Talks & Presentations

2024

Presenter, “Citation Chaining & The Scholarly Conversation,” UCSB

2022

Panelist, “Being Black and Muslim in Publishing,” AWP Conference

Keynote Speaker, “Muslim Futuristic Fiction,” Inaugural Muslim Futurism Conference

Presenter, “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena: An Exploration in Attachment Theory and Object Relations in the Neurodiverse Mind,” UCSB Literature and the Mind Foundations

UCSB Read's Sci-Fi Writing Workshop: Estrangement and The Novum

2021

Presenter, “Argument Essay Structure in Ted Chaing’s Exhalation,” UCSB

Presenter, “The Sun Was Low: Collisions of Separateness and Isolation in George Elliot’s Middlemarch,” UCSB

Presenter, “Black Male Interiority in James Weldon Johnsons’ The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” UCSB

2019

Presenter, “Ancient African Androcentric Blood Covenants in Tananarive Due’s The Living Blood,” UCSB

2015

Panelist, “Fire & Clay: Humans & Jinn in Islam, Africa, & America,” Mystic Motherland Conference (Islamic Spirits, African Pasts, & Diaspora Politics Panel), IKHLAS Center University of Michigan, Ann Arb