Presentations
Conference contributions
2009 "'Here We Are Let Loose in Open Fields': Happy Endings and Hopeful Prospects in Postmodernist Fiction". Conference on "Happy Endings", University of Caen, France, 23-24 January.
2008 "Eurovision Song Context: A Musical Supplement". Sound installation and poster presentation. Conference on "Writing In a Post-Derridean Era", Växjö University, Sweden, 23-25 October.
2008 "‘Who Laughed at Nagasaki?’: The Poetics and Ethics of Trauma in J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition". Seminar on "Ethics and Trauma in British Fiction Since the 1960s", ESSE-9, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 22-26 August.
2008 "‘Don’t Join the Dots…’: Reading the Interplay of Autonomy and Commitment in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow". Conference on "Autonomy and Commitment in Contemporary British Literature", Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France, 28-29 March.
2008 "Reading (Absent) Affect: Postmodernist Fiction and the Double Punctum". Research seminar presentation, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France, 18 March.
2006 "On the Limits of the Ethical: The Emotional Attitude in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and Hawksmoor". Seminar on "The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction Since the 1960s". ESSE-8, University of London, UK, 29 August-2 September.
2004 "Eliot in Reverse: Postmodern Sentimentality in Graham Swift’s Ever After". Conference on "Impersonality and Emotion in Contemporary British Literature", Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France, 6-7 February.
2000 "Toward an Aesthetics of Vulnerability: Graham Swift’s Last Orders". Workshop presentation, 1st Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Literary Theory, "Postcolonialism: New Literatures in English", Blekinge Institute of Technology, 4-16 June.
Guest lectures
2002 "The Waxing and Waning of Affect in American Postmodernist Fiction: Acker, DeLillo". Lecture, postgraduate level, Gothenburg University, May 22.
2001 "Postcolonialism, Globalism and Postmodernism: Mavis Gallant’s ‘The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street’". Lecture, C-level, Södertörn College, November 23.