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2025

“Uncovering Forms of Violence: Investigative Graphic Journalism as Research Output.” Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives and Arts-Based Research. London Arts-Based Research Centre (online)

2023

“Doubled Embodiment and the Temporal Experience of Illness in Comics, European Narratology Network. (Monopoli, Italy)

“Embodied Twice, or Maybe Not?: Doubled Embodiment in Graphic Mental Illness Narratives.” International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Dallas, USA)

2022

“Oceans of Silence: Vulnerability in Comics about Migration.” Agency, Community, Kinship: Representations of Migration beyond Victimhood.” International Online Symposium. (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)

“Picturing a Cubist View of Time in Graphic Memoir.” International Auto/Biography Association. (Turku, Finland)

“Twisted Time and Space: Reflections on Self in Graphic Memoir.” International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Chichester, England)

“Image Stories of Migration.” Border Crossings and Human Rights in Graphic Narratives, International Workshop Online. (University of Cyprus / Erasmus University Rotterdam)

“Photography and Graphic Illness Narratives.” Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life. (Paris, France)

2021

““Imagine a World without Boundaries?”: Stressing Panel Patterns in East Asian Short Comics.”Decolonizing the Panel; Deconstructing the Gutter: Two-day Virtual International Conference on postcolonial Studies in Comics and Graphic Narratives from South Asia. (Bihar, India)

2020

“Time Talking Body Talk in Graphic Medicine.” International Society for the Study of Narrative (New Orleans, USA)

2019

“Lists: Design and Deception in Graphic Illness Narratives.” International Society for the Study of Narrative (Pamplona, Spain)

“Multiple Perspectives and Ambiguity in Hybrid Texts.” International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Manchester, UK)

2018

“Photographs, Cartoon Drawings, and Me.” Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging: 11th Biennial Conference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography (São João del-Rei, Brazil)

“What Photography in Graphic Memoir Tells Us about Cartooning.” Mind the Gaps: The 1st Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society. (forthcoming, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

“Mediated Vision: Photography in Graphic Memoir.” Michigan State University Comics Forum (East Lansing, USA)

2017

“Layering Perspective across Photography.” International Society for the Study of Narrative (Lexington, USA)

“Breaking Into and Out of Panels: Formal Expressions of Subjectivity in Graphic Memoir.” Eighth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Dundee, Scotland)

“Intericonicity: Iconographic Repetition in Comics.” International Association for Word and Image Studies. (Lausanne, Switzerland)

2016

“Photographic Defacement in Comics.” Mixing Visual Media in Comics.” International Conference (St. John’s, Canada)

“Visualizing Trauma: Photography in Graphic Memoir.” Excavating Lives: 10th Biennial Conference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography (Nicosia, Cyprus)

2015

“The Immigrant’s Plight: Photography in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival.” Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference / Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference. University of London Institute in Paris / Institut national d’histoire de l’art. (Paris, France)

“Troubling the Visual: Photography in Graphic Memoir.” “Images of Identity: International Symposium on Word-and-Image Studies.” (Zurich, Switzerland)

2014

“Engaging Mental Complexity in David B.’s Epileptic and David Small’s Stitches.” Auto/biography in Transit: Conference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography (Banff, Canada)

“What’s the Matter of Seeing in Graphic Memoir.” Canadian Society for the Study of Comics. (Toronto, Canada)

“Showing the Workings of Mental Complexity in Graphic Memoir.” International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Cambridge, USA)

2013

“Thinking and Seeing in Graphic Memoir.” International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Manchester, UK)

2012

“Empty Frames: Filling in the Dots (Take Two).” EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3. (Montpellier, France)

“Messing with the Visual: Photography and Cartooning in Graphic Memoir.” ESSE (European Society for the Study of English). (Istanbul, Turkey)

2011

“Messing with Facts: Photographic Traces in Life Writing.” International Association of Word and Image Studies. (Montreal, Canada)

with Dr. Silke Horstkotte. “Visual Metaphor, Focalization, and Ambiguous Deixis in Shaun Tan's The Arrival.” International Society for the Study of Narrative. (St. Louis, USA)

2010

“Saying a lot by Showing Little: Photography in Emanuele Martino’s Cara fotografia: Racconti.” International Conference, 21st-Century European Literature and Philology: Mapping New Trends. Korrectur (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)

“Effectively Intense, Impossibly Bad Photographs in Autobiography.” The 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference. (University of Sussex, UK)

with Dr. Silke Horstkotte. “Narrative Situation in the Graphic Novel: An Analysis of Maus.” Departmental Colloquium. (St. John's, Canada)

2009

“Red – Black – Blue – Yellow – White, or Colourful Openings in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse.” International Conference, Color: Between Silence and Eloquence. Société des Amis d’Intertexte. (Paris, France)

“Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri de Luca’s Non ora, non qui.” International Conference, Enlightening Encounters: Italian Literature and Photography through Time. (Warwick, U.K.)

2008

“The Forbidden Narratives of Looking.” International Conference, Image and Imagery. (St. Catherines, Canada)

“An Aesthetic of Silence: Photography in Autobiography.” International Conference, Debating the Aesthetic. (St. John’s, Canada)

“Showing Self in Photographic Silence.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference. (Long Beach, USA)

“Photographic Erasures in Autobiography.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference. (Vancouver, Canada)

2007

“Mapping the World as it Intersects with Self.” International conference, Text and Image: The Language of Images. (Hartford, USA)

2005

“Documenting What Exactly?” International conference, Thinking Photography (Again). (Durham, England)

2004

“Who Said Looks Don’t Matter; or Portraiture’s Chosen People.” International conference, Image and Imagery: An International Conference on Literature and the Arts. (St. Catherines, Canada)

“Portraiture, a Language between Self and Other.” International conference, Identities and Alterities. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“Photographic Portrayals of Gender: Concepts of Gender Representation in Photographic Portraiture.” International conference, The Photograph. (Winnipeg, Canada)

2003

“Expressions of Outsiders: Exploring Chameleon Accents.” International conference, Accented Cultures: Deterritorialization and Transnationality in the Arts and Media. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“Showing Exile: Breytenbach’s Visual Portrayals of a Lost Centre.” Annual conference, Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. (Boston, USA)

2002

“Engendering Portraits: Verbal and Visual Portrayals of Gender in Gender Outlaw and The Last Time I Wore a Dress.” International conference, Language, Communication, Culture. (Evora, Portugal)

“Portraits: The Art of Passing into, through, and out of Representation.” International conference, Travelling Concepts III: Memory, Image, Narrative. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2001

“Showing the Places You Tell: Visual Evidence in Travel Writing.” International conference, Seeing Things: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Literature and the Visual. (Tours, France)

“The Verbal and Visual Mirrors and Mazes of Postcolonial Identity in Breyten Breytenbach’s All One Horse.” International seminar, Writing the Self - Writing the Other: Postcoloniality and South African Writing. (Zürich, Switzerland)

“Visual Representations of Social Conventions: Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Annual conference, American Comparative Literature Association. (Boulder, USA)

“Communications about, within, and across the Photographic Image: Letters and Pictures in Claudio DiScalzo’s Vecchiano, un paese: Lettere a Antonio Tabucchi.” Annual conference, Canadian Society for Italian Studies, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Sainte-Foy, Canada)

“Views of Reality: How Some Canadians Show Space.” Annual conference, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Sainte-Foy, Canada)

2000

“Lessons in Reading the Visual: Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Annual conference, Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. (Buffalo, USA)

“Reading the Photographic Text with Lalla Romano.” International conference, Image and Imagery: An International Conference on Literature and the Arts. (St. Catherines, Canada)

1999

“Ekphrasis and Truth in Lalla Romano’s Novels.” Annual conference, Canadian Society for Italian Studies, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Sherbrooke, Canada)

1998

“The Photographic Representation of Space, Body and Voice in Erri De Luca and Oriana Fallaci.” International conference, Possible Worlds and Virtual Worlds: Crossing the Boundaries in 20th Century Italian Literature and Film. (Toronto, Canada)

“As You Disguise Me: Authorial Tyranny of Misrepresentation in Flann O’Brien.” International conference, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. (Cortland, USA)

“Articulating the Contradictions of Auschwitz.” Annual conference, Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Ottawa, Canada)