2020

“Over the Ocean and into Us: Comics Mapping Collective Experience with Water.” “Ocean Narratives and Representations, Henrietta Harvey Public Lecture Panels, Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, Canada Feb. 13).

“Taking Time to Talk Back: Challenging the Ill Body’s Overdetermination in Graphic Medicine.” CorpoRealities, Pathographics Workshop (Berlin, Germany).

2019

“New Trends in Comics.” “Comics’ Pasts and Comics’ Futures.” Nexus Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, Canada Nov. 19).

“Tangled up in Lists: Representing Illness in Comics.” Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Wuppertal, Germany, July 3).

2018

“Perspectives of French Children: Teaching Graphic Memoir.” Roundtable Title: “Classroom Contexts for French and Francophone Bande Dessinée.” Mind the Gaps: The 1st Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society. (Urbana-Champaign, USA).

2017

“Not Wanting to Play Around: Games in Graphic Illness Narratives.” Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus (Corner Brook, Canada Nov. 21).

“Visual Layerings of Self: Photography in Graphic Memoir.” University of Warwick Research Seminar Series (Warwick, UK, April 26).

2016

“Brand Command: Repetition and Coolness.” Message Control and Canadian Democracy. Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, Canada, Sept. 21).

“Representing Illness in Graphic Medicine.” Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France, May 11).

2015

“Visual Entanglements: Photography in Comics.” Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada, Sept. 15).

“Photography, Cartooning, and Storytelling Practices.” Department of English, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Grenoble, France, June 9).

“Photography in Comics, A Happy Union in So Many Ways.” The Feminist Research Institute, in cooperation with the English Graduate Student Association and the American Literary Studies Program, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA, April 24).

2012

“Empty Frames: Filling in the Dots.” Department of English, Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France, June 19).

2011

“Disenchanted with the Referent: Photography in Emanuele Martino's Cara fotografia.” Department of Modern Languages, Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Canada, March 24).

2010

“Focalization and Visual Perspective in the Graphic Novel” (with Dr. Silke Horstkotte). Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada, March 25).

2009

“Come vedi, sono io: l'autorappresenatzione nella letteratura Italiana contemporanea.” L'Institut Culturel Italien de Montréal and the département de littératures et de langues modernes, Université de Montréal (Montreal, Canada, Dec. 1).

“Unruly Portrayals of Self.” Department of English, The University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada, October 8).

2007

“Photographic Silence, un geste provocateur.” International symposium, Littérature et Photographie (Cerisy-la-Salle, France, July 22).

2005

"Contemporary Italian Women's Self-Portraits: Autobiography Meets History." The Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Montreal and the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)