Conference Presentations

"Double-Woven Identificatory Rhetorics: Cherokee Women’s 1831 Opposition to Double Removal," Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America (Philadelphia, PA), May 2012 (accepted) 

“’Let your women hear our words’: Listening for Cherokee Women’s Rhetoric through Interdisciplinary Feminist Inquiry,” Feminisms and Rhetorics (Mankato, MN), October 2011  

“‘[T]hey ought to mind what a woman says’: Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Women’s Critical Literacies as a Challenge to the Exclusionary Public Sphere,” Conference on College Composition and Communication (Atlanta, GA), April 2011  

“’I hope you will be very much pleased to see my writing’: Literacy Learning and Indigenous Self-Determination among Early Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Women,” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America (Minneapolis, MN), May 2010 

“Lock Up Your Daughters: Gender and Writing at the Brainerd Mission School,” Conference on College Composition and Communication (Louisville, KY), March 2010 

“Performing in Print: Early Cherokee Women’s Petitions and Identification,” Native American Literature Symposium (Albuquerque, NM), March 2010 

“Rhetorical Agency, Authenticity, and Cherokee Women’s Writing,” International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Montreal, QC), July 2009  

“The Political Consequences of Narrative: Rhetorical Agency in Cherokee Women’s Writing,” Conference on College Composition and Communication (San Francisco, CA), March 2009 

“Measuring Assimilation: The Cherokee Phoenix, Cherokee Women, and the Indian Removal Debates Native American Literature Symposium (Mt. Pleasant, MI), May 2007