"Unpacking his Library: Robert de Montesquiou and Bibliomania in fin-de-siècle France."  Nineteenth-century French Studies Conference, University of Illinois, October 2000.

"Open Letters? Approaches to Gyp's Correspondence."   "Women Seeking Expression: France, 1789-1914."  Indiana University, September 1999.  Invited paper.

"The Dreyfus Affair and its Significance."  Gettysburg College, April 1998.  Invited talk.

"The New Amazons: Anti-Dreyfusard Women and the Affair" "The Dreyfus Affair: Memory and History in France and the USA." Columbia University, February 1998.

"Gyp and Flammarion: A Marriage of Love or Convenience?" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, University of Georgia, October 1997.

"Paradoxes of French Feminism at Nineteenth Century's End" "Fin de Siècle, Millenium." Wellesley College, April 1997.

"Two Generations of Bas-Bleus: The comtesse de Mirabeau and her daughter, Gyp" Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C. December 1996.

Commentator. Panel on "New Approaches to Intellectuals and the Dreyfus Affair" French Historical Studies Conference, Boston, MA, March 1996.

"Publishers and Publishing during the Dreyfus Affair: Engagement or Dégagement?" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, University of Delaware, Oct. 1995.

"L'opininion publique juive aux Etats-Unis face à l'Affaire Dreyfus" "L'Affaire Dreyfus et l'opinion publique en France et à l'étranger." Musée de Bretagne, Rennes, France. September 1994.

"Gyp, 'centre féminin du nationalisme'" Modern Language Association Convention. Dec. 1992.

"'Embêtements sémitiques': Author-Publisher Relations during the Dreyfus Affair: The Case of Gyp and Calmann-Lévy" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, SUNY Binghamton. Oct. 1992.

"Life and Death of a 'Non-Conformist:' Thierry de Martel, 1875-1940" Western Society for French History Conference, University of Nevada. Nov. 1991.

"Biography and French Studies" Twentieth-Century French Studies Conference, University of Texas. March 1991.

"From Cultural Eclecticism to Cultural Chauvinism: Maurice Barrès and Germany 1870-1914" Western Society for French History Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara. Nov. 1990.

"Mythic Representations of Napoleon in the Life and Works of Gyp" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, University of Oklahoma. Oct. 1990.

"Marianne Revisited: Antirepublican Political Caricature 1880-1900" Bicentennial Conference: The French Revolution of 1789 and its Impact. Oct. 1989.

"Anti-Semitism and Occultism in fin-de-siècle France: Three 'Initiates'" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, University of New Hampshire. Oct. 1989.

"Gyp and the roman dialogué: Genesis of a Genre" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, University of Michigan. Oct. 1988.

"Gyp: Emancipated Reactionary under the Third Republic" Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference, Marist College. Nov. 1987.

"Symbolic Marionettes: Gyp's Autour du divorce" New York University Colloquium, "1886-1887: Two Years in the Cultural Life of France and Italy." May 1987.