“The Massacre Will be Televised: Splatter Theory, Avant-Garde Horror, and the Cutting up of the Heuchelmaschine in Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker,” German Studies Association 46th Conference, Houston, TX, September 15th-18th, 2022
“The Thing that Eludes Us: John Carpenter, Horror’s Abject, and the Hermeneutics of Cold War Cinema,” Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, February 26th-27th, 2021 (online)
“Mysterious Caverns, Desolate Mountains, and Haunted Castles: The Gothic in German Postwar Horror Cinema,” German Studies Association 44th Conference, Washington, DC, October 1st-4th, 2020 (online)
“West German Gothic Cinema: Repressed Horrors in Harald Reinl’s Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism), Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, February 7th-8th, 2020
“Blood and Soil: The Representation of National Space in Contemporary German Vampire Films,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 107th Conference, San Diego, CA, November 14th-17th, 2019
“Berlin Under Siege: Spatial Allegory in Marvin Kren’s Zombie Film Rammbock,” German Studies Association 43rd Conference, Portland, OR, October 5th-8th, 2019
“Necromancers, Nightmares, and Neo-Nazis: 21st-Century German Horror Cinema,” Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, March 5th, 2019
“The City of Bits: Augmented Reality Games and Mediated Modes of Experience,” Philological Association of the Carolinas Annual Conference, Charleston, SC, February 22nd-23rd, 2019
“West German Exploitation Cinema,” German Studies Association 42nd Conference (part of the GSA Seminar on Popular Culture in 20th-Century Germany), Pittsburgh, PA, September 27th-30th, 2018
“Cinematic Space as National Metaphor in Harald Reinl’s Der Frosch mit der Maske,” Philological Association of the Carolinas Annual Conference, Charleston, SC, February 23rd-24th, 2018
“Undead Queens of Berlin: Vampirism and Gender Politics in Dennis Gansel’s Wir sind die Nacht,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 115th Conference, Honolulu, HI, November 10th-12th, 2017
“8-Bit-Nazis and C64-Killers: Racism and Violence in West German 1980s Homebrew Programming,” German Studies Association 41st Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 5th-8th, 2017
“The Holocaust Drama as Caper Movie: Hollywood Tropes in Wolfgang Murnberger’s Mein bester Feind,” Philological Association of the Carolinas Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, April 8-9, 2017
“Exotic Dancers, Hunchbacked Nurses, and Mad Scientists: Gender Roles in Victor Trivas’ Die Nackte und der Satan,” German Studies Association 40th Conference, San Diego, CA, September 29-October 2, 2016
“’Eine Zensur findet nicht statt’: Horror Cinema and Regulatory Media Politics in Postwar Germany,” Philological Association of the Carolinas Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, March 18-19, 2016
“City of the Living Dead: Post-Wall Berlin in German Genre Cinema,” German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, October 1-4, 2015
“Tales from the Dark Side: The Transgression of Boundaries in Olaf Ittenbach’s The Burning Moon,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, April 30-May 3, 2015
“Graffiti in Berlin: A Research Report,” German Studies Association Conference (part of the GSA Seminar on New Directions in Sub-, Pop, and Lowbrow Culture), Kansas City, MS, September 18-21, 2014
“The Return of the Corpse: The Relation of Art and Censorship in Jörg Buttgereit’s Underground Splatter NekRomantik 2,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 16-19, 2014
“Writing the City: Graffiti and Urban Space in Florian Gaag’s Whole Train,” 67th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 10-12, 2014
“Floating in the Streets: Walking Post-Wall Berlin in Rainald Goetz’s Abfall für alle.” German Studies Association 37th Conference, Denver, CO, October 3-6, 2013
“1968 and Its Discontents: The Aesthetic Retaking of Urban Space in Westwärts 1 & 2.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 21-24, 2013
“Aesthetic Terrorism: The Standstill of Shock in the Instant Photography of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann.” German Studies Association 36th Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 4-7, 2012
“The Afterlife of Expressionism: Cinematic References in Heinrich Böll’s Der Engel schwieg.” Carolina-Duke Works in Progress Symposium: Chapel Hill, NC, February 7, 2012
“’An der Kernstelle der Existenz’: Rainald Goetz, Night Clubs, and Experimental Writing.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA. November 4-6, 2011
“The Mobility of Morality: The Renegotiation of Time in Wolfgang Staudte’s Die Mörder sind unter uns.” German Studies Association 35th Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, September 22-25, 2011
“Re-enchanting Berlin: The Intersection of Modernity and Myth in Tanja Dückers’s Spielzone.” 64th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. April 14-16, 2011
“A Wor(l)d or Two Away from the Real: The Aesthetics of Repetition in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s Wörter Sex Schnitt.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA. November 5-7, 2010
“What Happens in Vegas Might Not Happen: The Literary City as Utopian Space in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” The Society for Utopian Studies 35th Annual Meeting: “Civil Rights, Social Justice, and the Midwest,” Milwaukee, WI. October 28-31, 2010