Hi, I'm
Lady Storytelling

Film and media scholar. PhD. Queer author. Cat mom. Gamer. Digital Marketer. She/her 🌈

A tortoiseshell cat with short beige, brown, and black hair, and green eyes. She is wearing a purple harness and leash. She is standing on a large rock outside.

Media Criticism Books

  • The Science Is Out There: Scully's Feminism in The X-Files

  • A Galaxy of Possibilities: Representation and Storytelling in Star Wars

  • The Power of Fan Videos: Deconstruct, Explore, Reclaim

  • Cahiers du CinĂ©ma: From Literary Influences to Filmic Legacy

Favorite Video Games

  • Mass Effect Trilogy

  • Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Baldur's Gate 3

  • Star Wars: The Old Republic

  • Star Wars: Mysteries of the Sith

  • World of Warcraft

  • Final Fantasy VIII

  • Cult of the Lamb

  • Torchlight II

  • Syberia

Available as a guest speakers on the following topics:

  • Women in Science Fiction

  • Female characters in video games

  • History of French authorship

  • Grad school as an international student

  • Teaching assistant tips

  • Simple, ethical, and customizable marketing

  • Indie publishing

  • The importance of fan creations

The blue and white cover of "The Science Is Out There" by Dr. Natacha Guyot, both as a paperback and as an eBook on a reader.
Purple, blue, and white cover for the eBook "The Power of Fan Videos" by Natacha Guyot, PhD, featuring a close up of a long-haired person wearing a denim jacket and typing on a keyboard.

Selected Talks:

  • “Compassion and Agency during Tragic Times in Yoko Tsuno” (2018) – Research, Art, Writing 2018 (University of Texas at Dallas)

  • “Scully’s Empowerment as a Bio-Terrorism Survivor” (2017) – Research, Art, Writing 2017 (University of Texas at Dallas)

  • “Sam Worthington: Hybrid Faces” (2012) – 7th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyber Culture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction (Inter-Disciplinary.Net)

  • “Dragon Age: Offered and Created Womanhood” (2012) – 4th Global Conference: Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment (Inter-Disciplinary.Net)

  • “Alternate universe fan videos: reinterpreting the media sources” (2012) – L’acte interprĂ©tatif et les Ɠuvres littĂ©raires, cinĂ©matographiques, picturales, etc
 (UniversitĂ© Lyon III)

  • “Boomer 2004: The Feminine and Cyborg Metamorphosis” (2011) – From Cyborg to Facebook: Technological Dreams and Feminist Critiques (Sophia)

  • “Fan Video as Rewriting Gesture” (2011) – Symposium on Editing (Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and UniversitĂ© de Savoie)