Professional Conferences
International Conference on Romanticism, November 2009: “Simultaneous Harmony and Cacophony in the City: The Interplay of Blake’s ‘Holy Thursday’ and ‘London’”
MMLA Conference, November 2006: “Verses as Low Commodity vs. Verses as High Culture: Keats’s Struggle with the Cultural Value of his Poetry Against its Monetary Value”
NASSR/NAVSA Joint Conference, September 2006: “John Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ from a Deleuzian Perspective”
Graduate Conferences
The Artfulness of Play, September 2009: “Criticism at Play: The Implications of Gadamer and Derrida’s Notion of Play for the Literary Critic”
Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium, April 2006: “The Synthesis of ‘Beauty’ and ‘Truth’: John Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ and Deleuzian Analysis”
Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media, April 2006: “John Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ From the Philosophical Perspective of Gilles Deleuze”
Undergraduate Conferences
Purdue University English Department’s 106 Showcase, April 2005: Advisor for a Student Project
Annual Spring Conference of the Honors Council of the Illinois Region, April 2003: “The Dilemma of Myth”
EIU Presentation to Illinois Legislators, March 2003: “Sexual Perversion and Sexual Inversion: Two Treatments of Sexual Deviance Offered by Dracula and The Well of Loneliness”
EIU English/English Education Conference, March 2003: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Coleridge’s Vision as a Representation of Romantic Sensibilities”
EIU English/English Education Conference, November 2002: “As Seen on Paper: The Cooperative Hierarchy of an Academic Department”
EIU English/English Education Conference, March 2002: “The Writing Style of a Lawyer”
Introductory Composition at Purdue