Accepted
2023
Rhetorics of pain: Distress, harm, and healing in academic and everyday life. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Chicago, IL.
2023
Scholarly journal publishing with a disability-centered approach. Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Invited Talks and Readings
2022
Crip mentoring, access advocacy, and the job market. DISCO Network, Online.
2020
Intersectional feminism and digital aggression: Research experiences and approaches. Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Online.
2020
Breaking silence, telling truths, and writing ghosts into being (Craft talk). Saturated Channel: Virtual Creative Arts Festival, Pace University – PLV.
2019
Today is loss that isn’t loss. Candlelight vigil for Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, New York, NY.
2009
Every Comic is Asian American: Vowvaal/வௌவால். Asian-American Comi-Con, New York,
NY.
Refereed
2022
Peyththai and image-making: Cripping chronic pain the Tamil way. Universities Art
Association of Canada Conference, Toronto, CA.
2022
Embodied rhetoric: The body on/in/as text. Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference,
Baltimore, MD.
2022
Soliciting and publishing multimodal mess as digital activism (co-chair with R. Osorio). Computers and Writing, Online.
2022
Rest as an act of activism. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Unable to attend due to COVID-19.
2022
Dismantling architectures of power: On collaboration and implementation in labor and assessment schemas (with Mundy, R., Cadman, D., Gonzalez, T., & Suskewicz, J.). CCCC, Online.
2021
Making tangible institutional abstractions: Co-creating labor-based departmental grading policies across teaching lines. CCCC, Spokane, WA. Canceled due to COVID-19
2020
The successful text is not always the one that murders me to protect you. RSA Conference, Portland, OR. Canceled due to COVID-19.
2020
The aesthetics still matter: The ethics of simulating pain in digital scholarship. Computers and Writing, Greenville, NC. Canceled due to COVID-19.
2020
Poetics, praxis, and social justice: Reconfiguring epistemologies of pain as sites of collaborative invention (Panel co-chair with J. Male). CCCC, Milwaukee, WI. Canceled due to COVID-19.
2020
Are you f*ing kidding me?: Self-care in the face of classroom trauma. AWP Conference, San Antonio, TX. Canceled due to COVID-19.
2019
The pedagogical value of pain in anatomies of writing. Computers and Writing, East Lansing, MI.
2019
(In)visible labor: Radical professional participation in fraught digital spaces. Computers and Writing, East Lansing, MI.
2018
The author draws a blank: Negotiating academia with/in “fibro fog.” Capacious Conference. Lancaster, PA.
2018
For high-knowledge threats: A placebo-controlled rhetorical trial to treat aca-trolls. Computers and Writing, Fairfax, VA.
2018
Post-truth, post-Trump: Reflecting on the future of web literacies. Computers and Writing, Fairfax, VA.
2017
From digital activism to trolling: A town hall discussion. Computers and Writing, Findlay, OH.
2017
“I’ve never heard of that country”: Sri Lankan-American writers on shaping an emerging literary identity. AWP Conference, Washington, D.C.
2016
Networked bodies/networked identities: Connecting bodies in digital activism/writing. Computers and Writing, Rochester, NY.
2015
The author is in pain: Encounters in the world of non-belonging. Affect Theory Conference. Lancaster, PA.
2015
Teaching tattoos: A body(mod)-focused approach to the composition classroom. Computers and Writing, Menomonie, WI.
2014
Autonomy in the hivemind: 4chan’s archival economy and archaeology of memory. Computers 2013 Aug 7-11 and Writing, Pullman, WA.
2013
The right to bear cannons: Reevaluating DDoS actions as civic protest. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C.
2013
Lurk moar: Conducting research in transgressive Internet environments. Computers and Writing, Frostburg, MD.
2013
Mobius double reacharound: The convergence of comics, animation, and gaming in Homestuck. Illustration, Comics, and Animation, Hanover, NH.
2012
“We do it for the lulz”: Graffiti as a metaphor for digital defacement. Critical Information Conference, New York, NY.
2012
“Meanwhile, in an entirely different thread”: Reading 4chan as cybertext. Computers and Writing, Raleigh, NC.
2012
For the lulz?: Bigotry in moral panic discourse on 4chan’s Random – /b/ (Panel chair). Popular Culture Association, Boston, MA.
2011
“I think writing is a pretty cool guy. eh makes meaning and doesnt afraid of anything”: Grammatical memes and linguistic practice on 4chan. Computers and Writing, Ann Arbor, MI.
2011
“We are Sri Lankan civilians plz save our life”: Photography and the spectacle of Sri Lanka’s civil war (with A. Manivannan). New Narrative IV: Image and Spectacle, Toronto, CA.
2010
“Later, buddy”: The politics of loss and trauma representation in Gurren Lagann. Graphic Engagement: The Politics of Comics and Animation, West Lafayette, IN.
Non-Refereed
2018
Robot coda: Writers on love, race, and technology (Invited moderator). Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW), New York, NY.
Workshops
2020
Empowering inclusive disciplinary online representations and interactions: Strategic approaches for practicing anti-oppressive, hospitable online communication. CCCC, Milwaukee, WI. Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019
Best practices for online teaching. Writing and Cultural Studies, Pace University – PLV.
2018
Three ways to engage students when discussing scholarly texts. Writing and Cultural Studies, Pace University – PLV.
2018
Great ideas for teaching. Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. University press release here.