\u201cDisposing Shakespeare\u2019s Estate in the Eighteenth Century,\u201d keynote lecture, Annual English Graduate Symposium, suny<\/strong> New Paltz, 22 April 2014<\/p>\n \u201cThe First Dictionary?,\u201d Joseph S. Schick Lecture in Language, Literature, and Lexicography, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, 27 February 2014<\/p>\n \u201cNot-So-Splendide Mendax: Viewing Fakes from the Inside Out,\u201d De kunst van het liegen in de achttiende eeuw\/The Art of Lying conference, Werkgroep 18e eeuw\/Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Amsterdam, 17 January 2014<\/p>\n \u201cModes of Definition in Johnson and His Contemporaries,\u201d Johnson at 300: A Houghton Library Symposium, Harvard University, 28 August 2009<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson\u2019s Lives,\u201d bsecs<\/strong>, Oxford, 7 January 2009. Repeated at the University of Ottawa, 3 December 2011<\/p>\n \u201cAll Shall Yield to the Mulberry Tree: Of Toothpick Cases, Punch Ladles, Tobacco Stoppers, Inkstands, Nutmeg Graters, and the Legend of Shakespeare,\u201d csecs<\/strong>, Montreal, 16 October 2008<\/p>\n \u201cWilliam Henry Ireland and His Doubles,\u201d mwasecs<\/strong>, Minneapolis, 14 October 2006<\/p>\n \u201cPope\u2019s Thames,\u201d Literary London conference, Greenwich, 14 July 2006<\/p>\n \u201cIreland\u2019s Chatterton,\u201d Romanticism & Forgery conference, Bristol, 29 November 2003<\/p>\n \u201cThe Author\u2019s Estate in Wit: How to Tell Shakespeare\u2019s Story,\u201d tcnj<\/strong> English Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, 23 April 2019<\/p>\n \u201cLiterary Fakery and Forgery,\u201d Branton Lecture, Washington & Jefferson College, 5 April 2018<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson Goes to War,\u201d 34th Annual Daniel G. Blum Lecture, Samuel Johnson Society of the West, Huntington Library, San Marino, 19 November 2017<\/p>\n \u201cHow Samuel Johnson Wrote the First Dictionary,\u201d Philobiblon Society, Philadelphia, 10 January 2017<\/p>\n \u201cThe Universe in ABC Order,\u201d Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., 8 November 2016<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson\u2019s Lives,\u201d the Johnsonians annual dinner, Harvard Club, New York, 16 September 2016<\/p>\n \u201cThe Universe in Alphabetical Order: What Can We Learn from Old Dictionaries?,\u201d the English Speaking Union of Monmouth County, 21 February 2016<\/p>\n \u201cReal Fakes and Fake Fakes: Materiality and Literary Forgery,\u201d The Matter of Mimesis: Studies on Mimesis and Materials in Nature, Art and Science conference, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (crassh<\/strong>), University of Cambridge, 17 December 2015; repeated at a forgery symposium, Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden, Netherlands, 21 June 2019<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dead Poets Society,\u201d Johnson Society of London, Westminster Abbey, 13 December 2014<\/p>\n tasis<\/strong> England Alumni Speaker Program, Thorpe, Surrey, 10 November 2014<\/p>\n \u201cNothing Short of Sacrilege: Vortigern and William Henry Ireland\u2019s National Offense,\u201d at \u201cBooks, Crooks and Readers: The Seduction of Forgery, 1600\u20131800,\u201d Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden, Netherlands, 30 September 2014<\/p>\n \u201cRarely Harmless, Never Drudges: Lexicographers through the Centuries,\u201d Bonhams sale of the Dictionary Collection of Thomas Malin Rodgers, New York, 2 December 2012<\/p>\n \u201cSpelling, Grammar, and Other Superstitions: The Battle Over \u2018Proper\u2019 English,\u201d Whitman and Forbes Colleges, Princeton University, 11 November 2010<\/p>\n \u201cSabotage in Springfield; or, How a Dictionary Lost the Cold War,\u201d Salisbury University Writers-on-the-Shore series, 1 April 2010<\/p>\n \u201cThe Dean Is Dead: Jonathan Swift on the Art of Satire,\u201d South Orange\u2013Maplewood Adult School College for a Day, 25 April 2009<\/p>\n Reading from Twelfth Night<\/em>, for Authors of Mischief: Banned Books Week, Celebrating the Freedom to Read, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, 5 October 2008<\/p>\n \u201cThe Politics of Shakespeare, the Shakespeare of Politics,\u201d the English Speaking Union of Red Bank, New Jersey, 17 February 2008<\/p>\n \u201cThe Second Coolest Man in the World,\u201d conference to Honor John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 21 September 2007<\/p>\n \u201cBecoming Shakespeare,\u201d Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, 19 September 2007<\/p>\n \u201cBecoming Shakespeare,\u201d University at Buffalo, State University of New York Meet the Author Series, 18 June 2007<\/p>\n \u201cDisgraced by Miscarriage: Four and a Half Centuries of Lexicographical Belligerence,\u201d opening reception to the exhibition \u201cEverything from A to Z: The Edward J. Bloustein Dictionary Collection,\u201d Alexander Library, New Brunswick, 6 February 2007<\/p>\n \u201cThe Truth, the Whole Truth, and Anything but the Truth: What Can You Say about William Henry Ireland?\u201d first annual David Hosford Lecture, Rutgers University\u2013Newark, 11 April 2005. Repeated at the English Speaking Union of Princeton, 17 April 2005; the English Speaking Union of Naples, Florida, 17 January 2006; the English Speaking Union of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 4 February 2006; and the English Speaking Union of Greenwich, Connecticut, 15 February 2008<\/p>\n \u201cMaking Shakespeare,\u201d u.s.<\/strong> Military Academy, West Point, 8 April 2005<\/p>\n \u201cReading Johnson\u2019s Unreadable Dictionary,\u201d Boston Athen\u00e6um, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dictionary Lays Down the Law,\u201d the Athen\u00e6um of Philadelphia, 12 April 2004. Repeated at the National Archives, Washington, d.c.<\/strong>, 29 April 2004; the English Speaking Union of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 4 November 2006; and the English Speaking Union of Princeton, 5 October 2008<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s in a Name? Shakespeare\u2019s Strange Afterlife,\u201d Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, 13 December 2002<\/p>\n \u201cShakespeare, Shylock, and the Spectacle of Anti-Semitism,\u201d address to the American Jewish Committee, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, 13 October 2002<\/p>\n \u201cSplendide Mendax: Fakes and Fakers in the Age of Johnson,\u201d The Eighteenth-Century Semester, Providence College, 16 March 1999<\/p>\n \u201cBrave New Worlds: A Brief History of Twenty-First-Century Literature,\u201d address to the Cum Laude Society assembly at Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, 11 April 1996<\/p>\n \u201cThe Dictionary Johnson Never Wrote,\u201d scsecs<\/strong>, Dallas, 23 February 2019<\/p>\n \u201cEditing the Hebrides Narratives in the Twenty-First Century\u201d (written with Celia Barnes, delivered by Celia Barnes), asecs<\/strong>, Orlando, 23 March 2018<\/p>\n \u201cSome Little Account of the Man Himself: Eighteenth\u2011Century Beginnings,\u201d Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography conference, Folger Institute, Washington, d.c.<\/strong>, 4 April 2014<\/p>\n \u201cEngland\u2019s Ireland, Ireland\u2019s England: William Henry Ireland\u2019s National Offense,\u201d Literary Forgery and Patriotic Mythology in Europe, 1450\u20131800, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 10 November 2012<\/p>\n \u201cSo Help Me God: William Henry Ireland and the Truth,\u201d Memory\/Reason\/Imagination: A Symposium in Honor of Daniel Traister, 31 March 2012<\/p>\n \u201cA Disposition to Write: Johnson as Correspondent,\u201d Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, 9 September 2011<\/p>\n \u201cGenerous Liberal-Minded Men: Booksellers and Poetic Production in Johnson\u2019s Lives of the Poets<\/em>,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Vancouver, 18 March 2011<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson Writing Lives; Writing Johnson\u2019s Lives; Writing Lives with Johnson,\u201d Johnson at 300 conference, Pembroke College, Oxford, 14 September 2009<\/p>\n \u201cTristram Shandy and the Rise of the Novel,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Portland, Oregon, 30 March 2008<\/p>\n \u201cA Just History of Fact,\u201d Congr\u00e8s de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Internationale d\u2019\u00c9tude du XVIII\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, Montpellier, 9 July 2007<\/p>\n \u201cThe Ignorance of That Editor: The Squabbles over Johnson\u2019s Shakespeare,\u201d Johnson and the Theatre conference, Pembroke College, Oxford, 21 June 2007<\/p>\n \u201cThe Life of Johnson, the Life of Johnson, the Lives of Johnson,\u201d bsecs<\/strong>, Oxford, 4 January 2007<\/p>\n \u201cButterfly-Breaking 101,\u201d Reading Alexander Pope: From \u201cFatal Sheers\u201d to \u201cUnwilling Ears\u201d conference, University of Pennsylvania, 17 November 2006<\/p>\n \u201cShakespeare Their Contemporary? The Case of Macbeth, 1660\u20131818,\u201d British Literature & Culture, 1660\u20131800: A Symposium in Honor of Eric Rothstein, Madison, Wisconsin, 7 April 2006<\/p>\n \u201cThe Age of Korshin: A Scholarly Perennial,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Montreal, 1 April 2006<\/p>\n \u201cSymbolism, Schmymbolism: Reading Authors Who Say What They Mean,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Montreal, 31 March 2006<\/p>\n \u201cThe Picaresque Biography: William Henry Ireland,\u201d Maskerade und Entlarvung: Das Paradigma des Pikaresken conference, W\u00fcrzburg, 10 September 2005<\/p>\n \u201cThe First English Dictionary,\u201d Celebrating Johnson\u2019s Dictionary conference, Pembroke College, Oxford, 26 August 2005<\/p>\n \u201cHow Johnson\u2019s Dictionary Became the First English Dictionary,\u201d Johnson and the English Language conference, Birmingham, 25 August 2005<\/p>\n \u201cThe Dignity of an Ancient: Johnson Edits the Editors,\u201d Johnson\u2019s Shakespeare, Shakespeare\u2019s Johnson conference, University of Nevada, Reno, 29 April 2005<\/p>\n \u201cCyberization and Its Discontents,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Las Vegas, 2 April 2005<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson and the Least Disagreeable Noise,\u201d ec\/asecs, Cape May, N.J., 23 October 2004<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson\u2019s London and Johnson\u2019s London,\u201d Literary London conference, University of London, 15 July 2004<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson\u2019s Encyclopedia,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Boston, 27 March 2004<\/p>\n \u201cWilliam Henry Ireland: Anything but the Truth,\u201d neasecs<\/strong>, Providence, 8 November 2003<\/p>\n \u201cPackaging Johnson and His Age,\u201d csecs<\/strong>, Vancouver, 25 October 2003<\/p>\n \u201cJudging Web Sites by Their Covers: Seeking Authority in Cyberspace,\u201d mla<\/strong>, New York City, 29 December 2002<\/p>\n \u201cSamuel Johnson and the Majesty of History,\u201d neasecs<\/strong>, New York City, 17 October 2002<\/p>\n \u201cFrankenstein: The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition,\u201d New Technology and the Future of Publishing Colloquium, Clemson University, 4 April 2002<\/p>\n \u201cSamuel Johnson, Unbeliever,\u201d Johnson Society of the Central Region, Milwaukee, 26 April 2001<\/p>\n \u201cPatrick Hume on Paradise Lost<\/em> and the Creation of the Classic,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, New Orleans, April 2001<\/p>\n \u201cBetwixt Two Ages Cast; or, Just How Long Is the Long Eighteenth Century?\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Philadelphia, 13 April 2000<\/p>\n \u201cPyrrhonism and Paranoia: Recognizing a Fake When You See One,\u201d Princeton Eighteenth-Century Society Conference, 18 March 2000<\/p>\n \u201cThe Search for Respectability: Cutting-Edge Anxieties in a Digital Age,\u201d mla<\/strong>, Chicago, 28 December 1999<\/p>\n \u201cThe Love of Truth: Johnson and Literary Fraud,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Milwaukee, 25 April 1999<\/p>\n \u201cThe Web of Disorderly Erudition: Electrifying the Eighteenth-Century Classroom,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Notre Dame, 3 April 1998<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson and the Revival of Learning,\u201d ec\/easecs, Ursinus College, 25 October 1997<\/p>\n \u201cFalse Refinement and Declension: Johnson on the History of the Language,\u201d the Inaugural Conference of the Johnson Centre, Birmingham and Lichfield, uk<\/strong>, 12 September 1997<\/p>\n \u201cHideous Progeny, Version 0.4 Beta,\u201d mla<\/strong>, Washington, d.c.<\/strong>, 28 December 1996<\/p>\n \u201cWorkshop of Filthy Creation, Cyberspace Division,\u201d nassr<\/strong>, Boston, 15 November 1996<\/p>\n \u201cThe Ground-Work of Style: Use, Elegance, and National Identity in Johnson\u2019s Dictionary<\/em>,\u201d neasecs<\/strong>, Worcester, Mass., 29 September 1996<\/p>\n \u201cAuthorizing Ossian,\u201d mwasecs<\/strong>, Minneapolis, 5 October 1995<\/p>\n \u201cStudied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Tucson, 8 April 1995<\/p>\n \u201cBabel and Empire in Paradise Lost<\/em>,\u201d Contextualizing the Renaissance conference, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University, 22 October 1994<\/p>\n \u201cPreventing Play: Annotating the Battle of the Books,\u201d ec\/easecs, Penn State University, 13 October 1994<\/p>\n \u201cWebster\u2019s Patriotic Exertion,\u201d MetroLex: Politics and Ideology in the History of Dictionary Making meeting, New York City, 3 February 2017<\/p>\n \u201cWilliam Henry Ireland\u2019s National Offence,\u201d Visiting Fellows\u2019 Colloquium, All Souls College, Oxford, 2 December 2014<\/p>\n \u201cShakespeare Forger and Cretan Liar: Puzzling over William Henry Ireland,\u201d Restoration to Reform Seminar, St. Peter\u2019s College, Oxford, 17 November 2014; repeated at Ghent University, 10 December 2015<\/p>\n \u201cGenerous Liberal-Minded Men: Booksellers and Poetic Production in Johnson\u2019s Lives of the Poets<\/em>,\u201d Ghent University, 14 January 2014<\/p>\n \u201cAuthentic Accounts: William Henry Ireland Comes Clean,\u201d Columbia University Libraries Book History Colloquium, New York City, 1 February 2012<\/p>\n Discussion of Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain, nyu<\/strong> Eighteenth-Century Colloquium, New York City, 17 November 2009<\/p>\n \u201cWilliam Henry Ireland and His Doubles,\u201d Columbia Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Europe, New York City, 19 October 2006<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Was James Macpherson\u2019s Crime?\u201d Princeton University, 17 November 2004<\/p>\n \u201cSov\u2019reign Truth: Puzzling over William Henry Ireland,\u201d cuny<\/strong> Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 12 March 2004<\/p>\n \u201cUnexplored Regions: The Pennsylvania Electronic Frankenstein<\/em>,\u201d Department of English, Kingston University, uk<\/strong>, 1 May 2002<\/p>\n \u201cI Believe Hardly a Word of It: Fact, Fiction, and Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Narratives,\u201d cuny<\/strong> Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 10 March 2000<\/p>\n \u201cHorry, the Ruffian, and the Whelp: Three Fakers of the 1760s,\u201d Columbia Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Europe, New York City, 20 May 1999<\/p>\n \u201cEngland\u2019s Golden Age: The Eighteenth Century\u2019s Age of Elizabeth,\u201d nyu<\/strong> Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 8 April 1999<\/p>\n Response to Robert J. Griffin, \u201cFact, Fiction, and Anonymity: The Case of Love and Madness: A Story Too True (1780),\u201d cuny<\/strong> Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 9 March 2001<\/p>\n \u201cOrientalism as Performance Art: The Strange Case of George Psalmanazar,\u201d cuny<\/strong> Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 29 January 1999<\/p>\n \u201cBestowing Animation upon Lifeless Matter: The Pennsylvania Electronic Frankenstein<\/em>,\u201d nyu\/neach<\/strong> Talks on Humanities Computing Series, New York City, 8 May 1998<\/p>\n \u201cThe Pre-History of the Post-Book,\u201d University of Pennsylvania History of the Book Seminar, 27 February 1995<\/p>\n \u201cAn Introduction to Hypertext,\u201d Kings Court-English House Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania, 5 December 1994<\/p>\n \u201cDepartmental Review and the Role of Department Chairs,\u201d aaup-aft<\/strong> Promotion and Tenure Workshop, Rutgers University\u2013Newark, 27 March 2017<\/p>\n \u201cLeaders Inspiring Change,\u201d Chancellor\u2019s Conference on the New Professoriate: Tenure, Diversity, Engagement, Rutgers University\u2013Newark, 29 October 2016<\/p>\n \u201cChallenges of the Humanities,\u201d Rutgers 250th Anniversary Presidential Symposium on Higher Education: Why the Humanities Matter, New Brunswick, N.J., 26 October 2016<\/p>\n \u201cThe Doctor Is in<\/strong>: Help Desk and Mentoring,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Pittsburgh, 1 April 2016<\/p>\n Closing roundtable, bsecs<\/strong>, Oxford, 10 January 2014<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s the Good Word?\u201d Empire State Book Festival, Albany, 10 April 2010<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Does It End?; or, How Long is the Eighteenth Century?\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Richmond, Virginia, 28 March 2009<\/p>\n \u201cOld-Fashioned Archives in a High-Tech Age: A Roundtable on Research Methods,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Richmond, Virginia, 27 March 2009<\/p>\n \u201cSustaining the Eighteenth Century: The Disciplinary Impact of ams<\/strong> Press,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Richmond, Virginia, 26 March 2009<\/p>\n \u201cAcademic Perspectives on Publishing the Long Eighteenth Century Online,\u201d bsecs<\/strong>, 7 January 2009<\/p>\n \u201cApproaches to Eighteenth-Century \u2018Lives\u2019 and Lives,\u201d bsecs<\/strong>, 6 January 2009<\/p>\n \u201cSatire,\u201d cuny<\/strong> Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 13 April 2007<\/p>\n \u201cAwkwardness,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Atlanta, 25 March 2007<\/p>\n \u201cPublishing\u201d (asecs<\/strong> Graduate Student Caucus roundtable), asecs<\/strong>, Atlanta, 25 March 2007<\/p>\n \u201cThe English Short Title Catalogue: A Relaunch and Roundtable Discussion,\u201d bsecs<\/strong>, Oxford, 4 January 2007<\/p>\n Symposium on Classical, Hellenistic, and Late Antique Texts in the Eighteenth Century, New York City, 20 September 2003<\/p>\n \u201cPublishing on the Web: Differing Approaches,\u201d isecs<\/strong>, Los Angeles, 3\u201310 August 2003<\/p>\n \u201cPublishing on the Web: Differing Approaches and Experiences,\u201d ec\/asecs<\/strong>, Rosemont, Penna., 18 October 2002<\/p>\n \u201cTeaching the Electronic Eighteenth Century,\u201d neasecs<\/strong>, New York City, 17 October 2002<\/p>\n \u201cJustifying a Third Edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: What\u2019s New, What\u2019s Needed, What\u2019s Not?\u201d asecs<\/strong>, New Orleans, April 2001<\/p>\n \u201cGetting New Tricks out of Old Dogs: Approaches to Teaching the Eighteenth Century,\u201d neasecs<\/strong>, Boston, 12 December 1997<\/p>\n \u201cChaucer and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century,\u201d bsecs<\/strong>, 7 January 2009<\/p>\n \u201cThe Languages of Literature,\u201d asecs<\/strong>, Portland, Oregon, 30 March 2008<\/p>\n \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dictionary<\/em>,\u201d isecs<\/strong>, Los Angeles, 3\u201310 August 2003<\/p>\nInvited Addresses and Public Lectures<\/h2>\n
Selected Conference Papers<\/h2>\n
Seminar Presentations<\/h2>\n
Roundtable Sessions<\/h2>\n
Selected Panels Chaired<\/h2>\n