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.