Presentations
"The Cultural Work of Writing Centers: Contesting Boundaries and
the Importance of Local Resistance." Plenary Speaker. International
Writing Centers Association and National Conference on Peer
Tutoring in Writing, Minneapolis, MN, October 22, 2005.
"Two-Million-Year-Old DJs, Mashing in the Dataverse." The
Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies. Providence, RI, August 6,
2005.
Chair, "As Space Shapes Us So We Shape Space: The Impact of
Cultural Geography and Place-Based Pedagogy in Composition."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco,
March 19 2005.
"Tracing Memory's Braille: Mapping Lost Narratives." Keynote
Address, New York College English Association. April 16, 2005.
"The Importance of Critical Geography and Place-based Literacy
for Composition." Invited lecture, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, April 15, 2004.
"Does CCCC Matter? A Critique and Call for Change." Conference
on College Composition and Communication, March 26, 2004.
"Creative is Critical: Designing and Evaluating Hybrid,
Multimedia, "Poetic," and Other Alternative Forms." Conference on
College Composition and Communication, March 24, 2004.
"21st Century Neighborhoods." North American Interdisciplinary
Conference on Environment and Community. Saratoga Springs, NY:
February 19-21, 2004.
"From Sump to Preserve: The Writing Center as Constructive
Sanctuary." International Writing Centers Association and National
Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Hershey, PA. October 24,
2003.
Invited Speaker. "Surviving Dreamtime." University of Kentucky.
August 26, 2003.
Invited Speaker. "Prospects for an Ecological English:
Implications and Applications of Composition and Sustainability."
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Boston, MA: June 5, 2003.
"Testifying and Bearing Witness." Eco-pedagogies workshop.
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Boston, MA: June 7, 2003.
Invited Speaker, Drake University, “Sustainable Neighborhoods:
Studying Local Communities through Student Writing in the
First-Year Seminar.” April 8, 2003.
Invited Speaker, Sachem Junior High School. "Composition
Theory." Holtsville, NY: April, 2003.
“Misreadings and Mistaken Identities: Tales of Culture
Clash in the Writing Center.” March 22, 2003, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, New York Hilton.
Invited Speaker. "Writing in Place." Boston College, First-Year
Writing Program, October 17, 2002.
“When Going Home Isn’t So Easy: Testimonies from Students in an
Urban University.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Chicago, IL: April, 2001.
Invited Speaker. "Composition and Sustainability." Plenary
Speaker, Annual Conference for the Association for the Study of
Literature and the Environment. Flagstaff, AZ: June, 2001.
"Nine-Way Mind." EPoetry 2001. State University at Buffalo.
April, 2001.
"When Is Hypertext Not Text?" (Chair) Conference on College
Composition and Communication. Denver, CO. March, 2001.
Workshop facilitator. "(Re)Composing a Community of
(Eco)Compositionists: New Perspectives on Greening the Curriculum."
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver, CO,
March, 2001.
"Sustainability in English Studies: A Conversation Waiting to
Happen." Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Denver, CO, March 2001.
"The Quilt Project." American Association of Higher
Education. Washington, DC, March, 1999.
"Between Apocalypse and (E)utopia: A Multimedia Performance."
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA,
March, 1999.
"The Future of Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of
Literacy and Identity." Symposium. Pittsburgh: Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, May, 1999.
"From WAC to SAC: Composition, Sustainability, and the New
Curriculum." Fourth National Writing Across the Curriculum
Conference: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June, 1999.
"Blurred Lines and Permeable Boundaries." CUNY Writing Centers,
Association Tenth Annual Conference. Baruch College, NY. March,
1998.
"Reinventing Local Space: Regional Planning and Service Learning
in the Writing Course." Local Geographies and the Politics of Space
Panel. Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL, April, 1998.
The Future of Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of
Literacy and Identity. Symposium. Pittsburgh: Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, PA, October, 1998.
"Environmental Literacy and Sustainable Composition." Thomas R.
Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY,
October, 1998.
"Storytelling and Other Ways of Connecting Classroom Literacy to
Our Lives." (Chair). Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition. Louisville, KY, October, 1998.
"Survival, Sustainability, and Freshman Composition." Utopian
Studies Conference. Montreal, Quebec, October, 1998.
"The Survival Braid: Coming Out and Going Under with the Art of
Taqqiya." (Not) Just Surviving Panel. Conference on College
Composition and Communication Convention. Phoenix, AZ, March,
1997.
Guest Speaker (re: online English courses). Nassau Community
College, Garden City, NY. April, 1997.
"On Listening to the Inner Ghosts/Within that Twilight
Space/Where Fact and Fiction Cancel Out the Other." New York
College English Association. Rochester, NY, September, 1997.
"Teaching Self and Place Through a Sustainable Lens." Fourth
International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Garden City,
NY., October, 1997.
"Earth/Mind X Mind/Earth = Earthworm Hermeneutics." Earthworms,
Dragons, and the Carnival: Theorizing Resistance Panel. Conference
on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, WI., March,
1996.
"Why Work? Toward Ludic Revolutions and Sustainable Economies."
From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business Ethics
Journey. Niagara Falls, NY, November, 1996.
"Synthetic Linking in the Third Classroom: Writing About Work in
Webs." Popular Culture and the Humanities. Philadelphia, PA,
November, 1996.
Conducted phone interview with graduate class, EN 731 Rhetorical
Traditions, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, re: my book
Resisting Writings (and the Boundaries of Composition), June,
1995.
"Double Agents and Sub Rosa Syllabi," Graduate Student
Professional Development Lecture Series, SUNY Albany, April,
1995.
Guest speaker, The Writing Center and The English Graduate
Students Association, SUNY Albany, April, 1995.
"Refiguring the Social Turn: Composition’s Expressive History."
(Chair). Conference on College Composition and Communication
Convention. Washington, DC, March, 1995.
"Shock Pedagogy: Teaching (the) Extremities." (Chair).
Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention.
Washington, DC, March, 1995.
"Writing at World’s End." Teaching from a Nexus of Discourses in
English Studies: Reconsidering Undergraduate Curricula. SUNY
Albany, October, 1995.
"Going Off-Grid: Lessons Learned from Alternative Communal
Living in the Burnt-Over District." Religion and Popular Culture
Panel. Mid-Atlantic American Culture Association / Popular Culture
Association Conference. Syracuse. NY, November, 1995.
"The Environmental Self: Foundation for a Writing Course."
Issues in Composition Instruction Roundtable. National Council of
Teachers of English Conference. San Diego, CA, November, 1995.
"The Hydra-Headed Workshop: Computers, Egos, Voices."
Revitalizing Classroom Practice Panel. Conference on College
Composition and Communication Convention. Nashville, TN, March,
1994.
"Writing in Tongues in the Virtual Sanctuary." Interactive
Technologies and Network Media Panel. Society for Literature and
Science. Boston, MA. November, 1993.
"A Model for Student Workshops on Sexual and Racial Harassment,"
with Pamela Bridges and Carol Sandoval. New York State College
Learning Skills Association. Ellenville, NY. March, 1992.
"Institutional Fear and Liberal Naiveté in the Multicultural
Debate." Facing Resistance: The Difficulty of Institutional,
Teacher and Student Opposition to Multiple Literacies Panel.
Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention.
Cincinnati, OH, March, 1992.
"The Design of Spontaneous Synergy, or, Take a Walk on the Hard
Drive." The Albany Awopbop Groupuscle Shares Its Secrets. What is
Modern(?) Conference. U Mass Amherst, MA, October, 1992.
"Taking Afrocentric Rhetoric Seriously." Constructs for
Composing: Creativity, Culture, and Metaphor Panel. Conference on
College Composition and Communication Convention. Boston, MA,
March, 1991.
"Drastically Reconceptualizing the Teaching of Writing."
Post-Structuralist Theory and the Teaching of Writing Panel.
Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention.
Boston, MA, March, 1991.
"Writing Differently: New Feminist Approaches to Composition."
Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention.
Chicago, IL, March, 1990.
"What is 'Feminine' Composition, and Why Should We Teach It?"
Feminist Composition, Feminine Composition Panel. MLA Convention.
Chicago, IL, December, 1990.
"Constructing Texts with George Dillon and Gertrude Stein: When
Categories of Composition Dissolve." Conference on College
Composition and Communication Convention. Seattle, WA, March,
1989.
Circumventing the Closure of 'Closure': 20th Century
Alternatives to a Dualistic Problem." Closure in 20th-Century
Poetry: Absence or Presence and What does It All Mean? Panel. MLA
Convention. Washington, DC, December, 1989.
Dissertation and Thesis Committees
MA Thesis Committee: Laura Finn, "Vietnam War Narratives
through Women's Eyes" (completed 2004).
PhD Dissertation Committee: Daniel Bullen, Bearing the Nation’s
Child: America’s Childless Cult of the Child (completed 2003), New
York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, Dept of
English.
PhD Dissertation Committee: Mark Peters, "Freewriting and
Unfreewriting: Using Twentieth-Century Procedural Writing to make
New Meanings in Composition" (completed 2002), Graduate School of
the Sate University at New York of Buffalo, 2002.
DA Dissertation Committee: Michelle Liptak, "Rewriting the
Scripts: Marriage, Motherhood, and Family in the Novels of Dorothy
Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, and Toni Morrison" (in progress), St.
John's University, Department of English.
DA Dissertation Committee: Carla Caglioti, “Modernism, the
Profession, and Technology” (in progress), St. John's University,
Department of English.
DA Dissertation Committee: Judy Phagan, "Triple Threat: Blues
Women Challenge Patriarchy" (completed 2003), St. John's
University, Department of English.
DA Dissertation Director: Joseph Sora, "Revaluing the Master’s
in English: An Answer to the Ph.D. Employment Crisis," (completed
2002), St. John's University, Department of English.
DA Dissertation Committee: Sister Barbara Sudol, CSFN, "Elements
of Mysticism in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot" (completed 2001), St.
John's University, Department of English.
MA Thesis Director: Nicolette Porochnia, "What to take Home: A
Collection on the Poetics of Place," (completed 2001), St. John's
University, Department of English.
McNair Fellowship Mentor: Patricia Lespinasse (2000-2002)
DA Dissertation Committee: Richard Vogel, “Avenues to Faith:
Encountering God in the Novels of Graham Greene and Walker Percy,"
(completed 1996), St. John's University, Department of English.
MA Thesis Committee: Paul Reifenheiser, “Grokking Utopia: The
Pedagogical Vision of Robert Heinlein’s A Stranger in a Strange
Land” (completed 1996), St. John's University, Department of
English.
DA Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Grant, “A Guide to Teaching
American Indian Fiction” (completed1996), St. John's University,
Department of English.
DA Dissertation Committee: John Holland, “The Transformation of
the Gothic in the Novels of Toni Morrison” (in progress), St.
John's University, Department of English.
DA Dissertation Committee: Linda Reesman, “ Romantic Suicide:
Crossing Sentimental Borders” (completed 1997), St. John's
University, Department of English.
DA Dissertation Committee: Juliet Emanuel-George, “The Quieted
Voice in Multiculturalism: A Study in the Shifted Self of the
Post-Colonial Writers Rhys, Riley, Emecheta, and Cliff” (completed
1997), St. John's University, Department of English.
DA Dissertation Director: Rochelle Almeida, “The Politics of
Mourning: Variation in Grief-Management in Contemporary
Cross-Cultural Fiction” (completed 1999), St. John's University,
Department of English.
DA Dissertation Committee: Rebecca Neuhedel, “‘Going Home’:
Journeys of Self-Exploration in Baseball Literature” (completed
1997), St. John's University, Department of English.
DA Dissertation Director: Julie Katz, “Private Lives and Public
Relevance: Reconceptualizing Pedagogical Space(s) in Composition”
(in progress), St. John's University, Department of English.
Participation in Committees and
Presentations at St. John’s University
- Core Self-Study Committee, 2004-2005
- Middle States Self-Study Committee, 2004-2005
- Title III Grant Team, 2004
- English Department, Acting Chair, Spring 2004
- Faculty Senate, 2002-current
- Student Affairs Committee, 2001-current
- Host, "The Fine Art of Digging: Faculty Research Methods,"
Writing Center
- Center for Teaching and Learning: “The Quilt Project”
- Committee on Writing Across the Curriculum (Chair)
- Departmental Publicity Committee
- Diversity Workshop, Student Advising, Development &
Retention
- Environmental Awareness Sub-Committee, Education for Justice
Committee
- Faculty Forum: “Writing Across the Curriculum”
- Faculty Service-Learning Board
- Graduate Advisory Committee
- Graduate Education Policy Committee
- Personnel and Budget Committee
- Undergraduate Education Policy Committee
- Multicultural Student Advisory Committee
- Research II Subcommittee
- Summit on Higher Education, Center for Teaching and
Learning
- Technology Conference: “Presentation on Collaborative Writing
Software”
- Writing Program Committee (Chair)