Invited Talks
2025
淯nderviolence and Graphic Journalism. (Madrid, Spain, 16 May)
淚ntermediality: Media Moving between / across / within Comics. (Grenoble, France, 7 May)
淕raphic Journalism and Violence. (Giessen, Germany, 27 January)
2024
淲hy Study Comics through an Intermedial Lens. (Dublin, Ireland, 11 July)
淧ictorial Intertextuality: Fabricating Truths in Documentary Comics. (Giessen, Germany, 9 July)
淢ultiplying Stories across the Body: Embodiment in Autobiographical Graphic Illness Narratives. (Grenoble, France, 23 May)
淢onsters, Games, and Me: Showing Psychological Experience in Works of Graphic Medicine. (Angoul锚me, France, 14 May)
淧ointing to, and away from, Media or, How Intermediality Impacts the Reading of Comics (Montpellier, France, 23 April)
淭he Intermedial Practices of Comics: A Study of Comics that Include and/or Invoke Different Visual Media. (Milan, Italy, 15 March)
淎uthenticating Lived Experience: The Work of Documents in Graphic Memoir. (Parma, Italy, 13 March)
淪tudying Comics. Online talk. (6 February)
2023
淢obilities Across Media: Getting Lost in the Images that Travel into and out of Graphic Narratives. (Padua, Italy, 5 December)
淗uh! Why So Many Games in Graphic Illness Narratives? (Bologna, Italy, 27 Nov)
淥n Intermediality. Colloque Transferts culturels par la bande. (Montreal, 25 May)
2022
淲hy an Intermedial Approach to Comics? LIEN Multimedia Inaugural Conference Series Lecture. Centre de recherches interm茅diales sur les arts, les lettres et les techniques. Universit茅 de Montreal (Montreal, 24 January)
2021
淔ocalization in Documentary Comics. Image, Event, Narrative Seminar Series. Universidade Federal de Sergipe (S茫o Crist贸v茫o, Brazil Oct. 29)
2020
淥ver the Ocean and into Us: Comics Mapping Collective Experience with Water. 淥cean Narratives and Representations, Henrietta Harvey Public Lecture Panels, 91亚色 of Newfoundland (St. John檚, Canada Feb. 13)
淭aking Time to Talk Back: Challenging the Ill Body檚 Overdetermination in Graphic Medicine. CorpoRealities, Pathographics Workshop (Berlin, Germany)
2019
淣ew Trends in Comics. 淐omics Pasts and Comics Futures. Nexus Centre, 91亚色 of Newfoundland (St. John檚, Canada Nov. 19)
淭angled up in Lists: Representing Illness in Comics. Bergische Universit盲t Wuppertal (Wuppertal, Germany, July 3)
2018
淧erspectives of French Children: Teaching Graphic Memoir. Roundtable Title: 淐lassroom Contexts for French and Francophone Bande Dessin茅e. Mind the Gaps: The 1st Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society. (Urbana-Champaign, USA)
2017
淣ot Wanting to Play Around: Games in Graphic Illness Narratives. 91亚色 of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus (Corner Brook, Canada Nov. 21)
淰isual Layerings of Self: Photography in Graphic Memoir. University of Warwick Research Seminar Series (Warwick, UK, April 26)
淏reaking through Borders: Migration in Comics. Universit茅 Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France, Feb. 10)
2016
淏rand Command: Repetition and Coolness. Message Control and Canadian Democracy. 91亚色 of Newfoundland (St. John檚, Canada, Sept. 21)
淩epresenting Illness in Graphic Medicine. Universit茅 Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France, May 11)
2015
淰isual Entanglements: Photography in Comics. Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada, Sept. 15).
淧hotography, Cartooning, and Storytelling Practices. Department of English, Universit茅 Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Grenoble, France, June 9).
淧hotography in Comics, A Happy Union in So Many Ways. The Feminist Research Institute, in cooperation with the English Graduate Student Association and the American Literary Studies Program, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA, April 24)
2012
淓mpty Frames: Filling in the Dots. Department of English, Universit茅 Paul Val茅ry (Montpellier, France, June 19)
淐artooning Ex-Posing Photography in Graphic Memoir. Department of English, Universit茅 Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Grenoble, France, May 3)
2011
淒isenchanted with the Referent: Photography in Emanuele Martino's Cara fotografia. Department of Modern Languages, Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Canada, March 24).
2010
淔ocalization and Visual Perspective in the Graphic Novel (with Dr. Silke Horstkotte). Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada, March 25).
2009
淐ome vedi, sono io: l'autorappresenatzione nella letteratura Italiana contemporanea. L'Institut Culturel Italien de Montr茅al and the d茅partement de litt茅ratures et de langues modernes, Universit茅 de Montr茅al (Montreal, Canada, Dec. 1).
淯nruly Portrayals of Self. Department of English, The University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada, October 8).
2007
淧hotographic Silence, un geste provocateur. International symposium, Litt茅rature et Photographie (Cerisy-la-Salle, France, July 22).
2005
"Contemporary Italian Women's Self-Portraits: Autobiography Meets History." The Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Montreal and the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)