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"The Civic Spaces of Reading: Mercantile Libraries in Nineteenth-Century America." Special
Conference, “Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library 1750-1850.” Sponsored by Groningen
and Sheffield Hallam Universities, Sheffield, UK, July 2001.
"Accounting for Experience: American Diaries and the Rituals of Literacy." Triennial Conference,
International Society for the Study of Time, Castello di Gargonza, Italy, July 2001.
Session Comment, "Different American Communities: Catholics and Schools, Disney, and the 1916 St.
Paul Winter Carnival." Mid-America American Studies Conference, Madison, April 2001.
"Habits and Values of Middle-Class Writing in Nineteenth-Century America." Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Denver, March 2001.
“Literary Leisure: Institutions and Praxis." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December
2000.
"The Aesthetics of Quotation." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2000.
"Becoming Visible, Being Heard: Frederick Douglass and the Bonds of Eloquence." American Studies
Association, Detroit, October 2000.
“Frederick Douglass, Between Speech and Print.” Rhetoric Association of America, May 2000.
“The Fate of Eloquence.” Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Pennsylvania State State
University, University Park, July 1999.
“Young Men’s Diaries and Literary Practices of Character in Nineteenth-Century America.” Fellows
Colloquium, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA, June 1999.
“Character is Color-Blind: Emerson and the Eloquence of Citizenship.” Modern Language Association,
San Francisco, December 1998.
"The Sobriety Test: Intoxication and the Poetics of Citizenship." American Studies Association, Seattle,
November 1998.
“The Body in Democratic Philosophy: The Erotics of Citizenship.” Special Conference, “Sex on the
Edge: A Multidisciplinary Conference.” Concordia University, Montreal, October 1998.
"The Modernist Test of Intelligence: Visual Abstraction and the New York School." Harvard Center for
Literary and Cultural Studies, Cambridge, February 1998.
"Popular Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America." American Association, Washington D.C., October
1997.
"The State of Our Attention: Emerson and the Politics of Character." American Political Science
Association, Washington D.C., August 1997.
"The Business of Libraries: Character and the Institutional Reader in Nineteenth-Century America."
American Historical Association, New York, January 1997.
"Composing the Senses: Emerson and the Civic Life of Enterprise." American Studies Association,
Kansas City, October 1996.
"The Eloquence of Print: Rhetoric and Literary Values in Nineteenth-Century America." Society for the
History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Worcester, MA, July 1996.
"Reading for Conviction: The Rhetoric of Literary Practice in Nineteenth-Century America." Center for
Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, November 1995.
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