CONFERENCE PAPERS
“A Lorgnette and Her Pleasures: Optics and Spectacle, 1750-1871.” Paper to be presented at the 39th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (NCFS), Richmond, Virginia, October 2013.
“Another Terrible Year: Crises of Representation in 1871-1872.” Paper presented at the 38th Annual NCFS Colloquium, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 2012.
“Underground Haunts: Nineteenth-Century Representations of the Catacombs.” Paper presented in panel entitled, “Looking at Death,’ organized by Gregory Shaya, Western Society for French History, 39th Annual Colloquium, Portland, Oregon, November 2011.
“Phantom Undergrounds.” Paper presented at the 37th NCFS Annual Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, October 2011.
“Bad Books.” Paper presented at the 36th NCFS Annual Colloquium, Yale University, October 2010.
“Object Lessons: Dead Media, Live Wires, and the Twenty-First Century Police.” Paper presented at the CRESC Conference on “The Wire as Social Science Fiction?” University of Leeds, November 2009.
“Socializing with Anatomy: Le Journal des Dames et des Modes and New Women in Directory, Consulate, and Empire France.” Paper presented at “More than Fashion: Le Journal des Dames et des Modes (1797-1839)” Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 3-4 April 2009.
“Anatomy in Beauty’s Empire: Teaching Women the Body in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Washington University, Saint Louis, March 2009.
“Legs, Boas, Bellies, and Voyeurs: French Performances from the 1889 Exposition to Wilde’s Salomé.” Paper presented at the 34th Annual NCFS Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, October 2008.
“The Photography of the Hugo Studio: Representing Exile with the proscrits de Jersey.” Paper presented at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, in panel entitled “The Cultural Histories of Exile.”organized with Sylvie Aprile and Emmanuelle Loyer, Rutgers University, April 2008.
“Lost at the Edge of the Serre: The Exile Work of Photography, 1853-55.” Paper presented, the Society of Dix- Neuviémistes 6th Annual Conference, “Memories in/of the 19th Century,” University of Manchester, March 2008.
“La Photographie d’exil: Hugo ailleurs.” Paper presented at “Le Voyage et le mémoire au XIXe siècle,” Colloque de Cérisy, September 1-8, 2007.
“Anatomies of Sociability.” Paper presented in panel on Gender, Sociability, and Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on France, 1795-1830,” 33rd Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Southern Alabama, Mobile, October 2007.
“Bodies Reading / Works Unread.” Paper presented in MLA Division Session on Nineteenth-Century France, December 2006, “The Great Unread,” organized by Maurice Samuels with papers by Margaret Cohen, Toril Moi and Jann Matlock.
“The Aesthetics of Body Parts.” Paper presented in panel entitled “Body Parts,” at the 32nd Annual NCFS Colloquium, Indiana University, October 2006.
Panel discussant and Présidente/Chair, “Qu’est-ce que l’Histoire culturelle aujourd’hui?/What is Cultural History Now About,” at “Eight Questions on Writing Contemporary History,” international conference organised by Anne Simonin and Robert Gildea, Maison Française, Oxford University, 12-13 June 2006
“Americans in Paris: le New York Herald, European Edition dans la France à la Belle Époque,” Paper presented at “Presse, Identités Nationales et Transferts Culturels au XIXe siècle,” Conference organised by Marie-Eve Thérenty and Alain Vaillant, 17-19 May 2006, CERD, Univ. Paul-Valéry-Montpellier II.
“Legs, boas, bellies, and voyeurs.” Paper presented in a special session, “Embodiment and Mediation: Radical Theatrical Bodies in the Nineteenth Century,” organized by Matthew Buckley, MLA Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005.
“Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History.” Paper presented at the 31st Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, October 2005.
“Translating Madame Bovary.” Response for panel on translation organized by Emily Apter, 31st Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, October 2005.
Introduction, “Embodying the Artless War," to panel entitled “Bodies in Crisis, Bodies in War," chaired and organized by Jann Matlock with papers by Emily Apter, Maurice Samuels, and Dominick La Capra. Division Session for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2003.
“Just in Time.” paper presented in “Adjustments: Nineteenth-Century Justice after 9/11.” panel chaired and organized by Jann Matlock with papers by Russ Castronovo, Howard G. Lay, Avital Ronell. Division Session for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, New York, December 2002.
Introduction to Panel entitled “Death Sentences," chaired and organized by Jann Matlock. Division Session for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, New Orleans, December 2001.
“Making Olympia French: Or How Modernity Lost its Memory.” Paper presented at the 27th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2001.
“Pretending Identity: Memoirs and Legitimacy in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented in the Division Session on 19th-century French Studies, “Fakes and Phonies,” MLA Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2000.
“’Comment l’esprit vient aux femmes’: Feminist Theory, Women’s History and Gender Studies.” Paper presented at the 26th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana, October 2000, in panel co-organized with Dorothy Kelly and Doris Kadish, “Where has all the Theory Gone?”
“Pilfered Letters from the Archives.” Paper presented in the Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, December 1999.
“Looking at Risk: Popular Lithography, Censorship, and the Fantasy of the Dangerous Voyeur in France, 1885-1900.” Paper presented at the Western Society for French History, Monterey, CA, November 1999.
“Monet’s Eye: Hurtling Modern Objects, Railways, and the Aesthetics of the Signal in Third Republic France.” Paper presented at the 25th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, Canada, October 1999.
“Dressed Down: Lingerie, Popular Prints, and the Voyeur’s Censored Look in Third Republic France.” Paper presented at the College Art Association Conference, Panel on “Fashion, Identity, and Cultural History,” Los Angeles, February 1999.
“’Pictures’ of Revolutionary Minds: the Novel and the Censored Print,” Paper presented at the “Imaging the Word” Conference, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London School of Advanced Studies, February 1999
“Looking at Risk: Popular Lithography, Censorship, and the Fantasy of the Dangerous Voyeur in France, 1885-1900.” Paper presented at the 24th Annual NCFS Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, October 1998.
“Ghostly Politics.” Paper presented in the Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, Toronto, 1997.
“Purloined Letters from the Archives.” Paper presented at the 23rd Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Georgia, October 1997.
“The Invisible Woman and her Secrets Unveiled: Spaces of Subjectivity and Public Spectacles in France, Year VIII.” Paper presented at the CAA Annual Conference, Panel on “Rethinking Human Display: Tableaux vivants, Performance Art, and Living Exhibitions,” New York, February 1997.
“The Invisible Woman and Her Secrets Unveiled.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference, 1996, Division on Comparative Studies in the Eighteenth Century.
Paper presented entitled “‘Tirer la langue’: Medical Fantasies, Sick Tongues, and the Languages of the Real," in “’Les Langues Indiscrètes’: A History of the Tongue in Nineteenth-Century France,” panel organized by JM with Anne Higonnet, Antoine de Baecque, Michael Marrinan, and Margaret Cohen, for the 22nd Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Toronto, October 1996.
“Moved to Laughter: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in July Monarchy France.” Paper presented at the 21st Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Delaware, October 1995.
“The Limits of Reformism: The Novel, Censorship, and Divorce Law in Nineteenth-Century France,” Paper presented, Division on 19th-Century French Studies, MLA Conference, San Diego 1994.
“The Invisible Woman and her Secrets Unveiled.” Paper presented at the 20th Annual NCFS Colloquium, U.C. Santa Barbara, October 1994.
"The Female Voyeur and Her Secrets Unveiled..” Paper presented at the Vassar College Fin-de-Siècle Conference, Fall 1994
“Reading Invisibility.” Paper presented at the Conference on “Literary Studies Today," Harvard University, October 1994.
“Visual Training: Girls Gazing, Seeing Women, and the Periodical Press of July Monarchy France.” Paper presented at the College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 1994.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Paper presented at the 19th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, October 1993.
“Sexual Violence and Visual Representation.” Presentation in workshop co-chaired with Hannah Feldman, Feminist Art History Conference, Barnard College, October 1993.
“The Dead Duchess, the Dead Duke, and Bette Davis: The Scandalous Histories of the 1847 Choiseul-Praslin Affair.” Paper presented at the Berkshires Conference on Women’s History, Vassar College, June 1993.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties.” Paper presented at the Conference on “Constructing the Body in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, April 1993.
“Resisting Bodies: Salon Criticism and the Creation of Alternative Presses in France.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference in a special session co-organized with Margaret Cohen, “Dividing the Popular: Visual Culture, Textual Intersections, Public Spaces,” New York, 1992.
“Taking Liberties: Censored Bodies, Prostitution, and the Revolution of 1830." Paper presented in a panel on “Revolutionary Pleasures: Redressing Historical Fantasy, 1795, 1830, 1848,” organized by JM with presentations by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Rebecca Spang, for the 18th Annual NCFS Colloquium, SUNY, Binghamton, 1992.
“Scandals of Naming: The Blue Blob, Gender, and Identity in the Trial of William Kennedy Smith.” Paper presented at the “Dissident Spectators Conference,” Harvard University, May 1992.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Historicizing the Gaze.” Paper presented at the CAA Annual Conference, panel on “Spectatorship and ‘the Gaze,’” Chicago, February 1992.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Theorizing the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Texts and Practices.” Panel presented at the MLA Conference, in panel co-organized with Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “Images and Textuality,” San Francisco, December 1991.
“The Novel of Spasms: Pathological Realism, Hysterical Plots and the Balzacian Novel.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, New Orleans, October 1991.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties: Body Politics and ‘Pictures’ of Revolutionary Minds.” Paper presented at the International American Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1991.
“Taking Liberties: Censored Bodies, Prostitution, and the Revolution of 1830.” Paper presented, Panel entitled “Subverting the Bourgeois Revolution of 1830,” co-organized with Peter Sahlins (History, U.C., Berkeley), Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Vancouver, March 1991.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties: Body Politics and ‘Pictures’ of Revolutionary Minds.” Paper presented at the Northeast American Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1990.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Gender and the Interdisciplinary Gaze.” Paper presented at the Third Annual Feminist Art History Conference, Barnard College, in workshop co-organized with Anne Higonnet, October 1990.
“The Dead Duchess, the Dead Duke, and Bette Davis: 20th-Century Readings of the 1847 Choiseul-Praslin Scandal.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, in panel co-organized with Emily Apter, “Pathology, New Historicism, and Cultural History,” University of Oklahoma, October 1990.
“Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1885-1930.” Paper presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of California, Irvine, April 1990.
“Desires in Revolutions: Censored Prints, Gender Politics, and the Revolutions of Printed Sex in France, 1789-1848.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference, Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Panel on “Revolution and the Erotic,” December 1989.
“Bodies Encased in Texts: The Ideology of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented in the Division on Non-Fiction Prose, MLA Conference, December 1989.
“Model Perverts: Women, Fetishism, and the Fantasies of Sexual Perversion in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of New Hampshire, 1989.
Transvestite Lookers: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the “Feminism and Representation” Conference, Rhode Island College, April 1989.
“Women Inflamed: Charitable Intrigues around Prostitution and Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris.” Paper presented in the Division on 19th-Century French Literature, MLA Conference, 1989.
“Gavarni’s Masquerades of Femininity: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented in special session “Women and Theatre,” MLA Conference, 1988.
“Reading Dangers: Trying The Woman’s Share.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1988.
“Reading Difference: The Poetics of Nineteenth-Century French Hysteria.” “Representing Hysteria” Symposium, Trinity College, April 1988.
“Imagining Women and Their Fairy Tales in the Seventeenth Century.” Response presented at the MLA Conference in special session co-organized with Faith Beasley, San Francisco, 1987.
“Reading Dangerously: The Memoirs of the Devil and Madame Lafarge.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, Northwestern University, October 1987.
“Taking Liberties: Plots around Prostitutes and L’Education sentimentale.” Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Colloquium, San José, California, 1987.
“Doubling Out of the Crazy House: Gender, Autobiography, and the Insane Asylum System in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the MLA Annual Conference, New York, December 1986.
“Taking Liberties: Plots around Prostitutes and the French Revolution of 1848.” Paper presented at the Literature and History Conference, Yale University, April 1986.
“Over Her Dead Body: Plots, Prostitutes, and the French Revolution of 1848.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference, Chicago, 1985.
“Prostitution, Hysterie, und die Lektüre von Frauen in Frankreich im 19. Jahrhundert.” Paper presented at the Zweiter Tagung von Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft, Bielefeld, West Germany, June 1984.
“Freud and the Medieval Jongleur.” Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Northeastern Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, 1980.
“The Consolation of Lineage.” Paper presented at the ACLA Northeastern Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, 1980.
“The Clear Visions of ‘La Bele Aude.’” Paper presented, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Conference, Los Angeles, 1979.
“Another Terrible Year: Crises of Representation in 1871-1872.” Paper presented at the 38th Annual NCFS Colloquium, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 2012.
“Underground Haunts: Nineteenth-Century Representations of the Catacombs.” Paper presented in panel entitled, “Looking at Death,’ organized by Gregory Shaya, Western Society for French History, 39th Annual Colloquium, Portland, Oregon, November 2011.
“Phantom Undergrounds.” Paper presented at the 37th NCFS Annual Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, October 2011.
“Bad Books.” Paper presented at the 36th NCFS Annual Colloquium, Yale University, October 2010.
“Object Lessons: Dead Media, Live Wires, and the Twenty-First Century Police.” Paper presented at the CRESC Conference on “The Wire as Social Science Fiction?” University of Leeds, November 2009.
“Socializing with Anatomy: Le Journal des Dames et des Modes and New Women in Directory, Consulate, and Empire France.” Paper presented at “More than Fashion: Le Journal des Dames et des Modes (1797-1839)” Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 3-4 April 2009.
“Anatomy in Beauty’s Empire: Teaching Women the Body in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Washington University, Saint Louis, March 2009.
“Legs, Boas, Bellies, and Voyeurs: French Performances from the 1889 Exposition to Wilde’s Salomé.” Paper presented at the 34th Annual NCFS Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, October 2008.
“The Photography of the Hugo Studio: Representing Exile with the proscrits de Jersey.” Paper presented at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference, in panel entitled “The Cultural Histories of Exile.”organized with Sylvie Aprile and Emmanuelle Loyer, Rutgers University, April 2008.
“Lost at the Edge of the Serre: The Exile Work of Photography, 1853-55.” Paper presented, the Society of Dix- Neuviémistes 6th Annual Conference, “Memories in/of the 19th Century,” University of Manchester, March 2008.
“La Photographie d’exil: Hugo ailleurs.” Paper presented at “Le Voyage et le mémoire au XIXe siècle,” Colloque de Cérisy, September 1-8, 2007.
“Anatomies of Sociability.” Paper presented in panel on Gender, Sociability, and Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on France, 1795-1830,” 33rd Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Southern Alabama, Mobile, October 2007.
“Bodies Reading / Works Unread.” Paper presented in MLA Division Session on Nineteenth-Century France, December 2006, “The Great Unread,” organized by Maurice Samuels with papers by Margaret Cohen, Toril Moi and Jann Matlock.
“The Aesthetics of Body Parts.” Paper presented in panel entitled “Body Parts,” at the 32nd Annual NCFS Colloquium, Indiana University, October 2006.
Panel discussant and Présidente/Chair, “Qu’est-ce que l’Histoire culturelle aujourd’hui?/What is Cultural History Now About,” at “Eight Questions on Writing Contemporary History,” international conference organised by Anne Simonin and Robert Gildea, Maison Française, Oxford University, 12-13 June 2006
“Americans in Paris: le New York Herald, European Edition dans la France à la Belle Époque,” Paper presented at “Presse, Identités Nationales et Transferts Culturels au XIXe siècle,” Conference organised by Marie-Eve Thérenty and Alain Vaillant, 17-19 May 2006, CERD, Univ. Paul-Valéry-Montpellier II.
“Legs, boas, bellies, and voyeurs.” Paper presented in a special session, “Embodiment and Mediation: Radical Theatrical Bodies in the Nineteenth Century,” organized by Matthew Buckley, MLA Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005.
“Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History.” Paper presented at the 31st Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, October 2005.
“Translating Madame Bovary.” Response for panel on translation organized by Emily Apter, 31st Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, October 2005.
Introduction, “Embodying the Artless War," to panel entitled “Bodies in Crisis, Bodies in War," chaired and organized by Jann Matlock with papers by Emily Apter, Maurice Samuels, and Dominick La Capra. Division Session for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2003.
“Just in Time.” paper presented in “Adjustments: Nineteenth-Century Justice after 9/11.” panel chaired and organized by Jann Matlock with papers by Russ Castronovo, Howard G. Lay, Avital Ronell. Division Session for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, New York, December 2002.
Introduction to Panel entitled “Death Sentences," chaired and organized by Jann Matlock. Division Session for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, New Orleans, December 2001.
“Making Olympia French: Or How Modernity Lost its Memory.” Paper presented at the 27th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2001.
“Pretending Identity: Memoirs and Legitimacy in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented in the Division Session on 19th-century French Studies, “Fakes and Phonies,” MLA Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2000.
“’Comment l’esprit vient aux femmes’: Feminist Theory, Women’s History and Gender Studies.” Paper presented at the 26th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana, October 2000, in panel co-organized with Dorothy Kelly and Doris Kadish, “Where has all the Theory Gone?”
“Pilfered Letters from the Archives.” Paper presented in the Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, December 1999.
“Looking at Risk: Popular Lithography, Censorship, and the Fantasy of the Dangerous Voyeur in France, 1885-1900.” Paper presented at the Western Society for French History, Monterey, CA, November 1999.
“Monet’s Eye: Hurtling Modern Objects, Railways, and the Aesthetics of the Signal in Third Republic France.” Paper presented at the 25th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, Canada, October 1999.
“Dressed Down: Lingerie, Popular Prints, and the Voyeur’s Censored Look in Third Republic France.” Paper presented at the College Art Association Conference, Panel on “Fashion, Identity, and Cultural History,” Los Angeles, February 1999.
“’Pictures’ of Revolutionary Minds: the Novel and the Censored Print,” Paper presented at the “Imaging the Word” Conference, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London School of Advanced Studies, February 1999
“Looking at Risk: Popular Lithography, Censorship, and the Fantasy of the Dangerous Voyeur in France, 1885-1900.” Paper presented at the 24th Annual NCFS Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, October 1998.
“Ghostly Politics.” Paper presented in the Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, MLA Conference, Toronto, 1997.
“Purloined Letters from the Archives.” Paper presented at the 23rd Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Georgia, October 1997.
“The Invisible Woman and her Secrets Unveiled: Spaces of Subjectivity and Public Spectacles in France, Year VIII.” Paper presented at the CAA Annual Conference, Panel on “Rethinking Human Display: Tableaux vivants, Performance Art, and Living Exhibitions,” New York, February 1997.
“The Invisible Woman and Her Secrets Unveiled.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference, 1996, Division on Comparative Studies in the Eighteenth Century.
Paper presented entitled “‘Tirer la langue’: Medical Fantasies, Sick Tongues, and the Languages of the Real," in “’Les Langues Indiscrètes’: A History of the Tongue in Nineteenth-Century France,” panel organized by JM with Anne Higonnet, Antoine de Baecque, Michael Marrinan, and Margaret Cohen, for the 22nd Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Toronto, October 1996.
“Moved to Laughter: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in July Monarchy France.” Paper presented at the 21st Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Delaware, October 1995.
“The Limits of Reformism: The Novel, Censorship, and Divorce Law in Nineteenth-Century France,” Paper presented, Division on 19th-Century French Studies, MLA Conference, San Diego 1994.
“The Invisible Woman and her Secrets Unveiled.” Paper presented at the 20th Annual NCFS Colloquium, U.C. Santa Barbara, October 1994.
"The Female Voyeur and Her Secrets Unveiled..” Paper presented at the Vassar College Fin-de-Siècle Conference, Fall 1994
“Reading Invisibility.” Paper presented at the Conference on “Literary Studies Today," Harvard University, October 1994.
“Visual Training: Girls Gazing, Seeing Women, and the Periodical Press of July Monarchy France.” Paper presented at the College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 1994.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Paper presented at the 19th Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, October 1993.
“Sexual Violence and Visual Representation.” Presentation in workshop co-chaired with Hannah Feldman, Feminist Art History Conference, Barnard College, October 1993.
“The Dead Duchess, the Dead Duke, and Bette Davis: The Scandalous Histories of the 1847 Choiseul-Praslin Affair.” Paper presented at the Berkshires Conference on Women’s History, Vassar College, June 1993.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties.” Paper presented at the Conference on “Constructing the Body in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, April 1993.
“Resisting Bodies: Salon Criticism and the Creation of Alternative Presses in France.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference in a special session co-organized with Margaret Cohen, “Dividing the Popular: Visual Culture, Textual Intersections, Public Spaces,” New York, 1992.
“Taking Liberties: Censored Bodies, Prostitution, and the Revolution of 1830." Paper presented in a panel on “Revolutionary Pleasures: Redressing Historical Fantasy, 1795, 1830, 1848,” organized by JM with presentations by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Rebecca Spang, for the 18th Annual NCFS Colloquium, SUNY, Binghamton, 1992.
“Scandals of Naming: The Blue Blob, Gender, and Identity in the Trial of William Kennedy Smith.” Paper presented at the “Dissident Spectators Conference,” Harvard University, May 1992.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Historicizing the Gaze.” Paper presented at the CAA Annual Conference, panel on “Spectatorship and ‘the Gaze,’” Chicago, February 1992.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Theorizing the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Texts and Practices.” Panel presented at the MLA Conference, in panel co-organized with Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “Images and Textuality,” San Francisco, December 1991.
“The Novel of Spasms: Pathological Realism, Hysterical Plots and the Balzacian Novel.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, New Orleans, October 1991.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties: Body Politics and ‘Pictures’ of Revolutionary Minds.” Paper presented at the International American Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1991.
“Taking Liberties: Censored Bodies, Prostitution, and the Revolution of 1830.” Paper presented, Panel entitled “Subverting the Bourgeois Revolution of 1830,” co-organized with Peter Sahlins (History, U.C., Berkeley), Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Vancouver, March 1991.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties: Body Politics and ‘Pictures’ of Revolutionary Minds.” Paper presented at the Northeast American Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1990.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Gender and the Interdisciplinary Gaze.” Paper presented at the Third Annual Feminist Art History Conference, Barnard College, in workshop co-organized with Anne Higonnet, October 1990.
“The Dead Duchess, the Dead Duke, and Bette Davis: 20th-Century Readings of the 1847 Choiseul-Praslin Scandal.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, in panel co-organized with Emily Apter, “Pathology, New Historicism, and Cultural History,” University of Oklahoma, October 1990.
“Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1885-1930.” Paper presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of California, Irvine, April 1990.
“Desires in Revolutions: Censored Prints, Gender Politics, and the Revolutions of Printed Sex in France, 1789-1848.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference, Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Panel on “Revolution and the Erotic,” December 1989.
“Bodies Encased in Texts: The Ideology of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented in the Division on Non-Fiction Prose, MLA Conference, December 1989.
“Model Perverts: Women, Fetishism, and the Fantasies of Sexual Perversion in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, University of New Hampshire, 1989.
Transvestite Lookers: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the “Feminism and Representation” Conference, Rhode Island College, April 1989.
“Women Inflamed: Charitable Intrigues around Prostitution and Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris.” Paper presented in the Division on 19th-Century French Literature, MLA Conference, 1989.
“Gavarni’s Masquerades of Femininity: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented in special session “Women and Theatre,” MLA Conference, 1988.
“Reading Dangers: Trying The Woman’s Share.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1988.
“Reading Difference: The Poetics of Nineteenth-Century French Hysteria.” “Representing Hysteria” Symposium, Trinity College, April 1988.
“Imagining Women and Their Fairy Tales in the Seventeenth Century.” Response presented at the MLA Conference in special session co-organized with Faith Beasley, San Francisco, 1987.
“Reading Dangerously: The Memoirs of the Devil and Madame Lafarge.” Paper presented at the Annual NCFS Colloquium, Northwestern University, October 1987.
“Taking Liberties: Plots around Prostitutes and L’Education sentimentale.” Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Colloquium, San José, California, 1987.
“Doubling Out of the Crazy House: Gender, Autobiography, and the Insane Asylum System in Nineteenth-Century France.” Paper presented at the MLA Annual Conference, New York, December 1986.
“Taking Liberties: Plots around Prostitutes and the French Revolution of 1848.” Paper presented at the Literature and History Conference, Yale University, April 1986.
“Over Her Dead Body: Plots, Prostitutes, and the French Revolution of 1848.” Paper presented at the MLA Conference, Chicago, 1985.
“Prostitution, Hysterie, und die Lektüre von Frauen in Frankreich im 19. Jahrhundert.” Paper presented at the Zweiter Tagung von Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft, Bielefeld, West Germany, June 1984.
“Freud and the Medieval Jongleur.” Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Northeastern Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, 1980.
“The Consolation of Lineage.” Paper presented at the ACLA Northeastern Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, 1980.
“The Clear Visions of ‘La Bele Aude.’” Paper presented, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Conference, Los Angeles, 1979.