"Jean Wahl and the Literary Modernist Resistance," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 4, 2018.
"Dorothy Norman, Richard Wright, and Twice a Year," Caribbean Philosophical Association 2017 Annual Meeting, "Shifting the Geography of Reason XIV: Theorizing Livity, Decolonizing Freedom." Borough of Manhattan Community College, June 22-24, 2017.
“New Approaches to Existentialism and the Absurd,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 5-8, 2017. Session co-organizer with Julia Elsky.
“Retriangulating Franco-African-American Culture in Sound, Image, and Text,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 17-20, 2016. Seminar co-organizer with Eric Prieto.
“Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Film,” Intellectuals and Reviews in the Light of Cinema: The Bazin Years in Paris, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 27, 2015. With Dudley Andrew and Alice Kaplan (invited).
“From a Salon to a Social Network: Postwar Modernist Community in France, the U.S., and Africa,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, March 26-29, 2015.
“Que peut le cinéma: Towards a Beauvoirian Film Theory,” Diverse Lineages of Existentialism, St. Louis, MO, June 19-21, 2014*
Moderator: “Philosophy and Literature” Panel, Diverse Lineages of Existentialism, St. Louis, MO, June 19-21, 2014.
“Mississippi Modernisms,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York, March 20-23, 2014.
*Named "Best Beauvoir Paper by a Graduate Student" by the Diverse Lineages of Existentialism conference