“Naming Names in Pride and Prejudice,” Plenary speaker at AGM of Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), Minneapolis – scheduled for Sept 2013 See: http://jasna.org/agms/minneapolis/plenary.html
“Has Jane Austen Jumped the Shark?” (roundtable), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Cleveland -- April 2013
“What Jane Saw,” University of Michigan (18thC Group), Ann Arbor -- March 2013
“What Jane Austen Saw at the Reynolds Retrospective in London,” Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA), Sydney -- 18 Feb 2012
“Jane Austen between the Covers,” The Centre for the Book, Univ of Otago, Dunedin --30 Jan 2012
“Dashwood Celebrity,” JASA, Sydney -- 2 July 2011
“What Jane Saw: Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1813,” David Nicol Smith Conference, Melbourne, Australia -- July 2011
“The Abnormally Interesting Wentworths,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Vancouver -- March 2011
“The Real Bluebeard of Bath: a historical model for Northanger Abbey,” Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), Portland, OR -- October 2010
“A Big Name: Austen and the Wentworths,” Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire – 7 August 2010
“’Real Solemn History’ in Austen’s Northanger Abbey, A. K. Smith Visiting Scholar Lecture, Trinity College, CT -- 25 Feb 2010