EVENTS

  • Cleveland Review of Books issue 3.2 launch + reading (NYC, December 4, 2025)

  • Literary Translators’ Association 50th Anniversary Toronto Event: host + moderator, Lida Nosrati and Fereshteh Ahmadi in conversation about writing and translation

  • In the Mood Magazine Soirée, a performance of a postcard (Society Clubhouse, November 2025)

  • Arsenal Pulp Press Poetry launch (Jason Purcell’s Crohnic) + reading (Type Books, October 2025)

  • Introduction to The Exorcist (William Friedkin / William Peter Blatty), with Kevin Greenspan, for Paradise Book Club (Paradise Theatre, October 2025)

  • Introduction to Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra / “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates), with Kevin Greenspan, for Paradise Book Club (Paradise Theatre, August 2025)

  • Introduction to Bonjour Tristesse dir. Durga Chew-Bose, Q+A w/ Chew-Bose, Lindsay Tapscott, and Katie Nolan (TIFF Lightbox, May 2025)

  • Introduction to The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides / Sofia Coppola), with Kevin Greenspan, for Paradise Book Club (Paradise Theatre, April 2025)

  • Cross-Pollinations on translation as creative and care practice: The Canadian Association for Health Humanities Virtual Rounds Series, with SJ Thiessen (virtual, March 2025)

  • Crit Salon: on Chantal Akerman’s News from Home (Tranzac Club, March 2025)

  • Introduction to The Handmaiden (Park Chan-Wook / Fingersmith by Sarah Waters), with Kevin Greenspan, for Paradise Book Club (Paradise Theatre, February 2025)

  • Introduction to Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier / Alfred Hitchcock), with Kevin Greenspan, for Paradise Book Club (Paradise Theatre, November 2024)

  • Introduction to Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer / Alex Garland), with Kevin Greenspan, for Paradise Book Club (Paradise Theatre, September 2024)

  • Apartment Reading hosted by Babak Lakghomi, with Kim Chinquee, Bud Smith, Steve Anwyll, and Ami Xherro (September 2024)

  • “I Became a Fabulous Thief” for Pack Animal Summer Reading: THREAD BARE (Standard Time, July 2024)

  • Introduction to Nathalie Granger (Destroy, She Said: The Cinema of Marguerite Duras, TIFF, April 2024)

  • CIRCUMFLUENCE: On Writing: How Are We Influenced? for The Centre for Comparative Literature (University of Toronto, November 2023)

  • Critical Conversations “Fall of the Newsstand?” panelist, Toronto International Festival of Authors (September 2023)

  • Presentation on translating Pierre Clémenti’s A Few Personal Messages: “Green Paint and Genius Rage,” Alliance Française de Cincinnati (April 2023)

  • Introduction to Neon of the Everyday: Two Films by Pierre Clémenti, TIFF Wavelengths (TIFF Lightbox, March 2023)

  • Pack Animal Autumn Reading (Tammy’s Wine Bar, November 2022)

  • Pierre Clémenti: A Special Live Event + Book Launch for A Few Personal Messages, with Lynne Tillman, Stephanie LaCava, Shiv Kotecha, Balthazar Clémenti, Ken Jacobs, and Leah Hennessey (MoMA, October 2022)

  • Essay (“Notes on Translating Silence, Starvation, and the Color Green in Pierre Clémenti’s A Few Personal Messages) for AWP Panel, “Translating Trauma” (virtual, 2022)

  • Trampoline Hall Lecture: “Rhymes with Glamour: A Lecture on Stammering in 7 Syllables” (under the Bentway, 2021)

  • Essay (“The Feminist Snap/shot: in Crisis & on Instagram”) for Wayne State University’s Visual Culture Symposium, The Visual Logic/s of Feminism/s. (Detroit, April 2019)