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Invited Talks |
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| “365 Lists: My First Year on the Tenure Track.” Professors Beyond Borders Lecture Series, Comparative Literature Department, UCLA. May 12, 2008. |
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| “Teaching Victorian Novels in Medical Context.” Literature and Pathology Conference, UC Davis. March 2, 2008. |
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| "Nervous Electricity in the Fiction of Marie Corelli." American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 6, 2007. |
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| "Somnambulism and Trance States in the Works of John Polidori and Bram Stoker." Cognitive Theory and the Arts Seminar, Harvard Humanities Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 4, 2006. |
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| “Dracula and the Brain Stem.” Neuroscience History Affinity Group, UCLA Brain Research Institute. June 8, 2005. |
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Conference Presentations |
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| “Photographic Memory in Grant Allen's Recalled to Life.” 6th Annual North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. November 15, 2008. |
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| "Reading the Neurological Romance: Popular Fiction and Brain Science, 1880–1914," MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois. December 29, 2007. |
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| "Marie Corelli and the Neuron Doctrine." North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), San Francisco, California. November 11, 2007. |
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| "Somnambulism and Trance States in the Work of John William Polidori, Author of The Vampyre." 12th Annual International Society for the History of the Neurosciences Conference, UCLA. June 23, 2007. |
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| "Hypertrophied Minds: H.G. Wells and Lamarckian Evolutionary Thought." 104th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference, Riverside, California. November 11, 2006. |
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| "H.G. Wells and the Evolving Brain: Reading the Neurological Romance." 4th Annual North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. September 3, 2006. |
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| “Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde, and the Double Brain.” 4th Biennial International Robert Louis Stevenson Conference, Saranac Lake, New York. July 20, 2006. |
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| “Neurology and Literature, 1800-present” (presenter and panel chair). The Human and its Others: American Comparative Literature Association Annual (ACLA) Conference, Princeton University. March 24, 2006. |
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| “The Spectral Male Hysteric in the Works of Silas Weir Mitchell” (presenter and panel chair). 37th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 4, 2006. |
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| “Literature in Mind: H.G. Wells’s Fictions of Science.” Mind Symposium, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia. December 3, 2005. |
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| “The Spectral Male Hysteric in the Works of Silas Weir Mitchell.” 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Chicago, Illinois. November 12, 2005. |
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| “Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Brain Stem.” 10th Annual International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland. July 8th, 2005. |
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| "Hypnotism’s Others: The Male Medium in Bram Stoker’s Dracula." Impurities: 20th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. April 22, 2005. |
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| "Harley Granville Barker's Effeminate Heterosexuals." 36th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, Cambridge, Massachusetts. April 2, 2005. |
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| “Physician or Svengali? Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler on the Ethics of Hypnotic Therapy.” Finding the Foreign: 13th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, UC Berkeley. March 13, 2005. |
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| “The Literary Prehistory of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Dickens Project Winter Conference, UC Davis. February 19, 2005. |
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