Presentations & Workshops

Workshops and Conference Presentations

2025 “Keeping Your Cool All Year: Messaging for the Health Effects of Climate Change.” Workshop convened for the Wisconsin Public Health Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, WI. May 2025.

This is a snapshot from materials I used in the workshop. Attendees from public health agencies throughout Wisconsin came together to work on their writing for 90 minutes.

2025 “Public Health Game Show: Overcoming Obstacles in Environmental Health.” Presented for the Wisconsin Public Health Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, WI. May 2025.

This is a game board I created. I printed them on tabloid-sized paper, and placed them at the center or each table. They served as the tabletop board for the environmental health game I co-hosted with colleagues. Attendees worked in teams to solve environmental health problems.

2024 “Preventing Heat-Related Illness at Asbestos Remediation Worksites.” Presented for the Wisconsin Weatherization Training Conference. Rothschild, WI. September 2024.

2023 “Using Digital Storytelling to Raise Silicosis Awareness: Wisconsin’s Experience.” Presented for the annual conference of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Salt Lake City, UT. June 2023.

2023 “Using Environmental Health Tracking Data in Anti-Racist Teaching.” Presented for WIS23, the annual Writing Innovation Symposium. Milwaukee, WI. February 3, 2023.

2021 “Alcott in the Cadre of Scribbling Women: ‘Realizing’ the Female Gothic for Nineteenth Century American Periodicals.” Presented for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference. Baltimore, MD. November 4, 2021.

2020 “The Gothic Archive: Rare Materials and the Digital Humanities.” Presented for the Stanford University Gothic Research Unit. Zoom. November 11, 2020.

2019 “Images of Terror and Horror: The Development of the Illustrated Gothic Chapbook.” Presented for the International Gothic Association Biennial Conference. Chicago, IL. July 30-August 2, 2019.

2018 “Gothic Transgressions: Realities and Fictions in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Mackenzi Lee’s ‘This Monstrous Thing’.” Presented for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida. March 14-18, 2018.

2017 “Varney the Vampire: Echoes of Penny Popular Fiction in Modern Rape Culture.” Presented for the International Gothic Association Biennial Conference. Cholula, Mexico. July 18-21, 2017.

2017 “Spike is Forgiven: Sympathy for the Neo-Victorian Vampire and the Insidious Durability of Rape Culture.” Presented for Buffy at 20. Milwaukee, WI. April 1, 2017.

2016 “Plagiarism, Nationalism, and Appropriation in the Work of Matthew Lewis.” Presented for the Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures at the University of Dundee Conference on Authorship and Appropriation. Dundee, UK. April 8-9, 2016.

2015 “Not Sense, but Science: Towards an Edgeworthian Scientist’s Reading of Belinda.” Presented for the 57^th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Columbus, OH. November 12-15, 2015.