Conferences

   Godzilla x Godzilla: Global/National Interactions in the Kaijū Film, British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies Conference, Warwick, March 2025

Giant Mobilities: The Case of Trans-East Asian Kaijū Movies, De-Westernizing Horror Cinema, King’s College London, November 2022

The absent cult auteur: the disappearance of Ishirō Honda, Cine-Excess XVI: Mavericks, Rebels and Rule Breakers in Cult Film, October 2022

How Godzilla vs. Kong Memes Turned Titans into Pandemic Superheroes, De Paul Popular Culture Conference: A Celebration of Superheroes, May 2021

‘Will the True Godzilla Please Stand Up?: Putting the National Back into Transnational Monster Movies’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Toronto, March 2018

‘The Silent (Film) Woman: Sweet and Lowdown’s mute muse’, Men Writing Women: Women in the Work of Woody Allen and Beyond, York, January 2018

‘Kaijū vs. the world: The transnational kaijū eiga and genrifying fandom’ Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Chicago, March 2017

‘Godzilla, Gorgo and… Superman? Cultification through Generic Fragmentation in the Kaijū eiga’, Cine-Excess X, Birmingham, November 2016

‘Ōru kaijū dai shingeki (All monsters attack!): The regional and transnational exploitation of the kaijū eiga’, Global Exploitation Cinema conference, Lincoln, May 2015

‘Up from the depths’: The transnational encounter between Godzilla and Gojira’, Global Studies Association Conference, York, June 2014

‘Muddying local and transnational barriers: crowdfunding's interventions in independent filmmaking’, MeCCSA conference, Bournemouth, January 2014

'Transcending nation(ality): Film Studies and the Transnational Researcher', Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Chicago, March 2013

“Nobody even knew there was a book”: Global Remaking-by-Numbers in One Missed Call (2008)’, Cultural Translation and East Asia Conference, Bangor, September 2012

‘An Actor Ages: The Actor’s Subjectivity, Aging and Television’, Playing the Small Screen symposium, York, July 2012

‘Cross-Cultural Film Remakes’ (roundtable participant), Media Across Borders conference, London, June 2012

‘Industry-Standard Practice/Critical Theory: A Pedagogical Response for Overcoming Binarism’ (workshop presentation: ‘Teaching Film Studies in a Broadcast Environment’), Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Boston, March 2012

‘Performance and the Indie Film Star: Negotiating Hollywood, Television, and Independent Cinema Labour Structures’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Boston, March 2012

‘How Could You Possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally Re-narrativizing Collaborative Authorship’, Partners in Suspense: Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock, York, March 2011

‘Reconfiguring Independence: Dispersed Space and Digital Authorship’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, March 2011

‘Body of fiction, fiction of (social) bodies: The Monstrous Case of Hal Hartley’s No Such Thing’, Cine-Excess IV: the Fourth International Conference on Global Cult Film, London, April 2010

‘Visitor M: The Selling of Miike Takashi as an International Auteur’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2010

‘The Ultimate Super-Happy-Zombie-Romance-Murder-Mystery-Family-Comedy-Karaoke-Disaster-Movie-Part-Animated-Remake-All-Singing-All-Dancing-Musical-Spectacular-Extravaganza: Miike Takashi’s The Happiness of the Katakuris as “cult” hybrid’, Cine-Excess III: An International Conference on Global Cult Film Traditions, London, May 2009

‘“I am Iron Man”: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo and the New Kaiju Eiga’, Cine-Excess II: An International Conference on Global Cult Film Traditions, London, May 2008

‘The Black Society to The Isle: Miike Takashi and Kim Ki-Duk at the Intersection of Asia Extreme’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, March 2008

‘International Horror Cinema and the Spectre of War’, Hidden Histories: Global Education Seminar, York, January 2008

‘DOA?: The “Other” Miike Takashi’, Cine-Excess: An International Conference on Global Cult Film Traditions, London, May 2007

‘Reconstructing the Past: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, March 2007

‘Eternal Recurrence of the Same: Compulsions to Repeat in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, July 2005

‘Somebody’s Watching You: Performance in the Public Eye in Hal Hartley’s Flirt’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, April 2005

‘Repeating the Essential: Hal Hartley, Repetition and the Notion of Cult’, Association for Research in Popular Fictions’ Audiences Conference, Liverpool, November 2004

‘Animated Chaos: Violence, gesture and body motion in Hal Hartley’s The New Math(s) and the films of Chuck Jones’, Shifting Boundaries, 1st Annual College of Arts and Social Sciences' Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen, June 2004