Non-Poetry Publications
Interviews
The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Interview, published in The Rumpus
Presentations
Don’t Start with Eliot: Teaching Poetry to Students
Oregon Council of Teachers of English
Fall Conference
Lake Oswego, OR
October 2008
Odds Are: Winning Poetry Contests
Oregon State Poetry Association
Fall Conference
Roseberg, OR
October 2008
A Century of Fun, Firsts, and Frustrations (invited speaker)
Berea Professional Women’s Organization
Keynote Speaker
Berea, KY
April 2006
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”: The Importance of First Lines in Poetry, and How to Teach that Importance
KPA Conference
Western Kentucky University
March 2006
Up All Night! Twenty-four Hours of Poetry
Sigma Tau Delta Convention
panel
Kansas City, MO, 2005
Great American Women You Should Know
EKU Dormitory Lecture Series
Eastern Kentucky University, 2005
Developing Yourself as a Teacher for Academic and Non-Academic Careers
English Graduate Student Series
panel
Eastern Kentucky University, 2005
Life After the M.A.
English Graduate Student Series
panel
Eastern Kentucky University, 2005
“The Heart asks Pleasure—first—“: Fun and Humor in Teaching Poetry
Innovations in Higher Education Conference
Berea, KY, 2003
(also presented at the EKU Teaching and Learning Center, 2003)
Whodunit? The Use of Unsolved Mysteries in Composition 102
Annual Rhetoric and Composition Conference
Bend, OR, 1999
What Your Bathroom Is Trying to Tell You: Popular Language, Popular Attitudes, and Indoor Plumbing (and panel chair)
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Convention
Orlando, FL, 1998
Cats and Dogs as Gender Metaphor (and panel chair)
PCA/ACA Convention
San Antonio, TX, 1997
Friends Forever: Movies and Television Construct Female Friendship (and panel chair)
PCA/ACA Convention
Las Vegas, NV, 1996
I Want Your Money: Women and the Language of Money (and panel chair)
PCA/ACA Convention
Philadelphia, PA, 1995
Special Session: The Constructions of Gender Panel
PCA/ACA Convention
Philadelphia, PA, 1995
Vampires: Bad Boys and Demon Lovers in Myth and the Media
Women’s Center
University of North Dakota, 1994
The Use of Poetry to Teach Gender Issues (and panel chair)
PCA/ACA Convention
Chicago, IL, 1994
Lucy Stone in the 1990s, Or When Is a Last Name Just a Last Name?
Women’s Center
University of North Dakota, 1993
He Said/She Said: Team Teaching Gender in the Composition Classroom
PCA/ACA Convention
New Orleans, LA, 1993
Making Poetry From Pop Culture: Robert Hayden’s Aunt Jemima and Rita Dove’s Quaker Oats Man
The Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota Annual Conference
Grand Forks, ND, 1993
Shirley Jackson: The Virginia Werewolf of Séance Fiction
LCMND
Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1992