2025
- May 15: Discussant, Aakriti Mandhwani, Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post Independence India, Dartmouth College
- May 23: “Decolonial Approaches to Book History and the Digital Humanities,” U of Washington, Seattle
2022
- February 7: Conversation with Amartya Sen on Home in the World: A Memoir, Free Library of Philadelphia [YouTube; podcast]
2021
- April 13: “Dystopia, Past, Perfect,” Jackman Humanities Institute, U Toronto
2020
- December 7: “A Book History of the Novel,” Penn History of Material. Texts” [YouTube recording]
- November 20: “Decolonizing Archives,” Northwestern U
- June 15, 2020: “Decolonizing Book History,” SHARP-Amsterdam [YouTube recording]
- January 30: “A Book History of the Novel,” Yale U, English and South Asia Council
- January 12: “The Prize Era,” MLA Conference, Seattle
2019
- October 30: “The Novel in Web 2.0,” Ink and Electricity Lecture, Monmouth University
- October 17: “Participatory Culture, Gaming, and —Books?” Charles Library, Temple U [recording]
- March 9: “A Literary Theory for the Contemporary Global Novel,” ACLA Conference, Washington, DC
2018
- October 18: “The Invention of Archives: Books, Histories, Readers,” Novel Worlds Conference, McGill University
- May 31: “Contemporary,” Society for Novel Studies, Cornell
- March 28: “The Novel at Commodity: Rewiring Book History,” The Open University and the Institute for English Studies, U of London
- March 7: “Stranger than Fiction,” Morris Croll Memorial Lecture, Gettysburg C
- January 4: “The Invention of Archives,” MLA Conference, New York
2017
- January 7: “Making it New: Criticism and Method in a Global Textual Ecosystem,” MLA Conference, Philadelphia
2016
- November 16: “Retrofitting the Theory of the Novel,” Book History Colloquium, Rare Book Library, Columbia University
- November 10: “Retrofitting the Theory of the Novel,” U Pitt Humanities Center
- July 18-22: “Retrofitting Theory: The Novel in its Ecosystem,” SHARP Conference, Paris
- April 4: “Texts and Narratives Across the Disciplines,” Temple Global Studies
- February 1: Columbia University, “Bollywood ca. 1970: A Political Future for India“
2015
- November 21: Audio interview on Bollywood’s India with Fred Rowland, Paley Library
- April 21: Profile in The Temple News
- March 29: Review of Bollywood’s India in Philadelphia Inquirer
- March 27: Profile in Temple Today
- March 26: Bollywood’s India launch at Labyrinth Books, Princeton
- February 26: “Retrofitting the Theory of the Novel,” Univ. Washington, Seattle
- February 27: “The Social Work of Bollywood,” Univ. Washington, Seattle
- February 11: “Totality,” Rutgers U, New Brunswick