Upcoming

My talk "‘The Pelvis’ as Category Crisis: The Transgressive Screen Dances of Elvis Presley" has been accepted to SCMS 2018, where I will hopefully be chairing the panel "Old Texts in New Contexts." I am currently working on institutional approval and travel arrangements, so check back for updates!

Recent

"Re-Remediating Dance: The Politics of Body Flows across Swing Times and Platforms"
ASAP 9 Conference
Oakland, California
​October 2017

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"From Swing Time to Swing Time: Race, Gender, and Intermedial Dance​"
Dance Studies Association Conference
Columbus, Ohio
October 2017

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"'Down and Down I Go': The Nicholas Brothers & Black Dance on Television"
​Winter Graduate Symposium
Northwestern University School of Communication
Evanston, Illinois
​February 2017

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"The Power of 'The Pelvis': How Elvis Presley Danced Race, Gender, & Ideology"
Society of Dance History Scholars, Joint Conference with the Congress on Research in Dance
Beyond Authenticity and Appropriation: Bodies, Authorship and Choreographies of Transmission
​Pomona, California
​November 2016

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"What We Mean When We Talk About Rape Culture in Music Video"
Take Back the Night
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
​April 2016

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"With Cartoons, On the Ceiling, With Shadows:
​Innovating Dancefilm Movement in the Golden Age Hollywood Musical."
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
​March 2016

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"The Flash, The Feet, The Pelvis: A Research Talk" 
Mellon Sumer Seminar in Dance Studies
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
June 2015

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"Debating Masculinity on National Television: Gene Kelly & Dancing, A Man's Game" 
A Switched-on TV: The arts in the black and white of the cathode ray tube
International Festival of Films on Art/Festival International du Film sur l'Art
Montreal, QC, Canada
March 2015

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"Body Control/Mind Control: The Female Dancing Body in Science Fiction" 
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
Montreal, QC, Canada
March 2015

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