Guest Lectures and Invited Presentations

 

Invited Presentations

Aalborg University Guest Lecture Series

 

Invited presentations

  • University of Birmingham. A British Beat Poetry Evening Reading: Featuring Ian McMillan, David Tipton, Dick McBride, Jim Burns and Camelia Elias. Intro. by John Lucas. Reading prose poems from Eight Senses Plus Two (2008) and the forthcoming collection of prose poems about different types of epistemologies In Cite. January 21, 2009

  • Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Letters/English Program: "Exile Writing, Translated Knowledge: Andrei Codrescu’s Road Scholar". December 3, 2007

  • Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Letters/English Program: "Sesame Undone: Negotiations of (Virtual) Space in Raymond Federman’s first person narratives". December 5, 2007

  • The Romanian Embassy in Copenhagen. Colloquium: Romanian Intellectuals in Denmark: "English and American Studies at Roskilde University". November 2, 2007

  • FUHU Conference Center/The American Embassy in Copenhagen: The State of American Studies in Denmark...and Beyond. Panel discussion with paper: "American Studies at Roskilde University". October 31, 2007

  • 8.Marts-gruppen: Feminister i Aalborg: Oplęg med debat: "Hun sagde... Han sagde... Og hun havde ret: Et manifest for feministisk formalisme". Aalborg Studenterhus 8. marts 2007

  • University of Aveiro. (Keynote Speaker): "In and Out of the Fragment". Colloque on Forma Breve. September 29, 2006

  • L'Université de Rouen. (Plenary Speaker): "Prose/Poetry - The Prose Poem: Generic Dualities". International conference organized by U of Rouen and Paris X Nanterre on Dualité(s): Dualities. November 4-5, 2005

  • Helsinki University, Renvall Institute:  "Counter Frames: The Generic Crossroads of the Prose Poem". April 23, 2005

  • Brenau University, Humanities Dept.: History and International Studies, Gainesville: "Integrations". November 17, 2004

  • University of Porto, German Studies and Comparative Literature: "A Mile in Her Shoes: Culture Metamorphoses in Rebecca Miller's 'Personal Velocity'". October 31, 2003

  • University of Lisbon, Center for Comparative Studies: "A Mile in Her Shoes: Culture Metamorphoses in Rebecca Miller's 'Personal Velocity'". November 24, 2003

  • Brenau University, Humanities Dept.: History and International Studies, Gainesville: "Strategic Belonging: Learning another Language". October 3, 2003

  • Brenau University, Humanities Dept. Philosophy and Literature, Gainesville: "Performing Postmodern Epitaphs". October 2, 2003

  • VUC Aalborg (The Aalborg Center for Adult Education): "Come gli venne in mente "l'immaginazione"? I Trecentisti: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca". September 24, 2003

Invited presentations within the Aalborg University Guest Lecture Series

  • Dept. of Language and Culture: Melodrama course. "Whose Story, Whose Melodrama, Whose Mellowing?" September 20, 2007

  • Dept. of Language and Culture: "Passion through Fassion and Shopping for Forgiveness in The Merchant of Venice". March 30, 2007

  • Dept of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics: "Sexing Up Genius: Tableau Instaurations in Lynn Emanuel and Gertrude Stein". October 24, 2005

  • Dept of Languages and Intercultural Studies: "Expropriated Titles in Lynn Emanuel's Poetry of Impropriety". Round table on the topic Untitled. Co-presenters Bent Sørensen and Søren Hattesen Balle. February 7, 2005

  • Dept of Languages and Intercultural Studies: "'Road Scholar' - A View of American Culture from a Writer in Transit".  October 4, 2004

  • Dept of Languages and Intercultural Studies: "Transmitting (to) Derrida. Round table on the topic Five Faces of Derrida. Co-presenters Bent Sørensen, Søren Hattesen Balle, Steen Christiansen. October 18, 2004

  • Dept of Languages and Intercultural Studies: "Shoes, Culture, and Interesting Identity". March 29, 2004

  • Dept of Languages and Intercultural Studies: "The Graveyard of Genre: David Markson's Postmodern Epitaphs". 2003

  • Center for Aesthetics and Logic: "The Ekphrastic Plastic Fragment". March, 2000