Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference
Virtual 2021 – Whatever Happened to Christmas?
Toronto 2018 – Killer Queens: Horror and the Queer Art of Drag
Atlanta 2016 – Queer Bogeymen; or What Is Queer About the Slasher?
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference
Chicago 2024 – The Queer and Feminist Politics of Spoopy in Monster High
Chicago 2014 – Behind the Mask: Mortal Monsters, Crime Thrillers, and the Legacy of Fear
Boston 2012 – Monster-cock: The Echo Of Sir Alfred In The Voice Of Lady Gaga
Sheffield Hallam University Fear 2000
Horror Uncaged, Virtual 2023 – Why Do We Go into the Woods? Stranger by the Lake as International Queer Slasher
Horror Undying, Virtual 2022 – “What the Fuck is Wrong with You?” All About Evil as Slasher Pastiche
The Slasher Studies Summer Camp
An International Conference on Slasher Theory, History and Practice
Virtual 2021 – The Sun Will Come Out, or Will It? Reimagining the Slasher in Serial Mom
Midwest Popular Culture Association (MPCA) Conference
Cincinnati 2019 – Sing Out, Louise! – Coming Out Through Screens
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Annual Meeting
ASAP/7: Arts and the Public, Greenville 2015 – (Reparative) Reading Is Fundamental: Alaska Thunderfuck’s Redeployment of Camp Drag
ASAP/5: Arts of the City, Detroit 2013 – Candyman: Urban City Slasher
Student Conferences & Symposia
In addition to making national conference presentations, I also organized four student conferences at Wayne State University for Kino Club 313, Visual Culture Student Group, and Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
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