CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2019
“Can Anyone be a star(kid)? Re-examining Participatory culture, microcelebrity, and hierarchies in media fandom"
Fan Studies Network - North America, 2nd Annual Conference
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
October 24-26, 2019
2018
“Harry Potter Fan Scholarship and the Case of Carpenter and Conard”
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 39th Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center, Albuquerque, NM
February 7-10, 2018
2015
“‘We won’t let the established rules dictate what things we’re allowed to love!’ AVbyte Musicals and the Performance of Marginalized Identities”
Embracing the Margins: Counter Mainstream Sensibilities in Popular Music
The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC
March 27-28, 2015
“‘Hey, Rosie T.!’ Fan Song and the Reinterpretation of a Companion”
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 36th Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center, Albuquerque, NM
February 11-14, 2015
2014
“‘Our Own Community of Book Nerds:’ Wizard Rock, Filk, and the Ideology of the Folk”
2nd Global Conference: Fan Communities and Fandom
Prague, Czech Republic
November 7-9, 2014
“Serenading the ‘Verse: Firefly and the Importance of Fan Song”
The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SCW6)
California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
June 19-22, 2014
“‘Still Got Legs!’ Murray Gold’s Scores and the 2010 Regeneration of Doctor Who”
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 36th Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center, Albuquerque, NM
February 19-22, 2014
2013
“‘You Can’t Take the Sky from Me:’ Fan Appropriations of the ‘The Ballad of Serenity”
Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon
Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC
2012
“FELA!”
Winter Meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society
Columbia University, New York, NY
January 28, 2012
2011
“FELA! and the Great White Way”
Harvard-Princeton Forum on Musical Theatre
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
April 15, 2011