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Conference Presentations, Guest Lectures and Talks
11/2024: "'Can’t You Envision This Possibility?': Latinx Girlhood, Eco/Political Disillusionment and Toward Egalitarian Kinship in Lilliam Rivera’s Dealing in Dreams." Conference presentation at the CUNY Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference “Illusion/Disillusion”, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, USA.
11/2024: "Live-Report from Boston, USA." Talk at the event "American Election Night 2024", University of Bamberg.
10/2024: "Fostering Ethical Pedagogics in American Studies: The Transformative Impact of Critically Engaging with The Myths That Made America." Presentation together with Dr. Nicole K. Konopka at the International Workshop "Teaching American Studies" (in honor of the ten year anniversary of the first publication of Heike Paul's The Myths That Made America), FAU Erlangen.
07/2024: "'We are the daughters of Mega City': Latinxfuturism, Girlhood and Environment in Lilliam Rivera's Dealing in Dreams." Presentation at the "Local Practices – Transatlantic Conversations, An Ecocritical Workshop Series: 'Gender and Environment in Speculative Fiction'", University of Cologne.
02/2024: "'Girl Who Comes Out Fighting': Indigenous Girlhood and Ecological Crisis in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts." Presentation at the "Indigenous Futurisms Workshop with Chelsea Vowel", University of Vienna, Austria.
09/2023: “Buffalo Gals, Green Girls, and Somewhere In-Between: Twenty-First Century Eco-Girlhoods in American Speculative YA Literature.” Presentation at the Austrian-Bavarian Postgraduate Workshop “American Studies: History, Methods, Prospects”, University of Salzburg, Austria.
06/2023: "Buffalo Gals, Green Girls, and Somewhere In-Between: Twenty-First Century Eco-Girlhoods in American Speculative YA Literature.” Presentation at the Ph.D. Course “LIT606 Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment”, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.
10/2022: “'The White Whale in the Minds of the Superstitiously Inclined': Animals and Superstition in Moby-Dick." Conference presentation at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies "Narrative, Environment, Social Justice", University of Salzburg, Austria.