2026
“Creative Writing and Mental Health.” ACCUTE, Montreal.
“Fantasy as Reality: Creative Writing and the Ethics of Imagination.” Modern Language Association, Toronto.
2025
Chair: “Care Work and (Disciplinary) Boundary-Setting.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto.
‘Driving Out the Art Monster: A Manifesto for Artistic Stability.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto.
“Uncertainty, Playfulness, and the Creative Writing Workshop.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto.
2023
“Decolonizing Writing Skills Courses: What Academic Writing Instruction Can Gain from Creative Writing.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto.
2021
“You Don’t Have to Live Like This: The Politics of Regeneration in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit.” Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification Symposium, online.
2015
“The Cost of a Clean Conscience: Theaster Gates and the Urban Picturesque.” American Studies Association, Toronto.
“The View From Here: Picturesque Aesthetics in the 21st Century.” Centenary Conference in Honour of the Birth of George Whalley, Kingston.
“Liberal Guilt and Social Justice: William Dean Howells and the Limits of Genteel Sympathy.” American Literatures Association, Boston.
2013
“The Infernal Juggle: William Dean Howells and the Ethics of the Picturesque.” British Association of American Studies, Exeter.
2012
“The Joys of the Elevated: William Dean Howells and the Urban Picturesque”Canadian Association of American Studies, Toronto.
“Crossing the ‘I Love You Bridge’: Gentrification and the Contemporary Picturesque.” Urban Popcultures Conference, Prague.
2010
“Industrial Evolution: The Contemporary Picturesque.” Literatures of Modernity Symposium, Toronto.