“Xue Shaohui's Moral Vision in the Biographies of Foreign Women.” The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, University of Houston. Houston, TX. October 10-11, 2003.
“Cultural and Ritual Empowerment of Women in the Northern Courts: Yu Xin's (513-581) Epitaph Writings.” Invited paper. Workshop on Chinese Medieval Studies, Columbia University, NY, December 11, 2004.
“Fermenting Western Wine with Chinese Words: The Late Qing Woman Poet Xue Shaohui (1866-1911) and Foreign Knowledge.” The 2004 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 6, 2004.