• May 2023. Invited Speaker. Book Talk for Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era. University of California, Irvine. (Invited)
  • May 2023. Invited Speaker. “Toward New Theatre Histories: The Case Study of Yellowface during the Exclusion Era.” TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) Theatre and Performance Histories Working Group. 
  • April 2023. Invited Lecturer. Book discussion for Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era. Department of Theatre & Dance. The University of Kansas.
  • March 2023. Invited Keynote Speaker. “Asian Exclusion and Yellowface: Decentering U.S. Theatre History and Historiography.” MA/PhD symposium: “Out of the Margins: Re-Focusing Performance Scholarship for the 21st Century.” School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. University of Maryland. 
  • December 2022. Invited Speaker.  “‘I am Not a Virus’: Exclusion, Yellowface and Anti-Asian Violence.” Invisible Lives Silent Voices Seminar. https://invisibilitysilence.wordpress.com
  • November 2022. State of the Profession Panel. “An Invitation to Theatre History.” American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference. New Orleans.
  • November 2022. Invited Speaker. Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Seminar. Boston College.
  • November 2022. Invited Talk. “Anti-Asian Violence, Exclusion, and Yellowface.” GENesis: Pocket Conference. fu-Gen Asian Canadian Theatre Company. New York City.
  • October 2022. Invited Panelist. “AAPI Performance in the Classroom: A Roundtable.” UCLA.
  • October 2022. Invited Talk. “Halloween Yellowface: Racial Impersonation and Dressing Up.” International Comparative Studies, Duke University.
  • October 2022. Invited Lecturer. Historiography Graduate Seminar, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas, Austin.
  • June 2022. Invited Talk. “Yellowface in the U.S.” Department of English, Yonsei University, South Korea. 
  • June 2022. Invited Talk. “Yellowface and Asian American Theater.” School of Performing Arts, Hongik University, South Korea. 
  • May 2022: Invited Talk. “Yellowface and Asian American Theater.” The Knot Worldwide. 
  • January-March 2022. Invited Lecture Series (Lecture 1: Yellowface and Asian American Theatre; Lecture 2: Asian American Theatre, 1965-2000; Lecture 3: Asian American Theatre in the 21st Century). David Geffen School of Drama, Yale University.
  • February 2022. Invited Talk. “Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era.” Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University.
  • January 2022. Invited Talk. “‘Dainty As Needs Be’: Madame Butterfly and Cosmetic Yellowface.” Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University.
  • September 2021. Invited Speaker. “Yellowface, Asian Stereotypes, and Media Representation.” Advantage Solutions.
  • May 2021. Invited Panelist. “AAPI Heritage Month Discussion Panel.” Environmental Protection Agency-RTP Branch.
  • April 2021. Invited Panelist. “American Theater: History and Current Landscape.” Speaker Series of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow managed by the Forum for Cultural Engagement.
  • March 2020. Invited Talk. Looking Back to the Future: 20 Years of A/P/A Studies in the Five Colleges. Smith College, Northampton, MA. “Acting Asian: Theatrical Makeup and the Technology of Yellowface.”
  • November 2019. Invited Talk. The Worlds of David Henry Hwang Symposium sponsored by Illuminations, University of California, Irvine. “The Many Faces of DHH: David Henry Hwang and Asian American Theatre.”
  • March 2019. Invited Keynote. Triangle East Asia Colloquium, Transnational Korean Cinema & Media Conference. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Korean Diaspora and the Moebius Strip.”
  • February 2019. Invited Lecture. Thomas Langford Lecture, Duke University. “History of Yellowface in the U.S.”
  • February 2019. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama Annual Distinguished Lecture, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
  • March 2018. Theatre History Symposium Respondent. The 39th Annual Mid-American Theatre Conference. Milwaukee, WI.