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Modern Language Association (MLA), Jan. 2026
“Unveiling Mary Seacole: Beyond ‘Mother Seacole’ & the ‘Black Nightingale,’” Celebrating Black Women Writers special session.
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Oct. 2025
“‘In the water… we see the future’: Imaging Black Futures in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood.”
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i19: The Incredible 19th Century, May 2025
“Imaging the Future in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood.”
British Women Writers Association (BWWC), May 2024
“Doctress, Nurse, and ‘Mother’: The Many Figurations of Mary Seacole.”
College Language Association (CLA), Apr. 2024
“‘Forced to Some Experiment’: Frailty & Health in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Mar. 2024
“‘Forced to Some Experiment’: Frailty & Health in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig.”
Duke University Global Blackface Symposium, Nov. 2022
“From ‘Baboos’ to Bollywood: Inhabiting the Other in Indian Minstrel Acts.”
Rutgers University Graduate Symposium, Apr. 2022
“Staging a Spectacle: The Lynching Scene in The/An Octoroon.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Mar. 2022
“The Lynching Photograph: (Re)viewing the Spectacular in The/An Octoroon.”
Rutgers University Graduate Symposium, Apr. 2020
“Artefactual Yellowface: Transferable Nationalisms & Commodifiable Orientalisms.”
Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Mar. 2020
“Of Masks and Men: Chu Chin Chow and the National Imagination.”