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2025

�Uncovering Forms of Violence: Investigative Graphic Journalism as Research Output.� Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives and Arts-Based Research. London Arts-Based Research Centre (online)

2023

�Doubled Embodiment and the Temporal Experience of Illness in Comics, European Narratology Network. (Monopoli, Italy)

�Embodied Twice, or Maybe Not?: Doubled Embodiment in Graphic Mental Illness Narratives.� International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Dallas, USA)

2022

�Oceans of Silence: Vulnerability in Comics about Migration.� Agency, Community, Kinship: Representations of Migration beyond Victimhood.� International Online Symposium. (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)

�Picturing a Cubist View of Time in Graphic Memoir.� International Auto/Biography Association. (Turku, Finland)

�Twisted Time and Space: Reflections on Self in Graphic Memoir.� International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Chichester, England)

�Image Stories of Migration.� Border Crossings and Human Rights in Graphic Narratives, International Workshop Online. (University of Cyprus / Erasmus University Rotterdam)

�Photography and Graphic Illness Narratives.� Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life. (Paris, France)

2021

��Imagine a World without Boundaries?�: Stressing Panel Patterns in East Asian Short Comics.�Decolonizing the Panel; Deconstructing the Gutter: Two-day Virtual International Conference on postcolonial Studies in Comics and Graphic Narratives from South Asia. (Bihar, India)

2020

�Time Talking Body Talk in Graphic Medicine.� International Society for the Study of Narrative (New Orleans, USA)

2019

�Lists: Design and Deception in Graphic Illness Narratives.� International Society for the Study of Narrative (Pamplona, Spain)

�Multiple Perspectives and Ambiguity in Hybrid Texts.� International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Manchester, UK)

2018

�Photographs, Cartoon Drawings, and Me.� Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging: 11th Biennial Conference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography (São João del-Rei, Brazil)

�What Photography in Graphic Memoir Tells Us about Cartooning.� Mind the Gaps: The 1st Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society. (forthcoming, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

�Mediated Vision: Photography in Graphic Memoir.� Michigan State University Comics Forum (East Lansing, USA)

2017

�Layering Perspective across Photography.� International Society for the Study of Narrative (Lexington, USA)

�Breaking Into and Out of Panels: Formal Expressions of Subjectivity in Graphic Memoir.� Eighth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (Dundee, Scotland)

�Intericonicity: Iconographic Repetition in Comics.� International Association for Word and Image Studies. (Lausanne, Switzerland)

2016

�Photographic Defacement in Comics.� Mixing Visual Media in Comics.� International Conference (St. John�s, Canada)

�Visualizing Trauma: Photography in Graphic Memoir.� Excavating Lives: 10th Biennial Conference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography (Nicosia, Cyprus)

2015

�The Immigrant�s Plight: Photography in Shaun Tan�s The Arrival.� Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference / Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference. University of London Institute in Paris / Institut national d�histoire de l�art. (Paris, France)

�Troubling the Visual: Photography in Graphic Memoir.� �Images of Identity: International Symposium on Word-and-Image Studies.� (Zurich, Switzerland)

2014

�Engaging Mental Complexity in David B.�s Epileptic and David Small�s Stitches.� Auto/biography in Transit: Conference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography (Banff, Canada)

�What�s the Matter of Seeing in Graphic Memoir.� Canadian Society for the Study of Comics. (Toronto, Canada)

�Showing the Workings of Mental Complexity in Graphic Memoir.� International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Cambridge, USA)

2013

�Thinking and Seeing in Graphic Memoir.� International Society for the Study of Narrative. (Manchester, UK)

2012

�Empty Frames: Filling in the Dots (Take Two).� EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3. (Montpellier, France)

�Messing with the Visual: Photography and Cartooning in Graphic Memoir.� ESSE (European Society for the Study of English). (Istanbul, Turkey)

2011

�Messing with Facts: Photographic Traces in Life Writing.� International Association of Word and Image Studies. (Montreal, Canada)

with Dr. Silke Horstkotte. �Visual Metaphor, Focalization, and Ambiguous Deixis in Shaun Tan's The Arrival.� International Society for the Study of Narrative. (St. Louis, USA)

2010

�Saying a lot by Showing Little: Photography in Emanuele Martino�s Cara fotografia: Racconti.� International Conference, 21st-Century European Literature and Philology: Mapping New Trends. Korrectur (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)

�Effectively Intense, Impossibly Bad Photographs in Autobiography.� The 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference. (University of Sussex, UK)

with Dr. Silke Horstkotte. �Narrative Situation in the Graphic Novel: An Analysis of Maus.� Departmental Colloquium. (St. John's, Canada)

2009

�Red � Black � Blue � Yellow � White, or Colourful Openings in Anne Carson�s Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse.� International Conference, Color: Between Silence and Eloquence. Société des Amis d�Intertexte. (Paris, France)

�Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri de Luca�s Non ora, non qui.� International Conference, Enlightening Encounters: Italian Literature and Photography through Time. (Warwick, U.K.)

2008

�The Forbidden Narratives of Looking.� International Conference, Image and Imagery. (St. Catherines, Canada)

�An Aesthetic of Silence: Photography in Autobiography.� International Conference, Debating the Aesthetic. (St. John�s, Canada)

�Showing Self in Photographic Silence.� American Comparative Literature Association Conference. (Long Beach, USA)

�Photographic Erasures in Autobiography.� Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference. (Vancouver, Canada)

2007

�Mapping the World as it Intersects with Self.� International conference, Text and Image: The Language of Images. (Hartford, USA)

2005

�Documenting What Exactly?� International conference, Thinking Photography (Again). (Durham, England)

2004

�Who Said Looks Don�t Matter; or Portraiture�s Chosen People.� International conference, Image and Imagery: An International Conference on Literature and the Arts. (St. Catherines, Canada)

�Portraiture, a Language between Self and Other.� International conference, Identities and Alterities. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

�Photographic Portrayals of Gender: Concepts of Gender Representation in Photographic Portraiture.� International conference, The Photograph. (Winnipeg, Canada)

2003

�Expressions of Outsiders: Exploring Chameleon Accents.� International conference, Accented Cultures: Deterritorialization and Transnationality in the Arts and Media. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

�Showing Exile: Breytenbach�s Visual Portrayals of a Lost Centre.� Annual conference, Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. (Boston, USA)

2002

�Engendering Portraits: Verbal and Visual Portrayals of Gender in Gender Outlaw and The Last Time I Wore a Dress.� International conference, Language, Communication, Culture. (Evora, Portugal)

�Portraits: The Art of Passing into, through, and out of Representation.� International conference, Travelling Concepts III: Memory, Image, Narrative. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2001

�Showing the Places You Tell: Visual Evidence in Travel Writing.� International conference, Seeing Things: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Literature and the Visual. (Tours, France)

�The Verbal and Visual Mirrors and Mazes of Postcolonial Identity in Breyten Breytenbach�s All One Horse.� International seminar, Writing the Self - Writing the Other: Postcoloniality and South African Writing. (Zürich, Switzerland)

�Visual Representations of Social Conventions: Art Spiegelman�s Maus.� Annual conference, American Comparative Literature Association. (Boulder, USA)

�Communications about, within, and across the Photographic Image: Letters and Pictures in Claudio DiScalzo�s Vecchiano, un paese: Lettere a Antonio Tabucchi.� Annual conference, Canadian Society for Italian Studies, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Sainte-Foy, Canada)

�Views of Reality: How Some Canadians Show Space.� Annual conference, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Sainte-Foy, Canada)

2000

�Lessons in Reading the Visual: Art Spiegelman�s Maus.� Annual conference, Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. (Buffalo, USA)

�Reading the Photographic Text with Lalla Romano.� International conference, Image and Imagery: An International Conference on Literature and the Arts. (St. Catherines, Canada)

1999

�Ekphrasis and Truth in Lalla Romano�s Novels.� Annual conference, Canadian Society for Italian Studies, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Sherbrooke, Canada)

1998

�The Photographic Representation of Space, Body and Voice in Erri De Luca and Oriana Fallaci.� International conference, Possible Worlds and Virtual Worlds: Crossing the Boundaries in 20th Century Italian Literature and Film. (Toronto, Canada)

�As You Disguise Me: Authorial Tyranny of Misrepresentation in Flann O�Brien.� International conference, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. (Cortland, USA)

�Articulating the Contradictions of Auschwitz.� Annual conference, Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. (Ottawa, Canada)