Conference Presentations

“What We Find in the Wilderness: Representations of the Frontier, Settler Sexuality, and the Colonial Education of Desire in the Horror-Western,” accepted for presentation at the Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 2022)

“Rethinking Postcolonial and Transnational Feminism Syllabus Design for Entry Level Core Courses Roundtable,” accepted for presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference (November 2021)

“The (In)Visible Hand of the Market: Decoupling Sex from Coloniality, Capitalism, and Gender Systems in Corregidora and Love Medicine,” presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference (September 2021)

“Enter Your Chambers and Shut Your Doors Behind You: Bodily Containment and Proliferation in Night of the Living Dead (1968)” presented at the Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, virtual format (March 2021)

“‘Lottery in June’: Ritualistic Collapse of Mimetic Temporality in 1940s Law and Literature,” presented at the Conference for the International Society for the Study of Narrative, New Orleans, LA (March 2020)

“‘Lottery in June’: Ritualistic Collapse of Mimetic Temporality in 1940s Law and Literature,” presented at the English Graduate Student Organization Symposium, Lexington, KY (February 2020)

“Do You Feel Held By Him: Collective Emotional Experience in Contemporary Horror Films,” presented at the Louisville Conference on Literature Since 1900, Louisville, KY (February 2020)

“Earners and Spenders, Husbands and Wives: The Affective Restraints on Women’s Labor in High Cold War American Sitcoms,” presented at the Louisville Conference on Literature Since 1900, Louisville, KY (February 2020)

“Like Part of the Family: Domestic Labor and the Narrative of Transracial Affective Bonds from Gone With the Wind to Get Out,” presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL (November 2019)

“‘Whose Hand Was I Holding’: Affective Encoding of Female Sexual Psychopathology in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House,” presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL (November 2019)

“A Girl is No One: The Spectral Woman in Game of Thrones and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine” presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, DC (March 2019)

“We Ate Them to Destroy Them: Carnivores, Cannibals, and the Critique of Mass-Market Feminism in the Age of Consumption,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic Pop Culture Association Conference, Baltimore, MD (November 2018)

“A Girl is No One: The Metaphor of the Spectral Woman in Game of Thrones and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,” presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN (October 2018)

“I Am Not Who I Am—The Postmodern Spectral Woman,” presented at Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South, New Orleans, LA (October 2018)

“The Ghost Dance: Accessing and Accepting Intersectional Identity Through Spectrality,” presented at the Purdue, Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference, West Lafayette, IN (March 2018)

“The Spectral Woman: The Metaphor of the Disembodied Female in Twentieth-Century Literature,” presented at the University of Cincinnati Graduate Conference, Cincinnati, OH (March 2018)

“A Girl Is No One: The Metaphor of the Spectral Woman in Game of Thrones and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,” presented at the English Graduate Student Organization Symposium, Lexington, KY (February 2018)