“‘Because you so perfectly understand me’: The Uncanny Doubling of Edgar Allan Poe by His Editor and Literary Executor, Rufus Griswold,” Fourth Annual International Poe Conference, New York, New York, February 2015: abstract

“Killing Without Death in Wars Without Conflict: Exploring the Paradoxical Fantasies of Military First-Person Shooter (FPS) Video Games,” 39^th Annual Meeting of the Semiotics Society of America (SSA), Seattle, Washington, October 2014: abstract

“Hard-Boiled Arabian Knight: Walking the Mean Streets of the Budayeen with George Alec Effinger’s Marîd Audran,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Boise, Idaho, October 2014

“The Hermeneutics of Detection in Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2014: abstract

“Reimagining Textual Space in Valve’s Portal Series,” Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 2014

“‘The D is Silent’: Language and Law in Django Unchained,” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Vancouver, Washington, October 2013

“‘The Head Fell Off’: Textual and Historical Clues to reading Edgar A. Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Trianon Morgue,’” Society for Textual Studies Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, March 2013: abstract