SELECTED SCHOLARLY PAPER PRESENTATIONS:

2020    “Writing Rage and Narrative Repair: The Difficult Lessons of Living with Cancer.” Literary Arts and Health Humanities Today and Tomorrow, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, April 16-19 (Accepted, Forthcoming)

2019    “Disability Poetry and Crip Poetics: Reading Body Work.” Creating Space X, The Canadian Association for Health Humanities, Hamilton, ON, April 12-13

2019    “Exploring the Poetry and Poetics of Chronic Illness: Precarity, Care, Collective Affinity.” Creating Space X, The Canadian Association for Health Humanities, Hamilton, ON, April 12-13

2018 “The Poetics and Ethics of Living with Chronic Illness: Exploring Feminist, Queer, Crip   Canadian Poetry.” Indigenous, Canadian and Québécois Feminist Production Today, Banff Centre for the Arts, AB, October 11-14

2017 “Rereading Cereus Blooms at Night: Explicating Figures of Care.” Canadian Literature Centre Research Seminar, Edmonton, AB, February 27

2016 “Conceptualizing Indigenous ‘Graphic Medicine’: Telling Feminist Stories in Decolonizing Graphic Novels.” National Women’s Studies Association, Montreal, QC, November 12

2015 “Chronically Ill, Critically Crip?: Poetry, Poetics and Dissonant Disabilities.” Feminist Scholars Speakers Series, Univeristy of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, November 25

2015 “Chronically Ill, Critically Crip?: Querying Disability Poetry and Poetics.” Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, Honolulu, HI, May 18

2015 “Crip Poetry and Poetics: Exploring the Autobiographical Body.” Faculty in Residence Lecture Series, Quest University Canada, Squamish, BC, March 6

2014 “‘The Angry Breast Cancer Survivors’: Creating Justice Through Sharing Stories.” National Women’s Studies Association, San Juan, PR, November 16

2014 “Perseverance, Process and Purpose: Poetry as a Social Justice Project.” Faculty in Residence Lecture Series, Quest University Canada, Squamish, BC, April 22

2013 “Breast Cancer at the Edge of Cultural Politics: Cancer Rage, Gender Rage.” Sexuality Studies Association, Victoria, BC, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2

2013 “Feminist Bioethics, Narrative Ethics and Disruptive Breast Cancer Narratives: Claiming the Subjective Edge.” Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, Victoria, BC, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 1

2011 “Resisting Breast Cancer’s Normative Script: Catherine Lord’s The Summer of Her Baldness.” Thinking Gender 2011, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, February 11

2011 “Performing Elegiac Politics.” Endnotes: Beyond the Book, Pushing the Boundaries of English Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, April 8

2009 “Dermographia: (Desire).” Canadian Women’s Studies Association, Ottawa, ON, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 25