"An American Troubadour: Walking the Roads of France with Ezra Pound." Roma Tre University, May 2024.
"Animalia: Uomini, androidi e animali in Gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche? di Philip K. Dick." University of Verona, March 2024.
“Ezra Pound’s Journey from Travel Writing to Epic Writing.” University of Silesia in Katowice, September 2023.
"Less Is More: alcune riflessioni sulla narrativa breve americana." University of Parma, May 2023.
“Ideas Going into Action”: Ezra Pound and Transmedia
Pamphleteering in Fascist Italy." LMU Munich, February 2022.
“Make It New: Ezra
Pound, Marshall McLuhan, and the Nature of Cultural and Technological
Innovation.” Institute of Economics, Finance, and Management, Jagiellonian University,
June 2020 (invited talk).
“The American Renaissance
and Its Walls: From Poe’s House of Usher to Thoreau’s Wooden Cabin.” University
of Ragusa, September 2019.
“‘Missives/Missiles’ from
St. Elizabeths: The Unpublished Letters of Ezra Pound and Eva Hesse,
1950-1960.” Ezra Pound International Conference, University of Salamanca, June
2019.
“Intellettuali e tardo modernismo: il carteggio di
Ezra Pound con Marshall McLuhan e Eva Hesse, 1948-1960.” Ezra Pound Research Center, Merano, November 2018 (invited talk).
“Explorations in the American Reading Imaginary:
Emerson, Thoreau, and Pound.” University of Milan, September 2017.
“The Futures of Reading: On Close, Distant, and
Ethical Reading in American Studies.” Fulbright Lecture Series, LMU Munich, June 2017.
“From Reading Angels to
Machine Reading: Some Reflections on Chad Wellmon’s ‘Sacred Reading: From
Augustine to the Digital Humanists.'” Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Venice,
May 2017.
“The Pound Galaxy: On
Ezra Pound, Marshall McLuhan, and Digital Fascism.” Schloss Brunnenburg, Tirol,
November 2015.
“‘From Singular to Connected
Paradigms of the Mind and Brain:’ Globally Networked Intelligence and Posthuman
Civil Liberties in Ramez Naam’s Nexus.”
University
of Würzburg, Würzburg, June 2014.
“Towards a Critical Posthuman(ist) American Studies.” Centro Studi Americani, Rome, June
2014.
“A Transatlantic Correspondence: The Unpublished
Letters of Ezra Pound and Eva Hesse, 1950-1960.” Venice International
University, Venice, May 2014.
“A Day with the Tea Party.” University of Trento, Trento,
October 2011.
“Configurations of Spectrality between China and America: The Woman
Warrior and The Hundred Secret
Senses.” University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Rome, December 2010.
“Native American Responses to America.” University of
Lodz, Lodz, October 2010.
“Detesting Obama: Protesters and their Signs.”
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, September 2010.
“Postmodern Ghosts: An American
Hauntology, 1975-2001.” International Forum for U.S. Studies at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 2010.
“Where Have All the Specters Gone?” UCD Clinton
Institute, Dublin, July 2009.
“US in the Eyes of the Other(s): William Apess, Leslie
Marmon Silko, and the Problem of Belonging to America.” John-F.-Kennedy Institute
of the Free University, Berlin,
June 2008.
“‘All That Is Solid Melts into Air’: Between Hardware
and Software. Memory and Signs in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.” LMU Munich, Munich, June 2008.