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LECTURES AND PRESENTED PAPERS<\/strong>
\n________________________________________________<\/p>\n

[76]\u00a0\u201cBy the Skin of His Teeth: O\u2019Brien in Drag,\u201d Faculty \u201cWorks in Progress\u201d Series, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, April 2026.<\/p>\n

[75] \u201cThe End of the World,\u201d Department of German Studies and Deutsches Haus at New York University, February 2026.<\/p>\n

[74] \u201cEdging the Referent,\u201d Writing on the Edge: Literary Transgression and Resistance around 1900, Trinity College Dublin, January 2026.<\/p>\n

[73] \u201cThe Referential Fallacy,\u201d Identification: On the Mark(s) of the Same in Literature, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis, Departments of German and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, December 2025.<\/p>\n

[72] \u201cKafka Disfigured,\u201d Plastic Literatures, Panel Series, German Studies Association (GSA), Arlington, September 2025.<\/p>\n

[71] \u201cApropos of Nothing,\u201d The Theology of Translation, Roundtable, German Studies Association (GSA), Arlington, September 2025.<\/p>\n

[70] \u201cSomiosis,\u201d ACLA Seminar: Body, Language<\/em>, June 2025 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[69] \u201cHow to Disappear Completely,\u201d Keynote Address, dis\/appearance, Undergraduate Research Conference, Delta Phi Alpha, Rutgers University, March 2025.<\/p>\n

[68] \u201cEnd of the Line,\u201d Under Analysis: On the History of Truth and the Subject of Science, Conference, Departments of German and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, December 2024.<\/p>\n

[67] \u201cPreliminary Theses on the Referential Function of Language, with a Paralipomenon on the Language(s) of Geschlecht,\u201d GSA Seminar: Geschlecht: Sex, Race, Species, Atlanta, GA, September 2024.<\/p>\n

[66] \u201c\u2018The Country Doctor Rambles\u2019: Dylan Reads Kafka,\u201d Kafka Transformed, International Conference, Wadham College, Oxford University, September 2024.<\/p>\n

[65] \u201c\u00dcberlebensformen: Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit,\u201d Lecture and Book Presentation, Department of German, University of Vienna, June 2024.<\/p>\n

[64] \u201cThe Lack of Philology,\u201d Time and Language: An Encounter Between Philosophy and Philology, Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2024.<\/p>\n

[63] \u201cThe Shattered Referent,\u201d Crises of Verse, Symposium, Departments of German and Comparative Literature, Brown University, April 2024.<\/p>\n

[62] \u201cLife Sentences,\u201d The Afterness of Living On: Toward a Poetics and Politics of Survival, Symposium, Department of German, Brown University, October 2023.<\/p>\n

[61] \u201cA Certain Measure,\u201d Roundtable on Gerhard Richter\u2019s Book Das \u00dcberleben \u00fcberleben<\/em>, Department of German, Brown University, October 2023.<\/p>\n

[60] \u201cSticks and Stones,\u201d Verletzbarkeit: Strukturelle Gewalt und Affekte in der Literatur, University of Zurich, April 2023.<\/p>\n

[59] \u201cMouthing off; or, Das Ganze des Gedichts,\u201d Book Launch of Michael Levine\u2019s Interventionen: Die Dichtung Paul Celans, Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, February 2023.<\/p>\n

[58] \u201cBones of Contention: On Bodies Broken and Unbroken (in Bachmann and Beyond),\u201d Department of German Studies, Brown University, November 2022.<\/p>\n

[57] \u201cDisseminar,\u201d GSA Panel Series: Sensus Non-communis, Houston, TX, September 2022.<\/p>\n

[56] \u201cGarden Songs,\u201d ACLA Seminar: Political Botanies, June 2022 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[55] \u201cKant avec Musil: T\u00f6rle\u00df und die Szene des Lesens,\u201d Musil und die Psychologie, Musil Institut, Alpen-Adria-Universit\u00e4t Klagenfurt, November 2021 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[54] \u201cAbuser\u2019s Manual: On Reading and Violence,\u201d Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The Johns Hopkins University, October 2021 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[53] \u201cAllegories of Breeding,\u201d GSA Panel Series: The Language of Discipline, Indianapolis, IN, October 2021 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[52] \u201c\u2018Are your eyes recovered?\u2019 Bartleby, Freud,\u201d The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, August 2021 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[51] \u201cAshes,\u201d ACLA Seminar: Start Me Up: On Beginnings, Incipits, and First Lines, April 2021 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[50] \u201c\u2018At Least Two:\u2019 Benjamin\u2019s Kafka and the Temporality of Gesture,\u201d Elective Affinities: Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka, Colloquium, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, December 2020 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[49] \u201cThe Promise of Oblivion,\u201d 2019\u201320 Pembroke Research Seminar, The Question of Critique, Brown University, April 2020 [Zoom].<\/p>\n

[48] \u201cModern Scenes of Instruction: A Critique of Education,\u201d The Pembroke Center Associates Council, Brown University, February 2020.<\/p>\n

[47] \u201cThe Right to Look,\u201d Book Launch of Gerhard Richter\u2019s Thinking With Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze, Brown University, November 2019.<\/p>\n

[46] \u201cEnd Games,\u201d A Coming Word: Werner Hamacher, Paul Celan, Roundtable, NYU Center for the Humanities, October 2019.<\/p>\n

[45] \u201cOn Lyric Idiomaticity,\u201d GSA Seminar: Special Languages, Portland, OR, October 2019.<\/p>\n

[44] \u201cSchoolboys in Disgrace,\u201d Histories of Sexuality and Erudition: Institutions, Texts, Practices, Conference, Departments of German and History, Princeton University, May 2019.<\/p>\n

[43] \u201cFor Shame of Language,\u201d For\u2013\u2013Paul Celan, Conference, Department of German, Brown University, April 2019.<\/p>\n

[42] \u201cHeadmaster Rituals: Educational Violence and German Prose,\u201d Education in Europe: The Reinscription of Coloniality in Practices, Institutions, and Knowledges, Round Table, Center for European Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, March 2019.<\/p>\n

[41] \u201cDe-posing the Uncanny,\u201d ACLA Seminar: Language Dislodged, Georgetown University, March 2019.<\/p>\n

[40] \u201cKafka\u2019s Worries,\u201d Department of German, Colgate University, February 2019.<\/p>\n

[39] \u201cThe Violence of Form: Narratives of Instruction in the 20th Century,\u201d Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, January 2019.<\/p>\n

[38] \u201cLanguage Pains,\u201d The Cultural Language(s) of Pain: European Literary Perspectives, Conference, Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London, November 2018.<\/p>\n

[37] \u201cThe Phantom Erection: Freud\u2019s Dora and the Trauma of Non-impotence,\u201d #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies, Conference, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Center for European and Russian Studies, & Center for Performance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, November 2018.<\/p>\n

[36] \u201cThe Survival of Shame,\u201d Research Colloquium in the Graduate Program Language and Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t, Munich, May 2018.<\/p>\n

[35] \u201cNecro-sis,\u201d Sisterliness, Graduate Conference, Department of German, New York University, April 2018.<\/p>\n

[34] \u201cSurvival, Quote Unquote,\u201d ACLA Seminar: Forms of Survival, UCLA, March 2018.<\/p>\n

[33] \u201cKafka and the Crisis of Finitude,\u201d Department of German, Reed College, February 2018.<\/p>\n

[32] \u201cPrecarious Futures: Kafka and the Prose of Survival,\u201d Department of German, University of California, Berkeley, January 2018.<\/p>\n

[31] \u201cThe Scopes of Poetry: H\u00f6lderlin Takes Measure,\u201d MLA Convention 2018, New York City, January 2018.<\/p>\n

[30] \u201cCare and Life-Form,\u201d 1st Graduate Research Colloquium, Department of German, New York University, December 2017.<\/p>\n

[29] \u201cAphanisis,\u201d Reading -exhaust, Graduate Conference, Department of German, Brown University, October 2017.<\/p>\n

[28] \u201c\u00dcberlebensformen,\u201d Transformations of Literature, Knowledge, and Media, Summer School, Humboldt Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, July 2017.<\/p>\n

[27] \u201cA Ruhm of One\u2019s Own: Prize-Granting and Institutional Exposure,\u201d Literature and Institutions, Symposium, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig Universit\u00e4t Giessen, June 2017.<\/p>\n

[26] \u201cJosefine; or, The End of Man,\u201d Princeton-Weimar Summer School 2017, Media Anthropology, IKKM Weimar, June 2017.<\/p>\n

[25] \u201cKafka\u2019s Lamentation: On Thanato-Philology,\u201d 4th Boulder German Studies Summer Colloquium, German Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 2017.<\/p>\n

[24] \u201cLanguage After Finitude,\u201d Apocalyptic Narratives, Graduate Conference, Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, April 2017.<\/p>\n

[23] \u201cThe Ends of Kafka,\u201d An Ending of Sorts? Critical Responses to Disenchantment in Modernity, Graduate Conference, Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins University, March 2017.<\/p>\n

[22] \u201cKafka, Terminable and Interminable,\u201d The End, Graduate Conference, Department of German, Cornell University, November 2016.<\/p>\n

[21] \u201cOdradek Invades Heidegger,\u201d GSA Seminar: Metamorphoses, San Diego, CA, October 2016.<\/p>\n

[20] \u201cPains of Language, Pangs of Death,\u201d The Pains of Language, Graduate Conference, Department of German, New York University, April 2016.<\/p>\n

[19] \u201cTaking Out the Trash: Kittler Airs an Anecdote,\u201d ACLA Seminar: Recycling Culture: An Aesthetics of Waste, Harvard University, March 2016.<\/p>\n

[18] \u201cMocked by Death: Kafka and the Terrors of Narration,\u201d Reading Terror: Representations and Resistance, Graduate Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Center at the City University of New York, November 2015.<\/p>\n

[17] \u201cOn Screwing up in Dying: Kafka\u2019s Anahistory,\u201d Constructions: History and Narrativity, Princeton University, Department of Comparative Literature, October 2015.<\/p>\n

[16] \u201cThomas Bernhard, Prizefighter,\u201d GSA Panel: What is a Prize? Washington, D.C., October 2015.<\/p>\n

[15] \u201cThis & Everything: Celan\u2019s Unlesbarkeit,\u201d Echoes\/Reflections, Graduate Conference, Brown University, Department of German, April 2015.<\/p>\n

[14] \u201cTeacher\u2019s Pet Sematary: The Drama of Negative Transference,\u201d How to Return: Forms and Figures of Reversal, Regression, and Homecoming, Department of German, New York University, March 2015.<\/p>\n

[13] \u201cBeing-able-to-die: Kafka\u2019s Narrative Dare,\u201d Survival\/La Survie, 25th Annual Conference at the Center for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, March 2015.<\/p>\n

[12] \u201cNiemand hats getan: Kafka\u2019s Revolution,\u201d Revolution and the Real, Graduate Conference, Department of German, New York University, March 2015.<\/p>\n

[11] \u201cOn the Deluded but Understandable Hope of Finally Doing Away with Heidegger,\u201d The Telephone Book @ 25, Deutsches Haus at New York University, November 2014.<\/p>\n

[10] \u201cAporias of Survival: Kafka\u2019s \u2018Sorge des Hausvaters\u2019,\u201d Shapeshifters: Recycling and Literature, Graduate Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University, April 2014.<\/p>\n

[9] \u201cWriting with neither Head nor Tail: Une correspondance,\u201d ACLA Seminar, Theory as Genre, New York University, March 2014.<\/p>\n

[8] \u201c\u2018Cause you gotta have Faith! Derrida\u2019s d\u00e9soeuvrement,\u201d Work\/Ethics, Graduate Conference, Department of German, New York University, December 2013.<\/p>\n

[7] \u201cAbsolute Memory: The Problem of Closure in the Age of Digital Reproduction,\u201d Containers, Graduate Conference, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook in Manhattan, October 2013.<\/p>\n

[6] \u201cDeleuze, Derrida, Nancy: The Problem of Liminality\u201d The Territory In-between, Sixth International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Lisbon, July 2013.<\/p>\n

[5] \u201cExtra-Being and Time,\u201d Creative Assemblages, First Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference, Tamkang University, Taipei, May\u2013June 2013.<\/p>\n

[4] \u201cDer weltb\u00fcrgerliche Blick: Unterwegs zu einer Ethik des Sehens,\u201d R\u00e4ume, Texte und Subjekte in Bewegung: Perspektiven auf den transnationalen Raum, Lecture Series, University of Vienna, January 2013.<\/p>\n

[3] \u201cArchontik, Prothetik, Automatik: Das Archiv in Dekonstruktion,\u201d The Construction of Images, eikones Summer School, University of Basel, August 2012.<\/p>\n

[2] \u201cCommunity and the Archive,\u201d Cinematic Diasporas: New Media Cultures and Experiences, Graduate Conference, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, April 2012.<\/p>\n

[1] \u201cDylan, das nicht festgestellte Thier,\u201d Refractions of Bob Dylan: Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon, United States Embassy Vienna and the English Department, University of Vienna, May 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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