“Argumentative Divestment” Paper presented at the Japanese
Debate Association August 2008 conference, Tokyo Japan.
“Reviving the Poetic Corrective: William Carlos Williams’s
Imaginary and Kenneth Burke’s Poetic Rationality.” Paper presented
at the National Communication Association Annual Conference, San
Antonio, TX, November 16-19, 2006.
“Disciplining the Poetic: Amiri Baraka’s ‘Somebody Blew Up America’
and the Rhetorical Limits of Poetry.” Paper presented at the
National Communication Association Annual Conference, San Antonio,
TX, November 16-19, 2006.
“The Aesthetic Rhetorical Dimension: Aesthetic Rhetoric,
Critical Rhetoric and Marcuse’s Aesthetic Theory.” Paper presented
at the National Communication Association Annual Conference,
Boston, MA, November 17-20 2005.
“The Rhetoric of Scientific Legitimacy: Sigmund Freud’s
Rhetorical Strategy in Introductory Lectures to Psychoanalysis and
The New Introductory Lectures to Psychoanalysis.” Paper
presented at the National Communication Association Annual
Conference, Boston, MA, November 17-20, 2005.
“A Health Regime for Public Speaking: Transforming the Public
Speaking Course through Critical Inquiry.” Paper presented at
the National Communication Association Annual Conference, Boston,
MA, November 17-20, 2005.
“Critical Thinking to Critical Be-ing: Critical Pedagogy and the
Debate Institute Model” with Joseph Zompetti. Paper Presented
at the National Communication Association Annual Conference,
Boston, MA, November 17-20, 2005.
“Visual Rhetoric: A Skeptical Introduction.” Panel Participant at
the National Communication Association Annual Conference, Boston,
MA, November 17-20, 2005.
“Marcuse and His Discontents: The Great Refusal,
Psychoanalysis and Overconformity” Paper presented at the
Association for Psychoanalysis, Communication, and Society. Rutgers
University, New Jersey, November 3-5, 2005.
"A Rhetorical View of Feminist Subjectivity: A Bakhtinian
Analysis of Diane DiPrima's Memoirs of a Beatnik." Paper Presented
at the National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach,
FL, November 20 - 24, 2003
"The Clown as Social Critic: Kerouac’s Three Visions” Paper
presented at Queen’s University, Belfast, U.K. “Clowns, Fools &
Picaros” September, 2003