Scholarship list
Presentation
Date presented 03/24/2026
The Marjorie Perloff Annual Poetry and Lecture Series, 03/24/2026, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
An introduction to the criticism and poetry of Rosanna Warren. Part of the Marjorie Perloff Annual Poetry and Lecture Series at Catholic University
Presentation
Reading from A Moment's Surrender, with discussion
Date presented 03/18/2026
Brandeis University Library Book Talk, 03/17/2026–03/17/2026, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Library Book Talk Series, 03/18/2026, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
A reading and talk about my recently published novel, A Moment's Surrender, at the Brandeis University Library, March 18, 2026.
Presentation
Democracy in All the King's Men
Date presented 12/14/2025
Library Book Talk Series, 12/14/2025, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
A discussion about how Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men treats the problems of democracy and autocracy.
Conference presentation
American Literature and Democracy
Date presented 11/07/2025
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, 11/05/2025–11/08/2025, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
A panel at the Association of Literary Critics and Scholars annual meeting at Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, November 8, 2025
Conference paper
Percival Everett's James and Huckleberry Finn
Date presented 11/06/2025
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, 11/05/2025–11/07/2025, Columbus, OH
Percival Everett’s James (2024) is a creative response to Huckleberry Finn (1885). It is not
a parody or a “talking back” to another book, as Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone (2001)
is to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936) (or as Larry Brenner’s brief 1990 “A
Letter to ‘De Ole True Huck’” is to Huckleberry Finn). Everett transforms the novel, paying
attention to the features of it that have drawn the most criticism over the last generation,
but at the same time his novel seeks to preserve what he takes to be Twain’s deepest values,
seeking to repair the book’s failings while remaining true to its meaning as he understands
it.
Presentation
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Date presented 09/12/2025
Temple Adath Israel, 09/13/2025, Lexington KY
An invited lecture about Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address at Temple Adath Israel, September 13 2025.
Presentation
Date presented 09/11/2025
Congregation Ohavay Zion, 09/12/2025, Lexington, KY
An invited lecture at Congregation Ohavay Zion, September 12, 2025
Conference presentation
Knowing and Unknowing in Song of Myself
Date presented 10/19/2024
Assocation of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, 10/17/2024–10/20/2024, Washington DC
A paper delivered at the "Mimesis" panel at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, Catholid University,k Washington DC October 16-20 2024
Conference presentation
"The Cold War and Robert Penn Warren's Brother to Dragons"
Date presented 07/09/2024
Literature of the Cold War, 07/06/2024–07/09/2024, University of Göttingen
Conference Presentation at ALSCW seminar on Literature of the Cold War, Göttingen, Germany, July 4-6 2024
Presentation
Lincoln and the Dred Scott Decision
Date presented 07/04/2014
Lincoln and the Dred Scott Decision, 07/04/2014, University of Augsburg (Augsburg, Germany)