Conference Activity
Conference Organization
- 2022, September 29 – October 1
- Co-Organizer
- North American Victorian Studies Association
- 2022, March 25 -27
- Co-Organizer
- Health Humanities Consortium
- 2015, July 16 – 18
- Co-Organizer
- Comics and Medicine Conference, UC Riverside
- 2015, February 25 – 26
- Co-Organizer
- Global Nineteenth Century Conference, UC Riverside
“The Work of Literature in the Age of Medical and Health Misinformation”
Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA.
Year: 2023, January 5-8
“Does Monstrosity Mediate Medical Politics, or Is the Monster the Message?”
Health Humanities Consortium, Nashville, TN.
Year: 2020, March 26 –28. Canceled (Covid-19)
“Medical Fictions.” North American Victorian Studies Association
Columbus, Ohio.
Year: 2019, October 17 – 19
“Playing the Histories and Futures of Science” Unsettling Scientific Stories.
University of York, UK.
Year: 2018, March 27– 29
“Confluent Infections in Victorian Literature.”
Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Year: 2018, January 5–8
“Building Medical Knowledges.” North American Victorian Studies Association.
Florence, Italy.
Year: 2017, May 17– 20
“What’s Vital about Statistics? The Critical Nineteenth–Century Statistical Imaginary.”
Modern Language Association. Organized with Amy Huesby, Austin TX.
Year: 2016, January 7–10
“Clinical Labor in Biomedicine.” Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts.
Rice University. Houston, TX.
Year: 2015, November 13– 15
“The Problem with Zombies: A Critical Reflection.” Comics and Medicine.
University of California, Riverside, CA.
Year: 2015, June 26– 8
Paper Given
Health Humanities Consortium, Portland, OR.
October 26-29, 2022
“The Digital Life of Personalized Microbiomics,”
American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Virtual Conference.
October 11-16, 2021
“Unexceptionally Skewed Life Chances: What Punishment Park Reveals about Covid-19”
Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA.
January 9, 2020
“The Path of Most Antibiotic Resistance.”
North American Victorian Studies, Columbus, OH.
October 17 –19, 2019
“Stamping out Dracula: The Violence of Iatric Imprimaturs.”
Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Chicago, IL.
March 28–30, 2019
“Is the Bacterial Resistome a Hyperobject?”
American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL.
October 11–14, 2018
“While Pestilence Was Hovering over Us and Ours: Kingsley, Crimea, Cholera.”
Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Stanford, CA.
April 20–22, 2018
“The Science–Fictionality of the Antibiotic Apocalypse.”
University of York, York, UK.
March 27–29, 2018
“Gaming the Antibiotic Apocalypse: Superbugs.” Unsettling Scientific Stories.
North American Victorian Studies Association, Banff, Canada.
November 16–19, 2017
“Mary Shelley’s Opioid History and the Pestilential Sublime.”
American Society for Bioethics & Humanities, Kansas City, MO.
October 19–22, 2017
“Ask Your Students about Pharmaceutical Advertising.”
North American Victorian Studies Association, Florence, Italy.
May 17–20, 2017
“Mary Shelley’s Last Man and the Geohumoral Genealogy of Miasmata.”
Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.
January 5–8, 2017
“Arthur Conan Doyle’s Immuno–Imperial Armamentarium.”
North American Victorian Studies Association, Phoenix, AZ.
November 2–5, 2016
“‘And the Individual Withers’: Tennyson’s ‘Locksley Hall’ and Military Masculinity.”
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, DC.
October 6–9, 2016
“What Victorian Literature Can Teach Us about Antibiotic Resistance.”
Health Humanities Conference Cleveland, OH.
April 7–9, 2016
“‘Some Hideous Frankenstein’: The Monstrous Medical Students of Late Victorian London.” Cleveland Clinic.
Modern Language Association, Austin, TX.
January 7–10, 2016
“‘The Average of Accidents’: Probability, Statistics, and Biopolitics in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.”
North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI.
July 9–12, 2015
“Coloniapathic Maladies: Joseph Conrad, Tropical Medicine, and Empire.”
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA.
June 26–8, 2015
“Graphic Medicine Contracts the Zombie Craze.” Comics and Medicine.
University of Hull, Yorkshire, UK.
May 20–21, 2015
“Shaped by Medicine & the Military: Charles Kingsley’s Two Years Ago, Masculinity & the Militarization of Public Health.” Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
April 16–19, 2015
“Mobilizing Victorian Medicine.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies.
North American Victorian Studies Association, London, Canada.
November 13–14, 2014
“‘Battle with This Terrible and Mysterious Enemy’: Public Health and Warfare in Bram
Stoker’s Dracula.”
Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX.
October 9–12, 2014
‘The Gas in those Bubbles’: The Discursive Fluidity of Noxious Gas in Willkie Collin’s Armadale.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
August 22, 2014,
“Black Hats on White Coats: Anxiogenic and Pathogenic Medical Students in Edward Berdoe’s St. Bernard’s.” Anxious Forms: Bodies in Crisis in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Johns Hopkins School, Baltimore, MD.
June 26–28, 2014
“Open up a Few Zombie Brains: a Critique of Neuroimaging in The Zombie Autopsies. Comics and Medicine Conference.
University of Houston, Houston, TX.
March 27–30, 2014
“Internal Corsets: Fitness Discourse and the Reshaping of the Victorian Female Body.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies.
University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.
July 5–7, 2013.
“Vivisecting Gynecology: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell and J. Marion Sims.” Comics and Medicine Conference.
Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Washington D.C.
March 27–30, 2013
“H5N1 for Angry Birds: Interactive Outbreak Narrative and the Social Constructions of Pandemics in Ndemic’s iPhone game Plague Inc.”
Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
October 19–21, 2012
“Inertial Anodynes and Amnesiacs: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Epistle in Joyce’s Ulysses.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference.
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
July 22–24, 2012.
“Empathy in the Gutter: Participatory Delusion in the Graphic Adaptation of Shutter Island.” Comics and Medicine Conference.