"The Civic Spaces <strong>of</strong> Reading: Mercantile Libraries in Nineteenth-Century America." Special Conference, “Print Culture in the Age <strong>of</strong> the Circulating Library 1750-1850.” Sponsored by Groningen and Sheffield Hallam Universities, Sheffield, UK, July 2001. "Accounting for Experience: American Diaries and the Rituals <strong>of</strong> Literacy." Triennial Conference, International Society for the Study <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> Middle-Class Writing in Nineteenth-Century America." Conference on <strong>College</strong> Composition and Communication, Denver, March 2001. “Literary Leisure: Institutions and Praxis." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2000. "The Aesthetics <strong>of</strong> Quotation." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2000. "Becoming Visible, Being Heard: Frederick Douglass and the Bonds <strong>of</strong> Eloquence." American Studies Association, Detroit, October 2000. “Frederick Douglass, Between Speech and Print.” Rhetoric Association <strong>of</strong> America, May 2000. “The Fate <strong>of</strong> Eloquence.” Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Pennsylvania State State University, University Park, July 1999. “Young Men’s Diaries and Literary Practices <strong>of</strong> Character in Nineteenth-Century America.” Fellows Colloquium, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA, June 1999. “Character is Color-Blind: Emerson and the Eloquence <strong>of</strong> Citizenship.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998. "The Sobriety Test: Intoxication and the Poetics <strong>of</strong> Citizenship." American Studies Association, Seattle, November 1998. “The Body in Democratic Philosophy: The Erotics <strong>of</strong> Citizenship.” Special Conference, “Sex on the Edge: A Multidisciplinary Conference.” Concordia University, Montreal, October 1998. "The Modernist Test <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> Our Attention: Emerson and the Politics <strong>of</strong> Character." American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 1997. "The Business <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> Enterprise." American Studies Association, Kansas City, October 1996. "The Eloquence <strong>of</strong> Print: Rhetoric and Literary Values in Nineteenth-Century America." Society for the History <strong>of</strong> Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Worcester, MA, July 1996. "Reading for Conviction: The Rhetoric <strong>of</strong> Literary Practice in Nineteenth-Century America." Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, November 1995. Augst - 6
"The Crisis <strong>of</strong> Luxury in Boston: Consumer Revolution and the Rhetorics <strong>of</strong> Virtue in the 1780s." American Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 1995. Recipient <strong>of</strong> Annette Baxter Award. "Making Society Out <strong>of</strong> Books: Mercantile Libraries and the Reading <strong>of</strong> Market Culture." American Studies Association, Nashville, October 1994. Recipient <strong>of</strong> Annette Baxter Award. "Knowledge, Pr<strong>of</strong>ession, Community: Antebellum Mercantile Libraries and the Enterprise <strong>of</strong> Reading." Society for the History <strong>of</strong> Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Library <strong>of</strong> Congress, Washington D.C., July 1994. Augst - 7