2023 Invited Lectures and Presentations

**“This Wretched Enchantment: Gershwin & Heyward, Toomer and Hurston, Racial Modernisms & the Porgy and Bess Archive”**
Keynote lecture delivered at the Modernist Studies Association Annual Convention — October 27, 2023.

**“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.

**“‘One of These Mornings’: Porgy and Bess, Mamba’s Daughters & the Story of America”**
Lecture delivered for the Department of Music at Duke University — September 2023.

**“This Wretched Enchantment: Porgy and Bess, Mamba’s Daughters & the Story of America”**
Delivered as the Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle — May 2023.

**“Fugue Sketches: Kara Walker’s Porgy & Bess”**
Invited lecture scheduled in conjunction with Kara Walker: Back of Hand, The Athenaeum, University of Georgia, Athens — February 2023 (appearance canceled)