Recent and Upcoming Talks

Oxford University, American Literature Research Seminar, May 29, 2025

Harvard University, Department of English, Long Twentieth Century Colloquium, February 27, 2025, 4:30pm

Princeton University, Contemporary Poetry Colloquium, February 5, 2025, 4:30pm

“Poetry as Object of Literary Studies,” Modern Language Association roundtable, January 10, 1:45-3:00pm, 2025, New Orleans, LA.

Plenary talk, Dickinson College, English Department: November 20, 2024, 4:30pm

Kickoff event for the Wesleyan University English Department Sonnenblick Series, “Reading / Together”: October 10, 2024, 4:30pm, Wesleyan University, Downey 113 (Cosponsored by Shapiro Center)

“How Is a Poem Like a Phone Call: On James Schuyler and the Phatic Function,” James Schuyler: A Morning for the Poet, NYU, November 4, 2023.

“Poetry of the Closed Door: On Robert Frost,” Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT, August 19, 2023.

“James Schuyler and Epistolary Time,” Modernist Studies Association, Portland, OR, October 29, 2022.

“The Hot Breath of the Graduate School,” Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT, August 19, 2022.

“Merrill House writer-in-residence tackles new projects in optimal surroundings,” The Day, March 24, 2022.

“Poet Kamran Javadizadeh at Merrill House,” The Westerly Sun, March 24, 2022.

James Merrill Fellow Reading, Virtual, March 26, 5pm EST.

“Poetry’s Closed Door,” Johns Hopkins University, Department of English, March 9, 2022.

“American Poetry Movements: Confessionalism and the Lyric,” a conversation with Sharon Olds and Claudia Rankine, NYU (Virtual), February 10, 2022.

“Available Realities,” a conversation with Jessica Swoboda in The Point, January 11, 2022.

Roundtable participant, “Lyric, Subject, Speaker, Whiteness,” Modern Language Association, Virtual, January 7, 2022.

Roundtable participant, “We who?: Mutuality and Poetic Address,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Virtual, October 27, 2021.

“Stevens’s Banjos,” Modern Language Association, Virtual, January 8, 2021.

“I Approach You: Solmaz Sharif and Lyric Temporalities,” Association of Iranian Studies, Salamanca, Spain, August 26, 2020. Canceled due to Covid-19.

 “The Lyric Novel,” Society for Novel Studies, Oxford, England, April 2-4, 2020. Canceled due to Covid-19.

 “I Approach You: On Poems as Exemplary of Lives,” American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, March 19-22, 2020. Canceled due to Covid-19.

 “The Atlantic Ocean Breaking on Our Heads: Claudia Rankine and the Whiteness of the Lyric Subject,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 9, 2020.

 “The National Poetry Crisis,” Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 17, 2019.

 “The Relational Past: Bilingualism in Recent Iranian-American Poetry,” Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco March 30, 2019.

 “Paradise Enough,” American Comparative Literature Association, Georgetown, March 2019.

 “What Is A Poem, Anyway: Schuyler, Biography, and Institutions,” Modernist Studies Association, Columbus, November 2018.