Conferences
March 26th-29th, 2009. Forthcoming paper presentation on Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns for the annual American Comparative Literature Conference at Harvard University. Panel: Locavores and Cosmopolitans: Discourses of Local and Global Universities.
April 21-24, 2008. “Banishing the Specter of the Nation: Arrivals and Departures in Mario Vargas Llosa’s Travesuras de la niña mala.” Seminar: "Lamentation and Arrivals: Negative Affect, Ugly Feelings, and the Return of the Exile." Annual American Comparative Literature Conference, Long Beach, California.
April 21, 2007. “Ivo Andric’s Na Drini cuprija: Violence, Alterity, and History.” Seminar: Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Eurasia: Cultures in Conflict. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Puebla, Mexico.
April 28, 2006. “Mourning and Loss in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.” Seminar: Comparative Approaches to Indian Fiction of Diaspora. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.
March 25, 2006. “The Erotic, Otherness, and the Human in Carlos Fuentes’ Aura and Mario Vargas Llosa’s In Praise of the Stepmother” Seminar: “Twisted Minds, Deviant Writings.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Princeton University.
March 31-April 2, 2005. “The Theme of Otherness in Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn.” Spaces. College English Association National Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jan. 6-8, 2005. “Visions of Otherness: Gulliver’s Travels and Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah
Equaino.” British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. St. Hughes College, Oxford University, England.
Sept. 23-25, 2004. “Signifying, Ideology, and Fantasy in I Wonder as I Wander.” Popular Culture Association in the South & American Culture Association in the South. Politics Panel. New Orleans, Louisiana.
March 10-14, 2004. “"Black Skin/White Masks" and Langston Hughes' Simple: An Analysis of Double Consciousness.” Transfronterismo: Crossing U.S. Ethnic Borders conference. Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States (MELUS). San Antonio, Texas.
Jan. 3-5, 2004. “Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ and the Imaginative Landscape of the Romantic Sublime.” Panel Topic: New Readings in Eighteenth Century Poetry. British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Oxford, England.
Oct. 27-29, 2003 “Language, Desire, and the Tragic in Jean Toomer’s Cane.” Central New York Conference on Language & Literature Panel: “The New Negro and the South.” SUNY-Cortland, Cortland, New York.
June 26th and 27th, 2003 “Border Crossings and Foreignness in the Works of Kristeva and Villasenor.” Border Lines and Border Lands. Centre de Recherches Espaces/Ecritures: Bibliotheque Durrell. International Conference. University of Paris, Nanterre. Paris, France.
April 4-6, 2003 “Walking Stars: A Jungian Interpretation.” American Comparative Literature Association. North San Diego County, California. Annual Conference.
March 12-15, 2003 “Reading Lacan with Sade.” First International Congress Sade/USA. Charleston, S.C.
November 2002 “The Dialectic of Internal and External Contradictions in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not Child.” Society of Research on African Cultures, Montclair, NJ. Society of Research on African Culture 2002 International Conference.
October 25, 2002 “A Lacanian Interpretation in Contemporary Serbian Lyrical Poetry.” Association of Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. Pennsylvania State Conference.
April 2002 "Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Lacanian Perspective." Northeastern Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada. Panel on African American literature & psychoanalysis.
April 2002 “Phallic Politics in Their Eyes Were Watching God.” College English Association. Cincinnati, Ohio. Panel on African American literature & psychoanalysis.
April 2001 “A Lacanian Interpretation of Law in Rain of Gold.” New York State English Association Conference on Law and Literature, St. John's University, Queens, New York.
Spring 2001 “Coyote, the Trickster,” American Popular Culture Conference, Philadelphia, Pa.
Spring 2001 “The Poetics of Orality in the Writings of Scott Momaday,” Conference on the Future of Form, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Spring 2000 “An Ontological Reading of The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk,” The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Harvard Divinity Institute.
Spring 1997 “Taoism and the Meaning of De,” International Conference on Taoism and Chinese Culture, NY, NY. | 
