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Presentations and Publications

Conference and Seminar Presentations

“Business and Professional Writing.” Invited speaker, Administrative Professionals Network 2018 Conference. Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH. May 2018.

"Learning Contracts." Panelist, English Department Colloquium. Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH. September 2018.

“Write Side Up: Using the Neuroscience of Learning to Flip the Business English Class.” University-Wide Teaching and Learning Symposium. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. January 2015.

"Learning Contracts." Invited Speaker, Teaching Excellence Series. Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. October 2013.

"Genre Analysis and Metacognition." Fall 2013 Writing Summit. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. August 2013.

"Group Peer Assessment & Contract Grading: Alternative Assessment Practices in ENG 145 & 145.13." Spring 2013 Writing Summit. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. January 2013.

“Genre Analysis in Business Writing Assignments.” ISU Business Writing Camp. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. July 2012.

“Using the Writing Research Archive for New Instructors.” Fall Orientation 2011. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. August 2011.

“Metafilm: Video and Culture in the Next Postmodern Frontier.” Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) Symposium. Wichita State University. Wichita, KS. May 2010.

“Marx Madness: Ideology of Sport in Hoop Dreams.The Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media, and Society: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI) Annual Conference.  Colorado State University. Colorado Springs, CO. March 2008.

Literary Presentations

Reader, Wichita State University Sponsored Poetry Reading. March 2009.

Reader, University of Utah Sponsored Literary Reading. October 2005.

Scholarly Publications

“Open Source Technical Communication in the Classroom: Digital Citizenship, Communities of Play, and Online Collaboration” in Citizenship and Advocacy in Technical Communication. Godwin Agboka and Natalia Matveeva, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2018.

“Review of Nick Montfort’s Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities.” Communication Design Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2017.

“Review of Huatong Sun’s Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users.” Technical Communication Quarterly, Vol. 22, Issue 1, 2013.

“Marx Madness: Ideology of Sport in Hoop Dreams.”  Proceedings. Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. 2008.

Literary Publications

“Inconsolable.” Enormous Rooms: University of Utah English Department undergraduate literary journal. Salt Lake City, UT. 2005.

Editor, Children of Light: A Journey Into the Mystery of Prayer by George E. Furgis. Salt Lake City, UT: Lightgiver Press. 1997.

Journalism

Feature Writer, Daily Utah Chronicle. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. 1990-1991. Published over 50 articles on topics of interest to the student body.