Invited Presentations
“Hunger for writing, writing for
hunger.” St. John’s University, Staten Island Campus, November
2009.
Keynote Speech, Spring Convocation, St. John’s College of Arts
& Sciences, Staten Island Campus, April 2008.
“Social Justice & Writing Centers.” Keynote Speech. Midwest
Writing Centers Association, St. Louis, October 27, 2006.
National/International
Conferences
“A workshop on Research and Assessment Possibilities in
the Writing Center.” With colleague Michele Eodice. European
Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, June
2009.
“Public and private performance of
gay identity in the writing center.” European Association for the
Teaching of Academic Writing, June 2009.
“Queering the deal: Mentoring the sexual politics of privilege
and marginality.” Paper presented at Conference on Composition and
Communication. San Francisco, March 13, 2009
“Mapping IWCA as a NPO: Exploring Non-Profits in the Context of
IWCA and Implications for Our Organization, Leadership, and
Regionals.” Presentation with Ben Rafoth at joint meeting of
International Writing Centers Association/National Conference for
Peer Tutoring Writing. Las Vegas, October 31, 2008
“Relaxing our grip?: Assessing stakeholders’ perceptions of the
writing center.” “Who Owns Writing?” Revisited. Hoftra University.
October 17, 2008.“Contesting and producing realities: From the
quotidian to cybernetic approaches for integrating multi-campus
tutor training.” Presentation at Conference on College Composition
& Communication Pre-Conference Workshop, April 2, 2008.
Writing Centers in High Schools: Multiple Missions, National
Council of Teachers of English, November 19, 2007.
“So you’re (thinking about) going to grad school.” National
Conference on Peer Tutoring Writing/International Writing Centers
Association, October 21, 2007. (with colleagues Cheryl Glenn and
Ben Rafoth).
“Dancing around the subject: Challenges and possibilities of
competing online interests.” National Conference on Peer Tutoring
Writing/International Writing Centers Association, October 20,
2007. (with colleage Chris Leary, graduate student, Jennifer
Fontanez, undergraduate student Christina Vallerio, Anthony
Eid).
“The Writing Center as Coffeehouse: Social Justice and Activism
through Writing Center Practice.” Facilitated workshop at the
International Writing Centers Association. Houston, April 14,
2007.
“The Body Matrix: Identity, Consciousness, Resistance.” Paper
presented at the International Writing Centers Association.
Houston, April 14, 2007.
“(Un)Covering Identities: Theorizing the Construction,
Resistance and Interplay of Minority Identities in a Majority
Academy and World.” Chaired and provided theoretical frame for the
Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City,
March 23, 2007
“Doing the Right Thing: Representations of Academic, Activist,
and Queer Identities.” Chaired panel at the Conference on College
Composition and Communication. New York City, March 22, 2007
“Coming out in the center: Theorizing disclosure and
surveillance when the public meets the private in teaching
one-to-one.” Paper and workshop presented with Michele Eodice at
the National Conference on Writing Centers as Public Space.
Chicago, September 28, 2006.
International Writing Centers Association Summer Institute for
Writing Center Directors and Professionals. University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS. July 10-15, 2005. Invited leader.
“Using Peer Mentoring Principles to Respond to Student Writing.”
Port Jefferson (NY) School District Teacher Development Conference.
March, 2004.
“Capital Formation and the assessment of student writing.”
Invited lecture at Eastern Connecticut State University, Department
of English, October, 2003.
Papers and Presentations at National/International
Conferences
“Writing centers and politics of community, identity, and social
justice.” Paper presented at the Working Class Studies Association,
Stony Brook University, June, 2006
"Coming out in the Center: Theorizing disclosure and
surveillance when the public meets the private in teaching
one-to-one." Paper presented at the Cultural Studies
Conference: PRIVACY (and Secrecy), Kansas State University,
March, 2006.
“Holistic versus Primary Trait Writing Assessment: Results and
Implications from a Case Study.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication. San Francisco. March, 2005.
“Notes from an Accidental Tourist: On joining the writing center
discourse community.” Paper presented at the Thomas R. Watson
Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville,
KY, October, 2004.
“Changing models for teacher training: The possibilities and
limitations of collaborative pedagogy” (with Anne Beaufort, Michael
Boecherer, and Monica Sanning). Panel at Writing Program
Administrators Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE,
July, 2004.
“Queer Eye for the Straight Law.” Paper presented at the
Cultural Studies Association. Boston, May, 2004.
“Growing Graduate Student Teaching and Educational Capital”
(with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, and Ann Larson). Panel
discussion at the joint meeting of the International Writing Center
Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in
Writing. Hershey, PA, October, 2003.
“Mentors mentoring mentors: Using videotaped sessions to assess
and grow one-to-one pedagogy” (with Christine Crowe and Rachel
Silverman). Panel discussion at the joint meeting of the
International Writing Center Association and the National
Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Hershey, PA, October,
2003.
“The myth of the happy family: Cross-cultural conflict in the
writing center” (with Patricia Stephens). Workshop presented
at the Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Chicago, March, 2002.
“Sup/planting our roots: New directions in basic communication
instruction.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National
Communication Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.
(with Jody Dee Morrison). “Post-Ellen Media Queers:
From Lesbian Chic, to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” to Sexual Eunuchs.”
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National
Communication Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.
“Facilitating community and voice through asynchronous email
tutoring.” Paper presented at the Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Denver, March, 2001.
“Struggling with/over student voice in a non-aural
context.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
National Communication Association, Seattle, November, 2000.
“Covering Amendment Two: The Press and Its Engagement of
Competing Logics of the Political Field.” Paper presented at
the annual meetings of the International Communication Association,
Montreal, May, 1997.
“AIDS Resistance, Remembrance and Dismembrance: MTV’s
Tribute to and Retribution of Pedro Zemora.” Paper presented
at the annual meetings of the International Communication
Association, Chicago, May, 1996.
“The Production of a Queer Spectacle: Reading and
Reappropriating Queer Visibility in a Colorado for Family Values
Amendment 2 Campaign Commercial.” Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the Speech Communication Association, San
Antonio, November, 1995.
“The Politics of Double Talk: Colorado for Family Values
and Their Campaign for the (Re)formation of Homosexuality and Civil
Rights.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Speech
Communication Association, New Orleans, November, 1994.
(with Cheryl L. Cole). “Magic Johnson and the Persistence of
AIDS Discourses: The Production of Deviant Bodies and
Identities.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1994.
(with Cheryl L. Cole and Jay Coakley). “Magic Johnson, AIDS, and
Surveillance Debates.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of
the Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado
Springs, March, 1993.
(with Cheryl L. Cole). “The Construction of Gender, Race, and
Sexual Practices: AIDS and the ‘Promiscuous’ Sport World.”
Paper presented at the La Ville en Rose Lesbiennes et Gais a
Montreal Histoires, Cultures, Societies, Conference, Montreal,
Quebec, November, 1992.
Revisions presented at the University of Ottawa, January, 1993;
Temple University, January, 1993; University of Southern Maine,
April, 1993; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, May, 1993;
University of Iowa, November, 1993.
(with Cheryl L. Cole). “AIDS “Demonstrations,” ACT UP, &
Magic Johnson: How About A Day Without Sport?” Paper presented at
the annual meetings for the North American Society for the
Sociology of Sport, Toledo, November, 1992.
(with Cheryl L. Cole). “A Different Face of AIDS? Magic
Johnson and the Persistence of AIDS Discourses.” Paper presented at
the Theory, Culture, & Society meetings, Champaign, IL, August,
1992.
Papers and Presentations at Regional
Conferences
“Balancing acts: Negotiating program identity and administrative
expectations, assessment and faculty development in a new institute
for writing studies.” State University of New York Council on
Writing, April 26, 2008.
“Coming clean and correct: Private assumptions about writing
center work on campus and beyond.” State University of New York
Council on Writing, April 26, 2008.
“(Mis)perceptions in the writing center: Exposing bias and
enhancing communication between the writing center and the
university community.” Northeast Writing Centers Association, April
12, 2008.
“Using Triangulation to Foster Recursive Assessment: Stage 2
SUNY Assessment at a Private University” (with colleague Derek
Owens). Research findings presented at the Annual Conference of
SUNY Council on Writing. Albany, April 21, 2007.
“From Germination to Cultivation: Reflections on and
Problem-Posing a New Writing Center.” (with colleagues Tom
Philipose, Chris Leary, and undergraduates Joe Kenny, Jennifer
Fontanez, Christina Vallerio) Workshop with writing center
consultants at the Northeast Writing Centers Association. Storrs,
CT (University of Connecticut), March 31, 2007
(with graduate student Leon Marcelo). “De/Facing the Center:
Towards a Critical Awareness of Identity Politics & Writing
Centers Practice & Personnel.” Panel at the Northeast Writing
Center Association, Souhegan High School, Amherst, NH, 2006.
(with graduate students Leon Marcelo and Kerri Koch). “Bridging
Experiences to Build Better Tutors: Using Mixed Methods for Tutor
Development.” Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association,
Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, April, 2005.
(with graduate and undergraduate students Mary O’hara, Celeste
Capaldi, Kerri Koch, and Sarah Goshman). “Facing the center:
Centering, De-centering, and Changing the face of the Writing
Center.” Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association,
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, April, 2004.
(with Ann Caniff, Ellen Moore, and Marie Rianna).
““Facing” Connections between Town and Gown: A Case Study in
eTutoring Collaboration between a Local High School and
University.” Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association,
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, April, 2004.
“Virtual mentoring of tutors: Understanding and Evaluating
Performance through Online Self-Assessment.” Presentation at
Metro-New York City Writing Center Consortium, Barnard College,
October, 2004.
(with graduate students Susan Crane, Rachel Silverman, Christine
Crowe). “Assessing and reflecting on writing center process: Part
I: Beginnings: Understanding and negotiating student, tutor and
writing center expectation of interaction.” Presentation at the
State University of New York Council on Writing, Suffolk County
Community College, April, 2003.
(with graduate students Susan Crane, Rachel Silverman, Christine
Crowe). “Assessing and reflecting on writing center process: Part
II: What did we just do? Reflecting on pedagogical choices in
tutoring sessions.” Presentation at the State University of New
York Council on Writing, Suffolk County Community College, April,
2003.
(with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, Pam Cobrin, Mary Wislocki,
Lauren Fitzgerald, and T. Kenny Fountain). ““Others” Like
Us/Them: (De)Constructing “the Other” in “Our” Writing Centers.”
Paper and workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers
Association, Nashua, NH, April, 2003.
(with graduate students Christine Crowe and Rachel Silverman).
“Towards a teleology of mentors mentoring mentors.” Workshop
presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association, Nashua, NH,
April, 2003.
(with Patricia Stephens). “Transformation through triangulation
in the writing center: student, faculty, and writing center
collaborative learning and curriculum development.” Workshop
presented at the Conference on College Composition and
Communication, New York, March, 2003.
“A rhetoric response to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping
Point.” Freshman Orientation Summer Reading Faculty Response
Panel, August, 2002.
(with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, Ann Larson, and Anna Rita
Napoleon). “Diversity in action: Confronting notions of
“difference” among students, tutors, and pedagogical choices.”
Workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association,
Smithfield, RI, March, 2002.
“(Re)figuring Homosexuality, “Real Minorities” and Civil
Rights: A Textual Analysis of a Colorado for Family Values
Campaign Document.” Paper presented at the Department of
Rhetoric and Communication Colloquium Series, Temple University,
Philadelphia, March, 1995.
(with Richard L. Dukes, Julie Bickham, Catherin Cole, Liz Grutt,
Jill Kochenberger, Kathryn Nielson, Gloria Wenzel). “Prejudice
Toward Persons Living with an Illness.” Presented at the
annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association,
Albuquerque, April, 1994.