CURRICULUM VITAE

2025

“Transgressive Terrors: Rhetoric, Queerness, and Ideological Disruption in Contemporary Horror Television.” Queer Horror Conference 2025, University of Pittsburg, 7 Feb., Virtual Conference.

2024

“’Are there actually any straight vampires?’: Contemporary Discursive Fan Rhetorics and the Recovery of Queerness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Slayage Conference on the Study of Buffy+, 21 Jul., San Luis Obispo, CA.

“You Can Lead a Bisexual to Water but You Can’t Make Him Twink: Inconsistencies in Queer Representation in Teen Wolf.” Southwest Popular & American Culture Association Conference, 22 Feb., Albuquerque, NM.

“Paranormal Paranoia: Reflections on Paranormal and Pseudoscience TV.” Roundtable with Kristopher K. Woofter, Will Dodson, and Erin Gianinni. Southwest Popular & American Culture Association Conference, 23 Feb., Albuquerque, NM.

“’You record it, I’m going to enjoy it’: The Horror of Home Recording Technology in WNUF Halloween Special and VHYes.” Dead Media: Contemporary Horror and the Analogue: A BAFTSS Horror Studies SIG Symposium, 13 Jan., Virtual Conference.

2023

“Using Social Annotation for Engagement and Equity.” Computers and Writing Conference, 24 Jun., Davis, CA.

“’It’s about making the best of what I have’: Womanhood and Aging in Ti West’s X and Pearl.” Popular Culture Association Conference, 5 Apr., San Antonio, TX.

“’They always started with a kill scene’: Reboots, Requels, and The Slasher Cycle.” Southwest Popular & American Culture Association Conference, 25 Feb., Albuquerque, NM.

“The Creep in Popular Culture.” Roundtable with Will Dodson, Erin Gianinni, and Steffen Hantke. Southwest Popular & American Culture Association Conference, 24 Feb., Albuquerque, NM.

“Horrors of In/Security: What the Slasher Movie Means.” Roundtable with Riccardo Retez, Payton McCarty-Simas, and Jacob McElroy. Southwest Popular & American Culture Association Conference, 25 Feb., Albuquerque, NM.

2022

“First, we look at the past”: The Intersection of Superheroes and the Southern Gothic in Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger.” Popular Culture/ American Culture Association in the South, 14 Oct., New Orleans, LA. Panel Chair.

“Security is a little lax since everybody got their throats torn out”: Iterations of the Gothic in Marti Noxon’s Fright Night and Sharp Objects. Slayage Conference on the Study of Buffy+, 23 Jul., Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19). Panel Chair.

“’That’s no cock—that’s an act of God’: Reprisal and Remediation in American Horror Story: 1984.” Fear 2000 Conference, hosted by Sheffield Hallam University, 1 Jul., Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19).

“Fucking rich people!”: The Conflicting Rhetoric of Wealth and Agency in Ready or Not.” Popular Culture Association, 16 Apr., Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19).

2021

“’If someone says bless your heart what they really mean is fuck you’: The Haunted Queer Southern Gothic in Sharp Objects.” Popular Culture Association in the South, 1 Oct., Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19).

“’I feel like my whole life has been one big error’: Queer Representation in Stranger Things.” Popular Culture Association, 4 Jun., Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19). Panel Chair.

“Stirring the Cauldron: Let’s Talk Through Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” Roundtable with Cori Mathis and Melissa Tyndall. Popular Culture Association, 5 Jun., Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19).

2020

“Cultivating WC Roles: Professional Growth from Tutor to Administrator.” Roundtable with David St. John, Nicole Turner, and Brittny Byrom. Southeastern Writing Center Association, 21 Feb., Birmingham, AL.

“’Ahead of its time—inasmuch as time exists’: The Uneasy Rhetorics of Interface and Procedure in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.” Georgia State University New Voices Conference, 8 Feb., Atlanta, GA.

2019

“Rhetorical Reminiscence: Stranger Things and Nostalgic Remediation.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 16 Nov., Atlanta, GA. Panel Chair.

“Women as Political Bodies: Rhetorics of Suffrage in 1920 Tennessee.” Roundtable on archival research with Sarah Bramblett, Matthew Higgins, and Sarah Carter. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 15 Nov., Atlanta, GA.

“I want freedom and power”: The Queer Allegory of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 28 Sept., Wilmington, NC. Panel Chair.

“Gilding the Lily: Queer Excess in The Neon Demon.” Popular Culture Association National Conference, 19 Apr., Washington, DC.

“Performing Allyship Through Classroom Activities.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 14 Mar., Pittsburg, PA. (Work presented in absentia by Dr. Kristen Ruccio due to a family emergency.)

“The New Flesh: Videodrome, Scopophilia, and Gendered Positionality.” Georgia State University New Voices Conference, 25 Jan., Atlanta, GA.

2018

“’Put as much ‘sub’ into that ‘text’ as you possibly can: Supernatural, Queerbaiting, and Representation.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 6 Oct., New Orleans, LA. Panel Chair.

“’We work with what we have’: The Postmodern Horror of The Cabin in the Woods.” Comics and Popular Arts Conference, 31 Aug., Atlanta, GA.

“I Don’t Need No Stinking Reboot: The Enduring Cultural Significance and Influence of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” SCW8: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses. 24 Jun., University of North Alabama, Florence, AL. Panel Chair.

“Joss Whedon vs. Horror.” Roundtable with Kristopher K. Woofter, Lorna Jowett, Stacey Abbott, Bronwen Calvert, and Erin Giannini. SCW8: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses. 23 Jun., University of North Alabama, Florence, AL.

“The Entropy of Teacups: Literary Influence in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal.” LIT-TV: A Two-Day Symposium Exploring Contemporary US Television and “the Literary.” 5 May, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

“A breach of individual separateness”: Multivalent Queerness in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal.” Popular Culture Association National Conference, 28 Mar., Indianapolis, IN.

“Trauma, Horror, and Distanciation: Affect in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.” Southern Studies Conference, 9 Feb., Auburn University-Montgomery, Montgomery, AL.

2017

“The Queer Bait-and-Switch: Supernatural, Representation, and Queerbaiting.” Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference, 15 Feb., Albuquerque, NM. Panel Chair.

2016

“The Inversion of the Femme Fatale in Gone Girl.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 15 Oct., Nashville, TN.

2015

“’At least you got to shoot your father’: Justified and the Social Construction of Southern Masculinity.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 2 Oct., Wilmington, NC. Panel chair.

2014

“Fecund and Festering: The Importance of Place and the Swampy Southern Gothic in True Detective.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 2 Oct., New Orleans, LA.

“’You really think I’m pretty?’: The Problem of Gender Representation in The Avengers.” SCW6: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, 21 Jun., California State University-Sacramento, Sacramento, CA.

2013

“’Hell is empty and all the devils are here’: The Contemporary Southern Gothic in Justified.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 4 Oct., Savannah, GA.

“’So many species, so little time’: Captain Jack as the Doctor’s Foil.” Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity Conference, 5 Sept., University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England.

“’We’re not the only ones watching’: The Postmodern Horror of The Cabin in the Woods.”  Joss in June Conference, 29 Jun., Shelby, NC. Panel Chair.

“’You’re an affront to the balance of the universe’: Sam and Dean Winchester as Grotesques.” Popular Culture Association National Conference, 30 Mar., Washington, DC. Panel Chair.

2012

“‘If they don’t transgress, they can’t be punished’: Intertextuality and the Subversion of Genre Tropes in The Cabin in the Woods.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 28 Sep., Nashville, TN.

“Variations on a Theme: The Virgin Suicides from Novel to Film.” Middle Tennessee State University English Graduate Conference, 22 Sep., Murfreesboro, TN.

“‘The passion in his heart and the reason in his mind’: Sons of Anarchy as Postmodern Hamlet.” Popular Culture Association National Conference, 11 Apr., Boston, MA.

2011

“‘Writing yourself into the story is one thing, but as a prophet? That’s like M. Night level douchiness!’: Supernatural, Self-referentiality, and the Triumph of the Meta.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, 6 Oct., New Orleans, LA.

“Racial Parallax and Trajectories of Transgression: Treatments of Race and Marginality in Hairspray and Hairspray: The Musical.” Popular Culture Association National Conference, 21 Apr., San Antonio, TX.

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