Papers and Invited Lectures
Truthfulness and Violence in Kleist's The Marquise von O…
July 2011
Talk given at the international Kleist conference held at the University of Exeter, England
Sincerity and Art in Public Culture
December 2010
Invited lecture to be given at the Center for Ethics and Public Policy at the University of
Minnesota Duluth
Kleist's Unsettling Critique of Sincerity
April 2010
Conference paper delivered at the NEMLA Annual Meeting in Montreal
Why is Art Critical to Public Discourse
January 2010
Invited by the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature to give a guest lecture at the American
University of Beirut on the apparently peripheral nature of artistic works in public discourse
I too am naked; Habermas and Kleist read Goethe as a figure of Authenticity
January 2008
Conference paper delivered at Intellectuals and the Academy in the Public, an interdisciplinary conference at Brown University
Kleist's Epigrams
May 2007
Conference paper delivered at the Congress for the Humanities, and the Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Comparative Literature Association, The University of Saskatchewan
Heinrich von Kleist and the Display of Authentic Publicity
December 2006
Conference paper presented for the Weimar Group for Interdisciplinary Study's Annual Meeting, Northwestern University
Terribly Candid; Kleist's Literary Publicity
March 2006
Paper presented at The American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Conference, Princeton University
Heinrich von Kleist's Publishing Practices
February 2005
Conference paper presented at The Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies' Annual Conference at The University of Arizona
Kant and Ownership; "Besitz" in the Third Critique
April 2003
Paper presented at the German Graduate Student Conference at Northwestern University
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