Keynotes and Invited Lectures
“First-Gen Student Literacies in a NextGen World.” Keynote Address for the 2024 Southern Regional Composition Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, April 12th, 2024.
“Is There a Class in This Text?” Keynote Address for the Council on Basic Writing annual workshop, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane, Washington, April 2, 2024.
“Sometimes We Expect Great Things: Mass Literacy Instruction and Class-Conscious Writing Pedagogies.” Eighth Annual Magliocco Lecture, Department of English, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. February 28, 2014.
“From Mental Hygiene Films to YouTube: Postwar Writing Instruction and Class-Conscious Literacies.” Bi- Annual Hutton Lecture Series in Rhetoric and Composition, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, September 27, 2012.
“Disciplining Writing: Using Intertwined Histories of Composition Studies and Creative Writing to Map the Future of English Graduate Study.” 2nd Annual Teague-Crumpler Lecture, East Carolina University Writing Program, Greenville, North Carolina, April 14, 2010.
“Guilty in Whose Eyes?” Keynote Address for the Eastern Connecticut State University Faculty Forum on “The Chasm Between Student and Faculty Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty.” Willimantic, Connecticut April 29, 2005.
Invited Talks and Presentations
“Disciplinary Assumptions and Institutional Pasts: Speech and Writing at Illinois.” (with Cara Finnegan). Invited Talk for Center for Writing Studies Brown Bag Series, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 7, 2018.
“A Conversation with Kelly Ritter.” Invited Talk for the University of Denver Campus Writing Program, Denver, Colorado, November 4, 2017.
“Perspectives on Journal Editing.” Invited Talk for the Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies, Arizona State University-West, Tempe, Arizona, February 11, 2016.
“Archival Methodologies.” Invited Presentation to English 691: Archival Research (Dr. Shirley Rose’s graduate seminar), Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, February 10, 2016.
“Making and Sharing Knowledge: Multiple Channels of Publication.” Invited featured session at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida, March 21, 2015.
“Revising a Curriculum, Rethinking a Program.” Invited Talk for Maryland Conference on Academic and Professional Writing. Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 11, 2014.
“In Conversation: Journal Editors and the Future of Rhetorical Scholarship.” Invited featured session at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 24, 2014.
“What Makes Writing (Programs) Local?” Invited Talk for the Edgework Speaker Series, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. March 31, 2014.
“An Editor’s Perspective.” Invited Presentation to English 615: Editing a Professional Journal, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania, October 16, 2013.
“From Mental Hygiene Films to YouTube: Postwar Writing Instruction and Class-Conscious Literacies.” Invited Talk for the Research-in-Progress Brownbag Series, Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, September 20, 2013.
“Navigating the Publication Process: Best Practices for Preparing Scholarly Journal Articles for Review.” Invited featured session of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, North Carolina, November 10, 2012.
“To Know Her Own History: Writing at the Woman’s College 1943-1963.” Invited Talk to the Friends of the UNCG Library, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 25, 2012.
“Economies of Writing at the Entrance Ramp: Graduate Student Writing Courses and the New ‘Basic’.” Invited Talk for the Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 18, 2012.
“Basic Writing and Basic Writers in Historical Context.” Invited Talk for the University of Delaware Writing Program, Newark, Delaware, October 4, 2012.
“The Work of Teaching Writing in the Post-Teacher Era.” Invited Talk for the First Year Writing Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 18, 2011.
“Defining “Basic” in Local Contexts.” Featured Speaker for the Council on Basic Writing Workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia. April 6, 2011. 11
“Teaching Creative Writing.” Invited Presentation to the MFA Program, English department, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, May 14, 2008.
“Disciplining Writing in Graduate English Programs: Composition/Rhetoric, Creative Writing, and the Multifaceted Doctoral English Program.” Invited Talk for the Department of English, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, April 25, 2008.
“International Creative Writing Video Conference between the UK and the USA.” Invited Presentation to the Great Writing Conference 2004: Writers, Creative Writing, and the Contemporary World. University of Portsmouth and the UK Centre for Creative Writing Research Through Practice. Portsmouth, England, July 24, 2004.