Invited Lectures
At the Graphic Narrative Network Workshop.
"'Never Again and Again and Again': The Tennessee School Board Ban on Maus and Rising Holocaust Denial." Mandel JCC, March 2022.
"Vertiginous Times: The Historical Fiction of DC's Vertigo Imprint.” Valparaiso University, October 2019.
“Displacing the Memorial.” Eisner Week, The Ohio State University, March 2019.
“Excessive Feels: What is Empathy in the Age of the YOLOcaust?” Empathy: Humanities Symposium, Vanier College, February 2019.
Interview on The Book Nook, WYSO, NPR.
"Being a Dog: Transformation and Focalization in Deogratias." University of Cincinnati, April 2018.
Interview on Michigan State University Comics and Graphic Novel Podcast with Ryan Claytor.
Workshop with the Graphic Narratives Network at Michigan State University, March 2018.
"Vertiginous Times: The Historical Fiction of DC's Vertigo Imprint.” Valparaiso University, October 2019.
“Displacing the Memorial.” Eisner Week, The Ohio State University, March 2019.
“Excessive Feels: What is Empathy in the Age of the YOLOcaust?” Empathy: Humanities Symposium, Vanier College, February 2019.
Interview on The Book Nook, WYSO, NPR.
"Being a Dog: Transformation and Focalization in Deogratias." University of Cincinnati, April 2018.
Interview on Michigan State University Comics and Graphic Novel Podcast with Ryan Claytor.
Workshop with the Graphic Narratives Network at Michigan State University, March 2018.
Conferences
- “Empathy and #MeToo.” Narrative Empathy and Gender I: Critical Frameworks and Possibilities Roundtable, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, 2019.
- “Losing the Holocaust.” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States Convention, 2019.
- “#MeToo, Its Backlash, and the Naming of Names,” Modern Language Association, 2019.
- “Excessive Feels: What is Empathy in the Age of the YOLOcaust?” Modern Language Association, 2018.
- “The Dome and the Disposable: Borders in Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro.’” American Literature Association, 2016.
- “Infrastructure and Disease in Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro.’” Midwest Popular Culture Association, 2015.
- “My Children Will Remember All the Things I Tried to Forget: New Approaches to Intergenerational Trauma.” Modern Languages Association, 2015.
- “Historio-Metagraphics and the Performance of Authenticity.” Louisville Conference on Language and Culture Since 1900, 2014.
- “Empathy and Embodiment in Watchmen.” Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference at Darmouth, 2013.
- “’Just Like Sally’: Watchmen, Rape, and Reflexivity.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, 2013.
- “Being a Dog: Deogratias, Torturers, and the Empathetic Impulse.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, 2011.
- “Revising the Essay, Revising the Skin.” Composing Ourselves: University of Cincinnati Graduate Conference, 2010.
- “Very Superstitious: Manufacturing Belief and Intimacy.” Association of Writing Programs Conference, 2010.
- “Thirding Creation: Elaine and Diaspora in Lucifer.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 2009.
- “On Either Side: The Function of the Frame in Sequential Art.” International Conference on the Fantastic in Arts, 2009.
- “Mortifying the Spirit: The Memory of the Camp in Hellblazer.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, 2009.
- “‘This Heavy-Handed Revel South’ and Other Poems.” Louisville Conference on Literatures Since 1900, 2009.
- “Constructing the Voice of the Monstrous.” Association of Writing Programs Conference, 2009.
- "The Form and Function of Hybrid Monsters in Ancient Greece." Monsters and the Monstrous, 2007.
COlloquia
Poetry in the Pub. Emcee, 2019.
“How Hip Hop Influenced Me: Lil’ Kim.” Invited speaker, 2019.
"Defending Deogratias." The List Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2017.
“What is Global Anglophone?” What is Global Anglophone Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2016.
“Trigger Happy.” The Current Academic Debate About Trigger Warnings Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2015.
“Scalped and the Narration of Authenticity.” Race in American Comics Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2013.
“Sexism in Comics and Film Adaptations: The Case of Jean Grey.” Wright State Comics Panel, 2013.
Guest Lecturer, “Deogratias and Dystopia,” “1984 in Africa” course at Columbia University, 2011.
“How Hip Hop Influenced Me: Lil’ Kim.” Invited speaker, 2019.
"Defending Deogratias." The List Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2017.
“What is Global Anglophone?” What is Global Anglophone Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2016.
“Trigger Happy.” The Current Academic Debate About Trigger Warnings Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2015.
“Scalped and the Narration of Authenticity.” Race in American Comics Colloquium, Wittenberg University, 2013.
“Sexism in Comics and Film Adaptations: The Case of Jean Grey.” Wright State Comics Panel, 2013.
Guest Lecturer, “Deogratias and Dystopia,” “1984 in Africa” course at Columbia University, 2011.