Publications
“Edward Scissorhands” entry for Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films. Eds. Salvador Murguia, Kristina Fennelly, and Erica Dymond. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
“Pitch Perfect” entry for Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films. Eds. Salvador Murguia, Kristina Fennelly, and Erica Dymond. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
“The Royal Tenenbaums” entry for Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films. Eds. Salvador Murguia, Kristina Fennelly, and Erica Dymond. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
Conference Presentations
Forthcoming. “Elvira is Patriarchy’s Unpleasant Dream.” Popular Culture Association, March 2024, Chicago, IL.
“Breaking the Cycle of Toxic Masculinity in Jeff Lemire’s Roughneck. Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, November 2018, Baltimore, MD.
“Swashbuckling and a Spot of Tea: Platonic Chemistry in Tony Cliff’s Delilah Dirk Series.” National Popular Culture and American Culture Association, April 2017. San Diego, CA.
"The Saga of Sisterhood in Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Paper Girls." Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, November 2016, Atlantic City, NJ.
“The Never-Ending Paternal Saga.” Popular Culture and American Culture Association, March 2016, Seattle, WA.
“‘Love is a Form of Mutual Masturbation:’ The Futility of Love in Julia Gfrorer’s Flesh and Bone. ”Popular Culture and American Culture Association, April 2015, New Orleans, LA.
“Erotic Suffering in Julia Gfrorer’s Black is the Color.” Pennsylvania College English Association, October 2014, Harrisburg, PA.
“Monstrous Female Self-Fashioning in Thomas Middleton’s The Changeling.” College English Association, March 2014, Baltimore, MD.
“‘The Things I Do for Love:’ Twincest, Subjectivity, and Resistance in George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones.” English Association of Pennsylvania Universities, October 2013, West Chester, Pa.
“Abjection and Maternal Ambivalence in Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle. ”Pennsylvania College English Association, April 2012, Scranton, Pa.
“Incest and Agency in John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.” Pennsylvania College English Association, April 2010, Bethlehem, PA.
Moderator of “Speaking Gender” Panel. First Annual Lehigh University’s Feminism in Practice Conference, November 2008, Bethlehem, PA.
“Shame as the Reproductive Work of Women in Desperate Housewives,” First Annual Saint Rose Women’s Studies Regional Conference, March 2007, Albany, NY.
“The Hysterical Men of Sin City.” Literature Film Association, October 2005, Carlisle, PA. “Abject Black Femininity and the Construction of White Male Stoicism in William Faulkner’
“Light in August.” Popular Culture Association of the South, September 2004, New Orleans, LA.