I regularly present my work at conferences and research seminars. I have also given talks at schools, libraries, and public events. I particularly welcome invitations to present work from my new research project on the Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Tour.

Recent and forthcoming talks include:

“Sterling A. Brown, Storytelling, and the Southern Tour,” University of St Andrews (September 2026)

“Touring Jim Crow America: Black Writers’ Experiences of the South,” The Historical Association (June 2026)

“Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas: Amanda Golden in Conversation with Sian Round,” Dylan Thomas Centre (June 2026)

“A Guide to the Southern States: The FWP’s American Guide Series and Sterling Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South,” British Association for American Studies Annual Conference (April 2026)

“Documenting the Southern Tour: James Baldwin’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Sterling A. Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South,” British Association for American Studies Annual Conference (April 2026)

“Sterling Brown, Storytelling, and the Southern Tour,” New Welsh Voices in English Literature, Swansea University (March 2026)

Roundtable: “The New Negro at 100,” Modernist Studies Association Conference (October 2025)

“On Not Being Let In: Sterling Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South and Joel Chandler Harris,” Southern Studies Forum (June 2025)

“Finding the Black Literary Magazine in the South,” Black Periodicals and Space (May 2025)

“Lillian Smith’s South Today and the Texture of Southern Readers,” St. George Tucker Society Fall Workshop (October 30th 2024)

“The Serial South: Creating Controversy at Contempo Magazine,” Cardiff MA Literature Conference (Keynote Speaker) (June 2024)