Delivered in English
“Psychopathic Masculinities in Contemporary Film and Television” — Wake Forest Women’s and Gender Studies Colloquium: Winston-Salem, NC, Mar 2015.
“(L)earned Monsters: Social Justice and the Psychopath in Contemporary Film” — Panel chair and proposer, Popular Culture Association of the South (PCAS): New Orleans, LA, Oct 2014.
“Masculinity, Madness, and Cultural Upheaval in Christian Kracht’s 1979 and Imperium” — German Studies Association Conference (GSA): Denver, CO, October 2013
“Psychopathic Masculinities in German and American Film and Fiction” — Wake Forest University German & Russian Colloquium: Winston-Salem, NC, April 2013
“Lashing Back and Looking Forward: ‘The End of Men’ in German and American Popular Discourses” — Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference (SEWSA): Greensboro, NC, April 2013
“Midnight in the Garden: The American South in Recent German Film” — Panel chair and proposer, Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC): Winston-Salem, NC, October 2012
“New South, Old World: Myth and Cultural Identity in the True Blood Series” — Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA): Boston, MA, April 2012
“Gender and Disability in Benjamin Lebert’s Crazy and Der Vogel ist ein Rabe” — GSA: Louisville, KY, September 2011
“The Destructive Image in New Wave Pop Literature” — Southeast German Studies Workshop: Atlanta, GA, February 2011
“The Opposite of Sex: Gender Trouble and Cultural Critique in Faserland and American Psycho” — Duke-Carolina Works in Progress Series: Chapel Hill, NC, October 2009
“Eastern Promises: Josef Winkler’s Quest for Redemption” — MIFLC: Greenville, SC, October 2009
“Dark Dream Date: The Evolution of the Likeable Killer in American Psycho and Dexter” — PCA/ACA: New Orleans, LA, April 2009
“Smoking Guns: Gender, Terror, and the German Story in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Stille nach dem Schuss (The Legend of Rita)” — MIFLC: Wilmington, NC, October 2008
Delivered in German
“Blank Check: Christian Kracht und die innere Leere (Christian Kracht and Inner Emptiness)” — Duke/Duisburg-Essen Internationales Sommerseminar: Kleinich, Germany, July 2009
“After the Revolution: Männlichkeit und Gewalt in der deutschsprachigen Popliteratur seit 1995 (Masculinity and Violence in German-speaking Pop Literature since 1995)” — Universität Duisburg-Essen Doktoranden-Forum: Iserlohn, Germany, June 2007
Mary L. Knight 