Public Speaking
Competitively Selected Conference Presentations
“See You Later Alligator: The Intersection of Ecological and Personal Trauma in Crawl (2019).”
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. SCMS. Virtual Conference; March 2021.
"Tangled: Bad Hair (2020), Black Horror, and Colonial Complications."
British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference. Virtual Conference; Feb. 2021.
“It was a Dark and Dusty Night: Razorback (1984) & the Development of the Australian EcoGothic.”
British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Savannah, GA; Feb 2020.
“‘We Wouldn’t Stand a Chance’: A Revisionist Ecocritical Assessment of Hitchcock’s The Birds.”
California American Studies Association Conference. San Diego, CA; April 2019.
Honorable Mention, Jackie Donath Prize, 2019
“‘All This Machine Does’: Imagining & Visualizing the Cinematic Animal Body in the Jaws Franchise.”
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. SCMS. Seattle, WA; March 2019.
“‘You’re white. You can do anything.’: Hollywood’s Celebration of the Colonial Past in a Post-Apartheid Temporal Enclave.”
British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Savannah, GA; Feb 2019.
Winner, Nichols Graduate Award.
“‘We Were Being Changed and Made Part of Their World’: Complicating the Human and Animal with Phase IV.”
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment- Affiliated Virtual Symposium; June 2018.
“Panic in Detroit: Don’t Breathe and the Fear of Old Cities, Homes, and Men”
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. SCMS. Toronto, Canada; March 2018.
“Burning Bright: Looking Back at Colonization in Anger and Regret with South Korea’s The Tiger.”
British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Savannah, GA; Feb 2018.
“Trouble in Paradise: Dramatizing the Natural World’s Resistance & Destruction in The Shallows (2016).”
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. ASLE. Detroit, MI; June 2017.
“Living Deliciously: The Witch (2016) and the Subversive Power of Uncolonized Land.”
British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Savannah, GA; Feb 2017.
“Let Slip the Frogs of War: Frogs (1972) and Contributing to Cultural Debates.”
Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference. RSA. Atlanta, GA; May 2016.
“Slow But Steady: An Ecocritical Appreciation of Norway’s Slow TV Movement.”
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. SCMS. Atlanta, GA; March-April 2016.
“No Place for Waltzing Matilda: The Uncanny Swamp Spaces of Rogue & Black Water.”
British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Savannah, GA; Feb 2016.
“Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright / Please Help Me Get Laid Tonight: Tiger Selfies and Orientalism 2.0.”
British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Savannah, GA; Feb 2015.
“Pandopticon: The Panda Cam and Animal Surveillance.”
National Communication Association Annual Convention. NCA. Chicago, IL; Nov 2014.
“There is a Storm Coming: Take Shelter and the Pre-Apocalyptic Narrative.”
Popular Culture Association in the South. PCAS. New Orleans, LA; Oct 2014.