Speaking

Experienced Speaker

I am a former literature professor with thirty years of experience speaking to groups large and small.

In 2021-2022, I moderated a series of workshops and discussions online for the Biographers International Organization. Some of these are available online:

Past Talks and Visits

“The Legacy of Little Women,” Dallas Museum of Art (Feb. 3, 2020)
“Adapting Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women from 1912 to 2019″ at the Concord Free Public Library, concord, MA (January 18, 2020)–video at right
“The Lasting Appeal of Little Women“–WBUR City Space, Boston (January 18, 2020)–video
“Little Women for a New Generation” at the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts (January 16, 2020)
WNYC’s Get Lit with All of It at The Greene Space, NYC (December 17, 2019)–video
Massachusetts Library Association Conference, Framingham, MA (May 22, 2019)
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, New Orleans, LA (Mar. 27-29, 2019)
Tuscon Book Festival, Tuscon, AZ (Mar. 2-3, 2019)
Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA (Nov. 10, 2018)
Indiana Valley Public Library, Telford, PA (Oct. 25, 2018)

Pottstown Public Library, Pottstown, PA (Oct. 24, 2018)
Upper Dublin Library, Fort Washington, PA (Oct. 24, 2018)
Jefferson Parish Public Library, Metairie, LA (Oct. 23, 2018)
Mid-City Library, New Orleans, LA (Oct. 16 and Nov. 6, 2018)
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (Oct. 5, 2018)–audio
New Orleans Museum of Art–New Orleans, LA (Sep. 14, 2018)
Boston Public Library (Sep. 12, 2018)
Boston Athenaeum (Sep. 12, 2018)–Video
The Concord Bookshop–Concord, MA (Sept. 11, 2018)
Harvard Bookstore–Cambridge, MA (Sept. 10, 2018)
Latter Library, New Orleans (Aug. 24, 2018)
Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, M (August 15, 2018)
The Mount (Edith Wharton’s Home), Lennox, MA (July 23 & 24, 2018)
Summer Conversation Series, Orchard House, Concord, MA (July 16, 2018)

American Library Association, New Orleans (June 2018)
Texas Society for the Study of American Writers Study Group, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (Feb. 2018)
Newcomb Summer Session, Women and Leadership, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (June 2017)
Society for the History of Women in the Americas Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK (Nov. 2016)
Rifkind Center, The City College of New York (Mar. 2016)
Burr Artz Library, Frederick, MD (Mar. 2016)
Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, Metairie, LA (Mar. 2016)
Center for Fiction, NYC (Mar. 2016)–video at right

Numerous conference presentations and panel discussions at the Biographers International Organization, Modern Language Association, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, and American Literature Association.

Recorded Interviews

Front Porch Book Club podcast, June 18, 2024.
Amazing Women in History podcast, Apr. 23, 2024.
Lost Ladies of Lit podcast, Apr. 9, 2024.
Stil, Swedish National Radio, Jan. 17, 2020. (Starting at 44:00).
1A Movie Club’s discussion of the new Little Women film, Jan. 11, 2019.
BYU Radio, “Why Modern Audiences Love “Little Women,” Jan. 9, 2020.
Biographers International Organization Podcast, Sep. 20, 2019.
BYU Radio, “More Boys Should Read Little Women,”Aug. 16, 2019.
Jo Good Show, BBC London, Nov. 9, 2018.
Bonnets at Dawn Podcast, “150 Years of Little Women,” Oct. 31, 2018.
Breaking Free Show, Oct. 22, 2018–video at right.
Newstalk Radio (Ireland), Sean Moncrieff Show, Sep. 24, 2018.
“Front Row,” BBC Radio 4, Sep. 24, 2018.
“Radio Boston,” with Jill Fullerton, WBUR Boston, NPR affilitae, Sep. 11, 2018.
“Late Night Live,” with Phillip Adams, ABC Radio Australia, Sep. 6, 2018.
“The Reading Life” with Susan Larson on WWNO, New Orleans’s public radio, Aug. 19, 2018.
“A Bookish Home” podcast with Laura Szaro Kopinski, Aug. 17, 2018.
“What’s Her Name” podcast about Constance Fenimore Woolson with Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson, Aug. 13, 2018.
With Susan Larson, “The Reading Life,” on WWNO, New Orleans Public Radio, Mar. 1, 2016.