“Mourning and Melancholia: The Dead Mother in Dickens,” a paper presented at the Dickens Society Annual Symposium, “Interdsciplinary Dickens,” Boston University, July 2017.
“The Self-Made Child: Dickens, Hard Times, and the Delusion of Inferior Origins,” a presented at the NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) and NYU conference, Florence, May 2017.
“Concluding Reflections,” Concluding Roundtable Panel Speaker at the conference “What Else Is New? Rethinking the ‘New’ and Its Values in Literature and Literary Scholarship” – the Inaugural Conference on the Study of English Literature in Israel. The University of Haifa, February 2017.
“Bildung, the Eternal Child, and Wordsworth’s Dialectics of Socialization,” a talk delivered at Zoe Beenstock’s book launch “The Politics of Romanticism: The Social Contract and Literature,” University of Haifa, December 2016.
“Utilizing the Dead: Hardy and His Corpses,” a paper presented at the BAVS (British
“Utilizing the Dead: Hardy and His Corpses,” a paper presented at the BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) Conference, “Consuming (the) Victorians,” Cardiff University, August-September 2016
“Talking Birds and Talking to Birds: Translating the Child in Barnaby Rudge,” a paper presented at the Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Adapting Dickens,” Iceland University, July 2016
“He didn’t want to be a man”: The Bildungsroman and the Refusal to Grow Up,” a paper presented at the Literature Department’s Annual Symposium in Memory of Prof. Yosef Haefrati, Tel Aviv University, May 2016
“The Self-Made Child: Dickens and the Delusion of Inferior Origins,” a paper presented at the BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) Conference, “Victorian Age(s),” Leeds Trinity University, August 2015
“Gravy, Turtle Soup, and the Maternal Egg,” a paper presented at the Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Liquid Dickens,” St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2015
“Who Stole the Child: Missing Babies and Blank Identities in Early Dickens,” a paper presented at the English Department staff seminar, the Hebrew University, May 2015
“Dickens and the Power of the Maternal Gaze,” a paper presented at the conference “Children’s Literature and Children in Literature,” University of Haifa, December 2014
“The City, Textual Landscapes, and the Dickensian Child,” a paper presented at the BAVS Conference, “Victorian Sustainability,” University of Kent, Canterbury, September 2014
“Dickens’s Child and the Textual Landscape of the City,” a paper presented at the Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Dickensian Landscapes,” Domaine de Sagnes, Béziers, July 2014
“Childhood as Self-Destruction: Wordsworth’s Dialectics of Growing Up,” a paper presented at the conference “Romanticism and Self-Destruction,” University of Bristol, May 2014
“Being Someone Else: Split Subjectivity and Lost Innocence in Dickens’s London,” a paper presented at the conference “The Child and the Big City,” Tel Aviv University, March 2014
“Trapped in Childhood: Versions of Anti-Bildung – Goethe and Wordsworth,” a paper presented at the MLA Annual Convention, Boston, January 2013
“’Inscribed in Bare Conventionality’: Hardy’s Codes of Bereavement,” a paper presented at the International Thomas Hardy Conference, Dorchester, Aug. 2012
“Written Selves and Phantom Lovers in Hardy’s Novels,” a paper presented at the conference “The Novel and Theories of Love,” Hebrew University, June 2012
“’Inscribed in Bare Conventionality’: Hardy’s Words of Bereavement,” a paper presented at the conference “The Poetry of Thomas Hardy,” University of Artois, Arras, June 2012
“Who Stole the Child: Missing Babies and Blank Identities in Early Dickens,” a paper presented at “Dickens and the Idea of ‘The Dickensian’: A Tale of Four Cities,” a bicentenary traveling conference co-organized by the University of Paris-Diderot, Leicester University, Canterbury Christ Church University, University of Kent, Universite Charles De-Gaulle Lille 3, and The Dickens Museum; Paris, Boulogne, Chatham, and London, February 2012
“Avoiding the Future, Resisting the Past: Hardy’s Post-Romantic Sense of Time,” a paper presented at the “Victorian Futures” conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2011
“Thrust Beneath the Carpet: Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” a paper presented at the “Hardy at Yale” conference, Yale University, New Haven, June 2011
“Hardy’s Dubious Traces of Home,” a paper presented at the annual MVSA (Midwest Victorian Studies Association) conference “Victorian Environments: Spaces, Places, Traces,” Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, April 2011
June 2010 “The Self-Resisting: Hardy’s Conflicts of the Self,” a paper presented at the conference “British Poetry 1875-2010 and Resistance,” University of Artois, Arras France
April 2010 “The Child of Modernism: Redefining Romantic Subjectivity,” a paper presented at the NeMLA annual conference, Montreal, Canada
December 2009 “What Is It That We Remember from Wuthering Heights?,” a paper presented as part of the Lecture Series “Revisiting the Classics of English Literature,” sponsored by the Department of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University
August 2009 “The Other Side of the Dickensian Child: The Split Child Figures of the Late Forties,” a paper presented at the “Dickens Universe 2009,” University of California, Santa Cruz
June 2009 “Never Hearing the Last of It: The Pleasure of Avoidance,” a paper presented at the conference “Dickens, Victorian Culture, Uneasy Pleasures,” the Hebrew University
April 2009 “The Americanization of Sholom Aleichem,” a paper presented to the Jewish Studies Program and Literature Department, UC Santa Cruz
July 2008 “‘Once You Create a Human-Being’: The Nature of ‘Character’ in David Grossman’s Work,” a paper presented at the conference “See Under: Grossman,” Tel Aviv University
June 2008 “’Feeble Pictures of an Existing Reality’: Dickens’s Wit and the Vices of the British Social System,” a paper presented at the conference “Factual Fictions,” Hebrew University
March 2008 “Thrust beneath the Carpet: Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” a paper presented at the conference “The Meaning of Meaning in Literature and Language,” Haifa University
May 2008 “Dickens and the Split Image of the Neglected Child,” a paper presented to the Department of English at the Hebrew University
November 2007 “Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” a paper presented to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University
February 2003 “Poverty as a Gendered Experience in George Eliot and Charles Dickens,” a paper presented at the conference “Women and Poverty,” Tel Aviv University
November 2003 “Challenging the Biological: The Fantasy of Male Birth as a Nineteenth-Century Narrative of Ethical Failure,” a paper presented at the conference “Birth as Experience and Metaphor,” the Hebrew University of Jerusalem