rocks, and Other Geological Findings: Imaging the Earth’s Inaccessible Interior.” International Conference on Romanticism. The Colorado College (October 22, 2016)
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“Reforming Rhetoric, Deforming the State: William Wordsworth’s ‘Sonnets…Political’ of 1803 and Daniel Stuart’s Morning Post.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference. University of California, Berkeley (August 14, 2016)
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“Digital Tools and the Victorian Literature of Science.” Invited talk. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany (July 7, 2015)
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“Shrunken Heads, Enchanted Amulets, and Pickled Penises.” Invited talk. Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, NY (March 27, 2015)
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“Discipline and Publish: The Modern Academic Journal and the Reformation of Scientific Scholarship.” Publish or Perish conference, The Royal Society, London, UK (March 20, 2015)
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“Wonder Women: Gender, Geology and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Invited talk. Women and Gender Studies Group, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY (February 25, 2015)
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“‘The Force of my Narrative’: Persuasion, Nation and Paratext in Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels,” Transcending Oppositions in Scottish Culture: A Symposium, Porto, Portugal (June 3, 2014)
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“Mutable Forms: Money, Cosmopolitanism and the Disciplining of Economics,” Cosmopolitanism, Aestheticism, and Decadence, 1860-1920 conference, Oxford, UK (June 17, 2014)
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“Using Digital Tools in the Classroom and in Research.” Invited talk. The Humanities Initiative, New York University, New York, NY (February 11, 2014)
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“'Forms of…': The Academic Journal, Evidence, and the Digital Interface.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA (October 25, 2013)
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“The Mixed Media of Nineteenth-Century Science: Mapping Knowledge, Genres and Discursive Networks.” Victorians Institute Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University (October 19, 2012)
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“Mapping Epistemic Communities in Victorian Britain: A Network Model.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Madison, WI (September 28, 2012)
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“The Early Academic Journal; or, A (Literary) History of Persuasion.” MLA Victorian Period Division Panel, MLA Conference, Seattle, WA (January 6, 2012)
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“Recounting the Family: The Census, Reform and Social Accounting in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Victorians Institute Conference, University of Virginia (October 1, 2010)
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“The Rhetoric of Science and the Scottish Science of Rhetoric.” The Science of Mind and Body in the Scottish Enlightenment, Princeton Theological Seminary (June 6, 2010)
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“Darwin’s Voyage on Ahab’s Pequod: ‘Scientific Realism’ and the Strange Case of Moby Dick.” The Culture of Print, Technology, Engineering and Medicine, Center for the History of Print Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (September 12, 2008)
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“Statistical Realism, Bureaucratic Fiction and Affective Aggregation.” Numbers, Norms and the People, Oxford Brookes University (September 5, 2008)
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“Melville’s ‘Specimen Mouthful,’ Scientific Realism and Some Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Interdisciplinarity.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, CA (April 25, 2008)
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“Commendable Objects: Marginal Utility, Financial Realism, and the Novel in 1870s England.” Joint Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association and Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, University of Victoria (October 12, 2007) (received Honorable Mention for Best Graduate Student Paper)
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“Moral Reasoning and the Epistemology of Literary Study in Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Rutgers, (March 31, 2006)
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“Law, Narrative and Novels.” Invited talk. Storytelling Across the Disciplines, New York (University, (February 4, 2005)
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“Rewriting Homoeroticism: John Addington Symonds’ Leaves of Grass.” Victorian Frontiers, North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Toronto (October 29, 2004)
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“Mouthing Off: Technologies of Indirect Speech and the Androgynous Voice in Victorian (Pseudo)Science Fiction.” Technotopias Conference, University of Strathclyde, Scotland (July 11, 2002)