Upcoming
2025
“The Rise of Chick Schlock: Rage and Resistance in Contemporary American Women’s Horror Fiction.” Literature, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, Virtual. March.
Past
INTERNATIONAL
2019
“Facing the Incubus: Exploring the Gothic Elements of Caroline Chesebro’s Isa: A
Pilgrimage.” International Gothic Association Conference, Lewis University,
Romeoville, IL. 30 July–2 August.
NATIONAL
2025
“Black Women and the Birth Control Review.” Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. 9–12 Jan.
2024
“The Residential School and Zitkala-Ša’s Indigenous Gothic.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pasadena, CA. 16 March 2024.
2023
“Zitkala-Ša’s Gothic Wonderland.” American Literature Association, Santa Fe, NM. 28
October.
“Macabre Black Motherhood in the Birth Control Review’s Short Fiction.” The Society
for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Indianapolis, IN. 20 April.
“Haunted Challah and Monstrous Matzo in the Jewish American Gothic.” Modern Language Association, Virtual. 6 January.
2022
“Eerie Peripheries: A Paratextual Reading of Pauline E. Hopkins’ Serialized Novels.” American Literature Association, Chicago, IL. 26–29 May.
2021
“‘Excited by the silence’: Trauma and (Re)Action in Ormond.” Charles Brockden Brown Society, Virtual. 14 October.
REGIONAL
2022
“The Grotesque Labor of Waiting in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio.” Space Between Society, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. 2–4 June.
“Spectral Actors in The Return of the Soldier and Good Morning, Midnight.” Northeast MLA Conference, Virtual. 11 March.
“Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Disturbing Domestic.” Literature, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, Virtual. 4 March.
2021
“Memory and Mimicry in ‘A Late Encounter With the Enemy.’” South Central MLA Conference, Virtual. 7 October.
“‘To purge is purgatory’: Dirt, Desire, and the Role of the Dybbuk in Marcin Wrona’s Demon.” Northeast MLA Conference, Virtual. 13 March.
2020
“(Re)Surfacing: Examining and Resisting Patriarchy Through Mirrors in American and
British Short Stories.” Nexus Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 8 March.
2019
“‘[F]ury and fear’: Child Protagonists and the Real in ‘The River’ and ‘A Temple of the Holy Ghost.’” South Central MLA Conference, Little Rock, AR. 24–26 October.
“[F]ar more of death than life’: Reconsidering Chesebro’s Isa: A Pilgrimage as a Gothic Novel.” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, University of Texas, El Paso. 10–12 October.
“‘The disturbing element’: Trina qua Goddess of Discord in Frank Norris’ McTeague.” Southern Appalachian Student Conference on Literature, King University, Bristol, TN. 6 April.
2016
“The Nazi in the House: Sonia Pilcer’s The Holocaust Kid as Reclamation of Feminine Agency.” The Second-Generation Holocaust Literature Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 23 April.
DEPARTMENTAL
2024
“Dark Eden: Serdatsky, Yezierska, and the Immigrant Gothic.” Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization’s Forum Series, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 17 October.
“Infanticide and Feticide in Angelina Weld Grimke’s Magazine Fiction.” Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization’s Forum Series, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 4 April.
CO-PRESENTATIONS
2023
“An Introduction to Monkey King: Journey to the West.” Asian American and Asian
Resource and Cultural Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 21 September.
2019
“Getting the Most Out of the Mentor/Mentee Relationship.” First-Year Composition
Summer Workshop Series, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 14 August.
“What’s Working?: Gauging Students’ Perceptions of English 101 Content.” First-Year Composition Pedagogy Symposium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 29 April.
Alex M. Anderson, PhD 