Professor Thomas Pfau - Curriculum Vitae

•1985-89: Program in Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo; Ph.D. received February 1, 1989. – Dissertation: Rhetoric and Subjectivity: the Theoretical and Literary Figuration of Romantic Self-Consciousness (Director: Carol Jacobs)
•1982-85: Graduate Program in Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine; M.A. received Spring 1985.
•1980-82: Double Major in English and History, University of Constance, Germany.

HONORS

•$ 5,000 Course Development Grant from Trinity College in Arts & Sciences; received Spring 2008
•$ 2,000 Course Development Grant from the Duke Pathways Organization; received Spring 2008
•Member of the Bass Society of Fellows at Duke University, 2005-2010
•William and Randall Smith Faculty Development Grant for Fall 2004 (research leave and $ 5,000 research fund)
•Lilly Endowment Development Grant ($ 7,000) for new college-wide course on “Conflicted Middle-Class Identity in the Novel, 1800-1924”
•Duke University Arts & Sciences Research Grant ($ 5,000), Summer 2001
•Dorothy Collins Brown Fellow at the Henry Huntington Library, Summer 1993
•Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1988-89
•Dissertation defended with distinction, November 1988
•Ph.D. Qualifying examinations passed with distinction, March 1987
•University Fellowship for Graduate Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985-88
•Regents of the University of California Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 1983-84
•German Academic Exchange Fellowship for Study in the United States, 1982-83

EMPLOYMENT

2005- Eads Family Professor of English, Duke University

2005- Full Professor of English & of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Duke University

1997-2004 Associate Professor of English & Germanic Languages and Literatures, Duke University

1991-97 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Duke University

1990-91 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin—Madison

1989-90 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern Maine

PUBLICATIONS

Work in Progress

Parables of Life: Developmentalism and the Transformation of European Culture, 1780-1924 (an interdisciplinary study of developmentalism and narratives of Bildung in the areas of philosophy, literature, biology, and music. Currently, this study has been fully conceptualized and partially drafted; a first section of it has been published separately at Modernist Cultures, vol. 2 [see below]; expected date of completion: 2009)

—books, anthologies, & special issues:

•Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. The study studies mostly lyric forms as imaginative encryptions of Romanticism’s changing political, economic, and cultural conditions. The study correlates paranoia, trauma, and melancholy with discrete phases of British and German Romanticism. Figures central to the study include Burke, Godwin, Wordsworth, and Keats in England, as well as Kant, Novalis, Hegel, Eichendorff, and Heine in Germany. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005; 572 pp.). [Reviewed: SEL 46,4 (2006): 932-33; Romanticism 13.1 (2007): 90-92; Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 6.1 (2007); Prisms 13.1 (2005)]; Studies in Romanticism 45 (2006): 635-40; German Studies Review 30:3 (2007): 698-99.
•Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997) xiii + 460 pp. [Reviewed: Romanticism 7:1 (2001): 99-101; MLQ 60.3 (2000): 426-29; Romantic Circles Reviews 3.1 (1999): 11 pars. 15 Nov. 1999. European Romantic Review,vol. 11,iii (2000); SEL (Fall 1998); Wordsworth Circle xxx, no. 4 (2000), 199-200; Studies in Romanticism 40,I (2001): 161-65; Criticism 44,i (2002): 80-83.]
•“Medium and Message in German Modernism,” special issue of Modernist Cultures, vol. 1, issue 2 (Winter 2005), ed. Thomas Pfau.
•Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion (co-editor); an anthology of twenty-one essays (Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1998), vii + 475 pp. [Reviewed at Romantic Circles Reviews, 3.2 (March 1999); Romantic Praxis 3,ii (2000)
•Rhetorical and Cultural Dissolution in English Romanticism (co-editor), a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 95,iii (Summer 1996), iv + 276 pp.
•Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling, trans. and edited with a critical introduction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), xiv + 293 pp.
•Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory, trans. and ed., with a critical introduction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), xiv + 186 pp.

—essays:

1."The Bildungsroman." 5,000 word essay in The Blackwell Enclopedia of Romanticism, ed. Fred Burwick and Diane Long Hoeveler (London: Blackwell, 2010).
2."William Paley." 3,000 word essay in The Blackwell Enclopedia of Romanticism, ed. Fred Burwick and Diane Long Hoeveler (London: Blackwell, 2010).
3.“The Letter of Judgment: Practical Reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau” Eighteenth-Century Theory & Interpretation (2009), forthcoming.
4.“Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form” in The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (forthcoming from Oxford UP, 2008).
5.“Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom as the Problem of Modernity.” European Romantic Review 19:2 (2008): 83-103.
6.“The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought.” Romantic Praxis (April 2008).
7.“The Philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, Skepticism, and Coleridge’s Catastrophic Modernity.” MLN Comparative Literature Issue 122,5 (2007): 949-1004.
8."Of Ends and Endings: Teleological and Variational Models of Romantic Narrative." European Romantic Review 18:2 (2007): 231-40.
9.“From Mediation To Medium: Aesthetic and Anthropological Dimensions of the Image (Bild) and the Crisis of Bildung in German Modernism” in Medium and Message in German Modernism, a special issue of Modernist Cultures, ed. Thomas Pfau (November 2005).
10.“Rationality as Bewegung: From Kantian Autonomy to Hegel’s Self-Regulating System,” The Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism, ed. Michael Ferber (London: Blackwell, 2005).
11.“Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry.” in vol. 9 (Eric Downing and Clayton Koelb, eds.) of the Camden House History of German Literature (2005), 201-242.
12.“Conjuring History: Lyric Cliché, Conservative Fantasy, and Traumatic Awakening in German Romanticism.” in Afterlives of Romanticism, ed. Ian Baucom, SAQ (Winter 2003): 53-92.
13.“Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus: Heine’s Literary Provocation to German-Jewish Cultural Identity” in Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, ed. Angela Esterhammer (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002), 427-44.
14."The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition after Kant." MLQ 60:3 (1999): 321-52. Previously in Romantic Praxis.
15."Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." Romantic Praxis (1997).
16."Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism." Critical Introduction to Lessons of Romanticism, ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming in February 1998), 1-37.
17."Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials." in Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, ed. Stephen C. Behrendt (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997).
18."Searching their Hearts": Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft." Romanticism, 2:ii (1996): 220-46.
19."'Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind': The Political and Aesthetic Economy of the Body in Malthus and Wordsworth." South Atlantic Quarterly 95,iii (Summer 1996): 629-69.
20."Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse." in Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, ed. Tilottama Rajan and David Clark (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
21."'Elementary Feelings' and 'Distorted Language': The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface (1800)." New Literary History 24.i (1993): 125-46.
22."The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth." Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Review, vol. 10,ii (1992): 397-422. [Reprinted in Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship, ed. Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee (Durham: Duke UP, 1994)].
23."Tropes of Desire: Figuring the 'Insufficient Void' of Self-Consciousness in Shelley's Epipsychidion." Keats-Shelley Journal, XL (1991): 99-126.
24."Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theory of Style and Interpretation." Journal of the History of Ideas 51.i (1990): 51-73.
25."Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Übersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin." MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 103.5 (1988): 1072-97.
26."Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject." Studies in Romanticism, 26 (1987): 487-512.

—book reviews:

1.Review of Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are (New Haven: Yale UP, 2008), review forthcoming from Modern Philology
2.The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading, ed. Helen Regueiro Elam and Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005), review forthcoming in Romantic Circles (2007).
3.Leon Chai, Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006), review forthcoming from Comparative Literature (2008).
4.George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004); European Romantic Review 18:3 (2007), 439-44.
5.Ian Balfour, The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002); Comparative Literature 55.4 (2003): 360-63.
6.Angela Esterhammer, The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000); Criticism 44 (2002): 72-76.
7.Terence A. Hoagwood, Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts (Carbondale: Northern Illinois UP, 1996); Studies in Romanticism 38:4 (1999): 692-98.
8.Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998) MLQ 60:2 (1999): 265-67.
9.Martha Woodmansee, The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); reviewed in Studies in Romanticism, 34 (1995): 490-95.
10.Edwin Stein, Wordsworth's Art of Allusion; reviewed in Studies in Romanticism, 29 (1990): 496-99.
11.Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy, The Literary Absolute; reviewed in Studies in Romanticism 29.2 (1990): 309-13.
12.Winfried Menninghaus, Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der frühromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion; reviewed in MLN (German Issue), 104.3 (1989): 729-33.
13.Andrzej Warminski, Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger; reviewed in MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 102.5 (1987): 1212-15.

TEACHING

Recent Lecture Courses and Seminars (undergraduate and graduate):

•“Secularization and Modernity: Interdisciplinary Readings, 1750-1920” (a new undergraduate lecture course, cross-listed in English, German, Political Science, Sociology, Romance Studies, the Kenan Center for Ethics); to be taught beginning Spring 2009
•“Between Cartesianism and Modernism: Developmentalism in the 19th Century” (2- semester graduate seminar, cross-listed in German, English, and the Program in Literature & Theory)
•“Vocation, Ethics, Professionalism: Conflicted Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Novel, 1796-1924.” [ug] (lecture course, cross-listed in German, English, and the Program in Literature & Theory)
•“Music in Literature and Philosophy, 1800-1947.” [ug & gr] (seminar, cross-listed in German and English]
•“German Intellectual Traditions, 1770-1930” [ug] (lecture course, cross-listed in English, German, Political Science, History, and the Program in Literature & Theory)
•"Readings in Aesthetic Theory I: Kant to Hegel" [gr] (texts by Kant, Novalis, Schlegel, Hölderlin, Hegel, and Eduard Hanslick]
•"Readings in (Aesthetic) Theory II: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud" [gr]
•“The Melancholy of Literature: Keats and Heine in History.” [ug & gr]
•“Anxious Inspiration: Secular and Spiritual Radicalism of 1790s Britain.” [gr]
•“Lyrik zwischen Revolution und Restauration” [Graduate Seminar in German: readings on Hölderlin, Eichendorff, Heine and on Theory and Cultural History of the period. [gr] (Fall 1999 and Spring 2001)]
•"Introduction to Theory" [ug] Readings on the theory of language and rhetoric by Plato, Hugh Blair, Shelley, Nietzsche, Saussure, Jakobson, and J. L. Austin; and on the theory of interpreta¬tion by Aristotle, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, et al.]
•FOCUS seminar for 1st year students: “Liberty and Literature in Britain and Germany: 1789-1840” [clustered readings on Fr. Revolution debate; female emancipation; Jewish acculturation; and on the rise of the professional writer]
•HONORS Seminar (1992-94 and 2005-06): Director and Instructor of two-semester honors course enrolling 10-12 senior English majors who pursue individually defined critical writing projects (approx. 120 pp.); admission is competitive.

Advisory Work in English and German Graduate Studies at Duke:

•Director of 10 Ph.D. Theses
•Advisor to approximately 20 additional Ph.D. theses
•Director of 2 M.A. theses in the Duke Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program

ACADEMIC SERVICE (at Duke, 1991—)

•Member of the Selection Committee for Bass Distinguished Professorships, 2008-2011
•Member of Search Committee for Position in 20th Century German Studies, 2007-2008
•Director of Tenure Review Committee—English, 2007-2008
•Director of Undergraduate Studies—English, 2005—2007
•Director of Undergraduate Studies—German, 2001-2004
•Director of 19th Century Search Committee—English, 2001-2002
•Member of English Graduate Advisory Committee, 1995-1997 and 2001-2004
•Member of English Department Executive Committee, 2000-2001
•Member of Departmental Tenure Review Committee, 2000-2001
•Director of Graduate Studies—German Dept., Spring 1998—2001
•Member of Search Committee for positions in 18th & 19th Century British Literature, 1999-2000
•Chair of Senior Search Committee in Germanic Languages & Literatures, 1998-99
•Member of German Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Reform, 1999
•Member of Senior Search Committee in German Studies, 1997-98
•Member of the English Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1992-93
•Director of the English Department Honors Committee, 1992-94
•Director of the Committee for Graduate Placement, 1994-95, 1997-98, 2003-2004
•Member of the Committee for Graduate Placement, 1992-94; 1996-97, 1999

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

•Co-Organizer of "Romanticism & the Questions of Modernity” a multi-disciplinary conference with some 250 registered participants hosted under the auspices of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at Duke University, 21-24, 2009.
•Co-Organizer of “Nietzsche, Strauss, Mann: the Encounter of Music, Literature, and Philosophy,” April 24-25, 2008 at Duke University.
•Co-Organizer of "The Political and Aesthetic Education of Romanticism," a multi-disciplinary conference with some 220 registered participants hosted under the auspices of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at Duke University, 10-13 November, 1994.
•Reader of Manuscripts for University of Massachusetts Press, State University of New York Press, Stanford University Press, Columbia University Press, Broadview Press, Duke University Press, and for various scholarly journals.

External reviewer to tenure cases in the profession:

•Promotion to Full Professor case at York University (Canada), 2006
•Promotion and Tenure case at the University of Toronto, 2005
•Promotion and Tenure case at the University of Washington, 2005
•Requested to review a case of Promotion to Professor of English at the University of Greenwich, U.K., Spring 2004 (declined)
•Promotion and Tenure case at Emory University, Fall 2003
•Requested to review a Promotion and Tenure case at the University of Louisville, 2000 (declined)
•Promotion and Tenure case at the University of Southern Maine, 1997
•Promotion and Tenure case at the University of Southern Illinois, 1998

PROFESSIONAL LECTURES (select appearances from 1991-)

•“ Institutionalized Bildung and the Betrayal of Knowledge: Newman and Nietzsche on the University.” Keynote address to be delivered at The Imagination of the State in 19th-century British and German Literary-Intellectual Discourse the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), April 22, 2009.
•"From Opposition to Metamorphosis: Rethinking Difference through Hegel and Goethe." Invitational lecture, to be given at Harvard University, February 10, 2009.
•“Diversity as Theory: Play, Variation, and Form in Romantic Literature, Music, and Biology.” Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) at the University of Toronto, August 21-24, 2008
•“Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory of Bildung.” Invitational lecture delivered April 21, 2008 at Stanford University.
•“Mourning Modernity: Temporality and Elegiac Form around 1800.” Keynote address delivered at Finding Time: Romantic Temporalities, a conference hosted at the University of Western Ontario, April 12-13, 2008
•“Lives of Productive Desperation: Freedom and the Dystopic Nineteenth-Century Imagination.” Keynote address delivered at the joint BARS/NASSR conference on Romanticism (“Emancipation, Liberation, Freedom”) at the University of Bristol, 26-29 July 2007.
• “Organicism, Dialectics, and post-Cartesian Rationality.“ Invitational lecture to be presented at the University of Buffalo, March 22, 2007
•"Modernity as a Metaphysical Dilemma: Moral Agency in Coleridge." Invitational lecture to be presented at Johns Hopkins University, February 15, 2007.
•“Coleridge’s Catastrophic Modernity.” Invitational lecture to be presented at Rice University, November 10, 2006.
•“Whatever Happened to the Theory of Romanticism? On the Intellectual and Institutional Costs of Particularist and Miniaturist Forms of Criticism.” Seminar paper to be presented and discussed at the joint NASSR/NAVSA conference at Purdue University (31 August – 3 September 2006)
•"Becoming without Knowing: on the Ethics and Writing of Teleological and Variational Models of Development." Paper to be presented at the joint NASSR/NAVSA conference at Purdue University (31 August – 3 September 2006)
•“Theses towards an Interdisciplinary Model of Bildung.” To be presented at Die Europäische Romantik: ein Gründungsmythos, an international conference jointly organized by the University of Bonn and the University of Bologna; Bonn (17-19 October 2005)
•"Theses toward an Interdisciplinary Theory of Development ('Bildung')" Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) at the University of Montréal (13-17 August, 2005)
•“The Melancholy of Writing: Keats and Some Contemporaries,” Invitational lecture delivered at Emory University, Department of English, April 18, 2005.
•“Satyr-Plays of Civlization: on the Death of Civilization in Spengler’s Untergang and Mann’s Zauberberg.” Invitational lecture presented at a Symposium on Bildung at the University of Chicago, April 1, 2005.
•“Metamorphoses of Theory: Notes towards an interdisciplinary Definition of Bildung." Invitational lecture presented to the Department of German at the University of Michigan, 25 February, 2005.
•“Developmental Variations: Intelligential Form in Goethe and Beethoven.’ Paper presented at “Romantic Cosmopolitanism,” presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) at UC-Boulder (September 10-14, 2004).
•"Culture without Borders: Absolute Music in 19th Century Aesthetics and Philosophy." Special session organized for the 12th annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, on “Romantic Cosmopolitanism" (September 10-14, 2004) to be held at UC-Boulder.
•“Ver/Stimmung: Melancholy and Ressentiment in Keats and Heine.” Invitational lecture to be presented to the Departments of German, Comparative Literature, and English at Princeton University, February 19th, 2004.
•Invited participant at symposium on “Theology and Liberty in Bach’s B-Minor Mass” at Valparaiso, Indiana, January 8-11, 2004.
•Invited Respondent to two panels on “Ruins of Modernity” at the German Studies Association Meeting, September 18-21, 2003 in New Orleans.
•Invited participant at conference on “Tyranny, Power, Freedom and Responsibility in Schiller’s Writings.” Big Sky, Montana, June 26-29, 2003.
•“Keats’s Poetics of Simulation.” Invitational lecture at “Aesthetic Positions,” King’s College, Cambridge, U.K., June 20-22, 2003.
•Organizer and panelist at “The Poetics of Cultural Dissonance: German-Jewish Writing, 1780-1848.” A special session at “Romanticism and History,” a conference organized by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (August 22-25, 2002) in London, Ontario.
•Organizer and moderator at “Historical Knowledge, Social Agency, and Literary Value: 1800 / 2000” a plenary symposium at “Romantic Subjects,” a conference organized by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (16-19 August 2001) in Seattle.
•“'Ergründen ist Filosofieren / Erdenken ist Dichten': Novalis reads Fichte,” paper presented to a special session at “Romantic Subjects” (see above)
•"Poetics of Trauma: Lyric and Modernity around 1800." Invitational lecture delivered to the Program in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon (March 8, 2001)
•“’Gelbveiglein-Hebräisch’: Heine’s Reformulation of German-Jewish Linguistic and Cultural Relations.” Invitational lecture delivered to the German Department, University of Oregon (March 9, 2001)
•“Keats and Literary Value.” Invitational lecture at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, 11 November 2000.
•“The Corrupt Body of the Later Romantic Lyric: Melancholy, Jewishness, and Nietzschean Ressentiment in Heinrich Heine’s Buch der Lieder.” accepted at “Romanticism and the Physical,” an international conference at the University of Arizona, September 14-17, 2000.
•“Ver/Stimmung: Lyricism and the Professionalization of Culture.” Invitational lecture presented at the University at Buffalo, March 27, 1999.
•“The Historicity of Melancholy and its Literary Cure: The Scandalous Modernity of Heinrich Heine’s Buch der Lieder,” accepted at “Romanticism and the New,” an international conference at Dalhousie University, August 12-15, 1999.
•“’The Purest English’: Melancholy, Serialization, and the Cultural Logic of Lyric Writing around 1817.” Invitational lecture presented at Carnegie-Mellon University (January 21, 1999)
•"’Long before the time / Of which I speak’: Traumatic History in Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’." Presented at 1798 and Its Implications, conference jointly organized by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association of Romantic Studies, July 6-10, 1998, St. Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, England.
• "The Voice of Critique: Pleasure and Cognition in Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory." Invitational Lecture to be presented to the Washington Area Group on Romanticism, April 25, 1998.
•"Still / Life: Interiority and Formalization after Kant." Invitational lecture presented at the University of Washington-Seattle, February 27, 1998.
•"The Pleasure of Form: Aesthetic (Un)Knowing from Kant to Eduard Hanslick." Presented at Romanticism and its Others, an international conference at McMaster University, 23-26 October, 1997.
•Organizer of "Romanticism's Other Disciplines: Law, Economics, Journalism, and the Professionalization of Experience" a special session held at Romanticism and its Others, an international conference at McMaster University, 23-26 October, 1997.
•"Retroactivating the Past: Prophetic Cognition in Blake and Coleridge." Presented at Romantic Crossings, an international conference on Romanticism, Boston, November 14-16, 1996.
•"Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the Context of the 1794 Treason Trials." Invitational Plenary Lecture presented at the 2nd National Graduate Conference on Romanticism at Cornell University, 6-7 April 1995 and at the 3rd meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Maryland, July 1995.
•"'The man, whose eye / Is ever on himself': The Ideological Functions of Self-Surveillance in Bell, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth." Presented at The Political and Aesthetic Education of Romanticism, an international conference organized by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Duke U, Durham, 10-13 November 1994.
•"Reproduction, Representation, and the Revision of the Social Body in Malthus and Wordsworth." Southeast Nineteenth-Century Studies Association meeting at Emory University, April 16, 1993 and at the Aphra Behn Society annual meeting, U of Southern Maine, 17-18 September 1993.
•"Time, History, and the Structure of Aesthetic Labor: 'Tintern Abbey's Movement toward Form." Presented at the First Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, U of Western Ontario, 26-29 August 1993.
•"Boundaries of Temporality: Empirical Vision and Visionary Pragmatics in 'Tintern Abbey'." Presented at the annual British Studies Conference at Duke University, 18 October 1992.
•"The Rhetoric of Social Apocalypse in Malthus and Wordsworth." Presented at the MLA convention in San Francisco, 28 December 1991.
•"Signing on to Authority: Immediacy, Moral Speech, and Performative Theory." Presented at the 1991 MLA Convention in San Francisco.
•"Figuration, Revision, and the Senses of the Affective in Fichte and Wordsworth." Sixteenth Annual Convention of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature at Montréal, Canada, 16-18 May 1991.
•"Author(iz)ing a Collective Subject: Lyric Form, Moral Speech, and the Social Performance of Wordsworth's 'Ode to Duty.'" Conference on Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, 18-21 April 1991.

MEMBERSHIPS

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Served as an elected member of the Advisory Board for a three-year term, 1998-2000, and again, 2002-2005.