“Creeping it Real: The Underbelly of Drag Race, and the Monster That Lurks There.” NeMLA, Baltimore, March 2022.

“Beauty and The Beetle: The Surface Tension of Beauty Standards and the Victorian Gender Binary.” NeMLA, Baltimore, March 2022.

“Retcon: Revisiting the Foundations of Cosplay Studies.” SCMS, Seattle, March 2019.

“Fiends of Various Sorts: Villainous Masculinities in American and British Comics.” Comics and Popular Arts Conference, DragonCon, Atlanta, August 2018.

“Mending Tears: Offensive Clothing in Are You My Mother,” MLA, NYC, January 2018.

Organizer and Panel Chair, MLA Session 650: Ignite Talk: Alison Bechdel on Page, Stage, and in Theory, January 2018

“Swapped, Crossed, and Blurring Boundaries: Negotiations of Identity in Fan Costuming.” SCMS, Chicago, March 2017

“‘It was impossible such a creature could be feminine’: Fashioning Villainy and the Language of the Grotesque in Three Victorian Gothic Novels.” April 2015 INCS, Philadelphia, March 2017

“Bending: Performative Identity in Storm Cosplay.” NeMLA, Toronto Ontario, April 2015

Panel Chair, “Aesthetics and Agency: A Novel Look at Madness.” NeMLA, Toronto Ontario, April 2015

“‘[G]rief-racked and ravenous’: Into the Cave with Grendel’s Mother.” MAPACA, Baltimore MD, November 2014

Panel Chair, “Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers.”   NeMLA, Harrisburg PA, April 2014

“Dearly Departed: The Treatment of the Corpses of Sweethearts.” NeMLA, Harrisburg PA, April 2014

"Clothes Make the (Wo)Man: Eighteenth-Century Materialism and the Creation of the Female Subject.”  Fashion: Now & Then, New York, Oct. 2013

“Chivalrous Predators.” PCA/ACA National, Washington DC, March 2013

“The Hunger Games and the Failure of Dystopian Maternity.”  NeMLA, Boston, March 2013

“Pair of Bodies: Unlacing Women in Lady Mary’s Turkish Embassy Letters.”  Midwest Popular Culture Assoc./American Culture Assoc., Columbus, Oct. 2012

“Purposeful Progeny: Gothic Literature and Alternative Reproduction.”  Evolving Motherhood Conference, Museum of Motherhood, NYC, May 2012

“Send Without Subject? Revisiting College Composition.”  Association of Faculty for Advancement of Community College Teaching 22, Jan. 2012