Recent & Future Talks:

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• “Melville and the Model of Early Organic Chemistry,” Arizona Quarterly Symposium, Tucson, March 2021. 

• “Storm Warnings, Weather Maps, and the Rise of the Telegraph,” Roundtable on Infrastructure. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Zoom, October 2020.

• “The Hidden Town Project, A Partnership with Old Salem,” DH@Wake, Zoom, July 2020.

• “Reading Weather in the Nineteenth Century" CEES Colloquium, Winston-Salem, Postponed.

News & Media:

The Hidden Town Project​

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• Office of Civic and Community Engagement: Community Partner Spotlight 

• English 175 students create a virtual exhibit for Old Salem’s Hidden Town Project

Interview: C19 Podcast

Wives and Their Authors:

Elizabeth & Herman Melville, Literary Labor, & Women's Work

David Foster Wallace was wearing his trademark bandanna and a white shirt with a Nehru collar when Christopher Bench '05 and Meredith Farmer '05 met him. Spread in front of him were the pages of the Commencement address he was about to give, occupying most of the table in the Sunset Cottage seminar room. They were covered in ink; he was still revising-cutting, mostly. Also scattered around the room were cups of spit, from the tobacco he'd been chewing. When Farmer told him she'd been the one who nominated him to speak at their graduation, he said, "F*** you, I'm not old enough for this. I'm not my father!" and laughed.

  Also discussed in "David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Speech Almost Didn’t Happen" (Huffington Post, May 2016).