INVITED TALKS
“Beyond Repair: Interpretation, Reparation, and the Politics of Clinical Technique." The Political Mind Seminars, The British Psychoanalytical Society
Zoom: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, London UK, September 22, 2023
“Dreaming of ‘Black Mummy’: Race, Gender, Decolonization, and DW Winnicott.” The Institute of Psychology, University of Sao Paulo.
Google Meet: University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 13, 2023
“Travelling Analysis: Black Hamlet and the (De)Colonial Clinic in South Africa.” Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere Conference
“Empty Space: Gender and Race in Klein’s Reparative Ethics.” The Unconscious and Everyday Life Conference
Zoom: University of Essex, UK, June 14, 2021
“Empires of Mind: Psychosocial Cartographies of ‘The Empire’ in Narrative of a Child Analysis.” The Richardson Research Seminar
Zoom: Cornell University, USA, April 21st, 2021
“Empires of Mind: Postcolonial Cartographies of ‘The Empire’ in Narrative of a Child Analysis.” Mental Health Workers Inquiry
Zoom: London & New York, July 30th, 2020
“On Security: Between Child Psychology and the Cold War.” Psychoanalysis, Values, and Webs of Power Conference
The Freud Museum, London UK, September 2019
“States of Security: Childhood and the Politics of Postwar Attachment Theory.” Open Seminar, Dept. of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, March 2019
University of Essex, UK, March 13th, 2019
CONFERENCES
“Speak for Your Self: Psychoanalysis, Autotheory, and the Plural Self.” American Comparative Literature Association, April 2021
“‘The Empire’ Strikes Back: Empire, Interpretation, and the Image in Narrative of a Child Analysis.” The Association for Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck University, UK, May 2019
“Empty Spaces: Creativity and the Politics of Reparation.” Virus of Hate: Responses to Fascism in Psychoanalysis, Surrealism, and Modernism, Sussex University, UK, January 2019
“Techniques of Resistance: D.W. Winnicott and the Politics of Clinical Technique.” Modern Language Association, New York, NY, January 2018
“’The Black Mummy’: Race and the Mother-Child Relation in D.W. Winnicott.” American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2017
“En-Gendering Culture: Melanie Klein, Gender, and Creativity.” Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, CA, November 2016
“Schooling Psychoanalysis: Beating Fantasies, Daydreams, and Anna Freud’s Child-Analysis.” American Comparative Literature Association, Boston MA, March 2016
“Teaching Betrayal: The Politics of Pedagogy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, NC, November 2015
“Choice Objects: Agency, Aesthetics, and Sexual Difference in Charles Darwin and Henry James.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Ontario, November 2014
“A Shameful Education: Northanger Abbey’s Pedagogical Eroticization of Shame.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg PA, April 2014
“Inheriting Identification: Psychoanalysis in Queer and Feminist Theory.” UNC Asheville Queer Studies Conference, Asheville NC, April 2013
“Flirting with Analysis: The Pleasure of the Analytic Encounter.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham NC, November 2012
Invited Responses & Colloquia
Seminar Leader, Feminist Theory Workshop, Duke University, March 2022
“Queering Psychoanalysis,” Psychoanalysis Society, University of Essex, December 2021
“Traveling Analysis: Black Hamlet, Ethnopsychology, and the (De)Colonial Clinic in South Africa,” The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar, University of the Western Cape, May 2021
“Pull the Trigger: A Response to Amalia Ziv’s ‘Questioning Safe-Space in the Classroom,’” Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Jan 2020
“Family Therapy: A Response,” Psychoanalysis Case Study Group Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Dec 2019
“‘The Empire’ Strikes Back: Empire, Interpretation, and the Image in Narrative of a Child Analysis.” HistPsy: Psychoanalysis & History Working Group, University of Essex, Nov 2019
“Love in the Countertransference: A Response,” Psychoanalysis Case Study Group, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Feb 2019
“Child’s Play: Interpretation, Reparation, and Melanie Klein’s Play-Technique,” Feminist Scholars Colloquium, Duke University, Sept 2016
“On Good Authority: Anna Freud and the Politics of Child Analysis,” Literature Graduate Scholars Colloquium, Duke University, Feb 2016
“The Aesthetics of Sexual Difference: A Response to Ali Mian’s ‘Displaced Ornaments,’” Feminist Scholars Colloquium, Duke University, Jan 2015
“Acquired Tongues: Introduction of Rey Chow’s Not Like a Native Speaker,” Global Cultural Studies Symposium, Plenary Session, Duke University, Oct 2014