Invited talks
Eugenic Plots: The Novel as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century
University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
April 2019
Origins of Gender: Rethinking the Sex/Gender Distinction
Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
April 2019
Biopolitics Before the State
Art & Architecture Forum, Columbia University. New York, NY.
April 2019
Origins of Gender: Rethinking the Sex/Gender Distinction
Dept. of English Annual Lecture Series, University at Buffalo.
March 2019
Origins of Gender: Rethinking the Sex/Gender Distinction
Spotlight Speaker, Capacious Conference, Lancaster, PA.
August 2018
The Biopolitics of Feeling
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, UC Santa Cruz.
May 2018
The Biopolitics of Feeling
Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Feminist/Queer Colloquium, Stanford University.
May 2018
Vaginal Impressions: Gyno-Neurology and the Racial Origins of Sexual Difference
Queer Genealogies of the Normal, Haverford College. Haverford, PA.
October 2016
The Fossil and the Photograph: Red Cloud and Prehistoric Media
American Studies Seminar, Columbia University. New York, NY.
March 2016
Vaginal Impressions: The Affective Biopolitics of the First Women Physicians
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture Speaker Series, UC Berkeley.
March 2015
Queer Vitalisms: Sensation, Sentiment, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Biopolitics
LGBT Studies, Yale University. New Haven, CT.
January 2015
Avatar and Technologies of Affect
Visuality and Technology seminar, Professor Marta Zarzycka, Utrecht University. Utrecht, the Netherlands.
May 2013
Handmaidens of Heredity: The Queer Evolutions of the First Generation of Women Physicians
Women’s and Gender Studies Annual Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark.
March 2013
Neoliberalism and the Sensing Body
Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe (NoISE) Summer School, Utrecht University. Utrecht, the Netherlands.
August 2012
The Evolution of Affect in the Age of Darwin
As Yet Unnamed: Queer Theories and the Nineteenth Century, Pomona College. Pomona, CA.
March 2012