Conference and Symposia Participation
Conference Organized
Panels Organized, Moderated, or Commentated
Papers Presented
Conference Seminar Participation
Invited and Campus Talks
Additional Presentations on Pedagogy, Curriculum Development, and Community Outreach
- “Nosferatu at 100,” co-organized symposium, University of British Columbia, March 18, 2022.
- “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, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages sponsored panel: “Resisting Securitization and Privatization: Toward New Advocacy Models for Language Learning,” Modern Language Association. (2021)
- Co-Organizer, “Queer and Trans German Studies Today,” Roundtable, German Studies Association Annual Conference. (2020)
- 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,” InterdisciplinaryNineteenth-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
- “The Gilde freiheitlicher Bücherfreunde and the Patterning of Class Solidarity Across Lines of Difference in Weimar Germany,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. (scheduled)
- “Cruel Optimism and Narrative Efficacy,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. (2022
- “Divinatory Intimacies: Palmistry, Cinephilia, and Weimar Film Magazine Culture,” Newberry Library German Studies Seminar. (2022)
- “Industrial Print Culture, Precarious Authors, and the Rise of the Literary Agent,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. (2022)
- “Wilhelm Dilthey’s Rhetoric of Concern,” German Studies Association Annual Conference. (2021)
- “Monika Treut’s Cinema of Commitment,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. (2021)
- “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
- “Reading Lists: Frustration and Sexual Science Around 1900,” Centre for the History of Emotion Colloquium, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. (2022)
- “Affective Lists and the Posthermeneutic Impulse of Early Sexual Science,” Media Inventories 3.0 Conference, University of British Columbia. (2021)
- “Ferdinand Karsch’s Queer Hermeneutics,” King’s College London. (2021)
- “From Individuation to Mutual Aid: On Relational Models for Language Learning and Culture Studies,” University of Connecticut. (2021)
- “On Intergenerational Queer Kinship and the Frail Body of August von Platen,” University of Pittsburgh. (2021)
- “The Undercommons and German Studies,” University of Pittsburgh. (2021)
- “Reading The Undercommons in German Studies,” University of Illinois at Chicago. (2021)
- “Badly Disciplined,” German Research Away Speaker, University of St. Andrews. (2020)
- “Structures of Longing in Stefan Zweig’s Confusion,” Max-Kade German-American Center Inaugural Community Book Discussion, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (introduction + lead discussion). (2020)
- “GSA Forum on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice,” German Studies Association Annual Conference. (2020)
- “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)