Invited Lectures:
- Cultural Flows and Queer Imaginaries: Tracing BL Fandoms in India and Beyond. Lecture at the National Seminar on Fan Studies at Sree Sankara College, Kalady. 21st January 2026.
- Loving Boys’ Love: Queer Affect and Queer Affection. Keynote lecture at the National Seminar on Expanding Gender Spectrum: Subverting Binaries in Popular Culture at Government Arts and Science College, Tholanur, Palakkad. 28th September 2023.
- Popular Literature and Culture. Webinar at Saraswathi College of Arts and Science, Trivandrum. 8th January, 2022.
- BL Desam: Boys Love Fandom in the Subcontinent. Talk at Fujocon 2021, organised by the BL Garden of Dallas Fort Worth.
- Reading Graphic Narrative: Comics and/as Literature. Webinar at Daulat Ram College, New Delhi. 19th August 2020
- Comic Books and Popular Literature. Webinar at Burdwan Raj College, West Bengal, 16th June 2020
- A Literature of Their Own? Investigating the Evolution of Gender and Literature. English Literature Association Inauguration, St Joseph’s College (Autonomous) Department of English (Self Financing), 22nd August 2019.
Select Paper Presentations
Pocong in the Machine: Folklore and Narratives of Fear in South East Asian Horror games. Three-Day National Seminar on Cultural Translation: Folklore and Performative Traditions, organised by the Department of Studies in English, Kannur University. February 2026
“Gamifying the Sacred: Ritual Mechanics and Cultural Horror in Kamla“ at the Two Day National Conference on Indian Knowledge Systems, organised by the PG Department of English VTM NSS College, Dhanuvachapuram, March 2025
“‘All wars are essentially wars against women’: Trauma, Violence and the Female Body in TD Ramakrishnan’s Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanayaki”. IACLALS Annual Conference 2025 on “Trauma, Resilience and Healing: Representations in South Asian Literature and Culture”. BITS Pilani Hyderabad February 2025.
BL Desam: Studying Affect and Affection in Indian BL Fan Spaces. International Conference on Media and Communication: Media Spaces, Cultural Narratives and Creative Industries. Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune, September 2023. [Awarded best paper presented at the conference]
Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games. International Conference on Globalization and New Terrains of Consciousness: Phenomenologies of the Global/ Local/ Glocal.Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi February 2021.
Queer Intimacies and Romance in the Game World: A Study of BL Visual Novels, International Conference on Games and Literary Theory 2019, Presidency University, Kolkata, November 2019
Loving Boys Love in South Asia: A (Mostly) Internet Romance. AAS-in-Asia Conference, New Delhi. July 2018.
History Makers: Finding Queer Spaces in Yuri!!! on Ice. Theorising Space: Three Day National Conference on the Intersections of Space and Culture. IIST Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. December 2017.
Queering Canons: Fan Narratives as Avenues for Queer Readings. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Exploring Diversities of Queer Space. CMS College, Kottayam, Kerala. November 2017.
Exit, Pursued by Fans: Revisiting the Bard through Fan Writings. National Seminar on Contemporary Shakespeare: Culture, Language and Politics. School of Distance Education, University of Kerala and English Language Teachers’ Association of India. September 2016.
Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Slashers: The Subversive Potential of Internet Fan Writing. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Evolving Media in Post Liberalization India. Bishop Moore College, Mavelikkara, Kerala. December 2015
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