“Shapeshifting and the Other/worldly,” Seminar Co-convener, ASAP/16, Houston, TX (upcoming, October 2025)
“Case Histories,” Roundtable Co-convener, RAP 25 at The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, June 25-28, 2025
“Possession & Portal: Zora Neale Hurston and Deana Lawson’s Esoteric Aesthetics,” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, January 9-12, 2025
“Indebted: Care as Insolvency, Collaboration as Endless Exchange,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, November 14-17, 2024
‘A Body Plus:’ Autotheory, Illness, and the Otherworldly, Society for the Study of Affect, Lancaster, PA, October 10-12, 2025
“True to my own orbit:” H.D. and Leonora Carrington’s Minoritarian Mytho-Aesthetics, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, March 1, 2024
“Psychoanalysis & Technology,” Roundtable Speaker, Modernist Studies Association, Brooklyn, NY, October 26-29, 2023
“Caretaking: Beyond Give & Take,” MLA, San Francisco, January 5-8, 2023
“Aureoles of Light:” Lola Ridge and Marjorie Content’s Incandescent Urban Ecologies, Modernist Studies Association, Portland, OR, October 27-30, 2022
“Aesthetics of Survival: Modernist Literature & Minoritarian Worldmaking,” Beinecke Library Research Fellows Colloquium, July 14, 2022
“Minoritarian Modernisms,” Roundtable Organizer & Speaker, Modernist Studies Association Digital Conference, Virtual, April 1-12, 2022
“Forms of Care,” University of York, September 10, 2021
“Care Making with CARE SYLLABUS,” National Gallery of Art, May 4, 2021
“Institutions & the Crisis of Care,” College Art Association, Virtual, February 12-14, 2021
“Trauma Studies: A Prognosis, MLA, Virtual, January 7-10, 2021
“Modernism and the Minor.” MSA, Toronto, CA, October 17-20, 2019
“Nature as Death Threat: Counter Ecologies of Queer Indigenous Hapticality.” ASAP/11, College Park, MA, October 10-12, 2019
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