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"The Politics of Voice: Elocution and Civic Space in Nineteenth-Century America." American Studies
Association, Detroit, October 2000.
"Conduct Becoming Citizens: The Political Life of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America."
American Studies Association, Seattle, November 1998.
"Making Knowledge Public: The Arts and Sciences of Human Nature." American Studies Association,
Washington D.C., October 1997.
"Strategies of Democratic Citizenship in America." American Studies Association, Kansas City, October
1996.
"The Social Spaces of Reading." American Studies Association, Nashville, October 1994.
Conference Papers and Comments
“Scripting the Inner Voice: Diaries and the Performance of Individuality,” for special conference,
“Histories of Print, Manuscript and Performance in America,” American Antiquarian Society, June 10-
12, 2005.
“Aesthetic Taste and the Politics of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America.” Modern Language
Association, Philadelphia, 2004.
“Becoming the Drunk: Moral Discourse, Mass Culture, and the Reform of Character,” American Studies
Association, Atlanta, Nov. 11-14, 2004.
“Aesthetic Taste and the Politics of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America.” Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Lyon, France. July 20-24, 2004.
“Stories of Citizens: Oral History and the Imagination of Public Life,” McKnight Summer Fellow
Presentations, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, February 12, 2003.
“Life as an Object: Diaries and the Moral Economy of Print Culture.” American Studies Association,
Hartford, October 2003.
Session Comment, “Ethics and the Mastery of Language,” by Geoffrey Harpham. “Criticism and Ethics
in American Studies and Literary Theory,” Faculty Workshop sponsored by Macalester College, St.
Paul, June 2003.
“The Design of Experience: Liberal Education for a Mass Society.” Conference on “Teaching and
Learning in a Research University,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2003.
“Staging Rationality: Temperance and the Urban Melodrama of Masculinity.” Organization of American
Historians, Memphis, April 2003.
Session Comment, “Reading in Colonial America.” Midwest Modern Language Association,
Minneapolis, November 2002.
“Staging Rationality: Temperance and the Urban Melodrama of Masculinity.” Society for the History of
Early American Republic (SHEAR), Berkeley, July 2002.
“Cultural Authority and Civil Religion.” Special International Conference, “The History of Libraries in
the United States.” Library Company of Philadelphia, April 2002.
Session Comment, "Passionate Readings: Romanticism and Antebellum American Readerships."
American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November 2001.
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