“The Life of an Anatomical Fragment,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis), March 2023
“‘Diminutive Creatures”: The Disabled Female Body and Unproductive Labor.”
Science Caucus. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (virtual) April 2021.
“‘Miraculously Re-Embodied’: Transfusion and the Transgendered Self in William Delisle Hay’s Blood: A Tragic Tale.” The Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Hosted by Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) October 2014.
“Figuring Transfusion.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Williamsburg, Virginia) March 2014.
“Contemplating Rot.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (San Antonio, Texas) March 2012.
“Transfusing Blood/Transfusing Identity.” Bloodwork Conference. University of Maryland (College Park) May 2011.
“Sympathy for the Dead: Adam Smith, Henry Brooke, and William Godwin.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Albuquerque, New Mexico) March 2010.
“Transfusing Blood/Transfusing Feeling,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Richmond, VA) February 2009.
"The Mint of Nothing: From Usury to Literary Property." Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Halifax, Nova Scotia. November 2001.
"The Narrative of Circulation and the Blood Libel: Charles Johnstone's Chrysal." British Comparative Literature Association Ninth International Conference. University of Wales, Swansea. July 2001.
"A New Species of Property: Anatomy, Embalming, and Clarissa's Corpse." The Conference of the . Washington D.C. December 2000.
"The Dead Hand of Ownership: Clarissa and the Property in Corpses." Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Portland, Maine. October 2000.
"I am Nobody's': Clarissa, Corpses, and the Limits of Property." Northeast Conference of the . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 1999.
"For the Blood is the Life': Blood Transfusion, Obstetrics, and Stoker's Dracula." International Conference on Narrative. Dartmouth College. April 1999.
"Draining Bodies: Blood Transfusion and Vampirism in Braddon's 'Good Lady Ducayne' and Stoker's Dracula." . Berkeley, California. April 1997.
"The Terror in the Wax Museum: Realism and the French Revolution." The Conference of the . Toronto. December 1993.
"Defoe's Roxana and the Character of Capital." Fourth Annual Meeting of the Aphra Behn Society. Portland, Maine. September 1993.
"Nature's Unbounded Son': Richard Savage and the Strategies of Self-Authorship." The . Tampa Florida. February 1991.
"The Lady's Legacy: Will and Female Personality." The Midwest Conference. Macomb Illinois. October 1990.