- “The Biographer’s Dilemma: Telling the Stories of Two Intensively Collected Lives,” January 8, 2019, Boston Athenaeum
- “Mabel and Millicent, Redux: The Things You Might Not Know about Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham,” December 2, 2018, Emily Dickinson Museum
- “The Intensively Collected Lives of Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham,” November 30, 2018, MA Historical Society
- “Telling the Stories of the Bingham/Todd Collection,” October 31, 2018, Yale University
- “Sorting through the Clutter: Finding, Telling and Contextualizing Stories from the Dickinson/Todd Collection,” October 24, 2018, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College
- “Eclipses, Ecology, and Emily Dickinson: The Todds’ Complex Legacies to Amherst College,” March 22, 2017, Amherst Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Second Floor of Frost Library, Amherst
- “The Accidental Activist: Mabel Loomis Todd’s Civic Impulses and Civic Engagement,” Founder’s Day Talk, Amherst History Museum, February 26, 2017
- “Sorting Through the Clutter: Finding, Contextualizing, and Telling the Stories Within the Todd/Bingham Family Papers,” July 30, 2014, Yale University Sterling Library, International Room
- “Puritan’s Progress: The Multifaceted Millicent Todd Bingham,” Amherst Historical Society, May 2014
- “Outside Emily’s Door: Mabel Loomis Todd, Millicent Todd Bingham and the Making of America’s Greatest Poet. On Writing a Biography of ‘Unlikeable’ Women.” Eliot-Pearson Faculty Forum, Tufts University, March 2014
- “The Biographer’s Dilemma.” New Haven, CT, January 2014
- “Sorting through the Clutter,” Tufts University, 2014
- Keynote address: “Not Just Emily’s Editor: The Many Aspects of Mabel Loomis Todd’s Life and Career,” Amherst Historical Society, November 2013
- “Double Lives and Double Standards: On Writing a Biography of ‘Unlikeable’ Women,” WGSS Faculty Research Forum, November 2013
- “Becoming a Public Intellectual: Mabel Loomis Todd at the Boston Authors Club, “ Boston, 2012
- “A Treasure Hunt in the Archives: Researching the Lives of Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham,” Tufts University, 2011