2025

“Underviolence and Graphic Journalism.” (Madrid, Spain, 16 May)

“Intermediality: Media Moving between / across / within Comics.” (Grenoble, France, 7 May)

“Graphic Journalism and Violence.” (Giessen, Germany, 27 January)

2024

“Why Study Comics through an Intermedial Lens.” (Dublin, Ireland, 11 July)

“Pictorial Intertextuality: Fabricating Truths in Documentary Comics.” (Giessen, Germany, 9 July)

“Multiplying Stories across the Body: Embodiment in Autobiographical Graphic Illness Narratives.” (Grenoble, France, 23 May)

“Monsters, Games, and Me: Showing Psychological Experience in Works of Graphic Medicine.” (Angoulême, France, 14 May)

“Pointing to, and away from, Media or, How Intermediality Impacts the Reading of Comics” (Montpellier, France, 23 April)

“The Intermedial Practices of Comics: A Study of Comics that Include and/or Invoke Different Visual Media.” (Milan, Italy, 15 March)

“Authenticating Lived Experience: The Work of Documents in Graphic Memoir.” (Parma, Italy, 13 March)

“Studying Comics.” Online talk. (6 February)

2023

“Mobilities Across Media: Getting Lost in the Images that Travel into and out of Graphic Narratives.” (Padua, Italy, 5 December)

“Huh! Why So Many Games in Graphic Illness Narratives?” (Bologna, Italy, 27 Nov)

“On Intermediality.” Colloque – Transferts culturels par la bande. (Montreal, 25 May)

2022

“Why an Intermedial Approach to Comics?” LIEN Multimedia Inaugural Conference Series Lecture. Centre de recherches intermédiales sur les arts, les lettres et les techniques. Université de Montreal (Montreal, 24 January)

2021

“Focalization in Documentary Comics.” Image, Event, Narrative Seminar Series. Universidade Federal de Sergipe (São Cristóvão, Brazil Oct. 29)

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)

“Breaking through Borders: Migration in Comics.” Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France, Feb. 10)

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)

“Cartooning Ex-Posing Photography in Graphic Memoir.” Department of English, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Grenoble, France, May 3)

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)