conference presentations
List of Papers
“The $2 American Beauty Pageant: Game Show Identity in E. M. Tran’s Daughters of the New Year.” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, January 2024. Panel Co-Chair.
"' A Slight Hysterical Tendency': Eraserhead and Fire Walk with Me as Works of Hysterical Literature." Association of Adaptation Studies & Literature/Film Association Joint Conference, Virtual, February 2023.
“Tell Laura I Love Her: The Ballad of Laura Palmer.” American Musicological Society, New Orleans, November 2022.
“Tell Laura I Love Her: The Ballad of Laura Palmer.” Literature/Film Association, New Orleans, October 2022.
“David Lynch’s Old, Weird America: The Straight Story.” Music and the Moving Image, Virtual, May 2022.
“Lonelyhearts and Locusts in the City of Dreams: David Lynch and Nathanael West Cruise Mulholland Drive.” Association of Adaptation Studies & Literature/Film Association Joint Conference, Virtual, February 2022.
“The Water and the Well: Nuclear Media as Hyperobject in Cormac McCarthy and David Lynch.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual, March 2021.
“My Own Private Aberdeen: Repurposing Grunge Celebrity and Gen-X Politics in the Films of Gus Van Sant.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2020.
“The State of the Single-Author Study” (roundtable, w/Matt Luter) Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2020.
“‘This Muddy Bothness’: David Foster Wallace’s Absorbed Adaptation of David Lynch.” Literature-Film Association, Portland, September 2019.
“Who Wants to be an American?: Game Shows and Citizenship in Robert Olen Butler’s ‘The American Couple.’” Society for the Study of the American Short Story Symposium, American Literature Association, New Orleans, September 2019.
“‘I Put a Spell on You’: Affiliating (Mis)Identifications in David Lynch’s Lost Highway.” Music and the Moving Image Conference, NYU, May 2019.
“Author Where?: The Search for Authorial Presence in the Early Work of David Foster Wallace.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Birmingham, AL, November 2018.
“Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Davids: The Influence of David Lynch on David Foster Wallace.” David Foster Wallace Conference, ISU, Bloomington, IL, June 2018.
“Great Male Narcissists: Reading (Against) Updike and Wallace Post-#MeToo” American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2018 Roundtable Chair
“Physical Challenge: Game Shows, State Power, and Death” American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2018
“Love Connection: A Buzzer’s Discourse” Errata Salon, Los Angeles, November 2016
“Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain!” David Foster Wallace Conference, ISU, Bloomington, July 2016 *Panel Organizer and Presenter
“‘Verbal Chaos’: Authorial Absence in Oblivion” David Foster Wallace Conference, ISU, Bloomington, July 2016
“What is ‘Wise Up for the Fat Lady?’: The Game-Show Families of Salinger, Wallace, and Anderson” David Foster Wallace Conference, ISU, Bloomington, May 2015 * Organizer and Featured Panelist.
Roundtable Discussion: David Foster Wallace In and Out of the Academy David Foster Wallace Conference, ISU, Bloomington, May 2015
“… And Starring David Foster Wallace as Himself: Performance and Persona in The Pale King” Infinite Wallace, Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, September 2014
“ ‘Strewn Along the Margins’: Reading Wallace Reading” David Foster Wallace Conference, ISU, Bloomington, May 2014 *Featured Panelist.
“Reinvigorating the Literature of Exhaustion: Teaching David Foster Wallace’s ‘Octet’” American Literature Association, Boston, May 2013
“Folio: Single, Attractive Form Seeks Content for Meaningful Relationship” NCTE PRESLM Presents: A Review of the Nation's Best Literary Arts Magazines. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Las Vegas, November 2012
“David Lynch at the Crossroads: Deconstructing Rock, Reconstructing Wild at Heart” Music and the Moving Image, NYU, June 2012
“David Lynch at the Crossroads: Deconstructing Rock, Reconstructing Wild at Heart” Pop Culture Association National Conference, Boston, April 2012