Conference Presentations
| 2021 | “Achieving Black Liberation through Racial Literary,” Invited panelist to the “Polarization to Black Liberation” Online Symposium, at the University of Freiburg, February 2, 2021 |
| 2020 | “Working through Rage: Rethinking Diversity in Decolonial Frames of Critical Inquiry and Institutional Practice.” Keynote conversation with Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Diversity Roundtable, German Association for American Studies Online Workshop hosted by the Free University of Berlin. October 12, 2020 |
| 2017 | “The Unpaid Labor of Diversity Workers.” Presented at the German Association for American Studies Workshop “Diversity in/and the GAAS”; Amerikahaus Munich, October 20-21, 2017 |
| 2017 | “Experiences with sexism and racism in a German Academic Context.” (German language) Presentation at the “Sexism and Racism: Power Relationships and Changing Effects from a Gender Studies Perspective” Workshop. Mid-Level Faculty Network of Gender and Women’s Studies, North Rhine-Westphalia. Duisburg Campus at the University of Duisburg-Essen, June 30, 2017 // “Sexismus- und Rassismuserfahrungen im deutschen Wissenschaftskontext.” Sexismus – Rassismus. Machtverhältnisse und Wechselwirkungen aus Sicht der Geschlechterforschung. Mittelbauworkshop des Netzwerks Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW |
| 2017 | “Black Conspiracy Theories and White Modes of History Telling: Masculinity and Race in Mat Johnson’ Pym.” Presented at the Ruhr PhD Forum, Ruhr University Alliance at the University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Bochum and the Technical University of Dortmund, January 27– 28, 2017 |
| 2016 | “Narrative Form and Race: The Role of the Author in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” Presented at the Post-Graduate Forum, University of Hamburg and University of Bremen, October 6 – 8, 2016 |
| 2016 | “Diversity in English-Language Classrooms: Research-Oriented Teaching in Project-Based Initiatives.” Presented together with Dietmar Meinel at the Annual German Association for Didactics in Higher Education / Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik (DGHD), September 21 – 23, 2016 |
| 2016 | “Intertextual Reference and Revision in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” Presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association in San Francisco, California, May 26 – 29, 2016 |
| 2016 |
“An Appreciation of Aesthetics and Form in the Black American Novel.” Presented at the Ruhr PhD Forum, Ruhr University Alliance at the University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Bochum and the Technical University of Dortmund, January 28 – 30, 2016 |
| 2015 | “High Cultural Pluralist Authors and the Program Era,” Presented at the Ruhr PhD Forum, Ruhr University Alliance at the University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Bochum and the Technical University of Dortmund, January 23 – 24, 2015 |
| 2014 | “Brutal Imagination in the Post-Racial Imaginary,” Presented at Approaching Blackness: 13th Annual Students and Graduates Conference, Humboldt-University at Berlin, November 13-15, 2014 |
| 2013 | “Recognizing Whiteness Through the Creation of the Black Other: Whiteness, Representation and West German Film (1949-1989),” Presented at the Afroeurope@ns IV: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe: Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception Conference, University of London: School of Advanced Study, UK, October 1-4, 2013 |
| 2012 |
“Black Beauty Aesthetics: Combating American Beauty Constructions of the Past with Art of the Present.” Presented at the Marginalized Cartographies: Researching Beyond Boarders Conference, University of Warrick, UK, April 28, 2012. |
| 2011 | “Teaching Diversity in German Schools.” Presented at the Fulbright Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany, March 20–24, 2011. |