lectures
Turn, Verse, Trope | Harvard University | November 2022
Turn, Verse, Trope | Oxford University | June 2022
John Jacob Spector Lecture | McGill University | March 23, 2020
J. D. M. Brown Lecture | Muhlenberg College | March 11, 2020
The Virtual Sentence | Cabinet magazine, Berlin | January 17, 2020
English Exercises | Kanner Forum, UCLA | May 2018
Feedback | Humboldt University, Berlin | July 2017
Style and Survival | Reading against Time, Columbia University | April 2016
Cutting a Figure | The English Institute, Yale University | September 2015
Besides Good and Evil | Fifth International Spenser Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland | June 2015
Besides Good and Evil | Yale University | April 2015
Style and Freedom | Cambridge University | October 2013
Style and Freedom | Oxford University | October 2013
Style and Freedom | Stanford University | October 2013
O’Hara’s Wyatt | University of California at Berkeley | October 2013
O’Hara’s Wyatt | NYU Humanities Initiative | May 2013
How to Do Things with Style | Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis | October 2012
Spenser’s Otherplot | CUNY Grad Center | November 2011
Critique and Its Discontents | Columbia University Society of Fellows | November 2011
O’Hara’s Wyatt | Huntington Library | October 2011
Ordinariness | Curiosity and Method, Princeton University | April 2011
The Sleep of Reason | with Graham Burnett | San Francisco Exploratorium | March 2011
How Milton Sounds | Pomona College | December 2010
How to Do Things with Style | Northwestern University | November 2010)
Feeling Skill | King’s College, London | October 2010
Spenser’s Otherplot | London Shakespeare Society | October 2010
Styles of Disjunction | Southern Methodist University | November 2009
The Tudor Sense of Style | University of Texas as Austin | November 2009
The Tudor Sense of Style | University of Virginia | October 2008
Tales out of School | Western Kentucky University, Brooks-Warren Award Address | September 2008
The Exercise of Style | Yale University | November 2007
Reading Wyatt for the Style | Rutgers University | April 2007
The Mirror of Style | Columbia University Early Modern Studies Seminar | April 2006
The Sense of a Lesson | Florida State University | December 2005
The School of Night | East Coast Milton Seminar | April 2005
The School of Romance | Williams College | November 2003
An Anatomy of Experience | University of Pennsylvania Renaissance Colloquium | March 2003
interviews and podcasts
Cabinet | Common Ground | Brooklyn Rail | 2023
They Flee From Me | Close Readings, with Kamran Javadizadeh | 2023
What Is Poetry? | What Is X, with Justin E. H. Smith | 2021
Interview by Andrew Hungate | Literary Matters | 2019
Interview by Louis Bury | Bomb | 2018
Interview by Brainard Carey | Yale Radio | 2018
Interview by Sarah Howe | Prac Crit | 2013
panels and conversations
Gentle Letdowns | James Schuyler: A Morning for the Poet | NYU | November 2023
An Anatomy of Epitome | Creating Renaissance Criticism | Oxford University | June 2023
A New English Vernacular | Vernacular Poetics | Rutgers University | March 2023
Theloniously | Description and the Art of Response | Oxford University | June 2022
On Essays: Montaigne to the Present | with Brian Dillon, Merve Emre, and Hermione Lee | Oxford University (via zoom) | October 2021
Style: The Current Situation | with Paul Fleming, Eva Geulen, and Daniel Tiffany | Cabinet Berlin | July 2018
24/6 | with David Scher, Sina Najafi, and friends | Center for Experimental Humanities NYU | November 2017
The Poetics of Caption | with Wayne Koestenbaum, Robert Slifkin, and Susan Taylor | Whitney Museum | May 2016
Aesthetics Roundtable | Renaissance Society of America, Berlin | April 2015
Shakespeare’s Style | Shakespeare’s Language, The Folger Institute | April 2015
The Ontology of the Rape Joke | with Vanessa Place, Gayle Salamon, and Jamieson Webster | Cabinet | January 2015
Style and Freedom | Renaissance Society of America, New York | March 2014
The Falls | with Emily Apter, Alexander Nagel, and Jamieson Webster | Cabinet | October 2014
Auerbach’s Sense of Style | Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis | April 2014
Spenser Round Table | Modern Language Association | January 2014
The School of Death | with Simon Critchley | Family Business | May 2013
The Poetics of Sleep | a bunk bed conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum | Cabinet | March 25 2010
The Art of Teaching | with Simon Critchley and Kelly Baum | Cabinet | January 2010
Drayton’s Long Lines | Modern Language Association | December 2009
Tactical Stylelessness | Style in Theory, University of Malta | November 2009
Spenser’s Otherplot | Spenser’s Civilizations, University of Toronto | May 2006
Communities of Style | How to Read. What to Do, University of Chicago | March 2006
Sidney’s New Encyclopedia | Renaissance Society of America, New York | March 2004
Making an Example | Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo | May 2003
Spenser’s Thinking Machines | Modern Language Association, New York | December 2002
Allegory and Punishment | The Place of Spenser, Cambridge University | July 2001
Ashbery’s Economy | American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA | May 2001
The Irrelevance of The Faerie Queene | Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo | May 2000
The Arcadian Sentence | Modern Language Association, Chicago | December 1999
The Law of the Arcadia | Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis | October 1999
The School of Romance | Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles | March 1999
Arthur in Love | Modern Language Association, Toronto | December 1997
Spenser and the Troubled Theaters | The Faerie Queene in the World, Yale University | September 1996
conferences organized
Trust | with Rachel Bowlby, Joshua Clover, David Levine, Philip Pettit, Andrew Ross, Winnie Wong | IHUM at Princeton | November 2014
The Aesthetics of Information | with Alex Galloway, Mark Hansen, Robert Hopkins, William Rankin, Marion Thain, Victoria Vesna | IHUM at Princeton | April 2014
The Secret Life of Plants | co-organized with Brooke Holmes | with Jane Bennett, Laura Marks, Maureen McLane, Natania Meeker, Tim Morton, Nils Norman, Antonia Szabari | IHUM at Princeton | May 2013
Summertime | with Daphne Brooks, Steve Mackey, Tracy K. Smith, Michael Wood | IHUM at Princeton | February 2013
Manifesto Slam | with Simon Critchley, Martin Puchner, et al. | IHUM at Princeton | April 2012
The 24-Hour Book | with Brian Dillon et al. | IHUM at Princeton | December 2011