Presentations

  1. "Going South—Encountering Prehistory: US Imperialism, Prehistoric Animals, and the (Deep) Pastness of 'Mexico,'" at the Conference "Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity," Alcalá de Henares (Spain), November 25, 2024.
  2. "Horrors of the Deep, Dark Ocean: Confronting Deep Time in MEG: The Graphic Novel," at the Conference "Framing the Unreal: Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy," Venice (Italy), November 12, 2024.
  3. "(Re-)Animating Extinct Animals Through Film: Discovering Dinosaurs in Distant Lands" at the Conference "Body Landscapes in Silent Cinema," Heidelberg (Germany), November 9, 2024.
  4. "Alpine and Appalachian Folk Horror Movies" at the Symposium "Transnational Mountain Cinema," Innsbruck (Austria), November 4, 2024.
  5. "Mexiko und die Erdölindustrie im US-amerikanischen Genrefilm: Ausbeutung - kulturelle Aneignung - prähistorische Monster" in the Lecture Series "Politische Ökologie und Umweltgerechtigkeit in den Amerikas," Innsbruck (Austria), June 6, 2024.
  6. "The US-Mexico Border in Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" at the Workshop "Play New Game: The Multilevel World(s) of Video Gaming in Contemporary US Culture," Pescara (Italy), May 9, 2024. Participated online.
  7. "Imagining the Return of the Tasmanian Tiger" in the Lecture Series "Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft," Innsbruck (Austria), December 5, 2023.
  8. "Ludifying the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Call of Duty Series" at "Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture," Alcalá de Henares (Spain), November 27, 2023.
  9. "The Alps and the Horrors of the Anthropocene" at "Alpine Imaginaries," Innsbruck (Austria), November 9, 2023.
  10. "Haunted Media: Videogames in Horror Movies" in the Lecture Series "Game Studies: Komparatistische Perspektiven auf neue Medien," Innsbruck (Austria), October 10, 2023.
  11. "The Deep Dark Ocean: Monsters and the Limits of Human Knowledge" at "'Hello Darkness, My Old Friend': Darkness in the American Imagination," the 2023 PopMeC Conference, Online, September 8, 2023.
  12. "'Achievement Unlocked: Manifest Destiny': Paleontology, Extinction, and the Re-Making of the American Nation in the Red Dead Redemption Games" at "Crises and Turns: Continuities and Discontinuities in American Culture," the 2023 Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies, Uppsala (Sweden), May 27, 2023.
  13. "When Dinosaurs Rise to Challenge Extraction: Anthropocene Unburials, Fossil Pasts, and Prehistoric Futures" at "Underground imaginaries," the 2023 European Society of Comparative Literature Conference, Alcalá de Henares (Spain), May 24, 2023.
  14. "Gone South: Gringos, Monsters, and the Threatening Otherness Inside Mexican Mountains" (with Anna Marta Marini) in the Lecture Series "Inside Mountains: Material Extractions and Mythical Exploits in the Americas," Innsbruck (Austria), April 20, 2023.
  15. "Crossing the Boundary to a Prehistoric Past: Entertainment, Science, and Going South" at the Symposium "Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture," Odense (Denmark), March 28, 2023.
  16. "UnderMining the American Western Imagination: The Vertical Dimension of John Ford's Westerns" (with Christian Quendler) at the Conference "Climate Change as System Change: Inter-American Perspectives," Graz (Austria), March 3, 2023.
  17. "De-Nationalizing the West: Uprooting Space and Deepening Time in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2" (with Stefan Rabitsch) at the Conference "Playing the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American Studies," Munich (Germany), November 19, 2022.
  18. "The (Great) Derangement: Agency and Acting Now in Horizon Zero Dawn" (with Carolin Becklas and Martin Butler) at the 2022 Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Mainz (Germany), September 1, 2022.
  19. "Weirding Western Timespaces: Dinosaurs, Cowboys, and Denationalizing the West" at "CoFutures: Futures from the Margins," the 2022 Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association, hosted by the University of Oslo (Norway; hybrid), June 28, 2022. Live Zoom Presentation.
  20. "Guardian of the Beauty and Mystery of the Andes: Film and the Incomprehensibility of Mountains in La cordillera de los sueños" at the Workshop "Global Circuits of Mountain Cinema," Innsbruck (Austria), June 27, 2022.
  21. "A 'Spiky Fuzzball' Goes Viral" at the Conference "Popularizing STEM: Science & Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture," organized by PopMeC: Association for US Popular Culture Studies (Spain; online), November 18, 2021. Live Zoom Presentation.
  22. "Horror and Mountains" at the Conference "Mountains & Cinema," Innsbruck (Austria), October 15, 2021.
  23. "'This Monster Ran at Them With Open Mouth': Manifest Destiny and the Monstrosity of the American West" (with Stefan Rabitsch) at the Conference "Visual Depictions of the American West: How the West Was Drawn and What It Showed Us," hosted by Ca'Foscari University Venice (Italy; hybrid), September 15, 2021. Live Zoom Presentation.
  24. "Virale Virologen" (with Martin Butler and Sina Farzin) at the Symposium "Figurenbeschreibungen zwischen Literatur und Soziologie," hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (Germany; online workshop), May 14, 2021. Live Zoom Presentation.
  25. "Terraforming the Plastic Planet: Colonizing Human Waste, Entrepreneurial Thinking, and Petroculture in Great Pacific" at "20/20 Vision," the 33rd Conference of the European Association for American Studies, hosted by the University of Warsaw (Poland; online conference), May 2, 2021. Pre-Recorded Presentation.
  26. "Gators in the Home: Anthropocene Gothic and the Re-Definition of (Non)Human Space" at "20/20 Vision," the 33rd Conference of the European Association for American Studies, hosted by the University of Warsaw (Poland; online conference), May 1, 2021. Pre-Recorded Presentation.
  27. "Manifest Extinction: Geological Time, Vanishing Species, and the De-Nationalized West in the Red Dead Redemption Games" at "Digital BAAS," the 66th British Association for American Studies Conference (United Kingdom; online conference), April 10, 2021. Live Zoom Presentation.
  28. "When Contagion Trumps Climate Change: Re-Watching Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies in the Corona Winter" at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts 42, "Climate Change and the Anthropocene," hosted by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (United States; online conference), March 20, 2021. Pre-Recorded Presentation.
  29. "Returning to Jurassic Park: Serializing Necrofuturistic Cycles of De-Extinction and Re-Extinction" at the Conference "Genre/Nostalgia," hosted by the University of Hertfordshire (United Kingdom; online conference), January 5, 2021. Live Zoom Presentation.
  30. "Westward Extermination: Extinction, Deep Time, and the (Un-)Making of the American Nation in the Red Dead Redemption Games" at "Graphic Wests," the 55th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association (United States; online conference), October 24, 2020. Live Zoom Presentation.
  31. "Living the Post-Racial Dream? Virtual Boxing and Narrative Imprisonment" (with Stefan Rabitsch) at the 2020 Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (United States; online conference), October 2, 2020. Live Zoom Presentation.
  32. "Ready, Player, Outlaw: The Mythical West, Neo-Revisionism, and Video Games" (with Stefan Rabitsch) at "Truth, Lies, Fact and Fiction in American Studies," the 2020 Conference of the American Studies Association of Norway, hosted by the University of Tromsø (Norway; hybrid conference), September 26, 2020. Live Zoom Presentation.
  33. "We Cannot Afford a Failure of the Imagination: Fantastic Future Worlds as Critical Change Agents" (with Stefan Rabitsch) at "GUSEGG Research Hub 2020," Leibnitz (Austria; hybrid workshop), July 23, 2020.
  34. "Playing America: Teaching American Culture through Video Games" (with Stefan Rabitsch) at "GUSEGG Research Hub 2020," Leibnitz (Austria; hybrid workshop), July 22, 2020. Pre-Recorded Presentation.
  35. "Creative Destruction and Cycles of Extinction: Playing Necropreneur in Jurassic World Evolution" at "Anthropocenes: Reworking the Wound," the 14th Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Katowice (Poland; online conference), June 19, 2020. Pre-Recorded Presentation.
  36. "'You cannot go invade a country!' Latin America and the Disruption of US (Neo-)Colonialist Fantasies in Horror Films" in the Lecture Series "Inter-American History and Culture," Graz (Austria), January 29, 2020.
  37. "Playing Entrepreneur; Or, Video Games and Entrepreneurial Decision-Making in the Neoliberal Age" in the Lecture Series "Interpreneurship: Entrepreneurship through an Interdisciplinary Lens," University of Graz, Graz (Austria), January 7, 2020.
  38. "'No law, no person, no governing body dictating our behavior': American Horror Story: Cult, The Purge, and the End of Subtlety in the Age of Trump" in the American Studies Colloquium Series, Warsaw (Poland), December 12, 2019. *invited*
  39. "When Green Pastures Turn Into Wastelands: Changing Climate, Adapting the Heimat, and the Evolving Human in Blutgletscher" at The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces, Warsaw (Poland), December 7. 2019.
  40. "The Glacier Is Gone! The Alps and the Horrors of the Anthropocene" at Mediating Mountains: The 46th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Innsbruck (Austria), November 24, 2019.
  41. "Off-the-Grid on The Grid: Between Material and Virtual Realities in TRON: Legacy" at Gate(d)Ways: Enclosures, Breaches and Mobilities Across U.S. Boundaries and Beyond, the 25th Conference of the Italian Association for American Studies, Ragusa (Italy), September 27, 2019.
  42. "'This is America, where a lying, cheating degenerate can prosper': Playing Entrepreneur" (with Stefan Rabitsch) at U.S.-American Culture as Popular Culture: The 66th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies, Hamburg (Germany), June 15, 2019.
  43. "You, Too Can Become a Star! Upward Mobility in Sports Video Games" at American Im/Mobilities: The 45th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Vienna (Austria), November 18, 2018.
  44. "The Right to the Digital City: Hacking the Surveillance State in Watch_Dogs?" at Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies, Munich (Germany), April 27, 2018.
  45. "No Longer a 'Contained and Disciplined Environment': Urban Nature and Fungal Horror in The Last of Us" at EBAAS 2018: 32nd European Association for American Studies and 63rd British Association for American Studies Conference, London (UK), April 7, 2018.
  46. "'This is not how it happened': Narrative Forking Paths and the Canon in Mass Effect" at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 39, Orlando (Florida, USA), March 16, 2018.
  47. "They Will Make You Cry—or Scream—Like a Little Girl: Animals, Affect, and Emotion in Film" in the Lecture Series "Emotions," University of Graz, Graz (Austria), January 24, 2018.
  48. "Of Fangs and Feathered Scalps: (Were)Wolves, Indians, and Westward Progress," University of Graz, Graz (Austria), January 16, 2018.
  49. "SeXXXing the Galaxy Far, Far Away: Porning Star Wars in the Adult Film Industry and in Fan Practice" (with Elisabeth Schneider) at Cinerotic: Eroticism in Films and Video Games, Klagenfurt (Austria), November 11, 2017.
  50. "Playing with the Historical Real: Video-Gaming, Cultural Trauma, and Controversy" at Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The Changing Natures of American Studies, the 44th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Salzburg (Austria), November 4, 2017.
  51. "Mass Effect and the Cosmic Perspective: The Reapers, Lovecraft, Gameplay, and the Anthropocene" at Realities and World-Building, the 2017 conference of the German Association for Research in the Fantastic, Vienna (Austria), September 21, 2017.
  52. "Seeing through the Shark's Eyes? Complicating the Shark's Point of View in Shark Night" at Literature & the Environment, Graz (Austria), June 10, 2017.
  53. "'I can't believe this is happening!' Reducing Human Beings to Food in Recent Canadian Bear Horror" at Fear 2000: 21st-Century Monsters, Sheffield (UK), April 22, 2017.
  54. "Porning Food? Food and Visual Excess in Recent Film, Television, and Fan Practice" in the Lecture Series "Food: A Topic in Cultural Studies," University of Graz, Graz (Austria), January 18, 2017.
  55. "Animal Horror" in the Lecture Series "Horror in Visual Media," University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt (Austria), December 7, 2016. *invited*
  56. "'I have no taste for animal cruelty': Human Cannibalism and/as Animal Politics in Hannibal," at America through the Small Screen: Television and Its Transformations, the 43rd Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Innsbruck (Austria), November 13, 2016.
  57. "Dawn of the Zoocene? When Humans Lose Control (in Zoo)" at the 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Vienna (Austria), July 23, 2016.
  58. "'We'll just end up back here, anyway': (Digital) Seriality, Apocalyptic Circularity, and the Mass Effect Franchise" at the 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Vienna (Austria), July 22, 2016.
  59. "Becoming the Shark and/vs. Controlling the Shark: Jaws Unleashed and the Animal Avatar" at "Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture," London (UK), June 4, 2016.
  60. "No Sense of an Ending? World-Building, Seriality, and the Mass Effect Universe" at The Fantastic in a Transmedia Era: New Texts—Theories—Contexts, Odense (Denmark), November 24, 2015.
  61. "'You must never listen to this!' vs. 'Don't you let her look!': The Sounds (and the Lack thereof) of Eating Humans in Grizzly Man and Frozen" at Soundscapes and Sonic Cultures in America, the 42nd Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Graz (Austria), November 8, 2015.
  62. "'(Re-)Assuming Control': Mass Effect's Meta-Ending, Agency, and Fan Disenchantment" at Meta-Games and Meta-Gaming, Krakow (Poland), October 21, 2015.
  63. "'No, I will never apologize for the United States': Uncle Sam and the History of the American Nation" at Geschichte im Comic – Geschichte des Comic/History in Comics—History of Comics, the 10th Annual Conference of the German Association for Comics Studies, Frankfurt (Germany), September 4, 2015.
  64. "Urban Nightmares Beneath the City: The Subway in Urban Horror Movies" at Space Oddities: Urbanity, American Identity, and Cultural Exchange, the 41st Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Graz (Austria), November 22, 2014.
  65. "Armstrong vs. Hoven: The Construction of Mark of the Devil's 'Author' in the Blu-Ray Bonus Features" at Mark of the Devil: On a Classic Exploitation Film, Tamsweg (Austria), April 3, 2014.
  66. "'I'm a writer': (De)Constructing Authorship in Alan Wake" at Games and Literary Theory, Valletta (Malta), November 1, 2013.
  67. "Comics Aesthetics in Video Games: Intermediality—Remediation—Transmediality" at Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age, the 2013 International Society of Intermediality Studies conference, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), October 25, 2013.
  68. "'We're not even in America': Citing America in Supernatural" at American Studies and/as/vs Media Studies, the 5th Annual AYA Workshop, Innsbruck (Austria), December 10, 2011.
  69. "'Check it out—there's actually fans': Representing Cult Fandom in My Name is Bruce and Supernatural" at Is It 'Cause It's Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture, the 38th Annual AAAS Conference, Salzburg (Austria), November 5, 2011.
  70. "'It's not a lake. It's an ocean.': Alan Wake, (Meta-)Transmedia Storytelling, and (Meta-)Media Convergence" at Storyworlds across Media: Mediality, Multimodality, Transmediality, Mainz (Germany), July 2, 2011.
  71. "Die chaotische Evolution des Horrorfilmgenres unter Berücksichtigung des Metareferential Turn; oder: Evolution, Chaos, Turn(s) - der Nutzen natur- und formalwissenschaftlicher Modelle im kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs" at Kategorien zwischen Denkform, Analysewerkzeug und historischem Diskurs, Graz (Austria), May 28, 2011.
  72. "'Desire's a strange land one discovers as a child': Storytelling, Desire, and Sex in Lost Girls" at Literature and Transgression, Istanbul (Turkey), May 2, 2011.
  73. "Alan Moore's Chronotopoetics: Quantum-Leaping into the Fourth Dimension" at Space, Place, and Time: The Construction of Identity in American Popular Culture, Graz (Austria), December 12, 2010.
  74. "CorpoReality in David Cronenberg's eXistenZ," University of Pécs (Hungary), November 23, 2010. *invited*
  75. "'Don't believe everything that's written about you': George Herman Ruth, Iconicity, and Early 20th-Century Media" at The Visual Culture of Modernism, the 2010 AAAS/SANAS Conference, Innsbruck (Austria), November 12, 2010.
  76. "Documenting Horrors: Post-9/11 Horror, National Trauma, and the Return of the 1950s" at American Studies in Europe Post-9/11: Is It All Different Now, the 4th Annual AYA Workshop, Vienna (Austria), October 10, 2010.
  77. "Breaking the Mirror: Reality, Holes between Universes, and Supernatural" at"Fremde Welten - Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert, the Founding Conference of the German Association for Research on the Fantastic, Hamburg (Germany), October 2, 2010.
  78. "An Abject Family Portrait: Family and the Texas Chainsaw Franchise," University of Graz (Austria), December 16, 2009.
  79. "American PsICONs from Ed Gein to Dexter Morgan" at Iconic Figures of the 20th Century and Beyond, the 3rd Annual AYA Workshop, Graz (Austria), October 26, 2009.
  80. "Starring Porn: Meta-Referentiality in Straight Feature Pornography" at The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation, Graz (Austria), October 3, 2009.
  81. "New Nightmare and King Kong: Meta-Horror Now and Then" at the Graduate Student Forum of the 35th Annual AAAS Conference, Velden (Austria), October 26, 2008.
  82. "Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra, and Postmodern Horror" at Landscapes of Postmodernity, the 2nd Annual Austria's Young Americanists Workshop, Graz (Austria), September 27, 2008.