Talks

Conference presentations

• • Nandini Ramesh Sankar and V. Neethi Alexander. "Treasuring Trash in J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World and Crash" in the panel "Dirty London," NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, 11 March 2022.

  • “The Grammar of the Gift in JH Prynne’s To Pollen." Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association. 7 January 2018.

• • “The Fabrication of Self in Denise Riley’s Mop Mop Georgette.” Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association. Pennsylvania, 8 January 2017.

  • “The Resistance to Intermediality in Wyndham Lewis.” Annual Convention of the American Comparative Literature Association. Seattle, 28 March 2015.

  • “Poetic Waste and the Broken Gift,” Creativity Inc: Intellectual Production as Capital, ACLA 2014, New York.

  • “‘A vagueness that is violence’: Vagueness and Metaphysics in the Early Writings of Gertrude Stein,” Modernists and Vagueness, MLA 2012 , Seattle.

  • “Complicity and Cambridge Poetry,” Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today, Institut d’Etudes Anglophones, Université Paris 7 – Diderot (June 2011)

  • “Language in Dispute: JH Prynne and Language Poetry,” Transatlantic Transactions, MLA Convention, Los Angeles (January 2011).

  • “Gertrude Stein’s Still Lifes,” Intermediality after 1900, ACLA Convention, New Orleans (April 2010).

  • “‘The / lamentable spectacle of the unknown’: Historicizing Difficulty in the Poetry of John Ashbery,” John Ashbery in Paris, Institut d’Etudes Anglophones, Université Paris 7 – Diderot (March 2010)

  • “‘The whole thing it is, the difficult / matter’: Reading Difficulty (Read Poetry) with JH Prynne,” Difficulty, Intransigence, Failure; Johns Hopkins University (April 2009).

Invited talks

• “Poems on Things, Poems as Things: The Materiality of Modern Poetry.” Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (January 2013)

• "Poetry, Language, War." World War I: A Centenary Symposium, Department of English, University of Hyderabad (15 September 2014).