“Foxe’s Children: Rereading the ‘Book of Martyrs’ in 19th-Century American Children’s Literature,” January 2, 2015 (Winter Meeting of the American Society of Church History/American Historical Association, New York, NY)

“Publishing, Distributing, and Reading the ‘Book of Martyrs’ in the United States,” November 6, 2014 (Winter Colloquium, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany)

“John Foxe in America: Discourses of Martyrdom in the Long 19th Century,” October 10, 2014 (Post Graduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Mainz, Germany)

“American Martyrs: Discourses of Martyrdom in the American Anti-Slavery Movement,” April 11, 2014 (Annual Conference of the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), Birmingham, UK)

“John Foxe in America: Conceptions of Martyrdom in the Long 19th Century,” September 26, 2013 (Fellows Talk, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA)

“Where Nothing Happens, Except Everything: Rural Radicalism in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead,” May 31, 2013 (Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Erlangen, Germany)