Publications
“Race, Contact Zones, and Student ‘Reconstitution’,” in Professing in the Contact Zone:
Pedagogy and Practice, edited by Janice Wolff, NCTE Press, 2002.
“Power, Conflict, and Contact: Reconstructing Authority in the Classroom,” in Race, Rhetoric,
and the Writing Classroom, edited by Keith Gilyard, in the series CrossCurrents: New
Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Charles I. Schuster, Heinemann-
Boynton/Cook, 1999.
Conference Presentations
Literature
“Nature, Food, and the Essay in Jim Harrison," Panel Chair, American Literature
Association National Conference, Boston, MA
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to American Regionalism," Panel Chair, American Literature
Association National Conference, Boston, MA
"Time, Memory, and Region in American Literature,” Panel Chair, American Literature
Association National Conference, Boston, MA
“Heidegger, Harrison, Rilke: Form and Being in Jim Harrison’s Poetry,” Jim Harrison Society
Panel, at the American Literature Association National Conference, Boston, MA
“Landscape and Form in Willa Cather and Jim Harrison,” Jim Harrison Society Panel, at the
American Literature Association National Conference, Boston, MA.
“Concealment and Anti-Epiphany in American Realism and Naturalism,” American Literature
and Religion Society Panel, at the American Literature Association National Conference,
Boston, MA.
“Social Class, Labor, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” Panel Chair, at the Central
New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY.
“Race and Realism in Afro-American Antebellum Literature,” at the Central New York
Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY.
“‘A Comfortable Thing’: Nationalism, Pluralism, and Class in The Silent Partner.” Northeast
Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, MD.
“Language as Power in Rebecca Harding Davis,” College English Association, Baltimore, MD.
“Resistance and Realism in Clotel,” National Association of African American Studies
Conference, Houston, TX.
“The Man with the House on His Head: Jean Toomer's Grotesque,” College English Association,
New Orleans, LA.
“‘The Truth that History Has Let Slip’: The Two Histories of The House of the Seven Gables,”
Annual Conference of the American Cultural Association of the South, Richmond, VA.
“‘Neutral Territories’ and Racialized Spaces in Hawthorne,” Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference, Boston, MA.
Composition
“Modes of White Resistance in the Composition Classroom,” Temple University Conference on
Discourse Analysis, Philadelphia, PA.
“Contact and Power: Transcending Authority in the Classroom,” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI.
“Assuming (and Unassuming) Authority in the Classroom,” Breaking Barriers: Literature and
Emerging Issues International Conference, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess
Anne, MD.
“Point of Power in the Historia of a Successful Basic Writing Program,” Chair, Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Chicago.
Pedagogy and Practice, edited by Janice Wolff, NCTE Press, 2002.
“Power, Conflict, and Contact: Reconstructing Authority in the Classroom,” in Race, Rhetoric,
and the Writing Classroom, edited by Keith Gilyard, in the series CrossCurrents: New
Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Charles I. Schuster, Heinemann-
Boynton/Cook, 1999.
Conference Presentations
Literature
“Nature, Food, and the Essay in Jim Harrison," Panel Chair, American Literature
Association National Conference, Boston, MA
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to American Regionalism," Panel Chair, American Literature
Association National Conference, Boston, MA
"Time, Memory, and Region in American Literature,” Panel Chair, American Literature
Association National Conference, Boston, MA
“Heidegger, Harrison, Rilke: Form and Being in Jim Harrison’s Poetry,” Jim Harrison Society
Panel, at the American Literature Association National Conference, Boston, MA
“Landscape and Form in Willa Cather and Jim Harrison,” Jim Harrison Society Panel, at the
American Literature Association National Conference, Boston, MA.
“Concealment and Anti-Epiphany in American Realism and Naturalism,” American Literature
and Religion Society Panel, at the American Literature Association National Conference,
Boston, MA.
“Social Class, Labor, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” Panel Chair, at the Central
New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY.
“Race and Realism in Afro-American Antebellum Literature,” at the Central New York
Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY.
“‘A Comfortable Thing’: Nationalism, Pluralism, and Class in The Silent Partner.” Northeast
Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, MD.
“Language as Power in Rebecca Harding Davis,” College English Association, Baltimore, MD.
“Resistance and Realism in Clotel,” National Association of African American Studies
Conference, Houston, TX.
“The Man with the House on His Head: Jean Toomer's Grotesque,” College English Association,
New Orleans, LA.
“‘The Truth that History Has Let Slip’: The Two Histories of The House of the Seven Gables,”
Annual Conference of the American Cultural Association of the South, Richmond, VA.
“‘Neutral Territories’ and Racialized Spaces in Hawthorne,” Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference, Boston, MA.
Composition
“Modes of White Resistance in the Composition Classroom,” Temple University Conference on
Discourse Analysis, Philadelphia, PA.
“Contact and Power: Transcending Authority in the Classroom,” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI.
“Assuming (and Unassuming) Authority in the Classroom,” Breaking Barriers: Literature and
Emerging Issues International Conference, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess
Anne, MD.
“Point of Power in the Historia of a Successful Basic Writing Program,” Chair, Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Chicago.