Invited Public Lectures
- "Narratives of Dissent: Three Scenes from the Life of Charter 77." Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, December 3, 2012.
- “Legends of the Underground: Ivan Jirous, Egon Bondy, and the Beginnings of Czech Dissent.” Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 31, 2011.
- “Three Theories of Central European Dissent,” guest lecture for the course "Central and East Europe: An Interdisciplinary Survey," taught by David Danaher. University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 8, 2010.
- “Legends of the Underground: Ivan Jirous, Egon Bondy, and the Prehistory of Czech Dissent.” Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 8, 2010.
- “When Does Private Become Public? Charter 77 and the Literature of Alternative Communities in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s.” Slavisches Institut, University of Heidelberg, Germany, July 6, 2009.
- “The Senses of Displacement: Two Poems by Ivan Wernisch.” Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 7, 2008.
- "The Forms of Demobilization: Legacies of 1968 in Czech Culture." Humanities Center New Faculty Lunch, Harvard University, February 7, 2008.
- "Czech Dream: Precedents and Antecedents in Czech Culture." Introduction to screening of the film Český sen, followed by discussion, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, October 26, 2007.
- “Small Nations and Grand Narratives: History as Antagonist in the Central European Novel.” Center for European Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, September 13, 2007.
- “The Case of the Missing Poet: Anti-Semitism and the Beginnings of Czech-Jewish Literature.” Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, October 24, 2005.
- “What Lies in Wait Behind the Wall: Metamorphoses of Domestic Space in Recent Czech Literature.” Brown University, October 28, 2004.
