2026
Roundtable: "107 Days of Women, Politics, and Pop: Reflecting on Harris 2024" (organized)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference – US Chapter, Washington
February, 2026
2025
"'I’m not actually sad:' Depression, Popular Music, and Feminist Sisterhood" (invited talk)
SUNY-Brockport
October 28, 2025
"Invisible Writers: Questioning the 'Artificial' in 'Artificial Intelligence'"
Workshop on Teaching without Artificial Intelligence
October 17, 2025
"'I’m not actually sad:' Chappell Roan’s Celebration of Radical Kinship"
Depression in Popular Music International Conference, Paris
June 27, 2025
"Collaborations of Care: On Essex Hemphill's Brotherhood"
Communities of Care Symposium, Buffalo
April 25, 2025
Panel: "Integrating Disability, Re-Orienting Asian American Studies" (organized)
Paper title: “Autistic Asian American Antisociality: On the Politics of Loneliness”
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Boston
April 19, 2025
Panel: “‘Feminist Styles:’ Female Musicians and the Fashioning of New Norms of Gender" (organized)
Paper title: “‘spill ur GUTS’: Olivia Rodrigo, Merchandise, and Asian American Women Who Holler”
PopCon/International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Joint Conference, University of Southern California
March 14, 2025
2024
“Teaching Intersectionality: Race and Disability”
Incorporating Diversity into the Classroom Workshop Series, Niagara University
November 22, 2024
“‘I am a good patient’: The Myth of the ‘High-Functioning Minority’ in Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias”
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Seattle
April 25, 2024
"Discussing Difficult Diversity-Related Topics in the Classroom" (with Dave Peterson and Carrie Glenn)
Incorporating Diversity into the Classroom Workshop Series, Niagara University
April 12, 2024
Seminar: “Narrative Prosthesis Today: A Critical Reassessment" (organized with Christina Fogarasi)
Paper title: "'Narrative Prosthesis' and the Politics of Form: On Anne Boyer’s Enclosures and Networks"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Montreal
March 15-16, 2024
“Teaching in the Age of AI"
Writing Studies Program, Niagara University
January 26, 2024
2023
“Forms of Care: Between the Aesthetic and the Social" (invited talk)
Weber State University
November 30, 2023
“Teaching Disability, Accommodating Difference”
Incorporating Diversity into the Classroom Workshop Series, Niagara University
November 17, 2023
“Artificial Research: Proofreading the ‘Misinformation Industry’”
Writing in the Age of AI: An International Conference on the Future of Academic and Professional Writing, University of Florida
October 20, 2023
“Artificial Research: Proofreading the ‘Misinformation Industry’”
SUNY Council on Writing Annual Conference, Virtual
October 14, 2023
“Love You to Death: Elvis, Fandom, and the Ethics of Consumption”
International Association for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference – International and US Chapters, Minneapolis
June 26, 2023
“‘She Had Been Free Before My Birth:’ Remembering Beyond the Family in Édouard Louis’ A Woman’s Battles and Transformations” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Chicago
March 17, 2023
Panel: “Reading Disability with Care: Towards A ‘Formalist Disability Studies'" (organized)
Paper title: “Enclosures and Networks of Care in the Illness Memoir.”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco
January 5, 2023
2022
“Narrative Medicine: Learn How to Empathically Listen to and Understand the Experiences of Patients”
Pre-Health Professions Program, Niagara University
November 11, 2022
“Racial Thought and Pitchfork’s Making of ‘Indie Rap’”
International Association for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference – US Chapter, University of Michigan
May 27, 2022
2018
“On the Identity Politics of the Neurodiversity Movement: Picturing Autistic Difference in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles
2017
“Benjy’s World: Sensory Perceptual Development in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, Arizona State University
“‘Looping’ Schizophrenia: Care, Embodiment, and the Ethics of Disability in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal
2016
“Creatively Destructive: Autism, Neuroscience, and the Plasticity of Narrative”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, Atlanta
“The Use and Abuse of Diagnosis in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy: Personhood, Embodiment, Cure”
International conference: Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind, University of Bristol
“‘Convulsive Sympathy:’ The Embodiment of Care in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent”
Bodies of Care: Somaesthetics of Vulnerability: An International Conference, Florida Atlantic Conference
2015
“A Mind of One’s Own: Evocriticism, Schizophrenia, and the Affirmation of Cognitive Difference in Modernist Literature”
Modern Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston
“‘Autism is not me’: Deconstructing the ‘who-ness’ and ‘what-ness’ of autistic identity”
Society for Disability Studies, Atlanta
“Benjy’s World: Affective Landscapes, Autistic Difference in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Seattle
2014
“The drama of writing: Finding claims among the clarity in student writing”
SUNY Council on Writing Annual Conference, Onondaga Community College
2013
“‘Only human beings?’: Radicalizing what lives in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame
2012
“The Empathic Autist: Towards a Post-Human Ethics”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2010
“‘La malaise de banlieue’: Fractured Community in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine”
The Global Conference on Revenge, Oxford University
“‘Enjoy Your Symptom!’: The Persistence of Desire in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier”
Literature and Psychoanalysis Graduate Student Symposium, University of Toronto
“The talking cures: Empathy in the writing center”
writing@utk: A Day-Long Conference on Writing Instruction, University of Tennessee
Roundtable: "107 Days of Women, Politics, and Pop: Reflecting on Harris 2024" (organized)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference – US Chapter, Washington
February, 2026
2025
"'I’m not actually sad:' Depression, Popular Music, and Feminist Sisterhood" (invited talk)
SUNY-Brockport
October 28, 2025
"Invisible Writers: Questioning the 'Artificial' in 'Artificial Intelligence'"
Workshop on Teaching without Artificial Intelligence
October 17, 2025
"'I’m not actually sad:' Chappell Roan’s Celebration of Radical Kinship"
Depression in Popular Music International Conference, Paris
June 27, 2025
"Collaborations of Care: On Essex Hemphill's Brotherhood"
Communities of Care Symposium, Buffalo
April 25, 2025
Panel: "Integrating Disability, Re-Orienting Asian American Studies" (organized)
Paper title: “Autistic Asian American Antisociality: On the Politics of Loneliness”
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Boston
April 19, 2025
Panel: “‘Feminist Styles:’ Female Musicians and the Fashioning of New Norms of Gender" (organized)
Paper title: “‘spill ur GUTS’: Olivia Rodrigo, Merchandise, and Asian American Women Who Holler”
PopCon/International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Joint Conference, University of Southern California
March 14, 2025
2024
“Teaching Intersectionality: Race and Disability”
Incorporating Diversity into the Classroom Workshop Series, Niagara University
November 22, 2024
“‘I am a good patient’: The Myth of the ‘High-Functioning Minority’ in Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias”
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Seattle
April 25, 2024
"Discussing Difficult Diversity-Related Topics in the Classroom" (with Dave Peterson and Carrie Glenn)
Incorporating Diversity into the Classroom Workshop Series, Niagara University
April 12, 2024
Seminar: “Narrative Prosthesis Today: A Critical Reassessment" (organized with Christina Fogarasi)
Paper title: "'Narrative Prosthesis' and the Politics of Form: On Anne Boyer’s Enclosures and Networks"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Montreal
March 15-16, 2024
“Teaching in the Age of AI"
Writing Studies Program, Niagara University
January 26, 2024
2023
“Forms of Care: Between the Aesthetic and the Social" (invited talk)
Weber State University
November 30, 2023
“Teaching Disability, Accommodating Difference”
Incorporating Diversity into the Classroom Workshop Series, Niagara University
November 17, 2023
“Artificial Research: Proofreading the ‘Misinformation Industry’”
Writing in the Age of AI: An International Conference on the Future of Academic and Professional Writing, University of Florida
October 20, 2023
“Artificial Research: Proofreading the ‘Misinformation Industry’”
SUNY Council on Writing Annual Conference, Virtual
October 14, 2023
“Love You to Death: Elvis, Fandom, and the Ethics of Consumption”
International Association for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference – International and US Chapters, Minneapolis
June 26, 2023
“‘She Had Been Free Before My Birth:’ Remembering Beyond the Family in Édouard Louis’ A Woman’s Battles and Transformations” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Chicago
March 17, 2023
Panel: “Reading Disability with Care: Towards A ‘Formalist Disability Studies'" (organized)
Paper title: “Enclosures and Networks of Care in the Illness Memoir.”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco
January 5, 2023
2022
“Narrative Medicine: Learn How to Empathically Listen to and Understand the Experiences of Patients”
Pre-Health Professions Program, Niagara University
November 11, 2022
“Racial Thought and Pitchfork’s Making of ‘Indie Rap’”
International Association for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference – US Chapter, University of Michigan
May 27, 2022
2018
“On the Identity Politics of the Neurodiversity Movement: Picturing Autistic Difference in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles
2017
“Benjy’s World: Sensory Perceptual Development in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, Arizona State University
“‘Looping’ Schizophrenia: Care, Embodiment, and the Ethics of Disability in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal
2016
“Creatively Destructive: Autism, Neuroscience, and the Plasticity of Narrative”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, Atlanta
“The Use and Abuse of Diagnosis in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy: Personhood, Embodiment, Cure”
International conference: Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind, University of Bristol
“‘Convulsive Sympathy:’ The Embodiment of Care in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent”
Bodies of Care: Somaesthetics of Vulnerability: An International Conference, Florida Atlantic Conference
2015
“A Mind of One’s Own: Evocriticism, Schizophrenia, and the Affirmation of Cognitive Difference in Modernist Literature”
Modern Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston
“‘Autism is not me’: Deconstructing the ‘who-ness’ and ‘what-ness’ of autistic identity”
Society for Disability Studies, Atlanta
“Benjy’s World: Affective Landscapes, Autistic Difference in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Seattle
2014
“The drama of writing: Finding claims among the clarity in student writing”
SUNY Council on Writing Annual Conference, Onondaga Community College
2013
“‘Only human beings?’: Radicalizing what lives in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame
2012
“The Empathic Autist: Towards a Post-Human Ethics”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2010
“‘La malaise de banlieue’: Fractured Community in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine”
The Global Conference on Revenge, Oxford University
“‘Enjoy Your Symptom!’: The Persistence of Desire in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier”
Literature and Psychoanalysis Graduate Student Symposium, University of Toronto
“The talking cures: Empathy in the writing center”
writing@utk: A Day-Long Conference on Writing Instruction, University of Tennessee