I joined the Organizing Committee for the Fan Studies Network North America 2026 conference

Mar 2026

I gave two guest lectures on Representation and Gender & Sexuality for Navigating Our Media Landscape (MediaCom 1050) at Western University

Feb 2026

I presented my paper ““All the girls are girling”: Queer transcultural aesthetics within female K-pop performances” at the 2025 IASPM-Canada Conference at Toronto Metropolitan University

Oct 2025

I am now serving as the Graduate Student Representative for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Canada

Aug 2025

I participated in the Digital Methods course for the 2025 methods@manchester summer school at the University of Manchester

Jul, 2025

I presented my paper titled ““She’s so mother” Interpretations of Street Woman Fighter through the transcultural queer gaze” at the 2025 Console-ing Passions Conference at Georgia State University

Jun, 2025

I was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship for the 2025 award cycle

Apr, 2025

I was re-elected for a second term serving as the Vice-President Advocacy with the Society of Graduate Students

Apr, 2025

My paper, “‘This one’s for the sapphics’: Mamamoo, ‘girl crush,’ and transcultural networks through queer fan labor” was published in the recent edition of Popular Communication

Jan, 2025

I gave a guest lecture on Internet, Social Media, and the Public Sphere for Information in the Public Sphere (MediaCom 3100) at Western University

Nov, 2024

I presented my paper titled ‘“I’ll go and come back safely’: The case of BTS and relational labour in the face of military enlistment” at the 2024 Celebrity Studies Conference at the University of Amsterdam

Jul, 2024