PUBLICATIONS

“Diana Gabaldon’s Excerpts and Daily Lines: When the First Read is a Re-Read.”Ed. Valerie Frankel. Adoring Outlander. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2016. Print.

“Studying the Romance Reader, Then and Now: Rereading Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2 (Oct. 2014). Web.

PAPERS PRESENTED

COMPOSITION

“New Perspectives on Evaluating Quality Online Teaching and Learning.” EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. (2020, virtual asynchronous workshop).Co-presented with Ariel Goldenthal and Billy Howell.

“Creating and Adapting Instructor Resources for Teaching Hybrid Courses.” Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, George Mason University. Co-resented with Lourdes Fernandez, Ariel Goldenthal, A., Kerry Folan, and Sheri Sorvillo. (2020, virtual synchronous workshop).

“Balancing Institutional and Disciplinary Notions of Inclusivity: A Study of Student Outcomes in Online and Face-to-Face Composition Courses.” To be co-presented virtually at the Conference on College Composition & Communication. Conference canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

“The Quality of Student Learning—An Inference Approach for Measuring Quality of Online Education. To be co-presented virtually with Ying-Ying Kuo, the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. June, 2020. (April meeting in San Francisco canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

“Administrative Morphing and Programmatic Public Pedagogies: Opportunities and Challenges.” Co-presented with Courtney Wooten, Lisa Lister, Jennifer Messier, and Kathryn Meeks. Conference on Community Writing. Philadelphia, PA. October 2018.

“Facilitating Contingent-Faculty Collaboration and Inclusion Through the Creation of an Online OER Collection.” Poster Presentation. Co-presented Catherine Saunders and Joyce Johnston. Conference of Writing Program Administrators. Baltimore, MD. July, 2019.

“’It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times’: A Tale of Two Approaches for Developing and Implementing Online and Hybrid Composition Courses.” Co-presented with Ariel Goldenthal and Jennifer Messier at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019.

“Extended Learning through Professional Learning Communities.” Co-presented with Lourdes Fernandez and Jennifer Messier at the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Auburn University, AL, June

“Redesigning Your Curriculum: Using Faculty Learning Communities to Develop Online/Hybrid Mason Core Courses.” Co-presented with Brian Fitzpatrick, Kerry Folan, and Billy Howell at the George Mason Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference. September, 2017.

“Open Educational Resources (OERs) Part 2: Collaborating and Developing OERS for Your Courses.” Co-presented with Cathy Saunders, Joyce Johnston, and Ginny Hoy at the George Mason Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference. September, 2017.

“The Faculty Learning Community: Reigniting Faculty Learning Through Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Institutional Collaboration.” Co-presented with Lourdes Fernandez, Jennifer Messier, Lisa Lister, and Stephanie Liberatore at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on College Composition and Communication, June 2016, Virginia Commonwealth University,  Richmond, VA and the Conference of Writing Program Administrators, July, 2017, Knoxville, TN.

“Learning Communities: Leveraging External Funding for Faculty-Driven Professional Development.” Co-presented with Lourdes Fernandez and Jennifer Messier at the Conference of Writing Program Administrators. Knoxville, TN, July 2017.

“Teaching College Composition in the Active Learning Classroom: Learning from Failure, Learning from Innovation,” co-presented with Lisa Lister at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2015, Tampa, FL.

“Using New Tools to Respond to Student Writing”: Presented with David Beach, Twila Johnson, and Joyce Johnston at the Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, George Mason University, October 2010

“Classroom in an iPod: creating a course in Mason’s iTunes University.” Presented as part of a panel with Rick Reo and Shawn Miller of Learning Support Services. Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, George Mason University. Fall 2009.

“It Takes a Village to Go Multimodal in the Composition Classroom.” To be presented as part of a panel, “Faculty 2.0:  Preparing Writing Instructors for New Media and Online Pedagogies”? with Shelley Reid and David Beach at the Seventh Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, October 2008

“Teaching Podcasting in the College Composition Course: The Tech Behind the Text.” Computer Connection at the College Composition and Convention. New York, March 2007.

“Now That We’ve Wired the Classroom, How Do We Turn on the Kids?” presented, Southeastern Conference of Community Colleges, Miami, FL, October 2000

LITERATURE

“Happy for Whom? The Contingent Happy Ending in Romance Fiction.” To be presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Washington, DC. April, 2019.

“Hybridity in the Romance: Mourning Dove’s Cogewea, The Half-Blood, A Story of the Great Montana Mountain Range.” Presented at the Popular Cultural Association National Conference. March, 2017. San Diego, CA.

“JoJo Moyes’ Me Before You Tests the Limits of the Romance Happy Ending.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association National Conference, March, 2016, Seattle, WA.

“Romance as Propaganda: White Fantasy of Indian Love in the 19th-century ‘Civilize the American Indian’ Movement.” To be presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Conference, June 2016, Salt Lake City, UT.

“Lights, Camera, Adaptation: Outlander as Cable TV Series,” to be presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, April 2015, New Orleans, LA.

“When the First Read is a Re-Read: How Excerpts and Daily Lines Are Changing the Romance Reading Experience,” presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, April 2014,  Chicago, IL.

“When Authors Won’t Die: Diana Gabaldon as Imperial Author in the Books and Writers Community Online Forum.” presented at the Popular Romance Author Symposium, Princeton University, October 2013.

“”Is Wrath Black?’: Reading Race in J. R. Ward’s Dark Lover,” presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference, Washington, DC. March, 2013.

“The Pleasure of Hating a Scene: Undecidability and the Beating Scene in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander,” presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Conference, York, England. September 2012.

“’Dear Father’: Using the Letters of Luther Standing Bear to Teach My People the Sioux,” to be presented, Modern Language Association Conference, December 2006

“Rendering Melville Online.” Presentation on behalf of the National Endowment for the Humanities to the “Melville and Multiculturalism” Summer Institute for Teachers, Dr. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Director, New Bedford, MA, July 2001.

“Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’ and Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game: Using Error to Teach Us the Error of Our Ways,” presented, Midwestern Conference on Film, Language and Literature, March 1999, and American Literature Association Conference, May 1999

“Conquering the Carlisle Way: Frances Campbell Sparhawk’s A Chronicle of Conquest,” presented, Western Literature Association Conference, October 1998

“Storyteller Lit: Teaching the American Short Story from the Native American Perspective,” presented, 12th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS), March, 1998

“Cogewea’s Other ‘Half’: Assessing Whiteness in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea, The Half-Blood,” presented, Western Literature Association Conference, October 1997 and American Women Writers of Color Conference, Salisbury State Univ., October 1997

“Kill the Indian and Save the Man?: Zitkala-Sa and the Boarding School Experience,” presented, Western Literature Conference and American Women Writers of Color Conference, October, 1996