“Wilde Wagner: The Sexual Politics of Queer Aestheticism,” submitted to British Aestheticisms: Sources, Genres, Definitions, Evolutions, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Victoriennes, Edourdiennes et Contemporaines, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, October 2009.
“The Phaedrus Perverted: Eros in Thomas Mann’s Tod in Venedig,” at 13th Conference of the Fédération Internationale des Associations des Etudes Classiques, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, August 2009.
“The Boundaries of Eros: Plato's Phaedrus and Thomas Mann's Tod in Venedig ,” at 28th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa, July 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.