Talks

 

“Romance Novels: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston”
Invited Lecture for Professor Emma Heaney’s course “Desired Effects of Fiction”

New York University 
New York City, NY

Spring 2023 

Guest Lecture in Saronik Bosu’s class “Literatures in English IV: Literary and Popular Genres, 1900 Onward.”
Texts discussed: Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier and kitchenette building by Gwendolyn Brooks.

New York University 
New York City, NY

Summer 2020

“Sophocles’ Antigone and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire: Women, Kinship, and the State”
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Spring 2020 

Organized Panels & Chairing

 

Head over Heels: Romance Reading as a Third Place? (co-organizer with Corinna Norrick-Rühl)

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2025

Rochester, NY

Summer 2025

Unhinged Women: Millennials, Malaise, and Meaning (co-organizer with Shirley Wong and Jennifer Rivky Mondal)

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 2024 

New York City, Ny
Fall 2024 

Digital Humanities & Print Material Cultures (chairing only)

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2024

Reading, United Kingdom

Summer 2024


Studying Bookish Social Media Communities (co-organizer with Rachel Wilson) 

Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention 2024 

Philadelphia, PA
Winter 2024


Book Clubs as Sites of Digital, Ethical, and Identity-based Bookish Community: Three Case-Studies (co-organizer with Simone Murray) 

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2022
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Summer 2022 

“Feminist Storytelling and the Legacy of Jane Austen” (co-author) The Popularity of Feminist Storytelling (co-chair with Taya Sazama) 

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2022 

Baltimore, MD 

Spring 2022

Conference Papers

 

“The Romance Shop Around the Corner: How Women Readers Created a New Kind of Independent Bookstore”

Bookselling Research Network Conference: Bookselling as Resistance [scheduled]

University of Münster, Germany 

Fall 2025

“Meet Cute: Encounters of Social Media and Genre at Brick-and-Mortar Romance-Only Bookstores”

Head over Heels: Romance Reading as a Third Place? [scheduled]

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2025

Rochester, NY

Summer 2025

“Can Data Fix (Lack of) Diversity in American Publishing?"

Book Data Roundtable [scheduled]

American Literature Association (ALA) 2025

Boston

Spring 2025

"Readers Who Know What They Want: Grassroots Genre Shaping in Romance" 

Literary Studies Beyond the Academy [scheduled] 

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2025

Online

Spring 2025

“Unhinged Millennial Women”

Unhinged Women: Millennials, Malaise, and Meaning

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 2024

New York City, Ny
Fall 2024

“Goodreads Choice Awards: Access to Collaborative Consecration or Normative Creation of Non- progressive Bestsellers?”

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2024

Reading, United Kingdom

Summer 2024

“Goodreads Choice Awards: Collaborative Consecration or Normative Non- progressive Bestsellers?”

Researching the Reading Experience in the Digital Age

Copenhagen, Denmark

Summer 2024 2024

“Finding Diverse POVs When Studying Readers with Digital Humanities and Ethnographic Methods”

Reader Studies in the Digital Age: Community, Diversity, and the Data of Literary Consumption

Price Lab, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 

Spring 2024 

“‘Escapist Labor’ on Bookstagram: Surveying Bookstagrammers and their Bookish Labors of Love”
Studying Bookish Social Media Communities

Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention 2024 

Philadelphia, PA
Winter 2024

“Readers Explaining Genre to Us”

DH Approaches to the Arts of the Present

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 2023
Seattle, WA

Fall 2023

“Surveying Readers’ Labors of Love: Escapism and Commerce on ‘Bookstagram’”
Insights on Readers

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2023
Virtual

Summer 2023

“Trusting to Feel Good: the Double Authority of Bookstagram Reviews of Modern Romance Novels”
Dimensions of Discursive Authority

GKAT conference “Practicing Trust and Authority,” Center for American Studies 2023
Heidelberg, Germany

Summer 2023

“Remaking Regency Romance”
Nineteenth-Century Stories on Page and Screen

Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) 2023
Sacramento, California

Spring 2023

“Entrepreneur as Capitalist Happy End: The Girlboss, Her Lover, and Her Store/Inn/Freelance Business”
Girlboss Aesthetics: Pop Feminism, Neoliberalism, and Capitalist Forms

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2023
Chicago, Illinois

Spring 2023

“Romance Readers on Goodreads”
Computational Reception and Readership Studies

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2022
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Summer 2022

“Reese’s Book Club, social media, and women’s contemporary popular reading practices”
@readers #currentlyreading in digital environments

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2021
Virtual

Summer 2021

“The Promises of Romance”
The Promise of the Novel

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2021
Virtual

Spring 2021

“Taking Tea: Ordinary Pleasures of Womanhood in The House of Mirth and Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs” 

Extra//Ordinary Conference UCLA Graduate Student Conference 2019
Los Angeles, CA

Spring 2019

Participant

 

Feminist Theory Workshop

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Spring 2022

Non-Academic Talking