Conferences and Talks

Chair:

“Mid-Century SF,” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), 21-24 June. Honolulu, Hawai’i. USA. 2019

“Ontologies and Epistemologies II,” Worlding SF, 06-08 December. Graz, Austria. 2018

“Afrofuturism,” Worlding SF, 06-08 December. Graz, Austria. 2018

“Exploring Science Fiction Authors,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Science Fiction Division, 22-26 March 2017.

“Science and Wonder,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Science Fiction Division, 16-19 March 2016.

Early American Literature Panel, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Boise, Idaho, 9-11 October 2014.

Conference Papers:

“‘A Wilderness of Oil Pictures’: Reframing Nature in A Tramp Abroad.” Mark Twain Annual Symposium, 08 October. Elmira, NY, USA.

“Terror and Terraforming in the Gothic.” Gothic Spaces, 19-20 October. Tokyo, Japan.

“Sci-Phi: Astrophilately and Afrofuturism.” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), 21-24 June. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.

“’Focus on ‘Topics in American Literature’: A Love Letter to Teaching Epistolary Texts.” Liberlit, 01 June. Tokyo, Japan.

“Liminal Letters: Corresponding Worlds,” Worlding SF, 06-08 December. Graz, Austria.

“Reskinning the Future in Gibson’s The Peripheral,” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA),  01-04 July 2018.

“Hawthorne’s Wondrous Ecology,” International Poe and Hawthorne Conference, 21-24 June 2018.

“Post-Temporal, Post-Geographic Cartography in Gibson’s The Peripheral,” European Association for American Studies and British Association for American Studies (EBAAS), 04-07 April 2018.

“’When ‘tis night, death is green’: Vegetal Time in Nineteenth-Century Econoir,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Science Fiction Division, 14-18 March 2018.

“The Pedagogical Fantastic: Active Learning Through and In Fantastic Literature,” Liberlit, 19 February 2018.

“Mark Twain’s Drawn Photographs: From A Tramp Abroad to King Leopold’s Soliloquy,” Kyushu American Literature Association (KALS), Seinan University, 09 December 2017.

“The Pedagogical Fantastic: Gamification and Game-Based Learning Through Fantastic Literature” Modern Literature and Education: Exploring new Approaches to the Study of Literature, Symposium, Tsukuba University, 15 July 2017.

“Toward a Rhizomatic Readership: Ekphrastic Unframing and Bio-Ontological Expanses in The Southern Reach Trilogy,” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), 28 June – 01 July 2017.

“Postmarked Eden: Ecological Epistolarity,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Science Fiction Division, “Early Science Fiction,” 22-27 March 2017.

“Photosynthetic Resistance(s) in Early Science Fiction,” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), 27-29 June 2016.

“Man-Eating Plants and Sprouts of Hope in Early Science Fiction,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Science Fiction Division, “Early Science Fiction,” 16-19 March 2016.

“ ‘The Uncertain Balance Delighted’: Synesthetic Aesthetics in Richard Bruce Nugent’s ‘Geisha Man,’” Modernist Studies Association (MSA), 5-10 November 2014.

“Pirates, Poets, and Re-vision in Melville’s ‘The Encantadas,’” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), 10-12 October 2013.

“‘Photoshopped’ Frontiers: Manipulated Images in Textual, Territorial Disputes,” “Geographies of the Book,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publication (SHARP), 17-21 July 2013.

“‘They Passed in Review’: Hybrid Bodies in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator,” at “American Literature in the World,” Yale University, 19 April 2013.

“Weapons of Sympathy: Animetaphors in Anti-Imperialist Propaganda,” at “Cruelty Conference,”University of Southern California, 12-13 April 2013.

“Anti-Imperialist Animals: Visualizing Revolutionary Empathy,” at “The Art of Revolution,” Craft, Culture, and Critique (CCC), University of Iowa, March 30-April 1, 2012.

“Humor and the Illustrated Novel: Mark Twain, The American Anti-Imperialist League, and the Rise of the Cartoon.” Midwestern Modern Language Association (M/MLA), St. Louis, November 2011.

“My Space and Social Networking: a Mediated Narrativity of “Home” in Tom Sawyer Abroad,” at “Uncanny Homecomings,” Religion, Literature, and the Arts Conference (RLAC), University of Iowa, 26-28 August 2011.

“Constructing and Mediating National Identity through the Comic in Captain Jinks, Hero,” Craft, Culture, and Critique (CCC), University of Iowa, 17-19 April 2011.

“Frame Narratives and Unframing Mastery: Revisualizing History Through Detective Fiction,” Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM), Northern Illinois University, 1-2 April 2011.

“Pauline Hopkins’s “Talma Gordon” and the Case of the Mislaid Crime: Expanding Detective Fiction to Scrutinize American Imperialism,” Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth University, 21-27 June 2010.

“Reading Between the Lines in and through A Little Princess” at “The Emergence of Human Rights, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), Marquette University, 3-5 April 2008.