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William Dow

Professor

  • Department: Comparative Literature and English
  • Office: 
    G-110
  • Office Hours: 
    Mondays and Thursdays 12:00鈥�13:00

Professor Dow has published articles in such journals as Publications of the Modern Language Association, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Twentieth-Century Literature, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Critique, The Hemingway Review, MELUS, Revue Fran莽aise D'Etudes Am茅ricaines, Actes Sud, Prose Studies, and Etudes Anglaises. He is the author of the book, Narrating Class in American Fiction (Palgrave, 2009) and co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2011), Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (Bloomsbury, 2014),聽Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin鈥檚 Radical Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2019), and The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism (Routledge 2020). He is currently completing a book-length study on American Modernism and radicalism entitled Reinventing Persuasion: Literary Journalism and the American Radical Tradition, 1900-2020.听



Education/Degrees

  • PhD, University of Delaware
  • MA, Clark University
  • BS, Grand Valley State University

Publications

Editorships
  • Managing Editor; Associate Editor, Literary Journalism Studies (Northwestern University Press). Dec. 2006-present.

Books
  • Charting the Global: Urban Literary Journalism, co-edited with Roberta Maguire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2024.
  • Reinventing Persuasion: Literary Journalism and American Literary Radicalism (in progress).
  • The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism, co-edited with Roberta Maguire. London and New York: Routledge, 2020).
  • Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin鈥檚 Radical Imagination, co-edited and co-written introduction with Alice Craven. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
  • Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary, co-edited and co-written introduction with Alice Craven. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year, 2016.
  • Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century, co-edited and co-written introduction, chapter prefaces, and afterword with Alice Craven. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  • Narrating Class in American Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Books, contributor of chapter
  • 鈥淟iterary Journalism and the American Essay.鈥澛�Teaching the American Essay. MLA Options for Teaching Series. Ed. Stephanie Redekop. MLA Press, forthcoming, 2024.
  • "Subjective and Objective: Newspaper Columns.鈥澛�The Cambridge History of the American Essay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Eds., Jason Childs and Christy Wampole, 2024: 280-299.
  • 鈥淧erilous Reckonings: American Literary Journalism as a World Literary Journalism: Margaret Fuller, Ida B. Wells, John Dos Passos, James Baldwin, and Katherine Boo.鈥澛�The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism. London and New York: Routledge. Eds., John Bak and William Reynolds, 2023: 154-177.
  • 鈥淎merican Literary Journalism as Liberatory Praxis: Experimentation and Social Justice.鈥澛�Social Justice and Literary Journalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Eds., Robert Alexander and Willa McDonald, 2022: 175-194.
  • 鈥淩ichard Wright: Paris and Ailly.鈥� Richard Wright in Context. Ed., Michael Nowlin. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021: 44-53.
  • 鈥淩ichard Wright and Chicago.鈥� The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Ed., Jeremy Tambling. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 1-6.
  • 鈥淟iving on Paper: Disarticulating a Racialized Capitalism in Works by Richard Wright and Ann Petry.鈥� The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel. Eds., Vincent Dussol and Jacques-Henri Coste. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020: 229-246.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� (With Roberta Maguire). The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism. Eds., Roberta Maguire and William Dow. London and New York: Routledge, 2020: 1-14.
  • 鈥淢etabolizing Genres: American Poetry and Literary Journalism.鈥� The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism. Eds., Roberta Maguire and William Dow. London and New York: Routledge, 2020: 416-433.
  • 鈥淩eviewers, Critics, and Cranks.鈥� James Baldwin In Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ed., Quentin Miller, 2019: 287-300.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: Baldwin鈥檚 Radical Imagination鈥� (With Alice Craven). Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin鈥檚 Radical Imagination. Eds., Alice Craven and William Dow. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2019: 1-11.
  • 鈥淛ourneys of the 鈥業鈥� in James Baldwin鈥檚 Literary-Journalistic Essays.鈥� Of Latitudes聽Unknown: James Baldwin鈥檚 Radical Imagination, Eds., Alice Craven and William Dow. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2019: 113-132.
  • 鈥淔loating Facts on a Sea of Emotion: The Literary Journalism of Richard Wright.鈥� 聽The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance. A Political Companion to Great American Authors. Eds., Jane Anna Gordon and Ernie Zirakzadeh. University Press of Kentucky, 2018: 224-246.
  • 鈥淧rofiles of Lived Experience: Charles Reznikoff, Muriel Rukeyser, and Mark Nowak.鈥� Routledge Research in Journalism. Profile Pieces: Journalism and the 鈥楬uman Interest鈥� Bias. Eds., Sue Joseph and Richard Lance Keeble. London and New York: Routledge: 2015: 116-133.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� (With Alice Craven). Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary. Eds., Alice Craven and William Dow. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014:1-9.
  • 鈥淧ulp Gothicism in Richard Wright鈥檚 The Outsider.鈥� Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary. Eds., Alice Craven and William Dow. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014: 141-159.
  • 鈥淩ichard Wright.鈥� The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists. Ed., Timothy Parrish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013: 156-167.听
  • 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� (With Alice Craven). Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century. Eds., Alice Craven and William Dow. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.听 2011: 1-7.
  • 鈥淧refaces,鈥� Parts 1-4 (With Alice Craven).听 Part 1, 鈥�(Re)Placing Richard Wright鈥�; Part 2, 鈥淭aking Sides: Racism and Spatial Dimensions鈥�; Part 3, 鈥淲right: Pulp and Media, Reality and Fiction鈥�; Part 4, 鈥淲right: New Comparative Frameworks, Transnational Boundaries.鈥� Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century. Eds., Alice Craven and William Dow. New York: Palgrave Macmillan., 2011: 9-10, 69-70, 101-103, 167-169.
  • 鈥淎fterword鈥� (With Alice Craven). Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century. Eds., Alice Craven and William Dow. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: 267-271.
  • 鈥淛ames Agee鈥檚 鈥楥ontinual Awareness,鈥� Untold Stories: 鈥楽aratoga Springs鈥� and 鈥楬avana Cruise鈥� (1937).鈥� Literary Journalism across the Globe: Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences. Eds., John Bak and Bill Reynolds. Amherst: University of聽 Massachusetts Press, 2011:聽 225-237.
  • 鈥淩ethinking the Geographies of American Studies.鈥� G茅ographie dans le monde anglophone : espace et identit茅. Eds., Marie-Fran莽oise Alamichel and Olivier Brossard. Paris : Houdiard, 2010: 103-119.听
  • Introduction: 鈥淭he Continuum of聽 Class.鈥� Class Matters: Representing Class in American Culture, Literature, and Film. Co-editor, William Dow. University of聽 Valenciennes Press. 2010: 8-16.
  • 鈥淐lass, Work, and New Races: Zora Neale Hurston鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God and Agnes Smedley鈥檚 Daughter of聽 Earth.鈥� Class Matters: Representing Class in American Culture, Literature, and Film. Co-editor, William Dow. University of Valenciennes Press. 2010: 111-127.
  • 鈥淐lass 鈥楾ruths鈥� in James Agee鈥檚 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.鈥� Intellectuals and Commitment in the United States (Ecriture et engagement aux Etats-Unis, 1918-1939). Eds., Anne Ollivier and Fr茅d茅ric Sylvanise. Paris: Ophyrs and Universit茅 Paris 13, 2010: 157-175.
  • Class Matters: Representing Class in American Culture, Literature, and Film, co-edited with J. Chandler and Y. Roblou, and with an introduction by William Dow. University of Valenciennes Press, 2009.
  • 鈥淢eridel Le Sueur鈥檚 Working-Class Fiction: Moving to a Cultured Sense of Language.鈥� A Class of Our Own: Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction. Eds., Laura Hapke and Lisa A. Kirby. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008: 96-112.
  • 鈥淎pproaches to Teaching Meridel Le Sueur鈥檚 Salute to Spring.鈥� A Class of Our Own: Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction. Eds., Laura Hapke and Lisa A. Kirby. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008: 260-261.
  • 鈥溾�楬ard Work and Blood鈥� in Whitman鈥檚 1855 Song of聽 Myself.鈥� Spell (Swiss Papers in Language and Literature), Vol. 18. American Poetry: Whitman to the Present.听 Eds., Robert Rehder and Patrick Vincent. Zurich: Gunter Narr Verlag T眉bingen, 2006: 35-52.
  • 鈥淧aul Auster鈥檚 The Invention of Solitude: Glimmers in a Reach to Authenticity.鈥� Ed. and intro., Harold Bloom. Bloom鈥檚 Modern Critical Views: Paul Auster. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004: 51-62.
  • 鈥溾�楢gents of聽 Change鈥�: Challenges in the Flesh and the Teaching of聽 American Literature.鈥� The Periphery: Viewing the World. Eds., Christina Dokou, Eterpi Mitsi et al. Athens: The National and Kapodistrain University of聽 Athens, 2004: 150-157.
  • 鈥淟a mati猫re d茅sert: Death Comes for the Archbishop de Willa Cather et Blood Meridian de Cormac McCarthy.鈥� Confluences. D茅serts: entre d茅sir et d茅lire. Eds., Corinne Alexandre-Garner and Guillaume Cingal. University of聽 Nanterre, Paris 10: Publidix,聽 Vol. 22, 2003: 155-173.
  • 鈥淲riting Nostalgia, Writing a Nation.鈥� Introduction. American Nostalgias. Angloscopies. General Editor, William Dow. Paris: Editions Mallard, 2003: 16-23.
  • 鈥淧erformative Passages: Davis鈥檚 Life in the Iron Mills, Crane鈥檚 Maggie, Norris鈥檚 McTeague.鈥澛� Twisted From the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Tennessee Studies in Literature. Ed., Mary E. Papke. Knoxville: University of聽 Tennessee Press, 2003: 23-44.
  • 鈥淟ives on the Boundary: Portraiture and Modernism in Jean Toomer鈥檚 Cane and Sherwood Anderson鈥檚 Winesburg, Ohio.鈥� Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. Eds., Cathy Waegner, Bernard Vincent et al. Heidleburg: Universitaetsuerlag C. Winter, 2002: 248-258.
  • 鈥淔rench Responses to Dickinson.鈥� An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, Ed. Jane Donahue Eberwein. New York: Greenwood Press, 1998: 118-119.
Selected journal articles
  • Guest Editor. Special Issue, 鈥淣arrative Journalism and Socialism: From Marxism to the New Lefts, in Action and Stories.鈥� Sur le Journalisme鈥擜bout Journalism鈥擲obre jornalismo. . Forthcoming, 2021.
  • 鈥淔ieldwork Literature, Created Lives: George Packer and Claudia Rankine.鈥� Litt茅ratures de Terrain. Revue Critique de Fixxion Fran莽aise Contemporaine/Critical Review of Contemporary French Fiction. Paris. No. 18, 2019: 131-142.
  • 鈥淩eading Otherwise: Literary Journalism as an Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism.鈥澛�Literary Journalism Studies聽(Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Press). Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2016: 119-137.
  • 鈥淭he Center and Beyond: The Expansion of American Literary Journalism Studies.鈥� Revista FAMECOS, midia, cultura e technologia. Vol. 23, 2016.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: Re-envisioning Poverty.鈥� M茅moires et Territoires. LISAA. Universit茅 Paris Est (UPEM). Special issue on poverty: Envisioning Poverty. Introduction and editor. June, 2016: 1-5. electroniques/collections-numeriques-du-lisaa/
  • 鈥淎n Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich.鈥� Interview by William Dow and Leonora聽Flis..Literary Journalism Studies (Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Press). Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2015: 146-158.
  • 鈥淰oyages sans carte : Jack London et Albert Londres.鈥� Roman et Reportage. Rencontre crois茅es XXe-XXIe si猫cles. Mediatexts. Ed. Myriam Boucharenc. Limoges : Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2015: 41-49.听
  • 鈥淯nreading Modernism: Richard Wright鈥檚 Literary Journalism.鈥� Literary Journalism Studies (Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Press). Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall聽 2013: 59-89.
  • 鈥淛ack London鈥檚 Interrogations of Experience : 鈥楾he Dignity of聽 Dollars鈥� (1900) and 鈥楳exico鈥檚 Army and Ours鈥� (1914).鈥� L鈥橢xp茅rience II. Paris: Houdiard, 2013: 119-131.
  • 鈥淒orothy Day and Joseph Kessel: 鈥楢 Literature of聽 Urgency鈥�.鈥� Prose Studies (Routledge). Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2011: 132-153.
  • 鈥淣ew Alignments, New Discourses: A Reflection on Teaching Blaise Cendrars and John Dos Passos.鈥� The Newsletter of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies. eds., David Abrahamson and Bill Reynolds. Northwestern University, 2012. Web. 13-15.
  • 鈥淩oadside,鈥� 鈥淪atie,鈥� 鈥淢ount Pulmo鈥� (poems). Sans Issue: A Journal of聽 Writing. The American University of聽 Paris. December, 2005: 6-8.
  • A Modernist Vernacular: Violent Figurations in Nathanael West鈥檚 Miss Lonelyhearts.鈥� Polys猫mes Arts et litt茅ratures: les figures de la violence. Paris: Publibook, Vol. 7, 2005 : 185-201.
  • 鈥淭he Perils of聽 Irony in Hemingway鈥檚 The Sun Also Rises.鈥� Etudes Anglaises (Paris 4, Sorbonne). Vol. 52, No. 8, 2005 :178-192.
  • 鈥淢eridel Le Sueur鈥檚 Salute to Spring: 鈥楢 Movement Up Which All Are Moving鈥�.鈥� Core: A Journal of聽 the Humanities.Paris: The American University of聽 Paris. Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004: 79-96.
  • 鈥楢lways Your Heart鈥�: The 鈥楪reat Design鈥� of Toomer鈥檚 Cane.鈥� Melus. Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter 2002: 59-88.
  • Down and Out in London and Orwell.鈥� Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2002: 69-94.
  • American Nostalgias, co-edited and co-written introduction with J. Chandler and Y. Roblou. Paris: Mallard, 2002.
  • 鈥淭h猫me Oral.鈥� Rapports de Jurys de Concours. Agr茅gation Anglais: concours interne, 2001. Minist猫re de l鈥橢ducation Nationale. Tours: Centre National de documentation P茅dagogique, 2001: 104-117.
  • 鈥淣ostalgia and the Insurrectionary in Dos Passos鈥檚 U.S.A.鈥� 鈥淰ariations sur le th猫me de l鈥橢tranget茅.鈥� Annales du Monde. No. 11, 2000. Paris: L鈥橦armattan. Sorbonne nouvelle (Universit茅 Paris 3): 171-188.
  • 鈥淭opographical Strides of聽 Thoreau: The Poet and Pioneer in Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 Blood Meridian.鈥澛� Revue Fran莽aise D鈥橢tudes Am茅ricaines. No. 84, March, 2000: 89-105.
  • 聽鈥淧erformative Realism in Crane鈥檚 Maggie and Norris鈥檚 McTeague.鈥� Les Avatars du R茅alisme. Nantes and Paris: Ouest Editions, 2000: 243-258.
  • 鈥淲illa Cather鈥檚 Death Comes for the Archbishop: 鈥楾o Become a Story鈥�.鈥� Editions du Temps. September, 1999: 41-55.
  • Storytelling and Unforeseen Becomings in Raymond Carver鈥檚 Shortcuts.鈥� Ellipses. September, 1999: 78-87.
  • 鈥淧MLA聽 Abroad: Brief聽 Ponderings on (Mistaken) Identities.鈥� Publication of聽 the Modern Language Association. Vol. 113, No. 5, October, 1998: 1136-1137.
  • "Paul Auster鈥檚 The Invention of Solitude: Glimmers in a Reach to Authenticity.鈥� Critique. Vol. 39, No. 3, Spring, 1998: 272-281. Reprinted in Bloom鈥檚 Modern Critical Views: Paul Auster. Ed. and intro. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004: 51-62.
  • 鈥淛ean Toomer鈥檚 Cane and Winesburg, Ohio: Literary Portraits from the 鈥楪rotesque Storm Center鈥�.鈥� Qwerty. December, 1997: 129-136.
  • 鈥溾�楢lways Your Heart鈥�: Direct Address, Narrative Authority, and the 鈥楪reat Design鈥� of Cane.鈥� Ellipses. October, 1997: 43-52.
  • 鈥淚magination and the Disruptive Complicities of Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams.鈥� Profils am茅ricains. No. 8, 1997: 81-99.
  • 鈥淗emingway鈥檚 A Farewell to Arms.鈥� Explicator. Vol. 55, No. 4, Summer, 1997: 224-225.
  • 鈥淭he Nature of Huckleberry Finn: Huck as 鈥楢utobiographer.鈥欌�� Americana, University of the Sorbonne Press. Vol. 14, January, 1997: 30-43.
  • 鈥淛ohn Dos Passos, Blaise Cendrars, and the 鈥極ther鈥� Modernism.鈥� Twentieth Century Literature. Vol. 42, No. 3, Fall, 1996: 396-415.
  • 鈥淔iction is Not Real: the Performative and Norris鈥檚 McTeague.鈥� ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Vol. 42, No. 2, 1996: 77-92.
  • 鈥淓lle signe souvent 鈥楨milie鈥�: Emily Dickinson and the French Critical Reception.鈥� The Emily Dickinson Journal. Vol. 5, No. 2, 1996: 226-231.
  • 聽鈥淣ever Being 鈥楾his Far From Home鈥�: Paul Auster and Picturing Moonlight Spaces.鈥� Qwerty. Vol. 6, December, 1996: 193-198.
  • 鈥淧aul Auster鈥檚 Moon Palace: Story as Ontology, the Moon as the Future.鈥� Ellipses. October, 1996: 55-62.
  • 鈥淔rank Norris and the 鈥楻ealism that Stultifies鈥�.鈥� Excavatio. Vol. VIII, Spring, 1996: 86-99.
  • 鈥溾�楾he Mirror You Break Your Nose Against鈥�: Lolita and the Conquest of Crime.鈥� Americana, University of the Sorbonne Press. Vol. 13, February, 1996: 55-62.
  • 鈥淟鈥檌nvention de la solitude de Paul Auster: Lueurs dans l鈥檃ppr茅hension de l鈥檃uthenticit茅.鈥� Actes Sud, Revue Litt茅raire.L鈥檕euvre de Paul Auster: Approches et lectures plurielles. December, 1995: 38-50.
  • 鈥淎 Farewell to Arms and Hemingway鈥檚 Protest Stance: To Tell the Truth Without Screaming.鈥� The Hemingway Review. Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall, 1995: 38-50.
  • 鈥淩eport from the Other Academy: Non-American Voices and American Literature.鈥� Revue Fran莽aise D鈥橢tudes Am茅ricaines. No. 65, July, 1995: 484-495.
  • 鈥淛ohn Dos Passos, Blaise Cendrars, and 鈥榓 Squirrel Cage of the Meridians鈥�.鈥� Notes on Contemporary Literature. Vol. 25, No. 2, March, 1995: 4-5.
  • 鈥淭he Influence of Madame Bovary in Kate Chopin鈥檚 The Awakening: Corresponding Struggles, Dreams, and Regressions.鈥� Americana, University of聽 the Sorbonne Press, Vol. 11, January, 1994: 11-22.
  • 鈥淏laise Cendrars and John Dos Passos.鈥� Feuilles de routes: Blaise Cendrars International Society. Paris: Vol. 28, May, 1993: 9-16.
  • 鈥淛ohn Dos Passos: Teaching the Language to Non-Americans.鈥� London: Rodopi, November 17, 1992: 3-14.
Poems
  • 聽鈥淚 Am Seven: My Father Picks Me Up on the Corner of 42nd and Wilson,鈥� 鈥淗ow Dark?鈥澛�The Adirondack Review. Fall 2017.
  • 聽鈥淟ast Walk,鈥� 鈥淥uttakes,鈥� 鈥淪aint Jeanne.鈥澛�The Berkeley Poetry Review, Vol. 43, 2016: 224-232
  • 聽鈥淩oadside,鈥� 鈥淪atie,鈥� 鈥淢ount Pulmo.鈥澛�Sans Issue: A Journal of聽 Writing.听聽The American University of聽 Paris. December, 2005: 6-8.听
Reviews
  • James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence聽by Jules B. Farber. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 2016.听Revue Fran莽aise D鈥橢tudes Am茅ricaines.聽No. 152, 2018: 125-126.

Conferences & Lectures

  • 鈥淒os Passos鈥檚 Experimental Chronicle: The Literary Journalism of聽Facing the Chair.鈥�聽2024 John Dos Passos Society Conference.听Bassano del Grappa, Italy. May 23-25, 2024.
  • Documentary Poetry, Popular Protest and Activism: An International Poetry and Poetics Seminar. The American University of Paris. Co-Directors: Geoff Gilbert and William Dow. June 15-17, 2023.听
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: Documentary Poetry and Poetics: Voices Raised, Imagination and Materiality.鈥澛�Documentary Poetry, Popular Protest and Activism: An International Poetry and Poetics Seminar. The American University of Paris. Co-Directors: Geoff Gilbert and William Dow. June 15-17, 2023.听
  • 鈥淐harles Reznikoff鈥檚 Poetic Journalism: A Material Culture of Poetry and Knowing.鈥濃�淰ernacular Poetics.鈥澛�Charles Reznikoff鈥檚 Inscriptions (1894-1976), International Conference. Universit茅 Paris Nanterre, France. June 1-3, 2023.
  • 鈥淲riting Aslant: Sound Studies and Aural Literary Journalism in聽This American Life.鈥澛�Literary Journalism and a Sense of Place.听The Seventeenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-17).听Gdansk University, Poland. May 18-20, 2023.
  • Panel Moderator. 鈥淟iterary Journalism, In the American Grain.鈥澛�Literary Journalism and a Sense of Place.听The Seventeenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-17).听Gdansk University, Poland. May 18-20, 2023.
  • 鈥淭ransculturalism and American Audio Podcasts.鈥� 鈥淟ieux de m茅moire urbains et Transculturalit茅.听Savoirs et Espaces Anglophone (SEA). Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel. September 28, 2022. 聽
  • 鈥淭owards an Oral Literature: Sounds and Voices in聽This American Life.鈥� 鈥淣arrative Journalism Across Media: Nonfiction Ethics and Literary Aesthetics.鈥澛�Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Detroit. August 3-6, 2022.
  • 鈥淩epresenting US Poetry鈥檚 Double Syntax.鈥澛�Documentary Poetics.听North American Poetry 2000-2020: Poetics, Aesthetics, Politics.听Institut Universitaire de France; Universit茅 Paris Cit茅, Paris. June 29-July 2, 2022.
  • 鈥溾�楢nd to all we appeal鈥�: Re-Envisioning Transatlantic Mobility in Margaret Fuller鈥檚 Literary Journalism.鈥澛�鈥淟iterary Journalism and Justice.鈥� The Sixteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-16).听Santiago, Chile. May 12-14, 2022 (virtual).
  • 鈥淟iterary Journalism and U.S. Found Poetry: Intersections in Place and Temporality.鈥� Literary Journalism and Found Poetry. The Thirteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-15). University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen , Denmark. May 20-22, 2021 (virtual).
  • 鈥淎merican Literary Journalism Studies, Envisioning Futures: The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism. Panel Co-chair. The Thirteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-15). University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark. May 20-22, 2021 (virtual).
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: Literary Journalism and the City.鈥� 鈥淎merican Urban Literary Journalism鈥� (talk by Robert Boynton). SEA (Savoirs et Espaces Anglophone) Research Group. Lecture organizer. Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel (UGE). May 7, 2021.
  • Co-Director (with Marie-Fran莽oise Alamichel) of four seminars devoted to the cultural, political, and literary representations of cities for the research group, Savoirs et Espaces Anglophone (SEA), Paris-Est (UPEM).
  • All Things James Baldwin. 鈥淪ignatures of Witness.鈥� James Baldwin panel discussion and book launch. Alice Craven and William Dow (Eds.), Of Latitudes Unknown (2019).听 With Bill V. Mullen, James Baldwin: Living in Fire (2019) and Yule Caise. The American University of Paris. October 4, 2019.
  • Panel Moderator. 鈥淓xpress Cities.鈥� Repr茅senter La Ville聽: Les Mots, Les Gestes et L鈥檈sprit. Savoirs et Espaces Anglophone (SEA), Universit茅 Paris-Est UPEM. September 12-13, 2019.
  • International Hemingway Conference. Paris Site Director. The American University of Paris. July 22-28, 2018.
  • 鈥淗auntings from the Past: Hemingway鈥檚 Literary-Journalistic Future.鈥� Plenary Panel. Panel Chair. International Hemingway Conference. Paris Site Director. The American University of Paris. July 22-28, 2018.
  • 鈥淗emingway鈥檚 Literary Journalism and Image-Making Modernism.鈥� Plenary Panel talk. International Hemingway Conference. Paris Site Director. The American University of Paris. July 22-28, 2018.
  • 鈥淗emingway and Dos Passos.鈥� Panel Chair. International Hemingway Conference. The American University of Paris. July 22-28, 2018.
  • 鈥淕eorge Packer, Claudia Rankine: Literary Journalism, Experimentalism, and the Realist Mode.鈥� Literary Journalism: Theory Practice, Pedagogy.鈥� The Thirteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-13). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 17-19 May, 2018.
  • 鈥溾�淔loating Facts on a Sea of Emotion: The Literary Journalism of Richard Wright.鈥� Seminar on James Baldwin, Chester Himes, and Richard Wright. Invited Speaker. Columbia Global Centers, Paris. Columbia University. October 4, 2016.
  • 鈥溾�楢 Language to Dwell In鈥�: James Baldwin, Paris, and International Visions.鈥� International James Baldwin Conference. Co-Director. The American University of Paris. May 26-28, 2016.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: Mapping Baldwin鈥檚 Language and International Impact.鈥� 鈥溾�楢 Language to Dwell In鈥�: James Baldwin, Paris, and International Visions.鈥� International James Baldwin Conference. Co-Director. The American University of Paris. May 26-28, 2016.
  • 鈥淏aldwin as Playwright and Literary Journalist.鈥� Panel Chair. 鈥溾�楢 Language to Dwell In鈥�: James Baldwin, Paris, and International Visions.鈥� Co-Director. The American University of Paris. May 26-28, 2016.
  • 鈥淩eading Otherwise: Literary Journalism as an Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism.鈥� The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies 11. Plenary Speaker. Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sol, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 19-21 May, 2016.
  • 鈥淭he Center and Beyond: The Expansion of American Literary Journalism History.鈥� 鈥淲here Historians and Literary Journalists Meet: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Writing Literary History.鈥� Invited panellist. The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies 11. Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sol, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 19-21 May, 2016.
  • 鈥淔rom Fact Checking to Peer Review: Challenges for Literary Journalism in Academia..鈥� Panel Chair. The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies 11. Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sol, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 19-21 May, 2016.
  • 鈥淛ourneys of the 鈥業鈥� in James Baldwin and Barbara Ehrenreich.鈥� 鈥淭he First Person聽as Resistance.鈥� Annual Conference聽 of the Association for Education in Journalism聽and Mass Communication. Session Organized by the International Association of聽Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS). San Francisco, CA. August 5-9, 2015.
  • 鈥淭he French Americanist Bibliography Project: Phase Four.鈥� The French Association of聽 American Studies Conference : 鈥淢ovement, Place, Fixity.鈥� Universit茅 de La Rochelle, 27-30 May, 2015.
  • 鈥淩ichard Wright鈥檚 Literary Journalism: Reprimanding Race, Resisting Modernism.鈥� Lessons in Resistance: Richard Wright as Social Critic and Political Thinker. Invited Speaker. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 11-12 May, 2015.
  • 鈥淯ninvited Objectivity: Charles Reznikoff, Muriel Rukeyser, and Mark Nowak.鈥滾iterary Journalism, Media, Meaning, Memory. The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies 10. The University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota. May 7-9, 2015.听
  • Further Travels.鈥� International James Baldwin Conference: James Baldwin: Transatlantic Commuter. Invited Panel Chair. Universit茅 Paul-Val茅ry, Montpellier. June 5-7, 2014.
  • 鈥淏orrowed Light: the 1930s and American Heroism鈥� Graduate seminar.
    Universit茅 Paris-Est (UPEM). Invited speaker. June 5, 2014.
  • "The French Americanist Bibliography Project: Phase Three and Future.鈥� The French Association of聽 American Studies Conference: Les Etats-Unis: mod猫les, contre-mod猫les鈥in des mod猫les. Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. May 21-24, 2014.听
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: the Lives of Literary Journalism.鈥� Literary Journalism: Local, Regional, National, Global. The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies 9. Organizer. The American University of聽 Paris. May 15-17, 2014.
  • Conference Host鈥檚 Panel: 鈥淟iterary Journalism and the Book.鈥� Introduction.听 Literary Journalism: Local, Regional, National, Global. The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies 9. The American University of聽 Paris. May 15-17, 2014
  • 鈥淟iterary Journalism and Activism.鈥� Panel Moderator. Literary Journalism: Local, Regional, National, Global. The International Association of Literary Journalism Studies 9. The American University of聽 Paris. May 15-17, 2014.
  • 鈥淩epresentations of Capitalism in the English-Speaking World (1). Paradigms of the American Model of Capitalism: from Theory to Fiction?: (Re)visiting the Economics/Literature Nexus. Invited panelist. Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle. March 28, 2014.
  • 鈥淭raveling without Maps: Jack London and Albert Londres.鈥� American Comparative Literature Association: Capitals. New York University, March 20-23, 2014.
  • "Poverty as an Object of Social Inquiry and Artistic Representations.鈥� Representations of Poverty. Universit茅 Paris-Est (UPEM). Seminar Co-organizer. January聽 31, 2014.
  • Roman et reportage chez John Dos Passos et Blaise Cendrars : Devant la chaise 茅lectrique (1927) et Rhum (1930).鈥� Plenary Speaker. Journalisme litt茅raire et grand reportage. La passion du r茅el, ou l鈥櫭ヽriture-v茅rit茅. Coll猫ge de Belgique, Brussels. October 8, 2013. 聽
  • 鈥淭he Other Effects: Class Stakes.鈥� Keynote Speaker. Screening Class: Precarious Visions and American Studies. University of Freiburg, Germany. June 28-29, 2013.
  • 鈥淭he Obama Coalition: A New Partisan Regime?鈥� Invited Panelist. Universit茅 Paris-Est (UPEM). May 27, 2013.
  • 鈥淭he French Americanist Bibliography Project: Second Phase.鈥� The French Association of聽 American Studies Conference: Religion et spiritualit茅. University of Angers, May 22-26, 2013.听
  • "Richard Wright鈥檚 Literary Journalism.鈥� Literary Journalism: Text and Context. International Literary Journalism Studies 8. University of Tampere, Finland. May 16-18, 2013.
  • 鈥淒orothy Day and Narrative Forms of Religious Radicalism.鈥� Religion in American Life, King鈥檚 College, London. February 22-24, 2013.
  • 鈥淭he Enduring Hold of U.S. Counter-Cultural Narratives.鈥� Revolution and Utopias: Counter-Cultural Narratives in the U.S. 1960s. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). Seminar Organizer. January 18, 2013.
  • 鈥淭he Rescued Horizons of聽 Richard Wright.鈥� Invited Speaker. Guest Lecture Series in American Studies. University of聽 Lausanne. Lausanne, Switzerland. April 20, 2012. .
  • Counter-Cultures in the American 1960s. Universit茅 Versaille Saint-Quentin. Seminar Co-organizer. Panelist. December 7, 2012.
  • 鈥淭he French Americanist Bibliography Project.鈥� Co-director of project. The French Association of聽 American Studies Conference: H茅ritage(s). University of Perpignan, May 23-27, 2012.听
  • 鈥淐reative Productions and Cultural Perspectives.鈥� Reflective Seminar. Seminar organizer. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). April 13, 2012.
  • 鈥淐atastrophes of聽 Lived Experience: American Experimental Poetry and Literary Journalism.鈥� American Comparative Literature Association : Collapse/Catastrophe/Change. Brown University, Providence RI. March 29-April 1, 2012.
  • 鈥淛ack London et le journalisme litt茅raire.鈥� Invited Speaker. De Londres 脿 London: Les reportages d鈥橝lbert et de Jack.听 Roman et reportage (XXe-XXIe si猫cles) Rencontres crois茅es. Universit茅 Paris Ouest Nanterre. December 9, 2011.听
  • 鈥淚ntroduction: 鈥楴ew Journalism as a Counter-Cultural Force鈥�.鈥� New Journalism of the American 1960s as a Counter-Cultural Narrative. Seminar organizer. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). November 18, 2011.
  • 鈥淏etween Crisis and Innovation: Representations of Work in U.S. Literature.鈥� Plenary Speaker. Re-Presentations of Working Life. Graduate Conference 2011. Friedrich-Alexander Universit盲t Erlangen-N眉rnberg, Germany. 12-13 November 2011.
  • 鈥淛ack London鈥檚 Interrogations of Experience : 鈥楾he Dignity of聽 Dollars鈥� (1900) and 鈥楳exico鈥檚 Army and Ours鈥� (1914).鈥澛� Experience. IMAGER/TIES. Universit茅 Paris-Est Cr茅teil (UPEC), June 17-18, 2011.
  • 鈥淩ichard Wright鈥檚 鈥楥entrally Historical鈥� 12 Million Black Voices.鈥� The French Association of聽 American Studies Conference: La V茅rit茅.听 University of Brest, May, 25-28, 2011.
  • Literary Journalism: Theoria, Poiesis and Praxis. International Literary Journalism Studies 6. 鈥淟iterary Journalism: Comparative Considerations.鈥� Panel Chair. Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles. May 12-14, 2011.
  • 鈥淒orothy Day and Joseph Kessel: 鈥楢 Literature of Urgency鈥�.鈥� Literary Journalism in a Global Context. American Comparative Literature Association : World Literature, Comparative Literature. Simon Fraser Univeristy. Vancouver. March 31-April 3, 2011.
  • 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍.鈥� Elisabeth Stuart Phelps, 鈥淭he Gates Ajar鈥� (talk by Cindy Weinstein). Lecture organizer. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). December 15,聽 2010.
  • International Conference IMAGER : Discours sur le mineur. 鈥淔ronti猫res du genre mineur (2).鈥� Panel Chair. Universit茅 Paris-Est Cr茅teil (UPEC)/Paris-Est (MLV). November 4-6,聽 2010.
  • 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍.鈥� The Relevance of聽 Literary Journalism in a Global Context (talk by John Hartsock). Lecture organizer. The American University of聽 Paris. October 19, 2010.
  • 鈥淟iterary Journalism: 鈥楢 Literature of Urgency鈥�.鈥� Invited Speaker. IMAGER/TIES. Universit茅 Paris-Est Cr茅teil (UPEC). October 16, 2010.
  • Introduction: 鈥淲ithout Borders: the Voices of聽 Literary Journalism.鈥� Sites of the Aesthetic: International Versions of Literary Journalism. Seminar organizer. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). October 7, 2010.
  • 鈥淣etroots and Democracy in 21st-century America.鈥� Panel Chair. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). June 17, 2010.
  • 鈥淎merican Modernist Literary Landscapes 1900 to 1950: From 鈥楴ature鈥� to 鈥楨nvironment.鈥欌�� Panel Co-chair. The French Association of American Studies Conference: From Nature to Environment.听 Grenoble, May 27-29, 2010.
  • 鈥淩ichard Wright鈥檚 Literary Journalism and Transgressive Sociology in 12 Million Black Voices.鈥� International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. Roehampton University, London. May 20-22, 2010.
  • Introduction: 鈥淎merican Literary Journalism as an Emerging Historical Form.鈥� 鈥淏egging Description: Literary Journalism, Othering and the Order of聽 Things.鈥� Seminar organizer. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). May 7, 2010.
  • 鈥淪ensational Gothicism in Richard Wright鈥檚 The Outsider鈥� Forever Young. European Association for American Studies. Trinity and University Colleges, Dublin. March 26-29, 2010.
  • 鈥淟iterary Journalism, Radicalism, and the Estranged Modernism of聽 John Dos Passos鈥檚聽 Facing the Chair and Blaise Cendrars鈥檚 Rhum鈥澛�Modernism and Radicalism in the U.S.: An Unbridgeable Gap? Invited Speaker. Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. March 20, 2010.听
  • 鈥溾�楨xpediting Great Claims鈥�: James Agee鈥檚 Narrations of Experience.鈥� Invited Speaker. 尝鈥檈虫辫茅谤颈别苍肠别, IMAGER/TIES. Paris 12. Jan. 9, 2010.
  • 鈥淒essins et destines des territoires.鈥� Panel Moderator. G茅ographie dans le monde anglophone. Paris-Est (MLV). June 18-20, 2009.
  • 鈥淩ethinking the Geographies of American Studies.鈥� Plenary speaker. G茅ographie dans le monde anglophone. Universit茅 Paris-Est (MLV). June 18-20, 2009.
  • 鈥淛ohn Dos Passos and Blaise Cendrars: Reinventing Persuasion.鈥� Global Languages, Local Cultures. American Comparative Literature Association.听 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 26-29, 2009.
  • 鈥淛ack London鈥檚 Literary Journalism: If聽 鈥楩ancy Could Father the Act鈥�.鈥澛營nternational Association for Literary Journalism Studies. Medill School of聽Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. May 14-16, 2009.
  • 鈥淓ssential Contentions: Issues in Literary Journalism.鈥� Panel Moderator. International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. Medill School of聽 Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. May 14-16, 2009.
  • 鈥淥n Richard Wright: Introduction of Plenary Speakers, Joyce Ann Joyce and Houston Baker.鈥� Richard Wright : The Centenary Celebration. Co-Directors: Alice Craven and William Dow. The U.S. Ambassador鈥檚 Residence. Paris, June 20, 2008.
  • 鈥淐elebrating Richard Wright.鈥� Richard Wright : The Centenary Celebration. The American University of Paris. Co-Directors: Alice Craven and William Dow. June 19-21, 2008.
  • 鈥淛ames Agee鈥檚 鈥楥ontinual Awareness,鈥� Untold Stories: 鈥楽aratoga Springs鈥� and 鈥楬avana Cruise鈥� (1937).鈥� International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. Instituto Superior de Ci锚ncias Sociais e Politicas Universidad T茅cnia de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal. May 15-17, 2008.听
  • 鈥淭his Certain Conjunction: Gender and Class in American Culture.鈥� Crossing Borders: Gender and Class in American Culture. University of聽 Valenciennes. Co-Director William Dow. April 25, 2008.
  • 鈥淐onfounding the Spirits: Aesthetics and Cultural Studies.鈥� Invited Speaker. Seminar on American Cultural Studies. University of聽 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. February 18, 2008.
  • 鈥淲illa Cather鈥檚 鈥楪uided Friends鈥�: Death Comes for the Archbishop.鈥� 11th International Willa Cather Seminar. University of聽 Paris 3-Sorbonne/Tarascon. June 24-July 1, 2007.
  • 鈥淐an Film be Literary Journalism?鈥� Panel Moderator. Literary Journalism in an International Context. The 2nd International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies. Institut d鈥橢tudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po), Paris. May 18-19, 2007.
  • 鈥淲riting Dark Times: Settings, Immersions in Agnes Smedley and Meridel Le Sueur.鈥� Literary Journalism in an International Context. The 2nd International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies. Institut d鈥橢tudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po), Paris. May 18-19, 2007.
  • 鈥淭he Continuum of Class.鈥� Form and Discontentment: Representing Class in American Culture, Literature, and Film. Co-director: William Dow. The University of聽 Valenciennes. April 6, 2007.
  • 鈥淛ames Agee鈥檚 Engagement Beyond Borders.鈥� Intellectuals and Commitment in the United States (Ecriture et engagement aux Etats-Unis, 1918-1939). University of聽 Paris 13. November 30-December 1, 2006.
  • 鈥淒ocumentary Forms and Testimonies of聽 Poverty.鈥� First International Conference on Literary Journalism. Celebrating The Jungle: A Century of聽 Literary Journalism throughout the World. The University of聽 Nancy. May 19-20, 2006.
  • 鈥淏y Word of聽 Body: The Social Life of Aesthetic Forms.鈥�聽 Faire Corps. Invited Speaker. University of Lille. January 20, 2006.
  • 鈥淣ostalgia and Estrangement in American Depression-era Fiction.鈥� Challenges of Estrangement in a United Europe Confronting the World. 29th IMISE Conference. The American University of聽 Paris, July 4-9, 2005.听
  • 鈥溾�楬ard Work and Blood鈥� in Whitman鈥檚 1855 Song of聽 Myself.鈥� American Poetry: Whitman to the Present. The Swiss Association of聽 North American Studies. Fribourg, Switzerland, November 12-13, 2004.
  • 鈥淎merican Fiction Today: Realism, Comedy and Beyond.鈥� Panel Discussion. Invited Participant. UNESCO in cooperation with the National Endowment of聽 the Arts. Hotel Tallyrand, the American Embassy in France, Oct. 15, 2004.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction, James T. Farrell: 鈥楲ooking from the Altar Light鈥�.鈥� James T. Farrell Centennial Conference. Co-organizers: Marshall Brooks and William Dow. The American University of聽 Paris. June 17-19, 2004.
  • 鈥淛ack London鈥檚 Problem Bodies.鈥� Jack London Society Seventh Biennial Symposium. Santa Rosa, California. May 23-26, 2004.
  • 鈥淐lass, Work, and New Races in Zora Neale Hurston鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God and Agnes Smedley鈥檚 Daughter of聽 Earth.鈥� Invited Speaker.听Journ茅e Doctorants. University of聽 Versailles Saint Quentin. April 30, 2004.听
  • 鈥淏ody Tramping, Class, and Masculine Extremes: Jack London鈥檚 The People of聽 the Abyss.鈥� The European Association of聽 American Studies. America in the Course of聽聽 Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations. Charles University, Prague. April 2-4,聽 2004.
  • 鈥淭he Language of聽 Work: Frederick Douglass鈥檚 Narrative and Zora Neale Hurston鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God.鈥� The French Association of聽 American Studies Conference: Territoires d鈥橝m茅rique. Rouen, May 30-June 1, 2003.听
  • 鈥淎merican Desert Fictions: Moving Beyond the Pale.鈥� D茅sert(s): entre d茅sir et d茅lire (In the Desert(s): from desire to delirium). Espaces/Ecritures Research Group. University of聽 Paris 10, Nanterre. June 27-28, 2002.
  • 鈥溾�楢gents of聽 Change鈥�: Challenges in the Flesh and the Teaching of聽 American Literature.鈥� The Hellenic Association for the Study of聽 English (H.A.S.E.): The 鈥楶eriphery鈥� Viewing the World: Language, Literature, Media, Philosophy. National and Kapodistrain University of聽 Athens, May 24-27, 2002.
  • 鈥溾�業 Have Embraced You, and Henceforth Possess You鈥欌�擶hitman鈥檚 Bodily Religion in Song of聽 Myself.鈥� The French Association of聽 American Studies Conference: Substances. The University of聽 Orleans, May 25-27, 2001.
  • 鈥淎 Modernist Vernacular: Violent Figurations in Nathanael West鈥檚 Miss Lonelyhearts.鈥� Conference SAIT, soci茅t茅 textes et images: Les figures de la violence. Sorbonne, Paris 4, December 8-9, 2000.
  • 鈥淲riting Nostalgia, Writing a Nation.鈥� American Nostalgias: Interferences, Compensations, and the Shapings of聽 Identity. The University of聽 Valenciennes, November 24-25, 2000.
  • 鈥淧oetics of聽 Violence/Violent Figurations in Nathanael West and Joyce Carol Oates.鈥� The Swedish Association of聽American Studies Second Interdisciplinary Conference on American History, Culture and Society, S枚dert枚rn University College, Stockholm, Oct. 5-7, 2000.
  • 鈥淟ives on the Boundary: Race, Portraiture, and Homeland in Jean Toomer鈥檚 Cane and Sherwood Anderson鈥檚 Winesburg, Ohio.鈥� MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of聽 the United States) Conference: Europe and the United States: Comparative Ethnic Literatures, University of Orleans,聽 June 22-25, 2000.
  • 鈥淧erformative Realism in Crane鈥檚 Maggie and Norris鈥檚 McTeague.鈥� Les Avatars du R茅alisme, University of Nantes, December 3-4, 1999.
  • 鈥淒own and Out in London and Orwell.鈥� The Second Symbiosis Conference: Anglo-American Textual Relations, University of聽 the West of聽 England, Bristol, July 5-7, 1999.
  • 鈥淎 Nostalgia for the Unattainable in Dos Passos鈥檚 U.S.A.鈥� The French Association of American Studies Conference: Mainstream America, University of聽 Versailles Saint Quentin, May 28-30, 1999.
  • Panelist on session 鈥淓arly Novels of聽 Cormac McCarthy.鈥� Lolita Research Group Seminar, The University of聽 Orleans, Orleans, March 6, 1999.
  • 鈥淚rony and the Intersubjective in Hemingway鈥檚 The Sun Also Rises.鈥� International Hemingway Conference, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, May 25-31, 1998.
  • 鈥溾�楰nocking Everywhere鈥�: The Imaginative Sanctities of聽 Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams.鈥� Soci茅t茅 des Anglicistes de l鈥橢nseignement Sup茅rieur: 鈥淔茅minin/Masculine,鈥� University of聽 Rennes 2, May 15-17, 1998.
  • 鈥淭opographies and Typal Systems in Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 Blood Meridian.鈥� Seminar on American Literature, Suds d鈥橝m茅riques, University of聽 Versailles Saint-Quentin, November 28, 1997.
  • 鈥溾�楢lways Your Heart鈥�: Direct Address, Narrative Authority, and the 鈥楪reat Design鈥� of Cane.鈥� Invited Speaker. Conference on Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance, Institute Charles V, Paris 7. November 22, 1997.
  • 鈥淭he Nature of聽 Huckleberry Finn: Huck as 鈥楢utobiographer鈥�.鈥� Colloquium on American Literature, Sorbonne, University of Paris 4, Paris, October 18-19, 1996.
  • 鈥淢imesis and the Figural.鈥� 鈥楳imesis,鈥� Fifty Years Later: The Representation of Reality in Literature, The University of聽 Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, May 29-31, 1996.
  • 鈥淧rogress Swelled by a Dissident Ride: Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 Blood Meridian and Jack Kerouac鈥檚 On the Road.鈥� The French Association of American Studies Conference: Le d茅placement dans l鈥檋istoire et la culture am茅ricaines, The University of Lyon, May 17-19, 1996.
  • 鈥淭he Poet/Pioneer and 鈥楳ore Language鈥� in Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 Blood Meridian.鈥� The State of the Art III at Orleans: Spring 1996 Conference, The University of聽 Orleans, April 26-27, 1996.
  • 鈥淟olita and the Conquest of聽 Crime.鈥� Colloquium on American Literature, Sorbonne, University of Paris 4, Paris, October 27-28, 1995.
  • 鈥淪ocial Authenticity and the Postmodern in Paul Auster鈥檚 Fiction.鈥� A Symposium on Contemporary American Fiction, State University of New York College at Postdam, Potsdam, New York, September 28-30, 1995.
  • 鈥淔iction is Not Real: Naturalism, the Performative, and Frank Norris鈥檚 McTeague.鈥� AIZEN: International Conference on Multidiciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies Related to Emile Zola, Naturalism and Naturalist Writers, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 22-24, 1995.
  • 鈥淓lle signe souvent 鈥楨milie鈥�: Emily Dickinson and the French Critical Reception.鈥� The Emily Dickinson International Society: Emily Dickinson Abroad, The University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, August 4-6, 1995.
  • 鈥淟ouise Erdrich and the Privilege of the Narrating Self.鈥� International American Indian Workshop, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal, April 6-8, 1995.
  • 鈥淭he Discontent of聽 Louise Erdrich鈥檚 Love Medicine: Dialogic Voices, Dialectical History.鈥� The State of the Art II at Orleans: Spring 1995 Conference, The University of聽 Orleans, March 25, 1995.
  • Louise Erdrich and Multi-Narrations: Failed Narrators and Changing Centers.鈥� Invited Speaker. RAMONA (Recherches sur l鈥檃m茅rique de l鈥橭uest) Conference: The American West and Its Representations, University of Paris 10, Nanterre.听 January 13, 1995.
  • 鈥淧owerful Conditions and Empowered Discourse in Louise Erdrich鈥檚 Fiction.鈥� Invited Speaker. A Seminar on Contemporary American Fiction, The University of聽Tours. November 18, 1995.听
  • 鈥淧ostmodernism and Its Social Moment in Paul Auster鈥檚 Fiction.鈥� Invited Speaker. Erasmus Conference: Postmodernity: The United States after 1945,聽John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie University, Berlin. September 9-11, 1994.听
  • 鈥淎 Farewell to Arms and Hemingway鈥檚 Protest Stance: To Tell the Truth Without Screaming.鈥� Hemingway/Fitzgerald International Conference, The Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris, July 3-8, 1994
  • 鈥淧aul Auster鈥檚 The Invention of聽Solitude: Glimmers in a Reach to Authenticity.鈥� International Paul Auster Colloquium, The University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, June 10-12, 1994.
  • 鈥淎merican Identities in a Multicultural Context.鈥� The State of the Art at Orleans: Spring 1994 Conference, The University of Orleans, Orleans, April 8-9, 1994.
  • 鈥淩eport from the Other Academy: Non-American Voices and American Literature.鈥� The European Association of American Studies, Kirchberg Conference Center, Luxembourg, March 25-28, 1994.
  • 鈥淭he Influence of聽 Madame Bovary in Kate Chopin鈥檚 The Awakening: Corresponding聽 Struggles, Dreams, and Regressions.鈥� Colloquium on American Literature, Sorbonne, University of Paris 4, Paris, October 22-23, 1993.
  • Panelist on session 鈥淟鈥橢criture en trompe-l鈥檕eil/Courants baroques dans la prose de Blaise Cendrars.鈥� 10th Annual International Colloquium on 20th Century French Studies, The University of Colorado at Boulder, March 11-13, 1993.
  • 鈥淭he French Avant-garde and American Modernist Aesthetics.鈥� The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, October 15-17, 1992.
  • 鈥淛ohn Dos Passos in the Classroom: Teaching the Language to Non-Americans.鈥� American Literature for Non-American Readers, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, June 1-5, 1992.
  • 鈥淐ommunicative Methodology: The Use of Translated and Critical Texts in Language Teaching.鈥� Conference on Academic English in American International Colleges and Universities, The American University of聽 Cairo, Cairo, April 13-16, 1992.

Affiliations

Advisory boards, academic affiliations and professional service
  • 1989-present: Member, Modern Language Association.听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2005-present: Founding Member, International Association of Literary Journalism聽Studies.听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2008-present: Member, American Comparative Literature Association.
  • 2008-present: Reader, African American Review.听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2008-present: Member, LISSA, Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel (UGE).
  • 2008-2010 ; 2014-present: Member, Conseil UFR, Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel (UGE).听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2009- present: Member, Comit茅 de s茅lection, section 11, Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel (UGE).听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2009-2011: Member, Comit茅 de s茅lection, section 11, Universit茅 Paris-Est (UPEC).
  • 2014-2017: Member of the board, French Association of American Studies; Co-director; Director, AFEA Bibliography project.听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2010-2011: Member, Comit茅 de s茅lection, Paris 10, Nanterre, section 11.
  • 2010-present: Reader, MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of聽the U.S.).听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2010-2012: Director of Graduate programs (M1, M2), Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel (UGE).听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2009-2012: Jury Member, Greenberg Prize, International Association for Literary Journalism Studies.
  • 2011, 2014, 2020: President of Selection Committee, Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel (UGE).听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2012: Jury Member. Masters in Cultural Translation. The American University of Paris聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2012-2013: Editorial Committee, Quadrena (UPEC).听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
  • 2012: Blind reviewer, book manuscript, Open Humanities Press.听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
  • 2013: Evaluator of Research Grants, Sorbonne Paris Cit茅.
  • 2014: Jury Member, 鈥淧rix de l鈥檜niversit茅聽 du Conseil G茅n茅ral du Val de Marne鈥� National research prize for French dissertations.
  • 2014: Evaluator, Bourse de recherche HDR SAES-AFEA (SAES-AFEA HDR Scholarship campaign).
  • 2014: Tenure and promotion review: University of Southern California, San Diego.
  • 2015: Evaluator of Research Grants, Sorbonne Paris Cit茅.
  • 2015: Article Editor, Sage Open.
  • 2015-present: Reader, Sage Open.
  • 2015-present: Reader, Routledge series publications.
  • 2015-present: Reader, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • 2016: Evaluator of Research Grants, Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Cambridge.
  • 2017: Reader, ORDA, L鈥檕rdinaire des Am茅riques Universit茅 Toulouse鈥擩ean Jaures.
  • 2017: Evaluator of HDR (Habilitation 脿 Diriger des Recherches) dossiers, Universit茅 Paris-Est (UPEC/UGE).
  • 2018-2019 : Grant recipient, ECO Sud (Evaluation-orientation de la coop茅ration scientifique), Paris 13 Nord. Three-year grant (2019-2021) to study the French and Anglo-American influences on the cronica in Chile and Argentina.
  • 2018-present: Project Member, 鈥淐omparative Reportages: An Ontology of French Narrative Journalistic Influences and Dialogue in Chile and Argentina.鈥� Interdiciplinarit茅 Dans les Etudes Anglophone (IDEA). Universit茅 de Lorraine. Project Partners: Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Universidad Cat贸lica Silva Henr铆quez, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Universidad Finis Terrae.
  • 2019-present: Co-director of the research group, Savoir et Espaces Anglophone (SEA). Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel (UGE).听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽
  • 2020-present: Reader, Transatlantica: American Studies Journal (Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes am茅ricaines).
  • 2020-present: Reader, Studies in American Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press).
  • 2021-present: Evaluator of doctoral contract awards. Universit茅 Gustave Eiffel/Universit茅 Paris-Est Cr茅teil).
  • 2021-present: Reader, Palgrave Journalism Series.
  • 2022-present: Member of the Rank and Promotion Appeals Committee, The American University of Paris.
  • 2023-present: founding member of The Richard Wright Society.
  • 2023 : Member, Comit茅 de s茅lection, Universit茅 Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline, section 11.
  • 2023-present: Editor, International Advisory Board. Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism. Book Series: Literary Journalism around the globe: traditions, theories and concerns. 聽
  • 2024: Member, Comit茅 de s茅lection, Universit茅 Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline, section 11.
  • 2024聽: Member, Comit茅 de s茅lection, Universit茅 Aix-Marseille, section 11.

Research Areas

Class studies, literary journalism, American 20th-century literature, American studies, material studies, African-American literature, African-American studies.