“Sex and the City: Petronius’ Satyricon and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar,” at The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities, Durham University, United Kingdom, April 2012.
“Wilde Wagner,” at North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2011.
“From Ovid to Elvis: Mythology in Sport and Spectacle,” at 29th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, June 2011.
“Storied Eros: Storytelling in Gay Literature and Culture,” at 36th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 2011.
“Media and the (Un)Speakable: An Intercultural Comparison of Victorian Literature and Adult Film,” at ECREA 2010, Third European Communication Conference, University of Hamburg, Germany, October 2010.
“Masking Mimesis: (Un)Speakable Representation in Queer Literature and Adult Film,” at Mimesis, Ethics and Style: International Conference on Literary Representation, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 2010.
“Bulls and Balls: The Maricón in Death in the Afternoon and Patricia Nell Warren’s The Wild Man,” at 14th Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Society Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June – July 2010.
“American Studs: Cowboys in Love in Brokeback Mountain,” at British Association for American Studies Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, April 2010.
“Gay America and Gay Amsterdam,” at Imagining Amsterdam: Visions and Revisions, Department of English and the Institute of Culture and History, University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College, Netherlands, November 2009.
“Wilde Wagner: The Sexual Politics of Queer Aestheticism,” at British Aestheticisms: Sources, Genres, Definitions, Evolutions, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Victoriennes, Edouardiennes et Contemporaines, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, October 2009.
“Platonic Seduction: The Phaedrus and Tod in Venedig,” at 13th Conference of the Fédération Internationale des Associations des Etudes Classiques, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, August 2009.
“Athens and Apartheid: Mary Renault’s Democratic Boundaries,” at 28th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
“From Ovid to Elvis: Mythology and Popular Culture,” at National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Conference, New Orleans, April 2009.
“Socrates and the Samurai: Ancient Greek Emotions and Modern Japanese Love,” at Eros in Ancient Greece, University College London and the Institute of Classical Studies, London, March 2009.
“Petronius in West Egg: The Satyricon and The Great Gatsby,” at International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2008.
“Horses and Heroes: Plato's Phaedrus and Mary Renault's The Charioteer,” at 27th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa, July 2007.
“The Victorian Beginnings of Same-Sex Love: The Cambridge Apostles and Erotic Politics,” at Victorian Beginnings: The Annual Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, February 2007.
“The Queer Migrations of the Wild West: Cowboys in Love in Brokeback Mountain,” at Queering Migrations on Screen: A One-Day Conference, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2006.
“Teaching the End of World Literature: Ernest Hemingway's 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place',” at 12th Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Society Conference, Malaga and Ronda, Spain, June 2006.
“Plato, Platotude, and Blatancy in E. M. Forster's Maurice,” at 26th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, July 2005.
“The Sublime and the Bovine: Petronius' Satyricon and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary,” at 26th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, January - February 2005.
“Locating Wilde in 2004 and in the 4th Century BC: Platonic Love in The Picture of Dorian Gray,” at “Prism! Where is that Baby?” Locating Wilde in 2004: A Conference in Honour of the 150th Anniversary of his Birth, University of New South Wales, Australia, September 2004.
“Places and Cities, Cafés and Bars: Ernest Hemingway's ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar,” at 11th Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Society Conference, Key West, June 2004.
Chair of the panel “Re-Writing the Ancients,” at Revising Antiquity: Re-Imagining the Ancient World in 19th-Century Britain, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, January 2004.
“Roman Fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar,” at 25th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2003.