Presentations

A Humanistic Trajectory: Surveying English Majors’ Post-Graduation Career Paths. Midwest Modern Language Association annual conference. Milwaukee, WI. Nov. 14, 2025.
Creative Writing/Career Readiness: Students need Both/And, not Either/Or. Creative Writing Studies annual conference. Blacksburg, VA. Nov. 16-17, 2024
Theory and Praxis: Digital Pedagogies Working Group. Panel presentation on the online book club. Modern Language Association annual conference. Washington, DC. Jan 6-9, 2022. Selected as an MLA Presidential Theme Session addressing the convention theme of the Multilingual U.S.
An Online Celebration of Student Writing. Panel presentation with Kelly Blewett on leveraging digital spaces for campus- wide events. IU Online annual conference. Oct. 28-29, 2021.
Liminal Worlds: Creative Collaboration in Digital & Physical Spaces. College English Association, Hilton Head, SC. March 2020. (Accepted; conference cancelled due to COVID-19).
Collaboration & Creativity in Physical & Digital Spaces. Mosaic Initiative Webinar Series. IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN. Nov. 2019. Webinar viewed live by viewers at more than 43 institutions.
Forty Years On: The Evolution and Impact of Tributaries, a Student-Produced Journal of Creative Arts. Panel presentation. North American Review 50th Anniversary Conference. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA. April 2019.
Where are We Going? Where Have We Been? What PLOs tell us about Creative Writing as an Academic Subject. Panel presentation. College English Association, New Orleans, LA. March 2019.
It’s Not What You Have; It’s what You Do with What You Have: Three Mosaic Fellows on Active Learning. Co-presenter. Annual Retreat, FACET. Bloomington, IN. May 2018.
WTAW Press Reading Series, AWP, Tampa, FL. March 8, 2018. [Invited reading]
Getting Creative: Assessment Practices and Strategies in Music, Creative Writing and Fine Arts. Panel presentation at the IUPUI Assessment Institute 2016 Conference, Indianapolis, IN. October 2016.
All Together Now: Collaboration in Digital Resume-Writing Practices. Panel presentation at Tenth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Tempe, AZ. October 2015.
Ideals and Iterations: Student Composition Practices using an Online Resume-Building Platform. College English Association, Indianapolis, IN. March 2015.
When Robots Write Resumes: The Dilemma of Point-and-Click Rhetoric. Panel presentation at Ninth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. September 2013.
Ecocomposition in the Community College: Helping New Writers Find Their Place. The Two-Year College English Association, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, WA. October 2010.
Robbed Water, Raped Earth: Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung as Nature Writing. The Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada. Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia. August 2010.
The Three Phases of Eve: A Feminist Reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Scholar’s Week Undergraduate Symposium. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. May 2009.

Faculty Presentations

GenAI in the Writing Classroom. Presentation on introducing AI to composition students. Annual Writing Program Workshop, IU East, Aug. 2025.
Faculty Scholarship Celebration. Presentation on sabbatical work. IU East, Sept. 2024.
Faculty+Student Reading. Creative writing faculty plus invited students read from their poetry, fiction and essays. IU East Facebook Live. Oct. 2022.
Online Course Design Basics. Webinar. Center for Faculty Development, IU East. July 2020.
Summer Shorts: Fiction in Progress. Faculty Research Presentation, IU East, April 2019.
Creative Writing Program Assessment Outcomes: Public Promises/Scattered Vision. Faculty Research Presentation, IU East. April 2018.
Community Service Learning. Panel Discussion. Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop. Nov. 6, 2017.
Program Assessment Snapshot. Brown bag AGILE workshop for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Oct. 26, 2017.
Creating the First Day Online. Faculty presentation on online teaching strategies. Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Retreat, IU East. August 17, 2016.
Fiction reading. School of Humanities and Social Sciences departmental research/creative presentation. April 21, 2017.
Contract Grading. Faculty presentation on implementing contract grading in first year seminar. IU East. May 10, 2016.
Automated Autobiographies: A Study of Student Composition Practices using an Online Resume- Building Platform. Summer faculty fellowship presentation. IU East. Jan. 27, 2015.
WordPress and Widgets: Student Blogging as a High Impact Practice, Parts 1 & 2. CTL Fellow workshop on integrating student blogging in the classroom. Center for Teaching and Learning, IU East. September 17 & 24, 2014.
Connected Community: Service-Learning in the Writing Classroom. Presentation on implementing service writing projects in the professional writing classroom, including praxis and assignment development. IU East. April 4, 2014.

Community Workshops

Daring Dialogue. Community creative writing workshop. Martha Dwyer Community Center, Richmond IN. March 2020.
Plein Air Writing. Community creative writing workshop. Hayes Arboretum, Richmond, IN. Oct. 6, 2018.
Got Character? Community creative writing workshop. Room 912, Indiana University East. Oct. 1, 2016.
Writing Family Stories. Community creative writing workshop. Room 912, Indiana University East. December 5, 2015.