Conference and Symposia Participation

Conference Organized
  • “Decentering German Cinema,” co-organizing conference, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, November 13-14, 2020. 
  • “The Past and Future of Queer German Studies,” co-organizing conference, University of British Columbia, April 24-26, 2020. 
  • “Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum,” Co-organized conference with 25 contributors at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, March 2-5, 2017. 

Panels Organized, Moderated, or Commentated
  • Co-Organizer, Goethe Society of North America sponsored roundtable: “Decolonization and the Age of Goethe,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2020)
  • Co-organizer of 3-panel series, “Empire and Queerness, 1871-1918,” German Studies Annual Conference. (2019)
  • Commentator on Panel, “Fontane at 200: Space and Art,” German Studies Association Annual Conference. (2019)
  • Co-Organizer: “Queer Failure in German Studies,” German Studies Association Annual Conference (2018)
  • Commentator on Panel, “Reimagining Queer German Histories,” German Studies Association Annual Conference (2018)
  • Organizer: “Diversity, Decolonialization, and Small Undergraduate German Programs, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference (2017) 
  • Co-Organizer: “Converging Stars: Weimar Cinema’s Beauty Pageants, Movie Magazines, and Police Campaigns,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2017)
  • Co-Organizer of 3-panel series: "The Business of Literature: Authorship, Publishing, Aesthetics," German Studies Association Annual Conference (2016)
  • Co-Organizer: "Building a One-Person German Program from the Ground Up," American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference (2016)
  • Co-Organizer: "Defining Deviancy: Modern Sexuality and the Global Hygiene Film," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (2016)
  • Co-Organizer: “Mobile Texts: Professional Authorship and the German Literary Field,” Interdisciplinary​Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (2015) 
  • Co-Organizer: “Wilhelm Raabe’s Conflictions: Commodity Culture and the Industrialized Press,” German Studies Association Annual Conference (2014) 
  • Moderator: “’Other ways of being in the world’: A Symposium on the Life and Legacy of José Esteban Muñoz,” Washington University in St. Louis (2014) 
  • Organizer and Moderator: “Narrating Passing Time in the 19th-century European Novel,” Modern Language Association (2013) 
  • Organizer: “LGBTQI Graduate Students and Academia,” Modern Language Association (2013) 
  • Co-Chair and Moderator: “Expressions, Emotions, Embodiment: Dramatics and the German Stage,” Midwest Modern Language Association (2011)
  • Chair and Moderator: “German Women Writers,” South-Central Modern Language Association (2011)
  • Co-Chair: “Representations of Terror in the German Context: Violence in Visual Culture,” Midwest Modern Language Association (2010)
  • Co-Chair: “Death, Sleep and Power: Migration Beyond Physical Borders in the German Speaking Context,” Midwest Modern Language Association (2009) 
  • Co-Chair: “The New Mainstream: Restriction, Repression, and Progress in the German Context,” Midwest Modern Language Association (2008)

Papers Presented
  • “Queer Futurity and Language Pedagogy,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. (2020)
  • “Fin-de-Siècle Queer Advocacy and the Exemplary Homosexuality of August von Platen,” German Studies Association Annual Conference. (2019)
  • “The Debilitated Subject in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Die Berührte,” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German Congress. (2019)
  • “Feeling Hirschfeld,” Queer Art of Feeling Conference, University of Cambridge (2019)
  • “The Queer Moment: The locus amoenus& the Politics of Queer Desire in Stephan Lacant’s Free Fall,” Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema Conference at the University of Northampton (2019)
  • “Decentering the Hegemonic Ideals of German Studies,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2019)
  • “Queer Failure and the Early Lubitsch Slapstick Comedy,” German Studies Association Annual Conference (2018)
  • Imagined Language Communities, Learners, and Language Use in Arabic, French, and German Language Textbooks,” American Association of Applied Linguistics. With Baburhan Uzum, Bedrettin Yazan, Siham Bouamer, and Samar Zahrawi (2018)
  • “Another Call to Decolonialize German Studies,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2018)
  • “Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to German Studies: Lessons from a Regional Comprehensive University,” Texas Chapters Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German (2017)
  • Roundtable participant, “Black German Studies: Pedagogical Approaches, Practices, and Interventions,” German Studies Association Annual Conference (2017)
  • “Fandom’s Minutia: Palm Readings in Weimar Film Magazine Culture,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2017) 
  • "Highbrow Publishing Praxes and the Shaping of the German National Literary Canon," German Studies Association Conference (2016)
  • "Integrated Curriculum Building and Small German Program Development," American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference (2016)
  • "Potentials of Genre and the Popularization of the 'Third Sex' in Anders als die Andern (1919)," Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2016)
  • "Salable Fiction: Mindreading in Wilhelm Jensen's Karin von Schweden," Medicine-Humanities-Social Sciences Symposium at Sam Houston State University (2016)
  • “Models of Canonicity: Karl Emil Franzos’ Deutsche Dichtung,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (2015) 
  • “Repetitive Poetics: Futility of Fiction in Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen,” International Conference on Narrative (2015) 
  • "Publishing Culture and Industrial Waste in Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle,” German Studies Association Annual Conference (2014) 
  • “Polluting Modernity: Publishing Culture and Industrial Waste in Pfisters Mühle,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (2014) 
  • “Exploitative Entertainment in Wilhelm Raabe’s Zum wilden Mann,” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention (2011) 
  • “Social Critique and Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (2011) 
  • “Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist in the Context of Kleist’s Goethe-Conflict,” South-Central Modern Language Association (2010) 
  • “Work or Leisure: Weimar Politics in Menschen am Sonntag,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (2010)
  • “Challenging Patriarchy: Femininity, Nationality, and Travel in Shirins Hochzeit,” Midwest Modern Language Association (2009)
  • “Reflections of 18th-century Gender Discourse in Die Wahlverwandtschaften,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (2009) 
  • “The New Germany: Gender & Sex in Zaimoglu’s Kanak Sprak and Koppstoff,” Midwest Modern Language Association (2008)

Conference Seminar Participation
  • Seminar “Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema,” with paper “Alfred Rosenthal and the Shaping of Weimar Film Periodical Culture,” German Studies Association Conference (2017)
  • Seminar “Travel Writing from the 18th to the 21st Century” with paper “Counter Travel, or the Refutation of Generic Expectations in Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen,” German Studies Association Conference (2015) 
  • Seminar “Narration” with paper “On Boredom and Storytelling in Raabe’s Zum wilden Mann,” German Studies Association Annual Conference (2013) 

Invited and Campus Talks
  • “Cultures of Concern in Writing About Literature, 1850-1900,” University of Washington (2020)
  • “Queer German Studies and Language Learning,” Wellesley College (2020)
  • “Searching for Queer Butterflies,” Keynote address, Ohio State University German Graduate Student Conference (2020)
  • "Glacial Innovation,” Conference titled “Re-Imagining the Discipline: German Studies, the Humanities, and the University,” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University (2019) 
  • “On Narrative Efficacy and Boredom in late-19th-century German Fiction,” Hokkaido University (2019)
  • “Market Anxiety and Fragile Telling in late-19th-century German Fiction,” University of Tokyo (2019)
  • “The Archive of Xenophobia: Performative Memory in Burhan Qurbani’s We are Young We are Strong,” German Campus Week Talk, California State University Long Beach (2018)
  • “Wilhelm Raabe and the Crisis of Narration,” University of Calgary (2018)
  • “On Palmistry and Cinephilia in Weimar Film Periodical Culture,” University of Calgary (2018)
  • “Audre Lorde’s Germany,” Delta Phi Alpha Keynote, University of Arkansas (2018)
  • "'Guernica Still Screams': Palimpsest of Resistance," commemorative panel, SHSU (2017)
  • “68 Nostalgia and the Personal Labor of Women,” ProfSPEAK Series, SHSU Honors College (2017)
  • “Richard Oswald, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Populist Appeals of Hygienic Melodrama,” Skidmore College (2017)
  • “Subversive Cosmopolitanism: Erika and Klaus Mann’s Spanish Civil War Reports,” SHSU Spanish Civil War Panel (2016)
  • “Hygienic Melodrama: Genre and Scandal in Different from the Others,” SHSU CHSS Faculty Colloquium (2016)

Additional Presentations on Pedagogy, Curriculum Development, and Community Outreach
  • "Global Citizens, Locally Minded: Cultivating Student Community Through a Small-Scale German Conversation and Culture Club," Co-presentor with my students (Sarah Bivens, Sara Gollogly, Virginia Frost), Universality of Global Education Issues Conference: Global Education Beyond Place (2016)
  • "Global Impact of Language and Culture Studies: German Studies in Texas," Houston Hispanic Forum (2016)
  • "On Fritz Lang's Metropolis," Intro Lecture at Public Screening at Old Town Theatre in Huntsville, TX (2016)