Love, Identity, and Violence (working title, Chicago: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming)
"The Unnamed and the Defaced: The Limits of Rhetoric in Augustine's Confessiones," Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"The Cost of Redemption in Conrad's Lord Jim," Literature and Theology
Respondent, "The Sacrificial Theology of Harry Potter," Nikolaus Wandinger (presenter, University of Innsbruck), American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 2007
"The End of Theodicy," International Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007
"Seneca and Nietzsche on Anger and Revenge," International Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006
"Mimetic Ethics and Violence in Self-Narratives," International Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Koblenz, Germany, July 2005
"Judaism and Islam: Turning Points," address to AmeriCorps, Indianapolis, May 5, 2006 (invited)
"The Balance of Pain," Midwest American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2005
"The Ethics of Irony," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 2004
