CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Grimod de La Reynière: The Progenitor of Gourmand Dandyism in 19th-Century France,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 9-11, 2017
“Lady Gastronomy and Her Doxology of Terroir,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Providence, Rhode Island, October 27-29, 2016
“La Cuisine Nationale: Louis Forest's Forays into Regional Foodways,” 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, New York, March 6-8, 2014
“The Gourmand and the Aesthete: Constructing the 19th-Century Meal as a Total Work of Art,” Cuisine and its Artification by Arts (16th-21st centuries), Montreal, November 13-14, 2013
“Gastronomic Decadence: Aestheticizing Foods through Feminine Mystique,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Richmond, Virginia, October 24-26, 2013
“Gourmand Romance: Feminizing Topography and Mothering Terroir,” Journée d’études Doctorants en Littérature de NYU, Paris, France, March 8, 2013
“Grimod de La Reynière and the Myth of the Food Critic in 19th-century France” and “From a Survival Technique to a System of Luxury: Defining Gastronomy in Utopias from Mercier to Fourier,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 11-14, 2012
“Food Looks Like a Lady: Feminizing and Refining Foods in Grimod de La Reynière’s Almanach des gourmands,” Food Networks: Gender and Foodways, University of Notre Dame, January 26-28, 2012
“Grimod de La Reynière’s Almanach des gourmands and the Birth of French Gastronomic Literature,” The missing link / Le chaînon manquant, Brown University, April 15-16, 2011
INVITED LECTURE
“Gourmand Trickery and Grimod de La Reynière’s Famous Supper of 1783,” Bucknell University, February 27, 2014