Decolonising and Diversifying German Studies
- w/ I.M. Nick “German Studies and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” Modern Languages and Inclusivity: Sharing Ideas and Practices, Alliance of Mod. Langs, Area Studies & Linguistics Subject Assocs UK (May 2022)
- “Report of the AGS Equity, Diversity and Inclusion working group” Heads of German Meet (HoGMeet) (May 2022)
- “Towards an Equitable German Studies: site relaunch” (co-authored by Rich McClelland), DDGC Recreating German Teaching (Oct. 2021)
- “Gender-neutral pronouns in German: a sample lesson for 200-level” DDGC Recreating German Teaching Group (June 2020)
Turkish German literature and cinema
- “Yadé Kara’s Cafe Cyprus and the imperial property ladder” Association for German Studies, U. of Nottingham (2022)
- Yadé Kara’s literary countermonumentalism in Cafe Cyprus (2008)” (Re)thinking Countermonuments, U. of Leeds (2022)
- “Black Orpheus on the Underground: Kara’s Cafe Cyprus (2008)” Words, Music and Marginalisation, St. Andrew’s (2020)
- Yadé Kara’s ‘Kelim’ or ‘The epistemological carpet.’” Women In German, Sewanee, Tennessee (2018)
- “Digging in the Kazim family archive. Yadé Kara’s Selam Berlin.” Beziehungskrisen: Deutsch-türkische Verhältnisse in Literatur und Film, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey (2017)
- “Kebab Connection: An apprenticeship in adaptation.” Recycling and Rebirth: 24th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St Louis (2015)
Scriptural Intertextuality
- “Crowd pleasing? Yadé Kara’s ‘Kelim’ and the Qur’an” Performing Heritage, Writing Migration, Cambridge Uni. (2018)
- “Luther’s concept of ‘Beruf’ and Social Mobility in Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine” Conflicts of Interest – The Productive Power of Confrontation: First Annual Graduate Student Conference, UCLA Dept of Germanic Languages (2016)
German cinema
- “The Fragile Center: Camera distance in Karim Aïnouz’s refugee documentary Zentralflughafen THF” German Studies Association (2020)
- “Diegetic Laughter in Fritz Lang’s M.” Laughter: German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley (2013)
- “The Joker, the Audience and the Butt: Triangle of Ridicule in Fritz Lang’s M.” Crisis, Conflict, Configuration: 22nd Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St Louis (2013)
German national identity
- “Citizenship discourse in the German blogosphere (Flickr) during the 2005/06 ‘Du bist Deutschland’ campaign.” Innovation & Recycling in post-unification German Culture, Leeds University (2007)
German graphic novels
- “What’s Eating Heinrich Faust? Interethnic romance in Flix’s graphic novel adaptation.” GSA, Kansas City (2014)
- “The adventuress. Opposing discourses in Ulli Lust’s Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens.” 75th conference of the Assoc. for German Studies in GB & Ireland, University of Edinburgh (2012)
History and trauma
- Untitled joint presentation w/ Prof. Todd Decker on Tourists of History by Marita Sturken (2007) to Transnational Postmemory Reading Group, Washington University in St Louis (2013)
Invited conference contributions:
- Invited commentator, “Vexierbilder: Autorinszenierungen u. Autorbilder von 1800 (2),” GSA, Portland (2019)
- Invited podium member, Grenzenlos! Slavic Studies Grad. Conference, Hamburg Uni. (2017)
- Invited moderator, “Rewriting Belonging: Gender, Race, and National Identity” panel, Resisting the Status Quo and Rewriting Belonging: 25th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, German Dept., Washington University in St Louis (2016)