Rhetorical Theory and Scientific Communication
“Whole-Body Gifts: Epideictic Display and Anatomy Memorial Services.” The Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA. April 2008. (Accepted)
“Stretching Beyond Borders: The Multiple Discourses of an Anatomy Laboratory and at an Urban Zoo,” with Carol Berkenkotter and Zoe Nyssa. 3rd International Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research, Santa Barbara, CA. February 2008. (Accepted)
“’A Matter of Perception’: An Ethnographic Study of Medical Students’ Impressions of the Body in Cadaver-Based Anatomy Education.” The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists, Henderson, NV. June 2007.
“Presenting Anatomy: Visual Rhetoric and Genre Shift in Henry Gray’s Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical,” The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Annual Conference, New York, NY. March 2007.
“The Consenting Dead: Rhetorical Ambivalence in Anatomical Bequests." The Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. March 2007.
“The Visual Rhetoric of Nostalgia: Turnitin.com, the Information Age, & the Lost Community of Learning.” The Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. March 2006.
“Historicizing Instructions: Alchemical Illustrations as a Pictorial Genre,” The Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Austin TX. May 2004.
"Appropriation from Beginning to End: Rhetoric, UFO Nonfiction, & the Authenticating Slave Narrative." The English Language Conference for Mediterranean Universities, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, May 1999.
Composition Studies
“Peer Tutors, Plagiarism, and Non-Directive Tutoring,” with Lauren Fitzgerald and Allison Smith.
Joint Conference of the International Writing Center Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Minneapolis, October 2005.
“The Reader-Supposed-To-Know: Transference and Implied Audience in Academic Research”
The Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
“Academic Integrity Policies and Peer Tutors: Hedging, Reporting, and Dealing with Plagiarism,”
with Lauren Fitzgerald, International Writing Centers Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing 2003 Joint Conference, Hershey, PA. October 2003.
“Academic Integrity and Program Building at Yeshiva College,” with Lauren Fitzgerald,
The Council of Writing Program Administrators 2003 Conference, Grand Rapids, MI. July 2003.
"The Lack of Sources: Student Writing, Academic Discourse, and Lacanian Psychoanalysis," The Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. March 2002.
"Writing/Language Across the Curriculum: EAP Beyond the First Year," with Zeynep Ozek and Sinem Bingol, The 3rd Annual Spring Symposium, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, June 2001.
"Expanding Text Usage: Creative Writing and Academic English," The 3rd Annual ELT Conference, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2001.
"Dialogue Reading Journals; or, Teaching Students to Read a Text and Teachers to Read a Class."
The 3rd International Inged-Gazi University ELT Conference, Ankara, Turkey, October 1999.
Gender Studies
"The Horror of/and Queer Subjectivity."The English Language Conference for Mediterranean Universities, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, May 2000.
"Without Even Leaving Your (Smashed) Front Seat: Crash, Queerity, & Counter-Travel Narrative."
The Hacettepe University International Conference on Cultural Studies, Ankara, Turkey, February, 1999.
“’The Vices and Corruptions of My Own Species’: Gulliver’s Travels as Molly Literature.”
Mid-West Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL. November 1997.
