Selected Papers and Conference Presentations 

• “Reading, Writing, and Researching in Second Life: How and Why to Bring the virtual World into Your Real Classroom.” Presenter, National Council of Teachers of English, New York City, November 2007.
• “Mapping the Composition of an African Missionary’s Identity,” Panel presentation paper, CCCC, New York, March 2007.
• “Developing Mentors for Complete Teaching.” Roundtable organizer and presenter, National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, November 2006.
• “Gender (Still) A Useful Category of Analysis: Unfinished Gender Work on Stowe, Her Writing, and its Place in Cultural History.” Roundtable paper, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, November 2006.
• “Nellie Jane Arnott Darling and Women’s Missionary Magazines.” Panel paper, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, November 2006.
• “Public Scholarship: What, Why and How.” Roundtable paper, Imagining America Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 2006.
• “Circuits of Circulation: Recovering the Passages of a Missionary Woman’s Scrapbook Narrative.” Panel presentation paper, American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 2005.
• “Building Social Structures in Antebellum Women’s Writing,” Plenary Roundtable, Antebellum Writers and the City Conference, New York, September 2005.
• “Making Corrections in Oprah’s Book Club: Cross-Gender Controversy in American Literacy Practices,” panel presentation paper, American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2005.
• “Seeing Cases of ‘Not Seeing’: Re-viewing Visual Rhetoric on Women’s Work,” panel presentation paper, CCCC, San Francisco, CA, March 2005.
• “Means and Ends: Reexamining the Work of Literary Recovery in a New Political Climate,” roundtable paper, MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.
• “Response: Performance and Politics,” panel presentation paper, MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.
• “'Such a hard, sad life for the children of Africa’: Imperialist Ideology and Feminist Sympathy in the Diaries of Nellie Arnott,” panel presentation paper, American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2004.
• “Keeping and Creating American Communities: An Overview,” roundtable presentation at the NCTE Annual Convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 2004.
• “Building a Collaborative Community Studies Program,” workshop presentation at the NWP Annual Convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 2004.
• "Writing for Active Citizenship at an NWP Site," panel presentation paper, CCCC, San Antonio, TX, March 2004.