​Conferences

Chair, “Decolonial Approaches To Literature, Film, And Visual Arts"
Northeast Modern Language Association 50th Anniversary Convention
Washington, D.C.
March 21-March 24, 2019
Invited presentation, “'Small Choices' and Big Dreams: Reading Masculinity Relationally in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference
Los Angeles, CA
March 29-April 1, 2018
* Emergency appendectomy kept me from presenting at this conference
“A Slum Within a City: The Neoliberal Construction of Space and Time in Slumdog Millionaire"
Society for Cinema & Media Studies 59th Annual Conference
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 14-18, 2018
“‘STEPPS Ain’t No Square Dance’: Blackness and New Genders in Save the Last Dance"
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conference
Seattle, Washington
March 22-26, 2016
Marisa Parham's Keynote: Round Table Panel
Critical Institutions, MSU English Department
East Lansing, Michigan
February 26, 2016

"You Look Good Wearing My Future": A Critique of Neoliberalism in John Hughes's Some Kind of Wonderful
20th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference
Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 13-14, 2015