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Current Positions:  

2022/01 - Present       Founder/President, Queer Studies Association of Canada

2020/10 - Present       Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Lamp Literary Journal

2020/08 - Present       Co-Editor-In-Chief, True Crime Index

2020/08 - Present       Freelance Writer, The Lesbrary 

Conferences:

05/2023           "'The flesh made word': Lesbian Neo-Victorian Pornography in Heather O’Neill’s When We Lost Our Heads." ACCUTE.

05/2023           Panel Organizer/Panel Chair. “Life Writing as Queer Testimony.” ACCUTE & The Queer Studies  

                        Association of Canada. York University.

02/2023           “�ĘAm I anywhere in there?’: Conflicting Archives in The World to Come.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference, online.  

11/2022           ““I will tell you my story”: Narrative Agency and Vampiric Autonomy in Young Adult Retellings of Carmilla.” Recovering the Vampire, online.

11/2022           “�ĘSomeone else’s tragedy’: True Crime and Memoir in the Golden State Killer Trilogy.” Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives, online.

10/2022           “�ĘInduced by the demon’s lips’: Vampiric Orality and the Lesbian Mouth in Le Fanu’s Carmilla.”Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Conference, online.

05/2022           “A cruelty of nature”: American Landscape and the Lesbian Gothic.” ACCUTE.

05/2022           “�ĘPulled into elsewhere, or perhaps nowhere’: Erotohistoriography and the Lesbian Gothic.” ACCUTE.

03/2022           “�ĘA real queer fish’: Erotic Consumption in Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet and Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music.” Outsiders: Making Space at the Queer Intersections of Sex and Gender, University of Brighton.

02/2022           “�ĘI say you do not have a name’: Queering Dracula’s Brides in S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood.” Gothic Trajectories, online.

02/2022           “�ĘA kindling, a fascination, a yearning’: Female Friendship, Marriage, and Queer Communities in Biofictions by Emma Donoghue.” The Historical Fictions Research Network, online.

12/2021           “�ĘHistory digs a shallow grave’: Temporal Boundaries in the neo-Victorian Lesbian Gothic in Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines.” Queer Temporalities Conference, University of Murcia, Spain.

09/2021           “�ĘYou’re not the stuff of a chapter’: Queer Life and Women’s Activism in Biofictions by Emma Donoghue.” The Neo-Victorian and the Late-Victorian: Texts, Media, Politics, The University of Brighton, UK.

07/2021           Panel Organizer/Panel Chair. “�ĘSpeaking of my oddity’: Inclusive Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Life Writing.” Victorian Popular Fiction Association Annual Conference.

05/ 2021          “�ĘThe curiosity with which that fist moves”: Lesbian Vaginal Fisting in the Novels of Emma Donoghue and Sarah Waters.” ACCUTE.

04/2021           Moderator. “Class and Social Stratification.” Victorian Pasts, Presents, and Futures, 04/2021. Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin.

04/2021           Moderator. “Aesthetic Elements: Art and Fashion.” Victorian Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin.

043/2021         Panel Chair, Victorianism. Queen’s Undergraduate Conference in Literature. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

02/2021           “White snakes of sea-foam”: Coastal Boundaries and Lesbian Spectrality in Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines.” Haunted Shores: Coastlands, Coastal Waters and the Littoral Gothic, online.

03/2019            “God fearing, drug hating, laudanum swilling Victorian England:” The Neo-Victorian Opium Eater in Philip Pullman’s The Ruby in the Smoke.” The Age of Anxiety: Literary Studies in a Culture of Risk, Graduate Conference.

04/2018           “The Phantom Around the Corner: The Victorian ‘Other’ in Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone and Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.” Arts Matters, UNB Fredericton.

03/2017           “M��������.” “Rural Affairs.” Atlantic Arts Undergraduate English Conference.

Invited Talks

02/2023           “The Lesbian Gothic Novel.” ENGL 451: The Nineteenth-Century Gothic, Queen’s University. (Renumerated Talk).

12/2022           “Traps, Trauma, and the Locked Door: Bluebeard in the 21^st Century.” Romancing the Gothic, Public Talk, Online,12/2022.

05/2021           “�ĘI never knew that there were girls like her’: Locating the (neo)Victorian Lesbian.” Special Topics Presentation. Queen’s University Department of English Language and Literature.

04/2021           Keynote Speaker. “�ĘLike a lovely corpse’: The Zombic Fallen Woman in Victorian Art and Literature.”    Keynote Address. Undergraduate Conference. Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin.