2025
"'I’m not actually sad:' Chappell Roan’s Celebration of Radical Kinship"
Depression in Popular Music International Conference, Paris
June 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"
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
"'I’m not actually sad:' Chappell Roan’s Celebration of Radical Kinship"
Depression in Popular Music International Conference, Paris
June 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"
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