“The Sound of Deception: Imposture, Stupefaction, and Transformation in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition.” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Oldenburg, Mai 2024.
“The ‘Two-Sidedness’ of Assimilation in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019).” MESEA – The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas, University of Eastern Finland, Juni 2024.
“Queering Progress, Queering Postrace: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) as Asian American Bildungsroman.” European Association for American Studies, Amerikahaus München, April 2024.
“Ruin-Reading. Exposing the Community of ‘White Readers’ in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Tubingen, Juni 2022.
“Gay Liberation, Gay Pragmatism und Queer Utopia – Rückblicke und Ausblicke auf 50 Jahre Pride in den USA.“ Andersraum, CSD-Kulturtage Hannover, November 2019.
“Language and Empowerment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’.” Studentisches Seminar ‘Sprache-Macht-Gewalt’, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Juli 2018.
“Queering Protection in the Contemporary German Context.” Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2018
“Language and Empowerment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Story ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’”. Master Students‘ Class of Master of Atlantic Studies: „Sprache–Macht–Gewalt“, at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Juli 2018
“Gender Roles and Generative Queerness in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go.” Instytut Anglistyki, Warsaw University, April 2018
“Guilt, Shame, and the Generative Queer in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go.” PGF-Conference of the German Association for American Studies: “Shifting Paradigms in the Age of Trump? Current Perspectives on Doing American Studies,” Berlin.September 2014 "Shifting the Center of Literary Dominance: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah“ auf dem 2. Workshop Methodologies in American Studies der Polnischen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien in Wroclaw, Polen, November 2017
"Emasculation, Girlish Masculinity, and Remasculation – Three Cases of Realizing Male Identity in British Popular Music“ an der Universität Bielefeld, Juni 2013
"Giving Space for Development – The Meaning of Spaces and Places in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening“ and der Women’s Studies 28th-All University Conference at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, April 2012