Presenter, “Shifting Our Gaze from Linguistic Proficiency to Cognitive Competencies,” for the Forum on 17^th-, 18^th-, & 19^th-Century Italian Language, Literature, and Culture, MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., 1/2022. 

Invited Presenter, “Rereading Boccaccio: Self-Care and the Idea of Mental Health During the Plague,” panalist for the roundtable, Writing Plague: Then and Now, with R.D. Perry, C. Leahy, E. Strakhov and L. Wood, for the Committee for Comparative Literature, University of Denver, 10/2021.

Panel Chair, "Eighteenth-Century Italian Economies of Exchange," for the Italian Studies Caucus, ASECS, St. Louis, MO, 3/2020.

Presenter, "From 18th-Century Stage to Page: The Novel Case of Pietro Chiari", MLA, Seattle, WA, 1/2020.

Panel Chair, "Giuseppe Baretti, his Friends and Foes,” for the Italian Studies Caucus, ASECS, Denver, CO, 3/2019.

Presenter, "Muratori and the Proto-Nationalist Idea of Italy," ASECS, Orlando, FLA, 3/2018.

Presenter, "Printing Italian Proto-National Identity," MLA, Philadelphia, PA, 1/2017.

Panel Chair, "The Boundary Conditions of Genre," MLA, Philadelphia, PA, 1/2017.

Presenter, “Legitimizing Arcadian Practices: Crescimbeni and Celebratory Poems,” MLA, Austin, TX, 1/2016.

Invited Lecturer and Speaker, “Why Failure Matters: The Case of Ugo Foscolo, Tragedian (1778-1827), Department of French & Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, 11/2015.

Invited Keynote Speaker, "Raising the Bar: Embracing a Life of Inquiry," Induction Ceremony, University of Denver Chapter, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Denver, CO, 10/2015.

Presenter, "Metastasio in 2015: Options for Teaching 18th-Century Cultural Literacy," AAIS, Boulder, CO, 3/2015.

Panel Chair, “Performing Difference on the Early Modern Stage,” AAIS, Boulder, CO, 3/2015

Co-panel Organizer, “Teaching Early Modern Texts In Lingua,” AAIS, Boulder, CO, 3/2015.

Panel Chair, “Collective Identity: Academies, Salons and Other Networks,” MLA, Vancouver, BC, 1/2015.

Panel Chair, "Italians on Stage: Perceptions, Reception, and Imitations," MLA, Chicago, IL, 1/2014.

Panel Chair, "Non-Christian Identities in the Italian Context," MLA, Chicago, IL, 1/2014.

Invited Speaker, "Proto-National Italian Identity and the Academy of Arcadians," Department of French, Italian and Arabic, Colorado College, 12/2013.

Invited Speaker, "Theatrical Designs: Ugo Foscolo’s 1813 Sul nuovo teatro di Como," 2013-14 AHSS Faculty Lecture Series, University of Denver, CO, 10/2013.

"Annotating Arcadia at the Newberry," for the Newberry Colloquium, Newberry Library, Chicago, 6/2013.

"Per la Repubblica Letteraria! Giovan Mario Crescimbeni and Italian Proto-Nationalism in the Early Eighteenth Century," Newberry Fellows' Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, 4/2013.

"Cultural Tasks, Mediocre Otium and the Academy of the Arcadians," for the panel Early Modern Italian and European Academies, AAIS, Eugene, OR, 4/2013.

Invited Lecturer, "Metastasio, the Myth of Rome and Nation Building in Eighteenth-Century Italy," George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach, 3/2013.

"Cultural Literacy and Early Modern Music: The Case of Metastasio," for the panel Italian Literature (1300-1850) and the Undergraduate Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches, AATI at ACTFL, Philadelphia, 11/2012.

"Meta-Metastasio: Thinking About Didone abbandonata and Today's Undergraduate, "for the panel Strategies for Teaching Undergraduates Early Italian Texts Without Translation, for AATI at the ACTFL, Denver, 11/2011.

"Rebuttal and Redesign: P.J. Martello's Quest to Revolutionize Italian Tragedy," for the panel 17 - and 18th Century/Sei-Settecento, CSIS, Venice, Italy, 6/2011.

"Standing up to Bully: 18th-Century Italian Response to French Ridicule," MLA, Los Angeles, 1/2011.

"Oggi in TV: Italian Television and Intermediate Language Instruction," for the conference, Italian Outside of Italy -The Situation in Canada, USA and the English-Speaking World, The University of Toronto, 10/2010.

"Oggi in TV: Italian Television in the Intermediate Italian Classroom," The Center for Teaching and Learning's Education and New Media Conference at the University of Denver, 1/2010.

"The Rise and Fall of Foscolo’s Ajace," MLA, Philadelphia. 12/2009.

"Forget the French: Defining the New Italian Tragedy in the Early 1700s," ASECS, Richmond, VA, 3/2009.

"Classically Entertained and Educated: Horace, Civic Responsibility and 18-Century Theory of Tragedy," MLA, San Francisco, 12/2008.

"Memorializing Alessandro Manzoni: Giuseppe Verdi and the Requiem," for the Verdi and His Times Symposium at the University of Denver, 10/2008.

"Imitating Nature and Muratori: Ugo Foscolo’s 1824 'Principles of Poetical Criticism, as Applicable, more Especially, to Italian Literature,'" MLA, Chicago, 12/2007.

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