Talks
2025
“Neo-Medieval America: Fan-Modding Speculative U.S. Futures in After the End.” Speaker & Moderator. IASA Emerging Scholars’ Conference (Online).
2025
“Dramatizing Mass Shootings on the Contemporary American Stage: Theater and the Public-Negotiation of a Nation in Crisis.” Speaker. CDE PhD Forum, Germany.
2025
“Affectual Frameworks in Autographics: Craig Thompson’s Blankets and Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom.” Speaker. 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA), Online.
2025
“Telling Stories of Conditional Belonging.” Moderator. For Now: Diasporic Provisions. Containers — Storytelling — Return, Savvy Contemporary & Humboldt University, Berlin.
2024
“Re-storying the Pearl Mullet: Community-Based Collaborative Restoration in Mustafa Sarı’s Vazgeçme.”
Speaker. APEAA Conference: Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts, Portugal.
2024
“Caught Between Two Worlds: Espionage, Forced Immigration, and Transnational Communication of the Chinese-American Subject in Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal.” Speaker. EAAS Biennial Conference: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited, Germany.
2023
“The Astor Place Riots of 1849: How Was American Manhood Redefined by Shakespeare?” Speaker. Literary Scandals as Forms of Cultural Transgression, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen.
2023
“Morphing Hopepunk into Queer Futurism as Multiplicative Speculation in Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built.” Speaker. ICSLAC Graduate Conference: The Cultural Inbetween, Carleton University (Online).
2022
“Privileging White Gay Culture in Circle Jerk: A Subversive Trans* Performance in Digital Pandemic Theater.” Speaker. 41st International American Studies Conference, Ankara.
2022
“Prometheus Revisited: Deconstruction of Desire in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse (2019).” Speaker. III. International Symposium on Mythology, Ardahan University.
2022
“Crisis of American Masculinity in James A. Herne’s Margaret Fleming (1890).” Speaker. All The World’s A Stage, University of Liverpool (Online).
2022
“Visualizing Liminal Crossings through Cartoons in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.” Speaker. 15th International IDEA Conference, Hatay.
2022
“The Precursor to Eugenics: Phineas Taylor Barnum’s Institutionalized Baby Shows.” Speaker. The Lure of Science and Technology in American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University (Online).
2021
“Subverting Hands Across America: Resurfacing of the Repressed in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019).” Speaker. 40th International American Studies Conference (Online).
2021
“Making Sense of the Post-Pandemic Body: H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West–Reanimator.’” Speaker. Living in the End Times, Cappadocia University (Online).
2021
“Re-vamping the Representation of the Female Body through the Narrative of Carmilla: Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda.” Speaker. 14th International IDEA Conference (Online).
2019
“The Objectification of the Uncanny Fear in W. W. Jacobs’ The Monkey’s Paw and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher.” Speaker. IDEA International Conference, Gaziantep University.
