Keynotes and Invited Lectures

  • “Narrative Disorders and the Stories that Make Us Sick.” Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. April 18, 2024.

  • “Storytelling as a Foundation for Living,” University of South Alabama. Mobile, AL. March 20, 2024.

  • “The Imperative of Lived Experience for ME/CFS and Long COVID Research,” Advancing ME/CFS Research Symposium: National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD. December 12, 2023.

  • “Hostile Legislation, Digital Activism, & Trans/Crip Stories.” DISCO Network, University of Michigan. November 28, 2023. Workshop with Christina Cedillo and Ada Hubrig

  • “Storytelling for/as Relationality.” George S. Heyer Distinguished Lecture. Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Austin, TX. October 12, 2023.

  • "Intersecting Justice: Theory & Praxis." Panel Discussion for the Committee on Social Theory & Writing, University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. September 5, 2023.

  • "How do you make a home when no one wants you there?’: Storytelling for Crip/Queer Asian American Belonging." Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. February 28, 2023.

  • "Bodyminds as Archives: Crip Wisdom and Communal Resilience." January 20, 2023. University of Pittsburgh.

  • "Media for Trans Liberation." Press On. November 19, 2022: Online.

  • "Living in Impossible Bodies: Sick, Trans, and Asian American Embodiment in Regimes of Whiteness." Imagining Trans Futures Symposium. November 2, 2022: University of Washington, Seattle/Bothell.

  • "Ghosts' Stories and Writing Home: A Book Launch Event!" October 25, 2022: University of Texas at Austin.

  • “A New Plot for Living: Storytelling as Collective Action and Homemaking.” Computers & Writing Conference. May 2022: East Carolina State University.

  • “Storying Ecologies and Rewriting Home.” Appalachian State University. April 11, 2022.

  • “Storying (Un)Commonplaces: Writing toward Places Not-Yet-Here.” Keynote, 2022 South Central Writing Center Association. Feb 2022: Louisiana State University.

  • “Homing Stories: Writing toward Coalitions and Communities of Care.” Asian American Justice Coalition. October 2021: Online.

  • “Irreducible Damage: Or, Whose Survival Are We Talking About?” Camp Rhetoric. February 2021: Penn State University.

  • “Together We Can Find the Shore: Crip Solidarity and Rhetorics of Queer Diaspora.” Rhetoric Colloquium. February 2021: University of Wisconsin, Madison.

  • “Ghosts’ Stories: Narratives, Commonplaces, and Writing Home in Queer Diaspora.” Faculty Development Program Colloquium. February 2021: University of Texas at Austin.

  • “Homing Story: Constellating Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics.” Praxis and Precarity Conference, RSA at LSU. December 2020: Louisiana State University.

  • “Ghosts’ Stories: Narratives, Commonplaces, and Archival Curation.” Transformations and Feminist Gender Studies Colloquium. November 2020: Penn State University.

  • “Narrative Insurgence: Queer Diasporic Storytelling as Subversions of the American Dream,” November 2019: University of Arkansas.

non-conference Workshops and Discussions

(For a list of my conference presentations, please see my CV - link above)

  • “Navigating the Academic Job Market: Networking, Disclosure, Materials, and More!” Oct 2022. CPTSC-GSC.

  • “Preparing for the Academic Job Market.” August 2022. Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

  • “Jo & Jian in Conversation.” Center for Asian American Studies. April 2021. University of Texas at Austin.

  • Queer Rhetorics in the Covid-19 Era. RSA Remote, September 2020: Syracuse University

  • The Once and Future Dream: A Roundtable on Free Speech, September 2018: Northwest Arkansas Community College