2025, June 21–25, The 27th Biennial International Research Society for Children's Literature, University of Salamanca, Spain. Presentation: “‘Wings of Change: Reimagining Young Women's Bodies in Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing.”
2024, January 23–25, MotherNet Final Conference “Thinking through Motherhood: Past, Present and Future,” Vilnius University, Lithuania. Presentation: “‘Each of Us Must Decide—A Wizard or a Mother’: Non-Motherhood, Agency, and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction.”
2018, Interdisciplinary Symposium “Vampiric Transformations,” Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Presentation: “Biting into Books: Constructing Schoolgirls in Vampire Fiction for Youth” (keynote speech).
2017, October 18–22, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA. Presentation: “Pangs of Pleasure, Pangs of Guilt: Girlhood, Polyandry, and Carnal Desire in House of Night.”
2017, September 6–9, “Tropics of the Imagination Conference,” James Cook University, Singapore. Presentation: “Bring Some Black to a Vampire Bar: Sub-Tropical Cityscapes and the Exotic Other in The Southern Vampire Mysteries.”
2014, Interdisciplinary Symposium “Vampires in Popular Culture,” Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Presentation: “The Lower Dog in the Room: Rape, Consent, and Patriarchal Terrorism in The Southern Vampire Mysteries” (keynote speech).
2014, June, The Fifth World Congress on Polish Studies, Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Presentation: “Home in the Digital World: The Shifting Meanings of Here and Away—International Student Exchange.”
2013, October 2–3, International Symposium “Negotiating Cultural Difference in the Digital Era,” Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Presentation: “Meaningful Connections: Digital Media, Social Networks, and the Experience of Space and Place.”
2012, 10th Global Conference “Monsters and the Monstrous,” Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxford, United Kingdom, September. Presentation: “Be a Mother or Be a Monster: Infertile Females in the Twilight series.”
2011, International Conference “‘A Game That Calls up Love and Hatred Both’: The Child, the First World War, and the Global South,” International Leverhulme Project: Approaching War: Childhood, Culture, and the First World War, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Presentation: “Uncle Sam and Mother Svea: Immigrant Experience of the First World War in the Swedish-American Writings for Children and Youth.”
2011, September, 3rd Global Conference “Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners,” Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxford, United Kingdom. Presentation: “Ours is America: Self and Other Interwoven within the Immigrant Homemaking Myths.”
2011, The 20th Biennial Congress for the International Research Society for Children Literature “Fear and Safety in Children’s Literature,” Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Presentation: “‘Here There is Nothing to Fear.’ Safe and Unsafe Spaces in the Swedish-American Literature for Youth (1890–1920).”
2010, December, International Workshop on History and Migration “Beyond the Border, Behind the Men: The Invisibility of Female Migration,” University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Presentation: “‘When You Imagine the Ideal of the Woman’: Ethnic Womanhood in the Swedish-American Publications for Children and Youth (1890–1920).”
2010, September, 2nd Global Conference “Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners,” Oxford, United Kingdom. Presentation: “Us and Them. The Image of the Other in the Swedish-American Periodicals for Youth (1890–1920).”
2009, “New Perspectives on the European Mass Migration to America: An International Workshop at the House of Emigrants,” Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden.
2008, “Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspective,” International Conference of American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland. Presentation: “Swedish-American Childhood in Thoughts of a Prairie Child by Anna Olsson.”
2008, HCA Spring Academy 2008—American History, Culture, and Politics, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
2006, Opening lecture for Sixteen Days Against Violence Towards Women: “Violence and Law—Regulations Against Domestic Violence in Sweden,” Krakow Association of Crisis Intervention, Krakow, Poland.
