Speaker & Presenter

"Biopolitics of Chinese Hybridity," Invited to Present at the 13th Asia Pacific Conference, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Beppu, Oita, Japan, November 7-8, 2015.

“The Circulation of Ghostly Women and Li Yongping’s Affective Sinophone Malaysian Identity,” Invited to Present at the 18th Annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, February 20-22, 2015.

“Japan’s Civil Society from Kobe to Tohoku: Impact of Policy Changes on Government-NGO Relationship and Effectiveness of Post-Disaster Relief,” Invited to Present at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Sophia University, Tokyo, June 21-22, 2014.

“Military Gay Comrades: Negotiating The Homosocial(ist) Identity in PRC Tongzhi Fiction,” Invited to Present at the 5th Annual Berkeley Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 18-19, 2014.

“Military Tongzhi Fiction from Mainland China: Homosocial(ist) Soldiers in the Chinese Army,” Invited to Present at the 23nd Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, February 14-15, 2014.

“Tongzhi Tales: Male Subjectivities in Online Comrade Literature from Mainland China,” Paper Presentation at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Society Graduate Conference, National University of Singapore, July 1-2, 2013.

“The Underground Homosexual Community and Queer Comrade Fiction in Mainland China,” Invited to Present at Visible Thinking: Annual Symposium of Original Research, Duke University, April 20, 2013.

“Queer Comrade Literature, Political Reality, and the Tongzhi Movement in the People’s Republic of China,” Nominated to speak at the 8th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference as a Duke University representative, Wake Forest University, April 4-5, 2013.

“The Subaltern Voice in Dream of Ding Village: Speaking to the Myth of Consanguinity through China’s Blood Crisis,” Invited to Present at a Workshop on Yan Lianke’s Fiction, Duke University, March 30, 2013.

“Popular Comrade Narratives and the Tongzhi Subculture in Mainland China,” Scheduled to Present at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference, Panel on Asian Popular Culture, March 27-29, 2013.

“Online Comrade Narratives from Mainland China: Contesting Hegemonic Norms of Gender and Sexuality,” Invited to Present at Asia Intertwined, the 16th Annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference, February 22-24, 2013.

“Gender Relations in Chinese Comrade Literature: A Discussion of ‘The Illusive Mind’,” Invited to Present at the 22nd Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, February 15-16, 2013.

“Homoerotic Narratives and Emergent ‘Comrade’ Communities on the Chinese Internet: Inscribing Sexual Citizenship and Rights in Modern Chinese Society through Homosexual Stories,” Invited to Present at Navigating Place and Power, an Annual Conference for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences Sponsored by the Duke University Department of History, February 15, 2013.

“Queer Comrade Literature, Political Reality, and the Tongzhi Movement in the People’s Republic of China,” Paper Presentation for Senior Honors Thesis Research Symposium at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, November 30, 2012.

“Lived Lives and ‘Fictive’ Narratives of Underground Same-Sex Attracted Communities in Urban China,” Paper Presentation at the State of North Carolina Symposium on Research and Creativity (SNCSRC), Duke University, November 17, 2012.

“Exclusionary Government Policies and Human Rights Issues for Migrant Worker Communities in Rural China: Significance to U.S.-China International Relations,” Research Presentation for the Annual Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Open Forum, Duke University, October 27, 2012.

“Comrade Stories as Political Narratives and Protest Mechanisms in Contemporary China,” One of Two Honors Students Nominated for Paper Presentation to the Annual Board of Visitors Conference at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, September 28, 2012.

“Taiwanese Queer Comrade Literature and National Identity Politics,” Paper Presentation for Unzipped, a Symposium for Research in Gender and Sexuality Sponsored by the Duke University Women’s Studies Department, September 12, 2012.