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“Maybe it Needs Our Bones in the Ground Before That Time Will Come”: Necropolitics, Native Americans, and the Nation in the 1950s American Western
Delivered at GRACLS Conference, 8th and 9th November 2025, University of Texas at Austin.
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A Return to Convent-ion: Feminism, Faith, and the 50s in Modern Nun Media
Delivered at History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in Popular Culture, 27th and 28th March 2025, Virtual Conference.
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Masculinity, #MeToo and Misleading Marketing: The Unmet Sexpectations of the American Gigolo Remake
Delivered at Like A Version: Adaptations, Reboots and Remakes in Popular Culture Symposium, 1st – 2nd December 2023, Virtual Conference.
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Trauma, Repetition and Place: Revisiting the Haunted House in the Gialli of Dario Argento
Argento, more than any other director working within the genre, perfected the use of repetition to convey the aftereffects of trauma. From flashbacks of the incident to physically revisiting the scene of the crime, the films capture the repetition compulsion which often plagues a witness to the inexplicable.
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Constrained by More than Corsets: A Critical Examination of the BBC’s Historical Lesbian Dramas
Delivered at Pippi to Ripley: Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture, 21st – 22nd April 2023, Virtual Conference.
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All-Consuming Desires: The Re-Emergence of the Queer Cannibal Figure in 21st Century Television
Delivered at Progressive Connexions: Evil and Sexuality, 7th – 8th May 2022, Prague, Czech Republic. Cannibalism and homosexuality formed the true self/other divide within 19th Century society, with both practices disavowed as sins against the flesh. The idea of such monstrous appetites informed European prejudices against colonial subjects, as well as leading to strict laws…
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We Need to Talk About Joffrey: Murder, Meaning and the ‘Evil Child’ Post-Columbine
Delivered at 2nd Global Conference: Evil Children: Children and Evil, 9th – 10th October 2021, Virtual Conference.