Presentations

Invited Presentations

Assessment Connections for 2-Year Colleges. SUNY Suffolk, Brentwood Campus, December 20, 2012.

“And Justice for All?: Mapping the Rhetoric of Contemporary Civil Rights.” Third Biennial Symposium, Institute for Writing, Rhetoric and Technology, University of Oklahoma, November 14, 2012

Video lecture on Facing the Center and Anti-Bullying Activism in Writing Centers, Ball State University, February, 2012.

Discussion of Facing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-one Mentoring. Marquette University. November, 2011.

Writing Centers and the Politics of Identity. Writing Program at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. October, 2011.

Writing Centers as Community Gardens. Keynote presentation. Northeast Writing Centers Association, Southern New Hampshire University, March, 2011.

“Hunger for writing, writing for hunger.” St. John’s University, Staten Island Campus, November 2009.

Keynote Speech, Spring Convocation, St. John’s College of Arts & Sciences, Staten Island Campus, April 2008.

“Social Justice & Writing Centers.” Keynote Speech. Midwest Writing Centers Association, St. Louis, October 27, 2006.

National/International Conferences

Killing Me Softly with Your Words (and Actions): Theorizing Everyday Oppression After Tyler, Trayvon, and Sandra. Paper presented at the International Writing Centers Association, San Diego, October, 2012. 

From Mean Girls to Club Houses: When the Best of Intentions become Cruel. Paper presented at Conference on College Composition & Communication, St. Louis. March, 2012.

Contesting Identities in Writing Centers: Theorizing Subject Positions, Practices, and Political Contexts. Chair and presenter Conference on College Composition & Communication, Atlanta. April, 2011.

Regional Leaders Network: Development on a Dime: Creating Micro-Regional Development
Opportunities for Directors and Tutors. International Writing Centers Association, Baltimore. November, 2010.

Meeting in the Middle: Embedded Tutoring in the First Year Writing Classroom. With graduate student Lauren Williams and colleague Octavia Davis. International Writing Centers Association, Baltimore. November, 2010.

Mapping Privilege and the Politics of Oppression through/in Writing Centers: Toward an Empirical Agenda to Guide Activism and Research. Chair and Presenter. International Writing Centers Association, Baltimore. November, 2010.

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of 14 Writing Center Directors. (With colleague Anne Ellen Geller). Conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Philadelphia, July 2010.

 “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered: When the Best of Intentions Confront the Ugly Truth, or, Inventorying Privilege in Community-based Writing Centers and Academic Service-Learning.” With colleagues David Farley and Chris Leary, graduate students Lauren Ball and Jody Ludlow, and undergraduates Alyssa Federico, Justin Thrift, Jordan Baum, Cara Cheperon, and Radha Radkar. Northeast Writing Centers Association, April 2010.

“Institutional and professional counter-currents to a sustainable writing center Research Agenda.” Conference on Composition & Communication, Louisville, KY, March 2010.

 “A workshop on Research and Assessment Possibilities in the Writing Center.” With colleague Michele Eodice. European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, June 2009. 

“Public and private performance of gay identity in the writing center.” European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, June 2009.

“Queering the deal: Mentoring the sexual politics of privilege and marginality.” Paper presented at Conference on Composition and Communication. San Francisco, March 13, 2009

“Mapping IWCA as a NPO: Exploring Non-Profits in the Context of IWCA and Implications for Our Organization, Leadership, and Regionals.” Presentation with Ben Rafoth at joint meeting of International Writing Centers Association/National Conference for Peer Tutoring Writing. Las Vegas, October 31, 2008

“Relaxing our grip?: Assessing stakeholders’ perceptions of the writing center.” “Who Owns Writing?” Revisited. Hoftra University. October 17, 2008.“Contesting and producing realities: From the quotidian to cybernetic approaches for integrating multi-campus tutor training.” Presentation at Conference on College Composition & Communication Pre-Conference Workshop, April 2, 2008.

Writing Centers in High Schools: Multiple Missions, National Council of Teachers of English, November 19, 2007.

“So you’re (thinking about) going to grad school.” National Conference on Peer Tutoring Writing/International Writing Centers Association, October 21, 2007. (with colleagues Cheryl Glenn and Ben Rafoth).

“Dancing around the subject: Challenges and possibilities of competing online interests.” National Conference on Peer Tutoring Writing/International Writing Centers Association, October 20, 2007. (with colleage Chris Leary, graduate student, Jennifer Fontanez, undergraduate student Christina Vallerio, Anthony Eid).

“The Writing Center as Coffeehouse: Social Justice and Activism through Writing Center Practice.” Facilitated workshop at the International Writing Centers Association. Houston, April 14, 2007.

“The Body Matrix: Identity, Consciousness, Resistance.” Paper presented at the International Writing Centers Association. Houston, April 14, 2007.

“(Un)Covering Identities: Theorizing the Construction, Resistance and Interplay of Minority Identities in a Majority Academy and World.” Chaired and provided theoretical frame for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City, March 23, 2007

“Doing the Right Thing: Representations of Academic, Activist, and Queer Identities.” Chaired panel at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City, March 22, 2007

“Coming out in the center: Theorizing disclosure and surveillance when the public meets the private in teaching one-to-one.” Paper and workshop presented with Michele Eodice at the National Conference on Writing Centers as Public Space. Chicago, September 28, 2006.

International Writing Centers Association Summer Institute for Writing Center Directors and Professionals. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.  July 10-15, 2005. Invited leader.

“Using Peer Mentoring Principles to Respond to Student Writing.” Port Jefferson (NY) School District Teacher Development Conference. March, 2004.

“Capital Formation and the assessment of student writing.”  Invited lecture at Eastern Connecticut State University, Department of English, October, 2003.

“Growing Graduate Student Teaching and Educational Capital.” (with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, and Ann Larson). Panel discussion at the joint meeting of the International Writing Center Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Hershey, PA, October, 2003.

“Mentors mentoring mentors: Using videotaped sessions to assess and grow one-to-one pedagogy.” (with Christine Crowe and Rachel Silverman).  Panel discussion at the joint meeting of the International Writing Center Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Hershey, PA, October, 2003.

 “The myth of the happy family: Cross-cultural conflict in the writing center” (with Patricia Stephens).  Workshop presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March, 2002.

 “Sup/planting our roots: New directions in basic communication instruction.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.

 “Post-Ellen Media Queers:  From Lesbian Chic, to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” to Sexual Eunuchs.” (with Jody Dee Morrison). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.

“Facilitating community and voice through asynchronous email tutoring.”  Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, March, 2001.

 “Struggling with/over student voice in a non-aural context.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association, Seattle, November, 2000.

 “Covering Amendment Two:  The Press and Its Engagement of Competing Logics of the Political Field.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association, Montreal, May, 1997.

“AIDS Resistance, Remembrance and Dismembrance:  MTV’s Tribute to and Retribution of Pedro Zemora.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International
Communication Association, Chicago, May, 1996.

 “The Production of a Queer Spectacle:  Reading and Reappropriating Queer Visibility in a Colorado for Family Values Amendment 2 Campaign Commercial.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, November, 1995.

 “The Politics of Double Talk:  Colorado for Family Values and Their Campaign for the (Re)formation of Homosexuality and Civil Rights.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, November, 1994.

 “Magic Johnson and the Persistence of AIDS Discourses:  The Production of Deviant Bodies and Identities.” (with Cheryl L. Cole). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1994.

(with Cheryl L. Cole and Jay Coakley). “Magic Johnson, AIDS, and Surveillance Debates.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, March, 1993.

“The Construction of Gender, Race, and Sexual Practices: AIDS and the ‘Promiscuous’ Sport World.” (with Cheryl L. Cole). Paper presented at the La Ville en Rose Lesbiennes et Gais a Montreal Histoires, Cultures, Societies, Conference, Montreal, Quebec, November, 1992.
Revisions presented at the University of Ottawa, January, 1993; Temple University, January, 1993; University of Southern Maine, April, 1993; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, May, 1993; University of Iowa, November, 1993.

“AIDS “Demonstrations,” ACT UP, & Magic Johnson: How About A Day Without Sport?” (with Cheryl L. Cole). Paper presented at the annual meetings for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Toledo, November, 1992.

“A Different Face of AIDS?  Magic Johnson and the Persistence of AIDS Discourses.” (with Cheryl L. Cole). Paper presented at the Theory, Culture, & Society meetings, Champaign, IL, August, 1992.

Papers and Presentations at Regional Conferences

“From Counting Beans to Reaping Rewards: Writing Center Assessment & Research Demonstrated and Contested.” Panel with Senior Secretary Connie DeSimone and Associate Director Chris Leary at Pace University, November 2011.

 “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered: When the Best of Intentions Confront the Ugly Truth, or, Inventorying Privilege in Community-based Writing Centers and Academic Service-Learning.” With colleagues David Farley and Chris Leary, graduate students Lauren Ball and Jody Ludlow, and undergraduates Alyssa Federico, Justin Thrift, Jordan Baum, Cara Cheperon, and Radha Radkar. Northeast Writing Centers Association, April 2010.

“Creating an ‘Ecology of Action’ in the writing center.” Worshop with colleague Chris Leary, graduate student Jennifer Fontanez, and undergraduate Hadia Sheerazi. Northeast Writing Centers Association annual conference, April 4, 2009.

“Relaxing our grip?: Assessing stakeholders’ perceptions of the writing center.” “Who Owns Writing?” Revisited. (With Associate Director Chris Leary, graduate student Jennifer Fontanez and undergraduate Hadia Sheerazi). Hoftra University. October 17, 2008.

“Coming clean and correct: Private assumptions about writing center work on campus and beyond.” Moderator at the Annual SUNY Council on Writing, April, 2008.

Balancing acts: Negotiating program identity and administrative expectations, assessment and faculty development in a new institute for writing studies.” (with Derek Owens). “Panelist at the Annual SUNY Council on Writing, April, 2008.

“Integrating circuits toward a USB connect: Faculty, students, and consultants [u]nifying, [s]ounding off, [b]enefiting one another another.” Moderator. (with undergraduate and graduate students Jennifer Fontanez, Haadia Sheraz, Jeanette Awai, Anthony Eid, Radha Radkar, and Associate Director Chris Leary). Northeast Writing Centers Association, April, 2008.

“(Mis)perceptions in the writing center: Exposing bias and enhancing communication between the writing center and the university community.” Chair. Northeast Writing Centers Association, April, 2008.

“Using Triangulation to Foster Recursive Assessment: Stage 2 SUNY Assessment at a Private University.” (with Derek Owens). Presentation at the Annual Conference of SUNY Council on Writing. Albany, April 21, 2007.

“From Germination to Cultivation: Reflections on and Problem-Posing a New Writing Center.” (with undergraduate and graduate students Jennifer Fontanez, Christina Vallario, Joe Kenny, and Associate Director Chris Leary). Northeast Writing Centers Association. Storrs, CT (University of Connecticut), March, 2007.

“De/Facing the Center: Towards a Critical Awareness of Identity Politics & Writing Centers Practice & Personnel.” (with graduate student Leon Marcelo).Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Souhegan High School, Amherst, NH, 2006.

“Bridging Experiences to Build Better Tutors: Using Mixed Methods for Tutor Development.” (with graduate students Leon Marcelo and Kerri Koch). Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, April, 2005.

“Facing the center: Centering, De-centering, and Changing the face of the Writing Center.” (with graduate and undergraduate students Mary O’hara, Celeste Capaldi, Kerri Koch, and Sarah Goshman). Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, April, 2004.

 ““Facing” Connections between Town and Gown: A Case Study in eTutoring Collaboration between a Local High School and University.” (with Ann Caniff, Ellen Moore, and Marie Rianna).  Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, April, 2004.

“Virtual mentoring of tutors: Understanding and Evaluating Performance through Online Self-Assessment.” Presentation at Metro-New York City Writing Center Consortium, Barnard College, October, 2004.

“Assessing and reflecting on writing center process: Part I: Beginnings: Understanding and negotiating student, tutor and writing center expectation of interaction.” (with graduate students Susan Crane, Rachel Silverman, Christine Crowe). Presentation at the State University of New York Council on Writing, Suffolk County Community College, April, 2003.

“Assessing and reflecting on writing center process: Part II: What did we just do? Reflecting on pedagogical choices in tutoring sessions.” (with graduate students Susan Crane, Rachel Silverman, Christine Crowe). Presentation at the State University of New York Council on Writing, Suffolk County Community College, April, 2003.

““Others” Like Us/Them: (De)Constructing “the Other” in “Our” Writing Centers.” (with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, Pam Cobrin, Mary Wislocki, Lauren Fitzgerald, and T. Kenny Fountain).  Paper and workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association, Nashua, NH, April, 2003.

“Towards a teleology of mentors mentoring mentors.” (with graduate students Christine Crowe and Rachel Silverman). Workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association, Nashua, NH, April, 2003.

“Transformation through triangulation in the writing center: student, faculty, and writing center collaborative learning and curriculum development.” (with Patricia Stephens). Workshop presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March, 2003.

“A rhetorical response to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point.”  Freshman Orientation Summer Reading Faculty Response Panel, August, 2002.

“Diversity in action: Confronting notions of “difference” among students, tutors, and pedagogical choices.” (with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, Ann Larson, and Anna Rita Napoleone). Workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association, Smithfield, RI, March, 2002.

“(Re)figuring Homosexuality, “Real Minorities” and Civil Rights:  A Textual Analysis of a Colorado for Family Values Campaign Document.”  Paper presented at the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Colloquium Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, March, 1995.

“Prejudice Toward Persons Living with an Illness.” (with Richard L. Dukes, Julie Bickham, Catherin Cole, Liz Grutt, Jill Kochenberger, Kathryn Nielson, Gloria Wenzel). Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, April, 1994.