Conference and Symposium Presentations

My prior conference appearances:

  • “Care, Community Engagement, and Disciplinary Decision Making,” NeMLA, 2022.
  • “Work Aesthetics: Small Town Associations to the Authentic and the New American Pastoral,” NeMLA, 2022
  • “’To be Haunted by the Specter of Exclusion’: Teaching Identity in the 21st Century” 2021 Northeast Modern Language Association.
  • “Whiteness as the Locus of Authenticity” 2021 Northeast Modern Language Association.
  • “The Shattered Eschatology of the Online Era Novel and the Personhood of the New Panopticon” 2021 American Comparative Literature Association Conference
  • “Critical Reflective Practice, Inquiry, and the Hidden Curriculum Within” NCTE 2019
  • “Teaching with Crass: Suggestions for a Pedagogy of Anarchy” Conference for College Teaching and Learning November 2019
  • “There’s a Dissimilation on the Edge of Town: Bruce Springsteen, White Working-Class Mythology, and the Patina of Truth.” 2019 Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture
  • “There’s a Dissimilation on the Edge of Town: Bruce Springsteen, Mythology, and the Patina of Truth.” 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association.
  • “’Structural Silences’ of the Classroom Space – Examining the Hidden Curriculum” with Dr. Danelle Conner Conference on College Teaching 2018
  • “On “Zero-Drag” Students and the Specter of “Book Club” The Mid-Atlantic Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018.
  • “The Infinite Terror of Open Spaces” Center for Qualitative and Interpretive Research, Duquesne University
  • “Benevolent Deceptions: Shocking True Stories from Metacognition’s Bait and Switch.” The Mid-Atlantic Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2017.
  • “Safe Spaces, Punk Spaces, and the Public Sphere.” AAUP Event Series: The New American University, “Academic Freedom, Civility, and the American University,” Spring 2017
  • “Safe Spaces, Punk Spaces, and the Public Sphere.” 2017 Northeast Modern Language Association
  •  “The Folly of Fallen Futures: Reading and Teaching Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward after “The End of History.” Duquesne University English Department Colloquium, Fall 2016
  • “Of Voyeurism and Exhibitionism: Nakedness, Security, Vulnerability, Intimacy, and the Privatized Person.” 2016 Northeast Modern Language Association
  • “Tarantino’s Counterfactual Histories as Weapons against Historical Simplification.” 2015 Northeast Modern Language Association
  • “QR Codes in the Syllabus: A Five Part Manifesto” 2015 Northeast Modern Language Association
  • “Viewer as Voyeur and Victim: Cautionary Tales of Surveillance from the Former East Germany.” 2014 College English Association: Imaginations
  • “Countering the Voices of Neoliberalism Within: Constructing the Limits of the Myth of the Empowered Individual.” 2013 Countering Contingency: Teaching, Scholarship, and Creativity in the Age of the Adjunct
  • “Open Secrets of the Supple Suburban Body: Consumerism, Privatization, and the Congregation Copulation Challenge.” 2012 IUP English Graduate Organization Conference Undercurrents Overtones
  • “Lost at Home with the Consumerist Mystique: John Cheever, Betty Friedan, and the Limits of Affluence,” 2011 PCEA Conference Narratives of Travel and Navigation: English by Water, Land, and Immigration
  • “Responsive Contemporary Critical Pedagogy or Pedagogy of Narcissism?: The Dangers Involved in Teaching the Problems Facing the Youth of Today to the Youth of Today” WVU English Graduate Student Colloquium 2011New Rhetorics: Pedagogy, Literature, and Creative Writing
  • “Letters for the Living Lonely: Teaching Composition in an Age of Violence and Isolation.” NCTE 2010 Reading the Past, Writing the Future
  • “Posthuman Homes from the Pad to the Pod: Douglas Coupland’s Novels and the Possibilities for Being Environmentally Grounded within Manufactured Spaces.” EAPSU 2010 A River Runs Through Us: Exploring the Poetics of Place
  • “Stage Space, Sexting, and Commodity Fetishism: Strindberg’s Miss Julie as Prototype for the Contemporary Renegotiation of the Private Sphere” IUP GSA/EGO 2010 Investments and Interests: Multicultures, Histories, and Opportunities in the 21st Century
  • “Children of Reagan: Troubling Pleasures for the Era of Privatization” NEERO 2010
  • “Indifference and the Death of the Enlightenment as Sellable, Teachable Moments in the College Literature Classroom.” NCTE 2009 Once and Future Classics: Reading Between the Lines
  • “From Plan 9 from Outer Space to Road House to The Room: What Three of the Worst Movies Ever Made Reveal About the Shifting Nature of the American Public Sphere” EAPSU 2009 Making Our World: Language, Literacy and Culture
  • “From Brothels and Weed to Firebirds and Ice Cream: Pleasure as the Blinding/Designing Force behind Critiques of American Materialism” CEA/PCEA 2009 Design
  • “Down from the Ivory Tower and into a Broken Little Yellow Van: Non-Academic Portrayals of Academics in Three Contemporary Independent Films.” EAPSU 2008 (Re) Connections: Bridging Boundaries and Creating Byways
  • “The Fear of Undomesticated Space: The Suburbs, Torture Porn, and the University as Public Space for the Man without Content”: EAPSU 2007 Conference: Literature and Performance
  • “’You Mean I Gotta Read All this Junk!’: What The Da Vinci Code Means for the Future of College English, and Strategies for Escaping the Oppression of Consumer Pleasure”: PCEA 2007 Conference: Paths to Freedom
  • “’A Grim Day for Robotkind. Eh, but We Can Always Build More Killbots’: How Futurama Illustrates the Positive Possibilities of Progressive Posthumanism”: EAPSU 2006 Conference: Literature, Writing, and the Natural World
  • “College English is Not Dead; However, it Probably Deserves to Die: Labor, Cultural Capital, the Professional Unconscious, and the Role of the English Department in the Great Academic Kleptocracy”: PCEA 2006 Conference: Forging Connections: The Past Meets the Future
  • “What Was Shaft?: The Problem of Naming a Series of Films Starring African Americans”: PCEA 2005 Conference: Mighty Swords & Mightier Pens: Evocations of War in Literature, Film, and Composition
  • “The Merz of My Mind: A Collection of Creative Works”: PCEA 2005 Conference Mighty Swords & Mightier Pens: Evocations of War in Literature, Film, and Composition
  • “Michael Moore as the Anti-Faust: Guerrilla Filmmaking, Interviewing, and Questioning as an Answer to Exploitation De-Personified by Spatialization”: 2005 IUP EGO/GSA Conference: Transforming our World and Work: A Graduate Conference Highlighting the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities
  • “Necrophilia on Holiday: Constriction of Discourse and the Male Burden of non-“Z-men” in To the Lighthouse’s Mr. Ramsay and Coming Up for Air’s George Bowling”: EAPSU 2004 Conference: Counternarratives: Retelling the Value of English Studies
  • “Embracing Excrement as a Report of How It Is: Beckett’s Use of Feces as a Metaphor for the Performative Denial of Time and Memory Found Within How It Is”: PCEA 2004 Conference: All Aboard!: New Directions in Literature, Film, and Pedagogy
  • “Deconstructing Scotch Bottom and the Russian Valley: Urban Space, Time, Linguistics, and the Immigrant Experience in the 15207 Zip Code”: 2004 IUP EGO/GSA Conference: All Together Now: Culture and Society on an (Inter)national Stage
  • “Henry Rollins’ Get in the Van as Contemporary Conversion Narrative and Account of the Preaching of a Secular Gospel”: EAPSU 2003 Conference: Communities and Conncections
  • “Mamet’s Mythological Supermen and the Death and Seduction of Mortals”: PCEA 2003 Conference: Envisioning a New World: Literature, Film, and Composition in Our Times
  • “Society, Art, and Resistance: The Life and Work of GG Allin”: EAPSU 2002 Conference: Local Colors