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

Some Related Resources

Parrhesia
An online journal on truthfulness in literary culture and critical theory...

Foucault on Discourse and Truth
A website on Michel Foucault's 1983 series of lectures on the concept of parrhesia.