Conference

Presentations.

 
  • “Enchanted or Erased? Witchcraft, Race, and Taylor Swift,” Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, April 2025. Conference Co-Chair.

  • “A Wolf in Woman’s Clothing: The Woman-Animal Transformation as Patriarchal Resistance,” Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s English Graduate Organization Conference, Indiana, PA, March 2025.

  • “I Am The Monster You Created: Destabilizing Hag Horror in Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance,’” Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 2025.

  • “It’s Okay to Be Sick as Long as You’re Pretty: The Creative Re(Evolution) of the Body,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 2025.

  • “I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life: Exploring Denial and Womanhood,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Online Summer Salon, June 2024.

  • “Don’t Get Too Close: Fragmented Narrative and Trauma Theory,” Narrative Society, Newcastle, United Kingdom, April 2024.

  • “He Had It Coming: Womanhood and the Femme Fatale,” Popular Culture Association Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2024.

  • “Burn All the Files: Taylor Swift’s Continual Deconstruction of the Self,” Swiftposium, Melbourne, Australia, February 2024.

  • “Sad Swifties: Taylor Swift and the Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” Taylor Swift Eras Conference, Bloomington, IN, November 2023.

  • “Finding Comfort in the Darkness: Defining the ‘dark cozy’ in videogames and beyond,” Rachel Carson Academic Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2023.