LECTURES AND PAPERS PRESENTED

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“‘This Was Something Different’: A New Caped Crusader in Batwoman: Elegy,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, April 2018.

 

“‘The Second Coming’: The Afterlife of Heroes,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh 2018.

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“‘Memory of Tomorrow’: Syfy’s 12 Monkeys and the Future of Television,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2017.

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“‘Maybe it’s enough that the world thinks I’m a hero’: Engendering New Perspectives in Netflix’s Jessica Jones,” Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South, Savannah, October 2017.

 

“‘We’re not exactly a team’: Marvel and DC’s Civil Wars on the Small Screen,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, March 2017.

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“‘I’m not what you are and not what you intended’: Perverse Instantiation in The 100 and Avengers: Age of Ultron,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Jacksonville, November 2016.

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 “‘Sometimes the world needs a team’: From Singularity to Universality in The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow,” Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South, Nashville, October 2016.

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“A Home at the End of the World: The Future of Domesticity in the MCU,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford, March 2016.

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“Daredevil's Experiment in Form,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford, March 2016.

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“Time Transfixed: Janet McLean’s Lines of Vision and the Permanent Collection,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Raleigh, November 2015.

“The Lazarus Effect: Reanimating Arrow,” Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South, Wilmington, October 2015. 

“‘Within that boundary now’: Seamus Heaney’s Legacy of In-Betweenness,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, April-May 2015.

“#ITSALLCONNECTED: Assembling the Whedonverse,” Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South, New Orleans, October 2014. 

“The Obsolescence of Adolescence: The Palimpsest of Teen Drama,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, April 2014.

“From the Road to a ‘Garden of Forking Paths’: The Teleology of Post-Apocalyptic Narratives,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2013.

“Ghosts in the Machine: Fringe Bodies,” Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South, Savannah, October 2013. 

“‘A long last sigh of release’: The Poetics of Letting Go,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March 2013.

“Grimm Grimoires: Disenchanting Fairy Tales in Contemporary Television,” South Atlantic  Modern Language Association, Research Triangle, November 2012.

“‘What kind of monster is this?’: The Revision of Fairy Tales in Once Upon a Time and Grimm,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, March 2012.

“‘The Monster Mash-Up’: The Zombification of Music and Literature,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Rochester, March 2012.

“‘Leaving no trail but self’: The Contemporary Self-Elegy,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2011.

“A ‘profound and mythic something’: Campbell McGrath’s Unmappable Florida,” Florida College English Association, Melbourne, FL, October 2011.
 

“‘The stories change as they progress?’: Time Compression in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and Specimen Days,” American Literature Association, Boston, May 2011.

“‘They call me Ryter now’: Reclaiming the Space between Childhood and Adulthood,” Northeast Modern Language Association, New Brunswick, April 2011.

“‘Somebody killed something’: From Zombification to Vampirism and Back through the Looking Glass,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2010.

“‘Is that who I am?’: The Making of a GirlMonster,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2010.

“‘This one’s broken’: Rebuilding Really Real Bots in the Whedonverse,” The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, St. Augustine, June 2010.

“‘She’s Research!’: Examining the ‘Wound of Age,’” Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal, April 2010.
 

“‘Of Carnage and Woo’: Campbell McGrath’s Pop-Culture Lexicon,” American Literature Association, Boston, May 2009.

“‘By the cold reflections of the dead’: A Remembrance of Poets Passed,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, February-March 2009.

“‘Twisted into nonsense’?: Returning Through the Looking Glass,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, April 2008.

“A Postmodernist Collage: Approaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Theory,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2007.

“The Transfiguring Tongue: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Mourning in Derek Walcott’s Poetry,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, March 2007.

“Becoming and the Ivory Tower: Transitioning within Academe,” Women’s Caucus Panel, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Charlotte, November 2006.
 

“‘I’m All for Spurty Knowledge’: Buffy and Academics,” The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Barnesville, May 2006.
 

“‘I got over’: Memory, Mourning, and Aesthetics in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana,” Women’s Caucus Panel, Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, March 2006.
 

“‘What’s left behind’: Jorie Graham’s Recovery of the Dead,” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 2005.

“‘To touch solid evidence’: The Literary Archaeology of Octavia Butler’s Kindred,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2005.

“Metonymy: Opening the (Textual) World,” Florida College English Association, Daytona, November 2005.

“‘What can I say?  I need closure’: Angel’s Narratological Crisis,” Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South, Jacksonville, October 2005.
 

“‘Into her separate parts’: Beloved’s Embodied Languages,” Toni Morrison and Sites of Memory, Cincinnati, July 2005.
 

“‘Not with statues’ rhetoric’: Robert Hayden’s Historically Grounded Bodies,” American Literature Association, Boston, May 2005.
 

“‘the words I’d found’: The Politics and Poetics of Recovery in Adrienne Rich’s Poetry,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Cambridge, March-April 2005.
 

“‘seen from the angle of her death’:  Revisiting Zora Neale Hurston’s Burial Plot,” Humanities Lecture Series, Florida Institute of Technology, January 2005.
 

“‘out of the dead land’: Resuscitating Modern Poetry,” seminar participant, Modernist Studies Association Convention, Vancouver, October 2004.  

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“Bringing Buffy Back: Reanimating the Body in/of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” The Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, May 2004.
 

“‘Bone by Bone’: Alice Walker’s Exhumation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Temples for Tomorrow: The Harlem Renaissance—New Readings and Contexts, Rhode Island College, May 2004.
 

“‘coming undone’: Entering Jorie Graham’s Poststructuralist Poetics,” Women’s Caucus Panel, Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, March 2004.
    

“Dismembered Muse: Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Golden Bough,’ The Cure at Troy, and ‘Mycenae Lookout,’” Northeast Modern Language Association, Cambridge, March 2003.
    

“Severed Reds and Hoods of Bone: The Late Poetry of Sylvia Plath,” The Sylvia Plath 70th Year Literary Symposium, Indiana University, November 2002.
 

“‘Bone by Bone’: Alice Walker’s Exhumation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Barrs Lecture Series, Northeastern University, November 2001.
 

“Embracing the Body: Reconstructing Malory’s Guinevere,” 21st Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, April 2000.
 

“Dismembered Muse: Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Golden Bough,’ The Cure at Troy, and ‘Mycenae Lookout,’” Barrs Lecture Series, Northeastern University, June 2000.
 

“Playing God in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back’ and ‘Revelation,’ Barrs Lecture Series, Northeastern University, November 1999.