Research + Writing
I have a Substack called Dr. Cybersex and sometimes write about my research, academic job market experience and feelings https://drcybersex.substack.com/
I also do real academic work when I feel like being a good girl
Peer- reviewed Journals
“Bluetooth Orgasms” in MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 37 (71), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v37i71.125253
(Original work published December 22, 2021). READ HERE
“A Tinder Lover’s Discourse” in Passage Journal #1 Intimate Lineages (September 2021), 37-59. READ HERE
"Smartphones and the Perception of Space" in International Journal of Digital Innovation in the Built Environment (IJDIBE) 11, no.2: 1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJDIBE.301243
“Solitary reflections on being in-between”in Journal of Applied Communication Research Online Publication Communication Intervention 1, 76-84. (Fall 2020) READ HERE
Book Chapters:
“An Interview with Ariane Cruz.” In The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media, edited by Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty, and Darshana Sreedhar Mini: 240–248. Bristol: Intellect, 2026.
“A Monumental Slap,” in Women and Violence in Greek Cinema, ed. Tonia Kazakopoulou, Edinburgh University Press. (forthcoming 2027)
Other Publications
“F*cking with the Virtual” in School of X 2023 Proceedings, in Collaboration with xCoAx https://classof23.xcoax.org/paper03.html
“The New College Classroom, Collaborative Book Review” in HASTAC Commons. Accessible at: https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/2023/05/23/collective-peer-review-chapter-2-structuring-active-learning-in-the-new-college-
“Death and Resurrection: The Short-Lived Tinder Feed” in Clog x Feeds, http://www.clog-online.com/shop/clog-feeds/
“How do you Spend your time in Quarantine” In S. Ramasubramanian (Ed.). Quarantined Across Borders Blog Series. Media Rise (June, 2020).
READ HERE
Conferences/Symposiums
“Deleting the Pornstar: Invisible Male Bodies in VR porn”. Network of European Cinema Studies, Montpellier, France, June 2026.
“Feeling the Virtual”. Panel Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Boston, March 2026.
“Touch Interrupted: Teledildonics and Virtual Intimacy”, Society for Cinema and Media Studies(SCMS), Boston, USA, March 2026.
“Autotheory as Bridge Between Research and Practice: Situated Encounters with Cybersex”, In International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative, March 2026.
“Cybersex as Embodied Media Practice” Machine Desires 3: Robots & Embodiment, In 4S Society for Social Studies of Science, Seattle, USA, September 2025.
“First-Person Fuckers in VR Porn” Roundtable Gaming Sex, Playing Pornography, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, USA, April 2025.
“Cybersexual Interfaces”, Global Digital Intimacies Conference, Amsterdam-Netherlands, June 2024.
“Teledildonics and Distanced Sex/Tech/Intimacies”, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Boston, MA, March 2024.
“Making with Theory/Thinking in Arts Practice”, UCSC Teaching Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, February 2024.
“Alien(ated) Techno-Intimacies”, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), ASU Tempe, AZ, October 2023.
“Bluetooth Wireless Sex Toys and Travelling Affects”, 21st Graduate Student Workshop Futures of Care: Media, Technology, and (Re)imagining Care, Network of European Cinema Studies(NECS), Oslo-Norway, June 2023.
“Embodied Male Gaze in VR Porn”, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Denver, CO, April 2023.
“Bluetooth Orgasms”, Future Bodies Symposium, New Media Caucus, Virginia Tech University, September 2023.
“Situated and displaced: diasporic subjectivities in essayistic film production”, Network of European Cinema Studies (NECS),Bucharest-Romania, June 2022.
“Bluetooth Orgasms”, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Online, March 2022.
“F*cking with the Virtual: Alexa, Siri, Lana, Samantha and Desire”, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Online, March 2021.
“A Monumental Slap”, Participated as a work in progress in the pre-conference seminar Adapting Scholarship into Videographic Criticism for the Scholarly Conference, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March 11-12, 2022
“To be fat and to be looked at ”, Looking at Feminity Sympodcast, Cardiff University, Episode 8: Artistic Disruption, Aired on May 10, 2021
LISTEN HERE
“F*cking with the Virtual: Alexa, Siri, Lana, Samantha and Desire”, 17th annual University of California Santa Cruz Graduate Research Symposium, April 23 2021
WATCH HERE
“F*cking with the Virtual: Alexa, Siri, Lana, Samantha and Desire”, In the panel Technologies of Voice and Listening moderated by Harry Burson, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March 17-22, 2021
“Augmenting Democracy: Smartphones in the Streets”, In the panel Digital Media and Democracy moderated by Prof. Johnny Symons, SFSU 22nd Annual Grad Conference, Mediating Democracy: Contemporary Politics in Film & Media, February 11 & 12, 2021
“Impossible Passings: Fatties in the art world”, In the panel Passing Bodies moderated by Dr. Karen Tongson, First Forum 2020: Passing. Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 23-24, 2020
“From Physical to Virtual Space, and Back” in ATI: Architecture, Technology, Innovation. Üniversite Caddesi, Turkey. August 27-29, 2020
“Smartphones in the Streets of Resistance” in Urban Creativity& Rebel Streets: User Experience Online Conference, July 9-11, 2020
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