"Rewriting Jonson's Biography: New Constructions of Fat," presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference for the Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chicago, IL (Feb. 22-5, 2007). Conference Program..

"Ben Jonson's Anti-Essentialist Construction of Fatness," paper circulated and discussed at the Seminar, "New Perspectives on Ben Jonson" for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (April 13-5, 2006)

"Thin Privilege and the Fat Body in the Popular Rhetoric of the Obesity Epidemic," presented at the Annual Conference for 2005 Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association, Saint Louis (October 14-16, 2005). Conference Program

"Tense Moments and Multiple Times: Milton on Donne," presented at the Eighth International Milton Symposium, Grenoble, France (June 7-11, 2005). Conference Program.

"Defiant Enormity: The Queer Aesthetic of the Fat Queen," paper circulated and discussed at the Seminar, "Narrating Sex: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece" for the Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (April 8-10, 2004)