“Cultural Representations of the Body,” part of panel “Identity, Representation, Collaboration: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in a First-Year Experience Program,” National Association for Humanities Education Conference, San Francisco, CA; February 2007.
“Fans and the Feedback Loop in ‘Storyteller.’” Faculty Research Evening Exchange, Randolph-Macon College, December 2004.
“Zora Neale Hurston as Narrator–Ethnographer in Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Introduction to Humanities, Randolph-Macon College,Spring 2002.
“Simmering in Suburbia: Gender, Race, and Space in The Stepford Wives, Fatal Attraction, and Baby Boom,” Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, LA; April 2000.
“Technologies of the Kitchen: Three Kitchens of Tomorrow, 1944-1966,” UCSB Women’s Center Predoctoral Teaching Fellow lecture series, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; May 1999.
“The Food Festival at Home and the Experience of Ethnicity,” California American Studies Association conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; April 1999.
“The Dream, the Maid, and the Machine” presented at “Discipline and Deviance: Genders, Technologies, Machines,” Duke University, Durham, NC; October 1998.
“Robot to Replicant: Simulation, Cyberpunk, and Blade Runner” and “Crash and the Postmodern,” Representation of the Body, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Spring 1998.
“Asian American Women: An Introductory History,” US Women of Color, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Winter 1997.
“Household Hints: Violence, Kitchen Culture, and the Ethnic Subject” Annual Meeting of the Modern Languages Association; Washington, DC; December 1996.
“Dan Rather vs. Romance Novels: Writing about Pop Culture,” Writing Across the Disciplines, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; 1995-1996.
“Techno-Culture in the Kitchen,” Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting; Pasadena, CA; November 1995.
“Feeling it in Your Gut: Food for Nation’s Sake in No-No Boy” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting; Oakland, CA; June 1995.
“Paris is Burning and the Surgical Construction of Gender,” Representation of the Body, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; May 1995.
“Postmodernist Historical Fiction: Histories by Galeano and Rushdie” presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Knoxville, TN; November 1992.
“‘… more affectionate than ever’: Constructing Domestic Violence in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God” presented at Reading the Text; Reading the World conference of the Graduate Student Consortium of the Washington, DC Area; Washington, DC; June 1992.