Selected Presentations

Upcoming

Past

INTERNATIONAL

“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 2019.

NATIONAL

“The Rise of Chick Schlock: Rage and Resistance in Contemporary American Women’s Horror Fiction.” Literature, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, Virtual. March 2025.

“Black Women and the Birth Control Review.” Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. 9–12 January 2025.

“The Residential School and Zitkala-Ša’s Indigenous Gothic.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pasadena, CA. 16 March 2024.

“Zitkala-Ša’s Gothic Wonderland.” American Literature Association, Santa Fe, NM. 28
October 2023.

“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 2023.

“Haunted Challah and Monstrous Matzo in the Jewish American Gothic.” Modern Language Association, Virtual. 6 January 2023.

“Eerie Peripheries: A Paratextual Reading of Pauline E. Hopkins’ Serialized Novels.” American Literature Association, Chicago, IL. 26–29 May 2020.

“‘Excited by the silence’: Trauma and (Re)Action in Ormond.” Charles Brockden Brown Society, Virtual. 14 October 2021.

REGIONAL

“The Grotesque Labor of Waiting in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio.” Space Between Society, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. 2–4 June 2022.

“Spectral Actors in The Return of the Soldier and Good Morning, Midnight.” Northeast MLA Conference, Virtual. 11 March 2022.

“Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Disturbing Domestic.” Literature, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, Virtual. 4 March 2022.

“Memory and Mimicry in ‘A Late Encounter With the Enemy.’” South Central MLA Conference, Virtual. 7 October 2021.

“‘To purge is purgatory’: Dirt, Desire, and the Role of the Dybbuk in Marcin Wrona’s Demon.” Northeast MLA Conference, Virtual. 13 March 2021.

“(Re)Surfacing: Examining and Resisting Patriarchy Through Mirrors in American and
British Short Stories.” Nexus Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 8 March 2020.

“‘[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 2019.

“[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 2019.

DEPARTMENTAL