“Negating the Female Body: Narratives of Saintly Self-Sacrifice in Mary Gordon’s Select Fiction.” Paper presented at the 118th Annual PAMLA Conference in the session “Literary Pathways through Female Sin to Sainthood II” (virtual), Las Vegas (NV). 11-14 Nov. 2021.
“Faith and Frenzy in Joyce Carol Oates’ Son of the Morning.” Paper presented in an International Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) titled “The Problem with God: Christianity and Literature in Tension.” Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA). 29-30 March 2019.
“Beyond the Modern Tragedy: Spatial Constraints and Identity Formation in Joyce Carol Oates’ Little Bird of Heaven.” Paper presented at the 17th International MELOW Conference on “Space, Place and Landscapes in Literature of the World.” Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala (H.P.). 09-11 March 2018.
“Joyce Carol Oates’ The Gravedigger’s Daughter as a Critique of the American Dream.” Paper presented at the National Seminar on Themes and Narratives in Postwar American Fiction. Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP), Osmania University, Hyderabad. 27-28 December 2016.
“Critiquing Social Reality: The Politics of Humour in Calvin and Hobbes.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Transition: Literature, Language and Culture – Post 1980. Garden City College, Bangalore. 6-7 February 2015.