Conference Presentations and Talks

“Spectacle, the Body, and the Neocolonial State in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March, 2019, Seattle, WA
(presenter and panel co-organizer)

“The Analytic of the Senses”
New Approaches to Film Aesthetics Seminar, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March, 2018, Toronto, Ontario (presenter)

“The Problem of the New Man, the Body, and Femininity”
Context and Relationality Conference, Duke-UNC Caribbean and Latin American Studies Consortium, February 16, 2018, UNC Chapel Hill (presenter and panel organizer)

“The Poetics of Empire: Five Books”
Associated Writing Programs Conference, February 2017, Washington, D.C. (presenter)

“ASMR: Affective Labor, Sound Tactility, and Spectatorship” Society for Cinema and Media Studies,” Atlanta, Georgia, April 2016 (presenter)

“Affective Extractions”
American Studies Association Annual Conference, October 2015,Toronto, Ontario (presenter)

“José Val del Omar’s Mecamística: The Cinematic Apparatus, Faith, and Spectatorship”
Literature Colloquium, Duke University, November 2015, Durham, NC (presenter)

“Baroque Media as a Strategy of Contestation in Franco’s Spain”
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC, November, 2015 (presenter and panel organizer)

“Benjamin’s Aura and Sound Materiality”
Performing Bodies Conference, University of Chicago Department of Cinema and Media Studies Department, October 2015 (presenter)

“A Psychedelic Dystopia of 1968: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain and the Politics of the Image”
American Comparative Literature Association, April 2013, Toronto, Ontario (presenter and seminar co-organizer)

“Bad Infinity: Consciousness, Experience, and the Auratic Image”
Actuality and the Idea Conference, Princeton University, May 2012, Princeton, NJ (presenter)