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CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIUMS: PANELIST
“Popular Media Constructions Of White Nomadic 'Subcultures' During The Long Depression (1873-1893)." Popular Culture/American Culture Association 40th Annual Conference. St Louis, MO, USA. April 2, 2010.
“National Transgressions: U.S. Media Representations of Mobility, 'Boundary-Busting' and the Allegorical American During Periods of Major Economic Crisis." Cultural Studies Association (US) 8th Annual Conference. Berkeley, CA, USA. March 19, 2010.
“'No-Limits' Entertainment: Capital, Queer Ideology, and the Construction of Gender Variance in English Language Subscription Cable.” National Communication Association's Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, USA. November 23, 2008.
“Harvesting Transgressive, Normative, and Bourgeois Pleasures in Showtime’s The L-Word.” Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, hosted by UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA. April 24, 2008.
“Christopher Street West: Resistance, Community, Containment and Capital in Los Angeles.” L.A Queer Studies Conference, hosted by UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. Los Angeles, CA, USA. October 30, 2007.
“Fire, Earth, and Water: Deepa Mehta’s Diasporic Diplomacy.” National Communication Association Critical/Cultural Studies in Communication Summer Conference: Rethinking Communication Within Changing Global Contexts, Cultural Influences on Participation in the Political Process panel. Orono, ME, USA. June 30, 2007.
"Rock Star Supernova: Producing Medium Metamorphosis and Creative Displacement through Convergent Media and Interactive Technologies.” Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) Fifth Annual Meeting. Portland, OR, USA. April 19, 2007.
“Rock Star Supernova: A Case Study in Medium Metamorphosis and Creative Displacement through Interactive Technologies.” Media, Communication and Cultural Studies/Association of Media Practice in EducationConference (MeCCSA/AMPE). Coventry, England, UK. January 12, 2007.
“The Construction of Gender Variant Characters in American and British Cinema (1992-2002).” Phi Kappa Phi Special Recognition Ceremony. CSULA, Los Angeles, CA. USA. November 19, 2004.
“Unmasking the Invisible: Encoding Gender Variance in Films Intended for U.S. Distribution.” Significations: 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference. CSULA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. May 8, 2004.
“Unmasking the Invisible: Gender Variants’ Entrance Into American Popular Culture.” QGrad Conference. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. November 15, 2003.
"NBC's The West Wing: Virtual Democracy for a Divided Nation.” America: Visions and Divisions Conference. UT-Austin. Austin, TX. USA. October 3, 2003.
"The West Wing: Virtual Democracy for a Divided Nation.” CSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Statewide Conference. CSU-Stanislaus, Stanislaus, CA, USA. May 3, 2003.
CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIUMS: CHAIR AND MODERATOR
Panel Chair, Third Gender: Subverting the Conventional in Queer Discourses and Constructions. National Communication Association's Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, USA. November 23, 2008.
Panel Co-Chair, Agency, Interactive Technologies, and the Economics of Creativity. Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) Fifth Annual Meeting. Portland, OR, USA. April 19, 2007
Panel Chair, The Active Audience. Media, Communication and Cultural Studies/Association of Media Practice in Education Conference. Coventry, England, UK. January 10, 2007.
Panel Chair and Respondent, Visual and Popular Cultures in the Transnational Metropolis. Los Angeles as Trans-national Crossroads: New Directions in Community Activism and Cultural Studies Conference. Rockefeller Humanities Residency Program, Los Angeles, CA, USA. June 2, 2006.