Selected Conference Presentations

“Podcasting, Community, and the Circulation of Local Alt-Comedy Scenes in Put Your Hands Together and 2 Dope Queens” (See Paper) (See Slides)Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago, IL (virtual), April 2022.

“Desktop Documentary and the Practice of Everyday Life” (See panel) Interrogating Modes of Videographic Criticism. Hosted Virtually by Aarhus University and by Leibniz University Hannover

“Comedy and Social (Distancing) Media: Theorizing TikTok’s Participatory Absurdist Humor During the Global Pandemic” (See Paper) (See Slides) National Communication Association. Indianapolis (Virtual), IN, October 2020.

“Congress As Comedy Audience: A Discursive Analysis of Televised Political Satire Cited in Congressional Debates.” (See Slides) (See Video presentation) Center for C-Span Scholarship and Engagement. Purdue University, October 2020. 

“Adapting Engaging Classroom Discussion Activities for Zoom.” RECAP Conference (Resources for the Electronic Classroom: A Faculty-Student Partnership). West Chester University, July 2020.

“Stand-Up Comedy Open Mics and Sexual Harassment in Local Production Cultures.” Rethinking Labor Histories and Production Cultures in #MeToo and #TimesUp HollywoodRoundtable. FLOW Television Conference. University of Texas, Austin, TX, September 2018.

“#HashtagWars: The Humor of Social TV on Comedy Central’s @midnight” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2018.
(Slides and Presentation)

 “Screening Sexual Assault on Switched At Birth: Network Branding and the Cultural Work of Teen Dramas,” Console-ing Passions Feminist Media Studies Conference, Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, June 2016.

“Critical Film Studies: Community as Pop Culture Pedagogy,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 2015.

Graduate Student Teaching: Politics and Practical Advice, Workshop Participant, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 2015

 “Points!: How Comedy Central’s @Midnight Is Winning Television Late-Night Through Social Media Fan Engagement,” Film and History Conference. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 2014

Reconsidering Formal Analysis Roundtable Participant and Convener, FLOW Television Conference. University of Texas, Austin, TX, September 2014.

“It’s OK, Some of my Best Friends are Comedians: The Rape Joke Debate, Authority, and Feminist Comedic Credibility.” Console-ing Passions Feminist Media Studies Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, April 2014.

 “ ‘A Waiting Room that Doesn’t Suck: Negotiations of Agency, Authenticity, and Community in The Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Seattle, WA, March 2014

“ ’It’s My Way ‘Til Payday,’ Audience and Excess and on 30 Rock’s ‘Queen of Jordan,’” Reality Gendervision: A Conference on Sexuality and Gender on Reality. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 2013.

 “Mockupy Wallstreet: Protest, Dissent, and The Limits of Mainstream Satire,” Neoliberalism 2.0: Technologies, Power, and Resistance Across Border. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April  2013.