Upcoming: “The Godforsaken Slave in Global Abolition,” at the Early American Studies (MCEAS) conference on Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Age of Global Abolition, February 25-26, 2021
“A God of Justice?: David Walker’s Appeal, Religious Doubt, and the Abolitionist Politics of Black Theodicy,” at the C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Miami, Florida, April 2-5, 2020.
“Reading Orificially: The Antislavery Politics of Diasporic Consumption and Transatlantic Secularism in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative,” at the Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, November 10-13, 2018.
“Secular Slaves?: The Problem of Evil and Haunting (Un-)Belief in Hannah Craft’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative,” at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, California, May 24-27, 2018.
“Hawthorne and Thoreau ‘Playing Indian’: Authoring Antebellum Manhood and Indigenous Materiality,” at the Midwestern Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 9-12, 2017.
“Antiracism & the Public Rise of White Supremacy in American Culture: Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage, My Freedom, an Antidote,” at the 1984 in 1917: A Symposium, Iowa City, Iowa, April 14, 2017.
“Leve on Him that stronger is / For doute of more wreche” God’s Omnipotence, Theological Speech Acts, and Religious Doubt in The King of Tars,” at Northern Illinois University’s Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media, Dekalb, Illinois, April 13, 2017.
“A Secular Covenant, An American Exodus: Mosaic Covenantal Thought & the Jewish Working-Class in Abraham Cahan’s ‘A Ghetto Wedding,’” at the University of Chicago – Illinois’s Rethinking Poverty, Chicago, Illinois, February 24-25, 2017.
“(Re-)telling Incidents in Philadelphia: The Myth of Northern Freedom & Trans-national Blackness in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” at the University of Iowa’s Craft, Critique, Culture, Iowa City, Iowa, April 3-6, 2016.
“Secular Humanistic Form in Mrs. Dalloway,” at the Sigma Tau Delta International, Savannah, Georgia, February 26 – March 1, 2014.
“Finding a ‘New Consensus’: Early Christian Responses to Roman Military Service through a Peace Studies Lens,” at the Phi Alpha Theta National Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2-5, 2014.
“‘The spirit which dictates them’: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendental Decision to Decline the Social Reform of Brook Farm,” at The University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire’s CERCA Conference, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, April 29 – May 1, 2014.
“Envisioning Secular Female Painters in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” at Viterbo University’s Seven Rivers Research Symposium, Lacrosse, Wisconsin, November 6, 2013
Dr. Ryan David Furlong 