Seminars and Workshops
Retrospectatorship: Reading Films with Psychoanalysis
[Feminist Media Center, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2014]
Momentos ejemplares del cine de terror: Val Lewton y David Cronenberg
[Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, 2014]
Los límites de lo humano: género y sexualidad en el primer cine de terror
[Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 2014]
Otredad de lo cotidiano: el cine de Val Lewton
[Universitat de Valencia, Spain, 2012 & 2013]
Panteridad: vivir en un cuerpo dañado
[Inaugural Lecture, III Workshop Internacional de Investigación, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 2012]
El cuerpo antisocial: el cine de David Cronenberg entre comunicación y virtualidad
[Universitat de Valencia, Spain, 2011]
Freud’s Bildersprache
[Tagung “Freud-Laplanche,” Vienna Psychoanalytic Association, 2011]
Virtuality and the Death Drive: a discussion of Cronenberg’s eXistenZ
[Lutecium, a non-school of Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis, San Francisco, 2010]
Il queer e la sessualità
[Università di Bologna, Italy, 2010]
Teoría Queer Veinte Años Después
[Seminario DIVERSIDAD SEXUAL, México, D.F., 2010]
Master Class in Gender Studies
[Dept. of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest 2008]
Interdisciplinarietà
[Graduate Workshop, Facoltà di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Trento, Italy, 2008]
Leggere Djuna Barnes: scrittura e autotraduzione
[Università di Firenze, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy, 2007]
Writing Nightwood
[Graduate Workshop, English Dept., Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003]
Film as Art, Technology and Representation
[Graduiertenkolleg “Praxis und Theorie des künstlerischen Schaffensprozesses,” Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany, 2001]
I fantasmi del cinema. Sessualità, Eros e pulsione di morte Bologna, Italy,
[Seminar in film theory and criticism, Libera Università Omosessuale, 1999]
Empirical Research After Poststructuralism: Feminist Scholars and the Poststructuralist Challenge
[Doctoral workshop sponsored by the Universities of Bergen, Oslo, and Trondheim, held at Vatnahalsen, Norway, 1999]
Gender and Genre in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film
[Università di Firenze, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy, 1998]
Cinema and Opera
[Graduiertenkolleg “Geschlechterdifferenz & Literatur,” Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, 1997]
Basic Instincts: A Feminist Rereading of Freud
[Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM), Vienna, Austria, 1997]
Oedipus at the Movies: Sexuality, Fantasy, Identification
[Institut für Theater, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, 1996]
Three Lectures on Sexuality, Semiosis, and Seduction
[Graduiertenkolleg “Theorie der Literatur”, Konstanz University, Germany, 1993]
Literature, Cinema, Theory: Fictions of a Feminist Itinerary
[Anna Maria van Schuurman Centre for Advanced Research in Women’s Studies, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1991]
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Female Subjectivity
[School for Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1991]
Psychoanalysis, Fantasy, and Lesbian Sexuality
[Homo- en Lesbische Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1990]
Technologies of Gender: Film and Theory
[International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (ISISSS), University of Toronto, Canada, 1987]