National

“Re-languaging Identity and Labor in Sex-Work Activism.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. March 16, 2018.

“Breaking Up with Rhet-Comp: Confessions of a Disciplinary Philanderer.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX. Apr. 7, 2016.

“The Pleasures of Process: Neo-burlesque’s Seductive Rhetoric.” National Communication Association Annual Convention. Las Vegas, NV. Nov. 20 2015.

“Making Feminist Sexuality: Alterity as Strategy.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Oct. 28 2015.

“Performing the Fifth Canon.” Research Network Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tamps, FL. March 18, 2015.

“Worked Up So Sexual”: On Delivery, Desire, and Dance.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX. May 24, 2014.

“Queer + Pedagogy: A Both/And Approach.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. March 21, 2014.

“Waxing the Rhetorical Triangle: Neo-burlesque as Genre.” BurlyCon. Seattle, WA. November 8, 2013.

“You’re Bound to Find Out She Don’t Love you”: Seduction, Persuasion, and the Rhetorical Act of Exotic Dance.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Stanford University, Stanford, CA. September 27, 2013.

“I Think I Just Queered Myself, Or What Makes Queer Pedagogy Queer?” Queering Spaces/Queering Borders: Queer Studies Conference. University of North Carolina Asheville. April 5, 2013.

“Comic Conversations: Multimodal Scholar Dialogue in Inquiry-Based Research.” Research Network Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, NV. March 13, 2013.

“Heroes v. Haters: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Masquerade of Justice.” 15th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA. May 27, 2012.

“Rhetorics of Alterity – Defining the ‘Not I.'” Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 23, 2012.

“Reaping the Bloody Harvest: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the US Imperial Project.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN. October 2011.

“‘We Are Everywhere’: Composition’s Role in Social Movement Rhetoric.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 8, 2011.

“War! (Good God Y’all) What is it Good For?: Lesbian Identity, Articulation, and the Feminist Sex Wars.” The Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. October 22, 2010.

“Articulating Rhetorical Identity in the LGBT Rights Movement.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 28, 2010.

“Intervention: Articulating Queer Political Power.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. March 19, 2010.

“Composing the Cs, Defining the Discipline: Representation and the CCCC.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. April 4, 2008.

“Who Goes There? Demographics and the Discipline.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 24, 2006.

Campus Colloquia

“LGBT Studies at HWS: A Forward-Thinking Look Back.” with Dr. Susan Henking. Friday Faculty Lunch Talk. Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. April 13, 2012.

Invited

Public lecture – March 8, 2012. 7:00 p.m.
“It Spins like a Cyclone and Sucks Like a Vampire: US Militarism and the New Homonationalist Fantasy.”
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Student workshop – March 8, 2012.
“Sex and Text: Decoding the Language of Lust.”
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Regional

“The Failure of Success: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Lessons of Proposition 107.” Fierce Visions: LGBTQ Scholarship at the University of Arizona NOW. Tucson, AZ. February 19, 2010.

“Finding Foucault in First-Year Comp.” New Directions in Critical Theory. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. March 3, 2007.

“Late 20th Century Social Constructions of Lesbian Sexual Identity.” Graduate Conference on Language and Literature. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. March 1995.