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
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
“Unhinged Millennial Women”
Unhinged Women: Millennials, Malaise, and Meaning
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 2024 [scheduled]
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
AK 47 Podcast
High Theory Podcast
Big Ideas for Strange Times
“How Did Socialism Become a Dirty Word in Western Politics?”
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Let’s validate each other during isolation
How do we integrate our private and academic lives on campus?
Penn, listen to grad students when planning the fall semester