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Conference Presentations



The Medium Is the Medium: Communicating with the Dead in Horror and Reality
MAPACA 2022
Virtual
Robot Families in Domesticated Spaces: A Comparative Analysis of Place, Technology, and Family in Netflix's Extintion and I Am Mother
NeMLA 2022
Baltimore, MD
Reboot and Rebirth: Artificial Intelligence and Spiritual Existence in The Good Place
PCA/ACA 2021
Virtual



’You Were Dirty If You Looked Different’: Black Robots, Intersectional Feminism, and Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer
*CONFERENCE CANCELED*
PCA/ACA 2020
Philadelphia, PA
When Robots Choose to Die: A Survey of Robot Suicide in Science Fiction
PCA/ACA 2019
Washington, DC
Mother-Ships: Reproduction and Representation in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stargate SG1, and Farscape
SCMS 2016
Chicago, IL



The U.S.S. Spenta vs. The I.S.S. Angra: Transtemporality and Persian Mythical Spirits in Star Trek’s Mirror Universes
Film & History 2012
Milwaukee, WI
Bad House-Wives: Gender Roles and the Acousmatic Computer Voice in Smart House and Eureka
MCMA Graduate Symposium 2012, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
Emasculating, Dear: A Psychoanalytic and Kuleshovian Examination of Constructions of Masculinity in Star Trek
MCMA Graduate Symposium 2011
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL



This Aura Sucks: the Use of Fictional, Narrative Film as a Mode of Popular Critique of Poetry in So I Married an Axe Murderer
PCA/ACA 2011
San Antonio, TX
Coming up for Air: The Emergence of a National Free-Form Radio Movement at the 1970 Alternative Media Conference (co-authored with John L. Hochheimer)
PCA/ACA 2010
St. Louis, MO
If You’re a GTA, I May Have Written This for You: False Ideology and Authority in the College Composition Classroom
UNH English Graduate Organization Conference 2008
Durham, NH
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