Presentations

April 10th 2010. Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference (NEWCA). Boston University. “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered: When the Best of Intentions Confront the Ugly Truth, or Inventorying Privilege in Community-based Writing Center and Academic Service-Learning.” Round Table presentation with Harry Denny and students from the St John’s Writing Center.

 March 11th, 2010. The New York Metro Area Partnership in Service Learning. (NYMAPS). Strengthening Service-Learning Connections Across New York City. Bard College. “Bridging the Divide Between Community and Academia: College Expectations and the College Experience.”

June 11th-13th 2009 The 11th Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, University of Notre Paper Title: “The Stillness Outlasting All Wars: Stasis in Modernist Literature.”

March 11th-14th 2009. Sixtieth Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Academic Service-Learning and First Year Writing Programs: Striving Towards a Fruitful Fusion.” Half-day workshop with Marianna Mendelez, Elizabeth Weaver, and Sean Murray.

April 2008 SUNY Council on Writing: Inevitable Intersections: Writing at the Crossroads of Public and Private Discourse in the 21st Century. Paper Title: MySpace/OurSpace: The Use of Blogs in the Writing Classroom.”

March 2007 Northeast Writing Center Association (NEWCA) Panel Presentation with Harry Denny and consultants from the University’s Writing Center: Sustainability of the Writing Center

September 2003. Rediscovering Rebecca West: An International Conference Paper: “Truth and Testimony in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and A Train of Powder.”

“Truth and Testimony in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and A Train of Powder.” Rediscovering Rebecca West: An International Conference, Long Island University, Brooklyn. September 13-14 2003.

“Intellectuals Abroad: Modernist Travel Writing,” Seminar presentation, “Modernist Boundaries and Boundary Crossings,” 3rd Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference, Rice University, Houston, October 12-14 2001.

“Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Mirror for the Modern World.” “Representing Regionalism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in the Space Between, 1914-1945,” University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. May 2001.

“Ezra Pound and ‘The Passport Nuisance’: A Reading of ‘Canto 7.’” The 12th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, Univ. of Tulsa, February 1998.“’

The Story I Have to Tell’: History in Richard Murphy’s ‘The Battle of Aughrim.’” American Conference for Irish Studies, Columbia, SC, March 1998.