Conference Organization
NAVSA 2022: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. Fall 2022. Co-organizer.
Jane Austen at 200: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. September 22, 2017.
Invited Seminars
Foucault at 50: Lehigh University of Humanities Center. Co-curated with Gordon Bearn. Bethlehem, PA. 2016-2017
Invited Talk/Sole Presenter:
“Re-Imagining Masculinity.” TEDx Oronoco Bay Park. Alexandria, VA, October 5, 2019.
“Shelley, Deleuze, and the Promise of Becoming Revolutionary.” University of Pennsylvania Shelley Seminar. Philadelphia, PA, December 23, 2015.
“The Aesthetics of Decay: John Thomson’s Nineteenth-Century Photography of China.” East China University of Science and Technology. Shanghai, China, December 12, 2014.
“The Photography of Henry Fox Talbot and the Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Project.” Humanities and Social Sciences College Scholar Presentation, Greeley, CO, September 17, 2007.
Professional Presentations:
Hauck, O., Murray, E., Mulligan, C., Rousseau, S., Ritzler, S., Le Vu, MJ, Wakeel, Fathima, Kramp, M. “Engineering Documentary Film for High-Level Impact in Sierra Leone: Improving Maternal Health With a Portable Cinema Kit.” Engaged Scholarship Conference. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, October 9-10, 2024.
Le Vu, MJ, Murray, E., Hauck, O., Mulligan, C., Ritzler, S., Rousseau, S., Wakeel, F., Kramp, M. “Health Science, Engineering, and the Arts Address Maternal Health Disparaities: Mothers of Sierra Leone.” IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference,” Villanova University, Villanova, PA. October, 23-26.
Falatko, H., Murray, E., Hauck, O., Wakeel, F., & Kramp, M. “Exploration of the Perceived Role of Fathers in Maternal Healthcare Among Mothers, Fathers, and Healthcare Workers in Sierra Leone.” 152nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. October 27-30, 2024.
Mulligan, C., Le Vu, MJ., Erickson, B., Arnfield, B., Wakeel, F., & Kramp, M. “Evaluating Film’s Efficacy in Improving Individuals’ Attitudes and Knowledge about Maternal Health in Sierra Leone.” 152nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. October 27-30, 2024.
Ritzler, S., Rousseau, S., Arnfield, B., Enodien, C., Erickson, B., Falatko, H., Murray, E., Mulligan, C., Le Vu, MJ, Hauck, O., Wakeel, F., Kramp, M. “Qualitative Exploration of Perceptions of Family Planning among Mothers and Fathers in Makeni, Sierra Leone using a Health Promotion Short Film.” 152nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. October 27-30, 2024.
Arnfield, B, Erickson, B, Enodien, C., Lecovich, L, Falatko, H., Wakeel, F., Kramp, M. “Improving Maternal Health Through Storytelling.” Engaged Scholarship Conference, Lansing, MI, October 2-3, 2023.
Lencovich, L., Wakeel, F., Kramp, M., Valencia, T., Falatko, H., Arnfield, B., Erickson, B., Enodien, C., & Kwon, C. Film presented at APHA Public Health Film Festival Short Films at the 151st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. November 12-15, 2023.
Valencia, T., Enodien, C., Wakeel, F., Kramp, M., “Documenting Stories of Motherhood.” Film presented at the Motherhood Society Conference. Tampa, FL. Friday, April 3, 2022.
Greene, A. and Kramp, M., “Re-Imagining Sustainability: Humanities and Engineering.” Ground Rounds: Institute for Functional Materials and Devices. Lehigh University. Bethlehem, PA. Friday, November 13, 2020.
“The Generative Masculinities of the Alternative Battle Genre.” The North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. Columbus, Ohio. October 17-19, 2019.
“The Authoritative Masculinity of Speculative Reform.” The British Association of Victorian Studies. Dundee, Scotland. August 29, 2019.
“Re-Measuring Masculinity: the New Vision for Hegemony in The Coming Race.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Conference. Rome, Italy. June 15, 2018
“Reimagining the Social: After London and Post-Apocalyptic Liberal Colonialism.” The North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference. Phoenix, Arizona. November 4, 2016.
“Imperial Masculinity in Decay: The Personal Photographic Album of Sir Hercules Robinson.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. Denver, CO. October 23, 2015.
“Making War Evident, Making War Imminent: Photographic Proof for the Second Anglo-Boer War.” The North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference. Pasadena, California. October 24, 2013.
“Ensuring Civility, Maintaining Exoticism, Framing Futurity: The South African Photography of Robert Harris.” NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA: The Global and the Local. Venice, Italy, June 4, 2013.
“Using the iPad in Victorian Studies.” The Midwest Victorian Studies Conference.” Cleveland, OH. April 13, 2013.
“Balancing Fatherhood and the Cartel: Breaking Bad and the New Challenges of Suburban Paternity.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Boston, MA, April 14, 2012.
“Picturing Decay: New Women, Old Men, and Dixon’s Story of a Modern Woman.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Lexington, KY, March 25, 2012.
“Amy Levy and the Atrophy of Late-Victorian Masculinity.” Northeast Modern Language Association. New Brunswick, NJ, April 10, 2011.
“Samuel Bourne and the Decay of the British Imperial Aesthetic.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Claremont, CA, April 2, 2011.
“Ruskin, the Imperial Aesthetic, and John Thomson’s Colonial Photography.” Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination: Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. Honolulu, HI, October 28, 2010.
“Hawarden, Lady Clementina, William Morris, and the Journey into Domestic Aestheticization” Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference. College Station, TX. April 9, 2010.
“Talbot’s Time and Space, or the Shift in Aesthetic Visuality in the Early Photograph.” The International Conference on Romanticism. Oakland, MI. October 17, 2008.
“The Aesthetics of Deleuzian Love in the Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron and O.G. Rejlander.”The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Calgary, AB, October 4, 2007.
“The Diegetic Presence and Temporal Absence of Childbirth in the Rock and Roll Festival Film.”Association for Research on Mothering, Toronto, October, 27, 2006.
“Keats, Foucault, and the Aesthetic of Existence.”The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, West Lafayette, IN. September 1, 2006.
“Knightley and the Promise Keepers; or Modernity and its Discontents.”The International Conference on Romanticism. Colorado Springs, Colorado. October 15, 2005.
“Incorporating the Deviant, or Re-Creating the Gypsy Criminal.” The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Montreal, Quebec. August 14, 2005.
“The Functional Romani in Jane Eyre.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland, Oregon. Nov. 7, 2004.
“Scientific Theories of Race and the Romantic Nation.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boulder, Colorado. Oct. 1, 2004
“Desire in the Land: The Potent Gypsy of Lawrence.” Modern Language Association, San Diego, California. December 29, 2003.
“Theorizing the Romantic Gypsy.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Missoula, Montana. October 9, 2003.
“Improving Masculinity: Austen’s Tradesmen.” Marquette University Women’s Studies Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 27, 2003.
“The Nomadic Potential of the Gypsies.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Scottsdale, Arizona. October 12, 2002.
“The Woman, the Gypsies, and England: Harriet’s Smith’s National Function.” The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, London, Ontario. August 24, 2002.
“Confronting the Myth of Marxism: Lessing, Foucault, and Post-War Praxis.” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. December 28, 2001.
“Foucault’s Sexual Ethics: The Critical Influence of Pater’s Aesthetic Theory and Practice.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vancouver, British Columbia. October 12, 2001.
“The Extant Aura of Austen.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. October 9, 1998.
“Lawrence, l’écriture féminine, and the Deleuzian Stutter.” The Seventh International D. H. Lawrence Conference, Taos, New Mexico. July 16, 1998.
“The Crisis of Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility: Re-Reading the Struggles of Brandon and Willoughby.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. October 16, 1997.
“Re-Evaluating Haywood’s Move to the Stage.” The Northwest British Studies Conference. Portland, Oregon. October 30, 1996