Paranormal Romance, Sexual Violence, and the Fantasies of Desire. When It Changed: Women in SF/F Since 1972. December 3-4, 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Google Slides)

Fanfiction, Roundtable. Annual Sturgeon Symposium. September 20-22, 2022 in Lawrence, KS.

Fan Fiction, Fan Studies and Literary Studies: A Roundtable. Modern Language Association. January 6-9, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Fan Fiction as Historiographic Storytelling. Fan Studies Network – North America. October 24-26, 2019 in Chicago, IL.

Scholar Fan Salon. Organizer. February 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA. [Program]

Slash Fandom/Sex Wars: Feminist Conflict and the Politics of Fantasy. Fan Studies Network – North America. October 25-8, 2018 in Chicago, IL.

Fan Studies Network – North America. Organizer. October 25-28, 2018 in Chicago, IL.

Scholar Fan Salon. Organizer. February 26, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. [Program]

Intersecting Fan Communities: Competing Expectations, and Scholarly Ethics. HASTAC, November 3-4, 2017 in Orlando, FL.

Teaching with Fan Video: Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies. Workshop, Chair. SCMS, March 21-April 26, 2017 in Chicago,GA.

Community, Fiction, and Reality: Real People Fiction as Historiography. (Prezi) SCMS, March 30-April 3, 2016 in Atlanta, GA.

Ethics and Fan Studies. Workshop. SCMS, March 30-April 3, 2016 in Atlanta, GA.

Ethics in Fan Studies Research. Workshop. Fan Studies Network Conference, June 27-28, 2015 in Norwich, UK.

Complex Negotiation of National Identity in The Americans. Flow, Sept 11-13, 2014 in Austin, TX.

Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy. With Karen Hellekson. (Prezi) Media in Transition 8, May 3-5, 2013 in Cambridge, MA.

The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics. (Prezi) SCMS, March 6-10, 2013 in Chicago, IL.

Collective Scholarships and Digital Interfaces. Workshop, Chair. SCMS, March 21-25, 2012 in Boston, MA.

I Don’t Hate the South: Familial Blood and the Southern Vampire in True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. (Prezi) SCMS, March 21-25, 2012 in Boston, MA.

The Ethics of Selection: The Role of Canonicity in Acafannish Pedagogy and Publication. Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies Workshop. SCMS, March 11-13, 2011 in New Orleans, LA.

Second Lining as Suffering and Solidarity: Absence and Authenticity in David Simon’s post-Katrina New Orleans. With John Dudley. SCMS, March 11-13, 2011 in New Orleans, LA.

Get a Life: In-Text Representations and Gendered Fan Behavior. Flow, September 30 – October 2, 2010 in Austin, TX.

Original Genius and Transformative Repetition. IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, April 23-24, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Historical Memory, Affective Imagination: Fan Representation in Media Fan Fiction. Popular Culture Association, April 8-11, 2009 in New Orleans, LA.

I want us to own the goddamned servers: The Organization for Transformative Works and the Contemporary Status of Fan Culture. Flow, October 20-21, 2008 in TX.

Paratextual Commentary as Writer Response Theory. SCMS, March 6-9, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA.

Intense Intertextuality: Derivative Works in Context. Media in Transition, April 27-29, 2007 in Cambridge, MA.

Podcasts and the Fan Experience of Disseminated Media Commentary. Flow, October 26-29, 2006 in Austin, TX.

Will the Real Ending Please Stand Up? Experimental Multimedia Narratives and Fan Fiction. Console-ing Passions, May 25-27, 2006, in Milwaukee, WI.

‘If I Wasn’t a (Celebrity)?’: Alternate Times/Bodies/Realities in Celebrity Fiction and the Search for Identity. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16-20, 2005, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

PCVA Roundtable: Fantastic Worlds—The Generic Logic of Cult Media Texts. Co-Moderator. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16-20, 2005, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

‘My Slash is More Canon Than Yours’: Negotiating Authority in Harry Potter Fan Fiction. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 24-28, 2004, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Between Women: Real People Slash as Postmodern Queer Female Space. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 20-24, 2003, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Walter Abish’s How German Is It: Forgetting the Trauma/Re-Covering the Past. International Conference on Narrative, March 8-10, 2001 in Houston, TX.

Buffyverse Beyond Slash: Crossing the Final Taboo in Fan Fiction. Computers and Writing 2000, May 25-28, 2000 in Forth Worth, TX.

Postmodern Ethics/Postmodern Aesthetics: Reading Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader. International Conference on Narrative, April 6-9, 2000 in Atlanta, GA.

Imagining the Future to Rethink the Past: Raymond Federman’s Twofold Vibration as Holocaust Science Fiction. Science Fiction Research Association, June 2-6, 1999 in Mobile, AL.

Postmodern Ethics in D. M. Thomas’s Pictures at an Exhibition. South Central MLA, November 12- 14, 1998 in New Orleans, LA.

Eichmann’s Categorical Imperative: A Response to ‘The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire.’ South Central MLA, October 30-November 1, 1997 in Dallas, TX.

Holocaust as Postmodern Trauma: Representing the Real in D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel. International Conference on Narrative, April 3-6, 1997 in Gainesville, FL.

Mothering Medusa; or, Hybridity and the Construction of Subaltern Agency in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis. Association for Psychoanalysis in Culture and Society, November 7-10, 1996 in Washington, DC.

Reflecting the Subject: The ‘Return of the Repressed’ in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts. Sixth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, June 13-16, 1996 in Clemson, SC.

‘I’ve got a bad wife in the house’: Competing Discourses of Nationalism, Gender, and Religion in J. M. Synge’s ‘Shadow of the Glen’. American Conference for Irish Studies, April 16-18, 1995 in Charleston, SC.

Psychoanalysis—The Symptom of Science. Society for Literature and Science, November 10-13, 1994 in New Orleans, LA.