Talks & Events

Conferences, Symposia, & Workshops Organized

• “Soziale und narrative Ökonomien: Grimmelshausens Courasche intersektional” [Social and Narrative Economies: Intersectional Approaches to Grimmelshausen’s Courasche], co-organized workshop at the Zentrum für Historische Mediologie at the University of Zürich, June 29-July 1, 2023.

• “Thinking with Lauren Berlant,” co-organized workshop, University of Alberta, May 19-20, 2023.

• “Watching War: A Symposium on Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front,” co-organized

  symposium, University of British Columbia and University of Warwick, May 11, 2023.

• DDGC Conference: “Creating Just Outcomes and Assessments, Together,” co-organized conference, University of British Columbia, March 31-April 2, 2023.

• “Nosferatu at 100,” co-organized symposium, University of British Columbia, March 18, 2022.

• “Decentering German Cinema,” co-organized conference, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, November 13-14, 2020.

• “The Past and Future of Queer German Studies,” co-organized conference, University of British

  Columbia, April 24-26, 2020.

• “Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum,” co-organized conference, Universityof North Carolina, Asheville, March 2-5, 2017.

Panels Organized, Moderated, or Commentated

• Organizer, “The Perils and Pleasures of Language Program Recruitment,” Modern Language Association. (2024)

• Moderator, several sessions for DDGC 2023, “The Hotcomes Conference: Creating Just Outcomes and Assessments, Together.” (2023)

• Moderator, “From Anthropocene to Zeitgeist: Time and Timeliness in the Works of Schiller and Goethe,” Modern Language Association. (2023)

• Co-organizer, Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum panel: “Minoritized Learners and Instructors in Postsecondary Language Learning Contexts,” Modern Language Association. (2022)

• Co-organizer, Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum panel: “From Theory to Practice: Multilingualism in the Second Language and Teaching Classroom,” Modern Language Association. (2022)

• 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. (2019)

• Commentator, “Reimagining Queer German Histories,” German Studies Association Annual Conference. (2018)

• Organizer: “Diversity, Decolonization, 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 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

• “Weimar Tarot and the Relational Semiotics of Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. (2024)

• “Elisarion’s Visions: Sensuous Queer Media Engagement around 1900,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. (2024)

• 2023 “ars memoriae and the Tempo of the Queer Diaspora in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa,” University of Gießen Conference, “Untimely Encounters: Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity.” (2023)

• “Richard Oswald, Popular Cinema, and the Matter of Managing Scandal,” international symposium “Eine Wiener Schule in Berlin, 1900-1933.” (2023)

• “Weimar Tarot and the Queer Sensuous Knowledge of Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn,” workshop “Weimar’s Queer Visual Cultures.” (2023)

• “The German Studies Tarot Deck,” workshop “Thinking with Lauren Berlant.” (2023)

• “The Unbearable Cringe of Misplaced Pacifism,” Watching War: A Symposium on Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front. (2023)

• 2023 “Realist Affect and the Global Politics of Emotion in Fanny Lewald’s Die Erlöserin,” International Conference on Narrative. (2023)

• “The Gilde freiheitlicher Bücherfreunde and the Patterning of Class Solidarity Across Lines of Difference in Weimar Germany,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. (2023)

• “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

• “Toward a Pedagogy of Unwellness through Language and Culture Studies,” Center Stage Lecture at Tennessee Tech University, February 28, 2024. (scheduled)

• “Anders als die Andern and the Cinema of Mourning,” History of Sexuality Seminar Panel on the Anniversary of the Film at the University of London, February 20, 2024. (scheduled)

• “Divinatory Intimacy: Palmistry in Weimar Film Magazine Culture,” Religion for Lunch Lecture Series, UBC Program in Religious Studies, January 24, 2024. (scheduled)

• “The Pleasures and Pains of Watching Anders als die Andern,” talk, Dickinson College.

• “Anders als die Andern and the Cinema of Mourning,” talk & film screening, University of Chicago. (2023)

• “Feminist Breathing and Queer Intimacy in the Cinema of Monika Treut,” keynote for conference “German Feminisms” at the University of Montreal. (2023)

• “Anders als die Andern and the Melodrama of Sexology,” University of Warwick, October 23, 2023.

• “German Sexology and the Rise of Queer German Studies,” California State University at Long Beach Public Lecture, October 3, 2023.

• “Anders als die Andern and the Cinema of Mourning,” University of British Columbia book launch lecture, September 8, 2023.

• “Anders als die Andern and the Cinema of Mourning,” Weimar Film Network lecture, August 23, 2023.

• “Gender, Diversity, Equity in Collegiate World Language Textbooks,” co-organized talk, workshop, and roundtable at Northwestern University, April 28, 2023.

• “Divinatory Intimacies: Palmistry in Weimar Film Magazine Culture,” University of California Davis Lecture Series, April 19, 2023.

• “Creating Community in German Studies,” co-organized graduate student workshop at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, March 3, 2023.

• “Epistemic Flexibilities in German Studies,” co-organized talk at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, March 3, 2023.

• “Divinatory Intimacies: Palmistry in Weimar Film Magazine Culture,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 3, 2023.

• “Aerial Aesthetic, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut,” Part of the Lecture Series, “Text/Körper. Kultur und (Un-)Sichtbarkeit,” University of Trier, Germany, December 13, 2022.

• “Pedagogies of Unwellness in German Studies,” DAAD Fortbildungsseminar, University of Victoria. (2022)

• “Multidirectional Solidarities in Times of Crisis,” invited plenary for “Post-Imperialist Futures: Addressing Legacy and Living into Promise,” Unitarian Universalist Association Conference. (2022)

• “The Queer Cinema of Mourning: Mädchen in Uniform,” Department of German, Hanover College. (2022)

• “Courasche and the Queer Life of Objects,” Configurations of Female Adventure: Dynamics, Spaces, and Alliances Conference, University of British Columbia. (2022)

• “Affective Mapping as Queer Pedagogy,” Didaktik der Geschichte Kolloquium, Freie Universität Berlin. (2022)

• “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)