• “Beginnings and Endings in Drama,” University of Freiburg, June 2007.
• “Multiple Implied Readers,” Narratology Seminar, Narrative Conference, Washington DC, March 2007.
• “‘We’ Narration in Postcolonial Fiction,” SSNL Session, MLA, Philadelphia, Dec 2006.
• “Narrative Beginnings,” University of Tours, October 2006.
• “Extreme Narration and the Death of the Narrator,” Aarhus University, Denmark, October 2006.
• “Plural Focalization, Singular Voices: Shifting Perspectives in ‘We’ Narration,” Hamburg University, October 2006.
• “Fictional and Historical Characters in Literature” Bayreuth University, June 1, 2006.
• “Reading and Misreading In Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” REDES Seminar, University of Munich, May 31, 2006.
• “Plot after Postmodernism,” Keynote Lecture, Drama and/after Postmodernism Conference, Augsburg, May 26, 2006
• “Reading Differently in the 20th Century,” University of Tübingen, May 24, 2006.
• “Extreme Forms of Narration in Postmodern Fiction: Theory and Practices” University of Freiburg, May 22, 2006.
• “‘We’ Narration and Its Theory,” International Narrative Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 2006
• “Extreme Narration in The Unnamable,” Beckett at 100 Conference, Florida State Univ, Feb 2006.
• When the Author is the Narrator: Fact and Fictionality in Nabokov’s Work,” MLA, Washington DC, December 2005.
• “Modernism: Period or Style?” New Modernisms Conference, Chicago, October 2005.
• “Reading the End of Nostromo,” ‘Nostromo at 100' Forum, Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, March 2005.
• “Plot and the Other Narrative Theory,” Narrative Conference, Louisville, April 2005.
• “Unusual Narrators and Extreme Narration in Contemporary Fiction,” Lecture and Master Class, University of Giessen, June 2005.
• "Postmodern Temporalities” and “Reflections on the Representation of Historical Figures in Drama,” Science, Theater, Audience, Reader Conference, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, March 2005.
• “The Values of Ulysses,” William and Mary College, Oct 2004.
• “Baraka’s ‘Slave Ship’ and Black Aesthetics,” Franklin and Marshall College, October 2004.
• “Bad Joyce: Anti-Aesthetic Practices in Ulysses.” International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, June 2004.
• “Implied Authors and Others” Narratology Seminar, International Narrative Conference, U of Vermont, May 2004.
• “Sea Changes: Colonial Resistence and Verbal Art in Ulysses,” Intl James Joyce Symposium, Trieste, June 2002.
• “Scatological Figures and Colonial Resistance in Ulysses” Postcolonial Modernisms Seminar, New Modernisms Conference, Rice University, October 2001.
• “Margaret Atwood’s Difficult Middles: On Plot After Post-modernism,” Narratology Seminar, International Narrative Conference, Rice University, March 2001.
• Session Organizer, "Conrad and the Reader," MLA, New Orleans, December 2000.
• Seminar Leader, "Modernism and the Reader," New Modernisms Conference, U.Penn, October 2000.
• "Linearity and its Discontents," New Modernism Conference, Penn State, October 1999.
• "Time, Cause and Sequence in To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf Conference, Newark Delaware, June 1999.
• "Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer': Suppressed Narratives and Subaltern Reception," Narrative Conference, Hanover NH, April 1999.
• "Samuel Beckett and the Pleasures and Miseries of Auto-Representation," Comparative Drama Conference, Gainesville Florida, March 1999.
• "Narrative Forms and Ideological Valences: A Mania for Symmetry," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
• "Ulysses, Early Postmodernism, and the Narratives of Literary History"; International Narrative Conference, Chicago, April 1998.
• "Learning Contradictory Interpretive Conventions: `The Secret Sharer' and Narrative Analysis"; MLA Convention, Toronto, December 1997.
• "James Joyce and the True History of the Modern Novel"; North American James Joyce Symposium, Toronto, June 1997.
• "Reception Theory Between Two Worlds: Euro-American Models and the `Other' Reader's Response"; American Comparative Literature Association Conference; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; April 1997.
• "Re-Mapping the Present: The Master Narrative of Modern Literary History and the Lost Forms of Twentieth-Century Fiction"; Narrative: An International Conference, Gainesville FL, April 1997.

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