Presentations

“Best Class/Worst Class: Setting Course Standards Collaboratively.” 2023 Texas A&M System Chancellor’s Conference on Academic Technology. June 2023. [45 minute presentation]

“In Defense of Branagh’s Frankenstein.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2019.

“Beyond the Primary Text: Preparing Students for a Capstone Research Project.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Salt Lake City, UT. October 2016.

“Tell It, But Don’t Show It: Illustrating Goblin Market.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. Athens, GA. June 2016.

“ ‘White and golden Lizzie stood’: Art, Violence, and Illustrating Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market.” Southwest PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2016.

“Toe-Dippers and Skinny-Dippers: Why Literature Professors Should Embrace Online Teaching.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Santa Fe, NM. October 9, 2015.

“Echo Chambers: Romantic Poetry and Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop.” 2013 Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, MA. January 6, 2013.

“Designed to Sell: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.” 32nd Annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference. University of New Mexico. March 2011.

“Close Thy Bryon: Nineteenth-Century Byronic Nationalisms.” International Conference on Romanticism. Texas Tech University. November 2010.

“ ‘Study a lesson that concerns ye much’: Charlotte Smith’s Political Writings, 1791-1794.” Sixteenth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference. Indiana University. March 2008.

“Selling the ‘Spontaneous Productions of Genius’: Patronage and Laboring-class Women Poets.” Fifteenth Annual British Women Writers Conference. University of Kentucky. April 12, 2007.

 “Political Text, Cultural Context: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Exile, and Casa Guidi Windows.”  Thirteenth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference. University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  April 16, 2005.

“Branding Britain ‘The Meanest of Nations’: Poetic Spaces and Political Critique in Ellen Johnston’s Autobiography, Poems and Songs.” Graduate Student Literature Conference at the University of South Carolina.  March 12, 2005.

“Protest and Performance: Ann Yearsley’s Poems on Several Occasions.” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. February 24, 2005.

“Ann Yearsley, ‘The Milkwoman of Bristol,’ and the Poetics of Domestic Exile.” Tenth Annual UGA Women’s Studies Student Symposium.  The University of Georgia.  March 27, 2003.

“Reconfiguring the State, the Self: Liminal Subjectivity in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants.” International Conference on Romanticism.  Florida State University.  October 11, 2002.

“Changing Cultural Memory and the Crimean War: Elizabeth Thompson's Battle Paintings.” Victorians Institute Conference.  The Citadel.  October 5, 2002.

“Revisioning the Nineteenth Century Proletarian Poetess.”  Seventh Annual University of Georgia Women's Studies Symposium.  Athens, Georgia. February 25, 2000.

“Creating A Collage:  Syndetics in La Maravilla.”  American Literature Association Fall Symposium:  Native American Strategies for the Millennium.  Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: November, 1999

“Implementing the Accelerated Reader Program in a Middle/High School.”  GA Curriculum Conference for State System Superintendents and Curriculum Directors.  The Georgia Center for Continuing  Education, University of Georgia.  Athens, Georgia.  September, 1997.

“Close Thy Bryon: Nineteenth-Century Byronic Nationalisms.” Cornette Library Faculty Research Poster Symposium. West Texas A&M University. March 2010.

“Restoring Italy, Reforming England: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows.” West Texas A&M University Women’s Day, Research Poster Presentations. March 2009.

“ ‘Study a lesson that concerns ye much’: Charlotte Smith’s Political Writings, 1791-1794.” Cornette Library Faculty Research Poster Symposium. West Texas A&M University. March 22, 2007.

“ ‘Study a lesson that concerns ye much’: Charlotte Smith’s Political Writings, 1791-1794.” West Texas A&M University Women’s Day, Research Poster Presentations. March 8, 2007.

“The Naked Truth: Building the Learning Community.” With Anne Medlock. West Texas A&M University Core Fellows Poster Sessions. October 25, 2007.