In March 2008, Kelleghan presented a paper entitled "The Intimately Human and the Grandly Cosmic: Humor and the Sublime in the Works of Robert J. Sawyer"[13] at the 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.[14] In March 2009, she presented a paper entitled "Time and the Fiction of Robert J. Sawyer: Flash Forward to the End of an Era"[15] at the 30th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.[16] In the 1990s, she had given talks at the same venue on the feeding of cats in science fiction and fantasy[17] and on camouflage in books and films such as Toys and Predator.