2021
20-24 October: Fan Studies Network North America Conference co-organizer
14-15 October: Roundtable conversation about Global Fandom with Bertha Chin and Rukmini Pande on Henry Jenkins’s blog, Confessions of an Acafan. Part 1/Part 2
12 October: Guest post for Henry Jenkins’s blog, Confessions of an Acafan
25 September: Quoted in the Atlantic article, “Tucker Carlson Makes a Play for the Barbz“
21 August: Fandemicon Featured Speaker: “Anime in America: From Analog to Digital”
12 June: Fujocon Guest Speaker: “Yuri!!! on Ice in/and the Fandom Contact Zone”
20 March: SCMS Workshop: “Franchising and Transmedia Series: Interconnected Products, Networked Places, Active Audiences”
6 March: Participated in a roundtable discussion for the podcast …And Now the Podcast Starts on the NBC show, Hannibal, “Feasting on Hannibal #1: Season One (2013) with Dr. Rebecca Williams and Dr. Lori Hitchcock Morimoto“
27 February: Participated in a roundtable discussion for the Aca-Media Podcast ep. 57, “What Happens When People Feel Strongly About Stuff“
2020
2 November: Participated in a roundtable discussion for The Three Patch Podcast ep. 110a, “Transcultural Fandom Roundtable”
13-17 October: Fan Studies Network North America Conference co-organizer
8 August: Project Insight, “Transcending Realms: The Fan Culture Experience” panel participant
17 July: 1455 Summer Literary Festival, “Fan Fiction: The Lit that Asks What If?” panel participant
21 June: Research mentioned on the podcast Fujojocast, ep. 14, “When Asian Fans Socially Distance because of Cultural Tensions in Fandom“
20 June: Research mentioned on the Irish radio show, “The Culture File Weekly“
20 April: FannibalFest SofaCON2020, moderator
12 April: Video pechakucha mentioned on The Video Essay Podcast ep. 13, “Scout Tafoya“
2019
12 December: Interviewed in Ípsilon for the article, “Como falar (e não falar) da cultura de fãs, especialmente de Star Wars?”
1 July: RMeS Masterclass: Fandom and Audience Studies Methodologies with Lori Morimoto – Research School for Media Studies, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht
28 June: Fan Studies Network Conference 2019 – Keynote Speaker
2018
19 December: Contributed a short essay for In Media Res, “Acafanning at FannibalFest“
2 November: Media@McGill lecture, “It was … intimate: Hannibal and the Gendered Politics of Identification,” McGill University
27 September: Flow Conference, Plenary Roundtable: “Praxis in Practice“
14 September: Interviewed for the Aca-Media podcast ep. 45, “Be Good to Each Other“
31 August: Research cited in The New Republic article, “The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes“
4 April: Featured on the Fansplaining Podcast ep. 71, “Lori Morimoto“
26 February: Scholar Fan Salon: The Transformative Civics of Fandom, “Pleasure and Politics” roundtable participant
3 January: Appeared on Squee! Pop Culture & the Fangrrl Gaze, “Hannibal: A Fangirl’s Response”
2017
27 November: Participated in a roundtable discussion for The Three Patch Podcast ep. 61b, “Geek Interpreter: Queerbaiting & Transformative Fandom“
2016
24 August: Interviewed on the Fansplaining podcast ep. 29, “Shipping and Activism“
27 June: Video essay featured on The Playlist, “Explore the Gothic Romance of ‘Hannibal’“
11 May: Video essay featured on Enfilme.com, “La revisión de ‘Hannibal’ desde el romance gótico“
2015
25 March: Interviewed for The Millions, “From the Internet to the Ivy League: Fanfiction in the Classroom“