Video Recordings

Here’s a list of public talks, conference presentations, and guest lectures I’ve given in the recent past—or will soon be giving:

2024

  • “Speculations: N.K. Jemisin and Worldbuilding.” Class Visit: Data, Culture, and Society, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Panel Discussion: “Pedagogy.” (with Dara Regaignon, Cyrus Patell, and John Guillory) Probing the Peripheries of Academic Labor. Department of English, NYU

  • “Labor and Psychic Autonomy in Samuel Delany’s Stars.” MLA 2024: Celebration: Joy and Sorrow. Philadelphia, PA

2023

  • “Reproductive Coercion in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Series” and Panel Chair: “Bodily Autonomy and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction.” ASA 2023: Solidarity: What Love Looks Like in Public. Montreal, Québec

  • “Coercion and Autonomy in Delany’s Stars.” ASAP/14: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present: Arts of Fugitivity. University of Washington, Seattle

  • “Coercion and Autonomy in Samuel Delany's Stars.” W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture. American Studies Department, Humboldt University, Berlin

  • Pride Month Read-a-Thon, Hoboken Public Library, Hoboken, NJ

2022

  • “Agency Under Duress: Subjectivity and Resistance in Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction.” Department of English, Harvard University

  • Seminar Organizer & Chair: “Speculative Fiction and Decolonial Thought.” ACLA 2022, Taipei, Taiwan (Online)

  • Co-Organizer: Graduate Student Workshops (with Omar Qaqish). ACLA 2022, Taipei, Taiwan (Online)

  • “Imperialism on an Interplanetary Scale: Samuel Delany’s Space Operas,”
    MELUS 2022: Awakenings and Reckonings, University of New Orleans

  • Panel Organizer: “Defamiliarizing the Racialized Present: Speculative Fictions by
    Writers of Color,” MELUS 2022: Awakenings and Reckonings, University of
    New Orleans

  • Moderator: “Afrofuturist Writing: Namwali Serpell and Samuel R. Delany,” Afrofuturism Festival, Carnegie Hall

  • Roundtable: “When Normal is the Problem: Collective Undertakings
    Within/Against/Beyond the University.” (with Rania Jawad, Dylan Rodriguez, Özen Nergis Dolcerocca, Thabisile Griffin, and Tiana Reid.) MLA 2022, Washington, D.C. (Online)

2021

  • Moderator: “Imagined (Lunar) Communities: Hope, Habitation, and Humanity.” (With Manish Melwani, Malka Older, Fabio Fernandes, and Grace Dillon.) Italian Virtual Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale

  • “Interplanetary Slavery in Delany’s Space Operas” and Panel Co-Organizer: “Theories for the World to Come: Afrofuturism, Muslim Utopianism, and Apocalyptic Fiction,” ASA 2021, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Online)

  • “Speculative Utopias of Police and Prison Abolition,” and Panel Co-Chair: “Speculative Fiction and Liberation Geographies,” ACLA 2021, Montreal (Online)

  • “Octavia Butler’s Alien Apocalypse: Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss,” and Panel Co-Organizer: “The Final Frontier: Space, Race, and Survival in Speculative Fiction,” MLA 2021, Toronto (Online)

  • “Fictions of America with Uli Baer and Smaran Dayal.” WordUp Community Bookshop, Washington Heights, New York City

  • “Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts” (with Ulrich Baer). Interview with Miranda Corcoran on the New Books Network Podcast

  • “Fictions of America: A Conversation on Firsts” (with Ulrich Baer and Nicholas Boggs). NYU Center for the Humanities

2020

  • “The Book of Firsts” (with Ulrich Baer). The History of Literature podcast

  • Panel Co-Chair: “Defamiliarizing the Racialized Present: Speculative Fictions by Writers of Color,” MELUS 2020: Awakenings and Reckonings, University of New Orleans (Postponed)

  • “Imperialism on an Interplanetary Scale: Samuel Delany’s Space Operas,” MELUS 2020: Awakenings and Reckonings, University of New Orleans (Postponed)

2019

  • “Transnational Asian Disaporic Studies,” NYU College of Arts and Sciences, Asian/Pacific/American Cultures

  • “Speculative Histories of Slavery and Settler Colonialism,” Postcolonialism and World Literature Colloquium, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University

  • “Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative,” Postcolonial, Race & Diaspora Studies Colloquium, Department of English, NYU

  • Panel Chair: “Culture, Time and Politics.” On Suffering: Pain, Precarity, and the Disintegration of the Self, Department of English, NYU

  • “Speculative Histories of Slavery and Settler Colonialism,” MELUS 2019: Underground Histories, University of Cincinnati

2018

  • Respondent: “Visual Discourses Interrogating Race and Gender,” Visuality and Postcolonial Print Cultures, Department of English, NYU

  • “Judith Butler’s Precarious Lives: Vulnerability, Grievability, 9/11 and
    #BlackLivesMatter”; NYU College of Arts and Sciences, The Other: Representation and Identity

2016

  • “Cityzenship: Rightful Presence and the Urban Commons” (with Wanda Vrasti); Other Europes, MLA International Symposium, Düsseldorf