“The Story of O: Margaret Oliphant and Anti-Metalepsis.” Northwestern University February 2019; Harvard Humanities Center September 2017; Yale University, November 2016
“Wordsworth in Bed.” Department of English, University of Georgia, February 2014
“Half Mended Stockings; or, Reality Sensing in Elizabeth Gaskell, “ “Affect’s Ends,” Department of English, Cornell University, November 2013
“Mind of a Rock: The Allure of Panpsychism in Victorian Britain.” V.A De Luca Lecture, University of Toronto, March 2012
“A Shape All Light.” English Institute, Harvard University, September 2010; Cornell University, January 2011; University of Windsor, March 2011; University of Idaho, April 2011
“Love Thinking.” Vanderbilt University, April 2008; Princeton University, March 2008; Cornell University, October 2005; New York University, September 2005; CUNY Graduate Center, May 2005
“”Foam, Aura, or Melody”: Theorizing Mental Force in Victorian England.” University of Chicago, January 2008
“Daniel Deronda and the Omnipotence of Thought.” University of Wisconsin, March 2009; Rutgers University, April 2007; Harvard University, March 2007; Yale University, October 2006; Cornell University, October 2006; Special invited seminar, North American Victorian Studies Association, September 2006
“Thinking About Other People in Nineteenth-Century Poetry,” Williams College , March 2005
“Transatlantic Modern Love.” “The Traffic In Poems,” Department of English, Rutgers University, September 2002
“Intimacy, Address, and the Problem of Thinking of Others in Nineteenth-Century Poetry.” Harvard Center for the Humanities, October 2001; Department of English, John Hopkins University, December 2000; Plenary Address, American Conference on Romanticism, Park City, Utah, October 2000
“Romantic Anti-Anthropomorphisms.” SUNY Buffalo, April 2000; Wordsworth and the Romantic Imagination, Cornell University, April 2000
“Thinking About the Other in Romantic Love.” The Politics of Passion, UCLA Humanities Center, April 1999
“Stealing Happiness: Shoplifting in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. ” Program in the Comparative Study of Social Transformations, University of Michigan, January 1997; Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, November 1996; Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, April 1996; University of Amsterdam, December 1995.
