Maria Alberto
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Maria Alberto

Upcoming 


"Platform Studies and Fandom Histories" 
April 2021, Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS), virtual conference ​

Past


"'Telling' Trauma in English-language fanfiction for the Yi City arc (The Untamed)"
October 2020, Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA), virtual conference

"Good Omens (2019) and Adaptation as Ergodic Enterprise"
February 2020, Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM
 
"Bots at Play: Gamified Interventions in Digital Narratives"
February 2020, Digital Humanities for Utah, St. George, UT
 
"Creating Canons in D&D: A Conversation with Fan Studies Terminology"
October 2019, Fan Studies Network-North America, Chicago, IL
 
"Re-membering and the Digital Screen in Tommy Orange’s There There"
September 2019, Western Literature Association, Estes Park, CO
(won Dorys Crow Grover award for outstanding graduate work & Louis Owens award for fostering diversity)

"Creating a Canon in Tabletop Roleplaying Games"
June 2019, Page23 LitCon/Denver Popular Culture Con, Denver, CO
 
"A Digital Humanities Approach to Genre in Tolkien’s Work"
April 2019, Popular Culture Association, Washington DC
 
"Bots and the Expansion of Storytelling"
February 2019, Far West Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV
(panel organizer & chair: Popular Culture Intertextuality)
 
"Bots! Co-Creating Digital Narratives"
February 2019, Digital Humanities for Utah, Weber, UT
 
"Fan Interpellation and Blockbuster Films"
October 2018, Fan Studies Network-North America, Chicago, IL
 
"Architextuality and Queer Fandom Spaces"
April 2018, Popular Culture Association, Indianapolis, IA
(panel chair: Tolkien & Queer Studies)
 
"Admirable and Abhorred: Refocalizing the Dark Lord"
April 2016, Popular Culture Association, Seattle, WA
(panel chair: Tolkien & Fan Studies)
 

"The Posthuman Body in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road"
November 2015, Midwest Modern Language Association, Columbus, OH
 
"A Baudrillardian Reading of Tolkien’s Legendarium"
September 2015, Oxonmoot (annual conference of the Tolkien Society), Oxford, UK
 
"Fan Service, Past and Present, in 'The Empty Hearse'"
June 2015, Fandom and Neomedia Studies III, Dallas, TX
 
"Tolkien’s Meta-Narratives"
February 2015, Popular Culture & the Deep Past II, Columbus, OH 
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