Dwell in Other Futures was a two-day festival of art and ideas exploring the collisions of race, urbanism, and futurism, providing a platform for alternate visions of the St. Louis to come, co-planned with Tim Portlock and Gavin Kroeber, and funded by the Divided City Project at Washington University in St. Louis. ︎ April 27–28

“Where We’re Coming From,” (Virtual) Panel. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.The Ohio State University, April 28, 2020.

“Impussanations, Coons, and Civic Ideas: A Black Comics Aesthetics,”February 27, 2020.Department of English, Kenyon College.

“Dwell in Other Futures: Competing Temporalities and Humanist Work,” University of Illinois Chicago, August 22, 2019.

“Civil Rights Sentimentality.” Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlanger-Nuremberg, Bavaria,      Germany. December 13, 2018.

“Black Panther: A “Post”-Civil Rights Hero in Revolutionary Times,” Fordham University,April 19, 2018.

“An Untimely People, An Untimely Place.” Japan Association for American Studies Conference, Tokyo, June 3, 2017.

“Never Post, Always Present: African American Underground Comics and Post-Race and Post-            Feminist Imaginaries.” Keynote. Canadian Society for the Study of Comics.”  Toronto,May 11, 2017.

“Civil Rights Sentimental Fiction: Atticus Finch, The Help, and Archiving Political Feelings.” Keynote. Black/White Intimacies: Reimagining History, the South, and the Western Hemisphere. University of Alabama, April 22, 2017.

“ ‘I do not know this little girl’: Race, Gender, and Child Protection,” George Warren Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, March 29, 2017.

“The Cosby Lament; or, Lost Black Love Objects.”Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.Duke University, January 19, 2017.

“The Content of Our Caricature: Nat Turner, King and Frozen Aesthetics.”UC Berkeley.  September 15, 2016.

“All the Things You Could Be By Now if Hortense Spillers Was Your Mother.” The Flesh of the Matter: A Hortense Spillers Symposium. Cornell University English Department, March 19, 2016.

“Children and Popular Culture: Questions of Harm and Resistance.” Pediatric Grand Rounds. Washington University School of Medicine. St. Louis, MO. 2 May 2014

“Representing Black Citizenship, or Why Understanding the History of Black Comics Can Help Us Understand Django Unchained.”  Black Comics Festival. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 12 Jan. 2013

“The Time for Blackness.” Northwestern Black Graduate Student Association Conference. 21 Apr. 2012. Keynote Speaker

“Come Back to the Kitchen, Minny.” Symposium on Queer and Feminist Narrative Theory. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. 12-14 May 2011.