Selected Academic Presentations
Composition
2024
- (Invited) Boston University Writing Program, "Wellness Challenges in Writing Spaces," January 19.
- (Invited) ECWCA, Unwell Writing Centers book talk, November 30.
- Rifelj Lecture Series, “Academic Workplace Well-Being: Searching for Wellness in the Neoliberal Institution and Beyond,” October 4.
- (Invited) RMWCA, Unwell Writing Centers book talk, July 13.
- (Invited) AALAC, "Managing Workplace Expectations and "Workism" Habits in Higher Education," June 16.
- (Invited) Boston-area Rhetoric and Writing Network, “Creating Networks of Care: Writing Administration and Well-Being,” June 3.
- (Invited) Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference, Keynote, April 1.
- (Invited) SLAC-WPA, “Student-Led FYS Assessment,” January 6.
- (Invited) RMWCA Summer Book Club Roundtable Discussion for Wellness and Care in Writing Center Work (Giaimo, ed.), August 11, online
- (Invited) IWCA Summer Institute invited speaker on Wellness and Care for Writing Center Administrators, June 14, online.
- (Invited) “Writing Centers as Data Repositories and Research Sites,” March 25, MiddData Program, online
- “Emotions and Affect in Administrative Work Roundtable,” February 11, Southeastern Writing Center Association, online
- “Supporting, Creating, Measuring: Naming and Reconsidering the Commonplaces of Writing Center Work: Research Grant Impacts Panel,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 25 – 28, Milwaukee, WI.
- “Portrait of the Tutor as a Flexible Artist,” International Writing Centers Association, Sam Turner and Mike Mattison (co-presenters), October 16 - 19, Columbus, OH.
- "The Art of Seeing: Visualizing Writing Center Data Using Voyant," Joe Cheatle, Candace Hastings, and Christine Modey (co-presenters), October 16 - 19, Columbus, OH.
- “Instituting and Assessing Online Writing Groups: When Flexibility and Change Supports Engagement and Writing Success,” Miriam Bourgeois (co-presenter), April 5, Dayton, OH.
- “It’s All in the Notes: What Session Notes Can Tell Us About the Work of Writing Centers,” International Writing Centers Association, Joe Cheatle, Candace Hastings, and Christine Modey (co-presenters), October 10 - 13, Atlanta, Georgia.
- “Utilizing web-based tools to analyze programmatic documents in writing centers,” Writing Analytics Conference, May 23 - 25, Malmo, Sweden.
- "Cultivating a Culture of Wellness in the Writing Center," East Central Writing Centers Association, March 25, Dowagiac, Michigan.
- "Sample Size, Distribution Methods, and Confounds of Writing Center Surveying Methodology," International Writing Centers Association, October 15, Denver, Colorado.
- "Conducting Writing Center Research and Assessment," Writing Center Roundtable, May 24, Brown University, Providence, RI (INVITED).
- "Supporting Innovation and Effecting Change at Open Access Institutions," Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 6, Houston, Texas. [Handout]
- "In the Peripheral: Community College Writing Centers in a Snapshot and Bristol Community College WC as a Testing Ground for RAD Research," Northeast Writing Center Association Conference, April 2 – 3, Keene, NH.
- “A Case for Integrating Reading into Writing Center Tutoring,” Bristol Community College Vice Presidents Council, August 4, Fall River, MA. (INVITED).
- "What’s The Risk? Investing in Low Stakes Writing,” Massachusetts Community College Teaching, Learning, and Student Development Conference, April 10, Fall River, MA.
- “Community College Writing Centers: Managing Expectations While Growing and Innovating,” League for Innovation in the Community College, March 9, Boston, MA.
- "Working with Multilingual Writers in the Writing Center: Managing Expectations," Northeastern University, October 15, Boston, MA.
- “Narratives About Teaching with New Media in the College Classroom,” Teaching 2.0 2011: Faculty Perspectives and Practices, Northeastern University Educational Technology Center, November 30, Boston, MA (INVITED).
- “Teaching with Digital Technology in the College Classroom,” Digital Media and Design Studio Technology Conference, Northeastern University, April 13, Boston, MA (INVITED).
Literature
2014:
- “Memory, Brains, and Narratives? The Humanities as a Testing-Ground for Bioethical Scenario-Building,” American Society For Bioethics and Humanities, October 17, San Diego, CA.
- “From Science Fiction to Science Reality: Memory Modification and Neural Augmentation in Contemporary American Science Fiction,” Narrative, March 28, Cambridge, MA.
- Respondent, Cognitive Science in the Arts and Humanities Symposium, Stony Brook University, March 13, Stony Brook, NY. (INVITED).
- “Where Time and Memory Collide: Maus and the Neuroscience of Comics,” Mahindra Humanities Center, Cognitive Theory and the Arts Seminar, Harvard University, March 7, Cambridge, MA. (INVITED).
- “The Subterranean World of Memory: Mira Bartók’s Struggle for Articulation in The Memory Palace,” MLA, Jan. 11, Chicago, IL.
- “From Science Fiction to Science Reality: Memory Modification and Neural Augmentation in Contemporary American Science Fiction,” MLA, January 12, Chicago, IL.
- “From Baby Book to Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood: The Evolution of June Jordan’s Life Narrative,” Clark University English Dept. Colloquium, October 3, Worcester, MA. (INVITED).
- “Psychological Diffusions: The Cognitive Turn in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama,” ISSN, June 27-29, Manchester, England.
- “What’s Freud Got to Do With It? Theory of Mind in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama,” American Literature Association, May 23-26, Boston, MA.
- “The Cognitive Turn in Contemporary American Literature,” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 21-24, Boston, MA.
- (Joint ACLA/ISSN Panel) “Remediated Photographs and Reconstructed Memories: Personal and Familial Pasts in Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” Modern Language Association, January 5-8, Boston, MA.
- “The Subterranean World of Memory: Mira Bartók’s Struggle for Articulation in The Memory Palace,” Clark University English Dept. Colloquium, September 28, Worcester, MA. (INVITED).
- “‘Picturing It’: Visual Memory and Cinematic Structure In June Jordan’s Solider: A Poet’s Childhood,” International Society for the Study of Narrative, March 15-17, Las Vegas, NV.
- “Living Memories: A Cognitive Neuroscientific Approach to Reading Contemporary American Memoir,” Sensing the Body Working Group, Harvard University, March 10, Cambridge, MA. (INVITED).
- “Within and Without: Visual Destabilization of the Narrative Structure in The Great Gatsby and The Professor’s House,” Northeast Modern Language Association, April 7-10, Rutgers, NJ.
- (Roundtable) “The Collapse of the Reunion Fantasy in Daniel Clowes’ Wilson: An Adoption Counter Narrative,” Northeast Modern Language Association, April 7-10, Rutgers, NJ.
- “Salvation in the Wilderness: The American Jeremiad’s Influence on Early African American Spiritual Autobiography, an eco-critical analysis,” Life Writing and Ecology Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University, June 24-27, Mainz, Germany.
- “Visual Autobiography and Documentary in the Work of Larry Clark and MF Grimm,” Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association Conference, March 13-14, Boston, MA.
- “Genre Bending Towards a Global Discourse of War: Persepolis a ‘Graphic’ Memoir,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 26-29, Cambridge, MA.