[Poster] “Lucie Thésée: Tropiques’ Cannibal Poetess.” Postgraduate Poster Competition: Caribbean Generations Conference, Queen’s University Belfast 24-25 June 2022. Virtual participation. Second place winner.

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“The Covert Resistance of Openly-Queer Surrealist Claude Cahun.” Margins, Marginalia, Marginalized. Craft, Critique, Culture Conference. University of Iowa English Department. 14-16 April 2022.

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“Writing as Relation: Naomi Fontaine’s Kuessipan and Canadian-Autochthone Reconciliation in 2021.” Identity, Inclusion, and Exclusion in the Francophone World. Society for French Historical Studies 67th Annual Conference. 24-26 March 2022.

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“Media Affects in Germaine Dulac’s La Cigarette.” Mediums. 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Pittsburgh, 24-26 March 2022. Hybrid conference.

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“Perverting the Church to Reveal Masculine Anxieties: Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom.” Postgraduate Symposium [Journée des doctorantes de l’ADEFFI], Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland, 04 Sept. 2021.

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[Video] “Baudelairean Correspondences in Dulac’s La Souriante Madame Beudet.” Society for French Studies annual conference, postgraduate session, June 2021.

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“‘C’est à moi’ [It’s mine]: Racial Melancholia and Resilience in Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de….,” University of Maryland: College Park. 5-6 March 2021. Online conference.

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“The Lesbian Body: Imagined by Charles Baudelaire, Lived by Renée Vivien,” Louisiana State University. 4-6 March 2021. Online conference.

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“Breaking Down the Being-Seeming Binary: Claude Cahun’s Performative Resistance,” Postgraduate Symposium [Journée des doctorates de l’ADEFFI], Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland, 18 Sept. 2020.

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“Using Instagram to Collate a Personal Dictionary,” Lightning Talk, Midwest Association for Language Teaching Technology 2020 Conference, professional conference hosted by the University of Iowa’s Language Media Center, 8 Feb. 2020.

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“From Harlem to Paris and Pittsburgh: Double Consciousness in the African Diaspora,” Porosity and Reciprocity, University of California- Los Angeles, 24-25 Oct. 2019.

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“Visibility in Art and Politics: Breton, Dalí, and Picasso in the 1930s,” Forbidden, Forgotten, Erased: Exposing Absences, University of Maryland- College Park, 5-6 April 2019.

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“Acculturation in the Twentieth-Century Francophone Classroom,” Migrations of Culture, University of Pittsburgh, 30-31 March 2017.  

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At Elizabethtown College's annual Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD)

 

French Honors-in-the-Discipline Thesis “Charles Baudelaire’s Legacy of Poetic and Sensorial Correspondences,” 16 April 2019. 

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History Honors-in-the-Discipline Thesis “Surrealism as Creative and Political Engagement, 1930-1945,” 16 April 2019. *This paper won the 2019 Outstanding Senior Thesis Award, out of all Honors papers.

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International Studies (minor) Thesis “French and U.S. Artists’ Responses to Climate Change, 2015-2018,” 16 April 2019. 

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“From Apollinaire to Dalí: How cultural exchanges influenced the early-20th-century Franco-Spanish relationship [D’Apollinaire à Dalí : Les relations entre la France et l’Espagne au début du XXème siècle],” Summer Scholarship Creative Arts and Research Program, 9 July 2018. (6-weeks of intense research)

 

“When Passion and Employment Collide, Fulfillment Emerges,” 25 April 2017.

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“Educating for Service: Church of the Brethren and Nigerian Politics, 1950s and 1960s,” 25 April 2017.

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“Preserving the Moose Theater in Elizabethtown” (poster), 26 April 2016.

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