Upcoming:

*The role of anthology in 18^th century French travel literature: Jean-Nicolas Demeunier’s L’Esprit des usages et des coutumes des différents peuples. Will be presented at the upcoming 34^th Annual Meeting of SEASECS, Auburn, AL, February 2008.

Presented:

*The Narrative Supplement: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie.  Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the ASECS, Atlanta, GA, March 2007.

Portrait of a colonial ‘family’ on Mauritius: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie.  Presented at the GEMCS Graduate Student Roundtable, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, February 2007.

*Discovering Language Learning: Talking about the Standards in the FL Classroom. Presented with Dr. Virginia M. Scott and graduate students Eva Dessein and Ingrid Schwab at the Annual Meeting of ACTFL, Nashville, TN, November 2006.*

The 18^th Century Travel Supplement. Presented at the Vanderbilt University Graduate Student Research Day, Nashville, TN, March 2006.

*Can Morality Exist in Tahiti? A Todorovian Reading of Diderot’s Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville. Presented at the 36^th Annual Meeting of the ASECS, Las Vegas, NV, March 2005.

The Immoral Savage: Todorov’s Notion of “Scientism” in Diderot’s Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage. Presented at the Vanderbilt University Graduate Student Colloquium, “Race, Identity, and Nationality”, Nashville, TN, February 2005.

*Le rôle de la femme dans la séduction dans le roman libertin au dix-huitième siècle : critique sociale ou fiction osée ? Presented at the Tenth Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2004.

La Critique sociale dans Les Bijoux indiscrets de Diderot. Presented at the Fifth Annual Syracuse University French Graduate Student Colloquium, Syracuse, NY, March 2002.

Poésie féminine africaine. Presented with graduate student, Domenica Newell-Amato, at the Fourth Annual Syracuse University French Graduate Student Colloquium, Syracuse, NY, April 2001.

 
*refereed presentations