Talks & Appearances

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Past

Please Miss: In Conversation with Elif Batuman
Greenlight Bookstore ∿ February 9, 2022
The Cannibal’s Diagnosis: ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ as a History of Medicine
Queer Cultures Research Seminar ∿ University of Cambridge ∿ Cambridge, UK ∿ November 13, 2020
Theory, Technique, and the Real Transsexual: Anxious Discrimination in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
Twentieth Century and Contemporary Colloquium ∿ Harvard University ∿ Cambridge, MA ∿ November 5, 2020
Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique
Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society ∿ Berkeley, CA ∿ October 10, 2020
Bad Lip Reading, Glitch and the Phenomenology of Vocal Technique
Errant Voices ∿ University of Chicago ∿ Chicago, IL ∿ May 28, 2020 ∿ cancelled due to COVID-19
Trans Dick Jokes: A Discrimination
Keynote, Malcontents: A Convergence of Trans Scholars ∿ Concordia University ∿ Montreal, QB ∿ April 25, 2020 ∿ cancelled due to COVID-19
Requiem for Superboy Prime
Keynote, Queer Decadence conference ∿ UC Irvine ∿ Irvine, CA ∿ April 17, 2020 ∿ cancelled due to COVID-19
Egg Theory’s Early Style: Sedgwick with Dalí
Harvard University ∿ Cambridge, MA ∿ April 9, 2020 ∿ cancelled due to COVID-19
Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique
University of Wisconsin, Madison ∿ Madison, WI ∿ March 5, 2020
[untitled plenary lecture]
Nineteenth-Century Formations ∿ University of Hong Kong ∿ December 6, 2019 ∿ cancelled
Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique
Brown University ∿ Providence, RI ∿ November 20, 2019
Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique
Victorian Colloquium ∿ Princeton University ∿ Princeton, NJ ∿ November 18, 2019
Ruskin and Not-Japan
Ruskin Lecture Series ∿ Yale University ∿ New Haven, CT ∿ October 1, 2019
So, You Just Told Everyone You’re a Girl Now. Oops
Shameless ∿ Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe ∿ New York, NY ∿ June 26, 2019
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Literature and the Idea of Japan
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee ∿ Milwaukee, WI ∿ April 25, 2019
The Grammar of Attachment: Merce Cunningham
Paramodernities, a curated dance production choreographed by Netta Yerushalmy ∿ Hope Mohr's Bridge Project ∿ San Francisco, CA ∿ Feb 23, 2018
The Pre-Raphaelite Haiku
University of York ∿ York, UK ∿ November 21, 2017
Some Pronouns for the Author of ‘Middlemarch’
Dickens Universe ∿ Santa Cruz, CA ∿ August 1, 2017
This Exquisite World
Nineteenth-Century Group ∿ UCLA ∿ Los Angeles, CA ∿ March 1, 2016
Ugly Realism, or, How to Want What You Can Have
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis ∿ San Francisco, CA ∿ February 8, 2016