Distinguished Lectures
Mandl Lecture, English Department, Suffolk University. “Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print.” April 3, 2025.
James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society. July 15, 2024. Watch full lecture here.
Keynote Address, New England American Studies Association Conference, Harvard University. June 21-22, 2024.
“Phillis Wheatley and Her Books.” Jane Austen & Co. January 24, 2023. Watch full lecture here.
NEH-SHARP Lecture, Rare Book School, University of Virginia. “Ideologies of the Codex in Richard Hakluyt and John Smith.” August 1, 2022. Watch full lecture here.
“Transatlantic Traffic: The Unfinished Book.” University of Heidelberg. July 5, 2019.
Barrs Lecture in Literature, English Department, Northeastern University. “The Racialization of Print: Media and Ideology in the Long Eighteenth Century.” November 28, 2018.
“The Racialization of Print.” University of Oxford. April 24, 2018.
Keynote Address, Biennal English Graduate Conference at Boston College. “Narrative in the Archive.” April 1, 2017.
Martin Ridge Lecture in Literature at the Huntington Library. “Hail to the Chief: The Americanization of Walter Scott during the War of 1812.” May 23, 2012.
A full list of invited lecturers is available on my CV.