Conference Talks
2024
"Strategic Planning 3.0: Rebuilding Trust in the Process." AASHE 2024 Conference & Expo. 45-Minute On-Demand Presentation with Dallase Scott (CEO of Trust), Center for Sustainability Director Lindsey Kalkbrenner, and Maddy Sofer (‘25).
2021
“Looking Back: Looking Forward: Multimodal Resources.” Eighth Annual ATXpo Conference. Online (Host Institution: Stanford University). Presented with Co-Collaborator Robin Tremblay-McGaw.
2019
“The Write Attitude! Creating Blog Posts as Digital Resources for Students…And Celebrities!” Cal State Tech Conference. Theme: “Connectivity.” San Diego, CA. Presented with SJSU Collaborator Writing Center Director Michelle Hager.
2019
“‘This is How We Do It’: Student Engagement and Multimodal Pedagogies.”
Workshop at The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference. Monterey, CA. Presented with SCU collaborators Maggie Levantovskaya, Maura Tarnoff, Jackie Hendricks, JP Lacrampe, and Miah Jeffra.
2019
“How Social Media Can Enhance Your Writing Center.” Northern California Writing Center Association Conference. San José, CA. Presented with Student Social Media Coordinators Aya Abdelhadi and Alejandra Galindo.
2019
“Performing Writing Support Across Campus: A Comparative Empirical Study of 2019
Writing Fellows in First-Year Composition and Advanced, Discipline-Specific Writing Courses.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Pittsburgh, PA. Presented with SJSU collaborators Michelle Hager (research contributed by WAC Director Tom Moriarty).
2018
“A Change is Gonna Come.” Workshop at The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference.
Monterey, CA. Presented with SCU collaborators Simone Billings, JP Lacrampe, Robin Tremblay Mc-Gaw, Maggie Levantovskaya, Maura Tarnoff, and Jackie Hendricks.
2018
"Movin' on Up: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities during Major Growth at the SJSU Writing Center."​
Grouped “Lightening” Talk at the Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference at Santa Clara University. Presented with SJSU graduate tutors Ariel Andrews, Jenn Hambly, and Brooke Blankenship.
2017
“’Let it Go’: Achieving Both Expediency and Excellence in Teaching and Transitions.”
Workshop #4 at The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference, Monterey, CA. Presented with Santa Clara University collaborators Simone Billings, J.P. Lacrampe, Rob Michalski, and Michael Lasley.
2017
“Writing Centers as Unofficial Creative Spaces.”
Workshop #6 at SJSU’s Regional CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication). Presented with collaborators Michelle Hager (San José State University) and Denise Krane (Santa Clara University)
2008
“Honey I’m Home: An Evaluation of the Feminist Utopian Community in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland,”
Accepted to Loyola Marymount University’s Graduate Conference
2008
"Murder, Re-Wrote: The Female Sleuth's Evolution from Miss Marple to Veronica Mars."
Accepted to University of California Riverside’s
Graduate Conference: “(Dis)junctions 2008: Where the Streets are Re-named.”
2007
“Murder, Re-Wrote: Female Sleuths from Miss Marple to Veronica Mars.”
Presented at San José State University English Department Conference.
Campus Talks & Events
2024
"Burning." Film Viewing and Discussion Leader for Fall tUrn Week
2024
“Pedagogical Applications of the PIL Results.” Fall tUrn Week talk.Invited speaker for the SCU Library’s Data Panel on the Climate Literacy National Survey with Steven Geofrey of Project Info Literacy [PiL]
2024
“Letterpress Demonstration for Orientation Leaders.” Summer SCU Humanities & Arts
Extravaganza. Presented with Kathy Aoki.
2023-2024
“Sustainable SCU: Leading Through Laudato Si’ Community Update.” tUrn Weeks. Presented with Lindsey Kalkbrenner, Alison Benders, and reston Carmack (Jesuit School of Theology).
2023-2024
“The Letter.” Film Viewing and Discussion Leader for Spring, Fall tUrn Weeks.
2022
“Holiday Letterpress Art Creation.” Letterpress studio event co-hosted by the 2022
Forge Garden.
2022
“Multimodal Resources in CTW Courses.” February Faculty Development 2022
Café Talk Series focusing on multimodal resources.
2020
(Cancelled due to COVID-19).”Panel Discussion: Universalizing Craft.” Write of Way Literary Festival. To be presented with co-collaborators J.P. Lacrampe, Claudia McIsaac, and Maggie Levantovskaya.
2020
“Place-Based Learning in First-Year Writing: A Sustainability-Themed CTW
Sequence.” January Faculty Development Café Talk Series focused on teaching sustainability across the curriculum. Presented with Co-Collaborator Matt Driscoll.
2019
“English Department Assignment / Activity Swap Shop: The Snowball”
Fall Department Faculty Development Workshop Contributor.
2019
“LinkedUp: Creating a Collaborative Space for the English Department” February Café Talk Series follow-up to the previous Faculty Collaborative Grant project
2019
“The Two Questions Project.” May Café Talk Series from the Faculty Collaborative for Teaching Innovation
2017
“On Vocation Discernment: Maria Judnick and Nicholas Collura” Guest speaker in January “Agape Latte” speaker series
2016
“Using Digital Tools to Curate Online Resources for Students” November Café Talk Series from the Faculty Collaborative for Teaching Innovation
2016
“Bearing Witness, Imagining Otherwise: Reading and Writing Violence and Nonviolence: Jo Ann Beard’s ‘The Fourth State of Matter’” September English Department Contribution to university-wide Understanding and Resisting Violence speaker series
2015
“Re-mixing Detective Stories: Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew” with student Madeleine Helfrich for “Reboot, Remix, Remake” English Pop Culture Discussion