Academic Conferences, Guest Lectures & Public Scholarship​
 

• Presenter “The Teen Witch and the Complexity of Care Under Capitalism through A Case Study of Wednesday and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” Screen Studies Conference 2023, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Summer 2023).

• 2022 London Critical Theory Summer School. Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Delegate-Researcher.
  Birkbeck, University of London. England (Summer 2022)

• "The Teen Girl of the Future: Figures and Figurations of Extra-Ordinary Girlhood" at The Child of the
  Future conference. University of Cambridge, UK (virtual) (June-July 2022)

• Co-organizer and presenter in You've Come A Long Way, Baby! Girls’ Studies Research Network (GSRN)
  Roundtable. York University, Toronto (April 2022)

• Speaker at “Life After York” Graduate Student Seminar, Film Studies, York University (March 2022)

• Presentation on media literacy at Teach-In Day for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Albertus Magnus College
  (March 2022)

• ARCYP Symposium (virtual/Toronto) (April 2021)

• Podcast Interview: “The Hunger Games & Extraordinary Girl Romance Narratives” 
  Shelf Love: Romantic Love Stories in Pop Culture

• Hosted, moderated, co-organized, and presented at GSRN virtual event Researchwith/about/for Girls:
  Methods and Challenges (October 2020)

• “‘Next level courageous, next level brave’: Teen Girl Audiences and the Cruel Optimism of Empowerment”
  at the Screen Studies conference at University of Glasgow (June 2020) –
  Conference cancelled to COVID-19

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• “Teen Girls and Coming of Age in Speculative Fiction: Empowerment in a Neoliberal Time”
  at Rutgers University-Camden (June 2020) – Conference cancelled due to COVID-19

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• “Next level courageous, next level brave”: Teen Girl Audiences in a Neoliberal Time at Society for
  Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Denver (April 2020) – Conference cancelled due to COVID-19

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• ARCYP Symposium (March 2020)

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• Keynote: “‘Next level courageous, next level brave’: Girl Audiences and the Cruel Optimism of Empowerment” at the Toronto Film & Media Seminar: Let’s Hear it for the Girls! At TIFF Bell Lightbox (November 2019)

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• “Silent No More: Teen Girls Creating Change” at International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) (August 2019)

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• “What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Teen Girl Audiences Speak Out” at ARCYP’s Youngsters2 conference at Ryerson, University (May 2019). 

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• “Activating Activists in Teen Girl Audiences” at International Girls Studies Association conference (IGSA)
  at University of Notre Dame (February 2019)

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• ARCYP Symposium (March 2018)

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• Chaired a panel for Post-IRSCL Symposium (January 2018)

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• “Girls Producing Fan Fiction and Films” at International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) (July-Aug 2017)

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• "Mother and Child in The Partition of India (1947) and the Anti-Sikh Pogrom In and Surrounding Delhi (1984)" at International Conference on Social Science & Humanities (July 2017)

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• Invited to guest lecture Dr. Cowdy’s Global Childhoods course

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• “Media Literacy in Education Settings” at 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture in Education. Venice, Italy. (July 2016)

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• “Media Literacy for Health Care Professionals” at A Palpable Thrill, Medical Humanities Conference.
  Hamilton, Ontario (May 2016)

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• “Moving Through Frames on Screen: Human Experience in the CBC’s Being Erica” at the Popular
  Culture Association/American Culture Association conference. Chicago (April 2014)

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• Intersections conference. Ryerson University, Toronto. (December 2013)

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• “Imagination in Amélie and Memory in Eternal Sunshine” accepted by Film Studies Association of
  Canada at Congress of the Humanities conference, Montreal. (June 2010)

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• “Environment and Identity in Dead Poets Society,” Film Studies Association of Canada at Congress of
  the Humanities conference, Ottawa. (May 2009)

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