2022 Invited Lectures and Presentations

“Big Wave in the Room’: Beyoncé’s Dancefloor Masterpiece”
Public lecture delivered as part of the 92nd Street Y Online Lecture Series — December 2022.

**“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”**
Lecture delivered at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley — October 18, 2023.

“‘Big Wave in the Room’: A Renaissance in 16 Acts”
Critical Karaoke roundtable joint presentation with Kevin Quashie, Ann Powers, Jason King, Jafari Allen, Doreen St. Félix, Daphne LaMothe, Sidney Madden, and Tavia Nyong’o at the Twenty-First Annual Pop Conference, Brooklyn, NY — April 2023.

“Sounding America: Beyoncé’s Twenty-First Century Renaissance”
Invited lecture for Professor Tom McAneny’s “Sounding America” undergraduate sound studies course, University of California, Berkeley — October 2022.

“Liner Notes for the Revolution—A Critical Conversation with Ann Powers” Featured conversation at the Boston Book Festival, Boston, MA — October 2022.

“‘One of These Mornings’: Porgy and Bess & the Story of America” New York Public Library Cullman Center Lecture, New York City, NY — April 2023.