PUBLIC SPEAKING

Conferences

• March 2018: “On the Clitoris and the Female Orgasm: Reclaiming Validity in Scientific Research“ at the 50th Meeting of North Texas Philosophical Association (University of Texas at Dallas, USA).
• February 2018: “Compassion and Agency during Tragic Times in Yoko Tsuno“ at RAW 2018 (University of Texas at Dallas, USA).
• February 2017: “Scully’s Empowerment as a Bio-Terrorism Survivor” at RAW 2017 (University of Texas at Dallas, USA).
• July 2012: “Sam Worthington: Hybrid Faces” at the 7th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyber Culture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction (Oxford, United Kingdom).
• July 2012: “Dragon Age: Offered and Created Womanhood” at the 4th Global Conference: Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment (Oxford, United Kingdom).
• April2012: “Alternate Universe Fan Videos:Reinterpreting the Media Sources” at the conference L’acte interprétatif et les œuvres littéraires, cinématographiques, picturales, etc… Organized by Lyon III University (Lyon, France).
• October 2011: “Boomer 2004: the Feminine and Cyborg Metamorphosis” at the conference From Cyborg to Facebook: Technological Dreams and Feminist Critiques organized by Sophia (Brussels, Belgium).
• May 2011: “Fan Video as Rewriting Gesture” at the symposium on editing, organized by Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and Savoie University (Paris, France).

University Lectures

• March 2019: “Storytelling and Representation on Screen: Cinema, Television Series, and Video Games” (series of four lectures) for the University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Humanities undergraduate class Exploration of the Arts (Dallas, United States)
• November 2018: “Women and Storytelling” for the University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Humanities undergraduate class World Literature (Dallas, United States).
• October 2018: “Cinema” (two lectures) for the University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Humanities undergraduate class Exploration of the Arts (Dallas, United States).
• March 2017: “Adaptation, Re-Imagination, and Appropriation” for the University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Humanities undergraduate class Exploration of the Arts (Dallas, United States).
• November 2016: “Is it Art?” for the University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Humanities undergraduate class Exploration of the Arts (Dallas, United States).
• March 2014: “Vidding: The Stories We Tell” for the University of Texas at Dallas ATEC graduate class Transmedia Worlds (Dallas, United States).
• November 2010: “Science Fiction Franchises and Transmedia” for the Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle IRCAV interdisciplinary seminar What is cinema? (Paris, France).