Keynotes
“Theatre as Embodied Thought Experiment: Ontological Status and Aesthetic Judgment,” Mental Artifacts and Artifactual Events: A Philosophy Conference on Things like Dreams, Performances, and Conferences. University of Genoa. Genoa, Italy, November 25-27, 2025.
Invited Talks
“Meighen Forum on Tragedy,” Stratford Festival, Stratford, ON, Canada, August 29, 2024.
Play Talk on Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King, Play Talks, American Players Theatre (APT), Spring Green, WI, August 4, 2018.
“The World of the Play.” Zhejiang University, May 30, 2018.
“Theatrical Names and Reference.” Theatre Research Series. University of Melbourne, April 15, 2014.
“Introducing Absurd Literature: Defining without Reducing.” Institute for Research in the Humanities. University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 3, 2014.
Invited Talk. On Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd. The George Washington University. March 27, 2012.
“1952 Paris: Waiting for Godot and the Great Quarrel.” University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, December 1, 2010.
Conference Participant
Commentator for Sam Heffron, “The Concept of Realism in Film,” American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) Annual Meeting. Chicago, October 26, 2024.
“Tragic Realism and the Rise of Tragicomedy: Psychology and Twentieth-Century Theatre.” International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Conference. University of the Philippines Diliman. Manila, Philippines, July 16, 2024.
Roundtable Discussion Participant. “Book Launch Dialogue,” Performance Philosophy Biennial Conference. University of Texas-Austin, May 16, 2024.
“Theatrical Utterances as Events,” International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) Conference. University of Ghana. Accra, Ghana, July 25, 2023.
Roundtable Discussion Participant. “On Albee and Influence,” 45th Annual Comparative Drama Conference, Rollins College, April 1, 2023, Virtual Panel.
Respondent to James R. Hamilton, “How Performer Power and Character Power are Related,” American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, April 22, 2022.
“Witnessing History in, and through, Theatrical Time,” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference, November 7, 2020, Virtual Panel.
Roundtable Discussion Participant.” Responding to Edward Albee and Absurdism.” 28th Annual American Literature Association Conference (ALA). Boston, May 27, 2017.
“Presenting Beckett to the 21st Century General Reader and Theatregoer,” 56th Annual International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) Conference. Barcelona, Spain, July 22, 2013.
“Presenting Albee to the 21st Century General Reader and Theatregoer,” 37th Annual Comparative Drama Conference. Stevenson University. April 6, 2013.
Roundtable Discussion Participant. “Call to Form The Edward Albee Society.” 37th Annual Comparative Drama Conference. Stevenson University. April 6, 2013.
“‘Gathering Thinglessness’ into Thinghood: Beckett’s Re-Creation of Nothingness into Being” 36th Annual Comparative Drama Conference. Stevenson University. March 31, 2012.
“After The Great War: Contextualizing the Self in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author.” 54th Annual International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) Conference. Osaka University, Toyonaka Campus, August 9, 2011.
“Camus’ Unknown Legacy: Or, “I’m having an existential crisis!” Don’t you mean a Camusian crisis?” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference. Rutgers University, April 7, 2011.
“Land Ahoy?: Desire Under the Elms‘ Response to the Desire for Land in the Sea Plays.” 35th Annual Comparative Drama Conference. Loyola Marymount University, March 24, 2011.
“The Female Absurd.” 34th Annual Comparative Drama Conference. Loyola Marymount University, March 26, 2010.
“Berenger, The Sisyphean Hero and the Title in Ionesco’s Rhinoceros.” 33rd Annual Comparative Drama Conference. Loyola Marymount University, March 27, 2009.
“Role-Reversals in Purdy’s A Day After the Fair.” 18th Annual American Literature Association Conference. Boston, May 26, 2007.
“Frankl, ‘The Parable of Estragon’s Struggle with the Boot,’ and the Reliable and Unreliable Saviors in Waiting for Godot.” 31st Annual Comparative Drama Conference. Loyola Marymount University, March 31, 2007.
“Danton’s Memory: Historical and Structural Impossibilities.” 48th Annual International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) Conference. University of Maryland, June 28, 2005.
“Clowning Around in James Purdy’s The Paradise Circus.” 16th Annual American Literature Association Conference. Boston, May 28, 2005.
“Border Crossings in Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas and The Castle of Perseverance: The Heightened Importance of Land Ownership.” 3rd Bi-Annual New England Renaissance Conference. Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, April 23, 2005.
“Brecht in the Wilde: Salome‘s Liminal Spaces and the Storyteller.” 29th Annual Comparative Drama Conference. California State University – Northridge, March 28, 2005.
“Danton’s Memory: Structural Impossibilities and the Translation of History.” 14th Annual Central New York Conference on Literature and Language. SUNY – Cortland, October 30, 2004.
“Dislocating Homebody?: Language, the Body and ‘a succession of displacements, bloody, [and] beautiful’ in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul.” 13th Annual Central New York Conference on Literature and Language. SUNY – Cortland, October 26, 2003.
“Clowning Around: Becoming Another/Becoming Oneself.” Assessing James Purdy Conference. UMASS – Amherst, October 24, 2003.
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