Conference presentations

The following are some selected conference presentations. For a more complete list, see my vita.

“Complicating Efficiency: An Apparent Feminist Perspective on Risk Mediation.” Co-presenter with Marie Moeller and Abby Dubisar on collaboratively-produced panel entitled “Complicating Composition: Technical Communication’s Investments in Public Discourses, Metaphors, and Gendered Bodies.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV, forthcoming March 2013.

“Apparent Feminism: Technical Communication’s Obligation to Intervene in Public Rhetorics.” Co-presenter with Angela Haas, Flourice Richardson, Godwin Agboka, and Gerald Savage on collaboratively-produced panel entitled “Transgressing Business as Usual in Technical Communication Programs.” Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Houghton, MI, October 2012.

“Apparent Feminist Pedagogies: A New Theoretical Approach.” Graduate Research Network, Raleigh, NC, May 2012.

“Forging Connections: Interlacing Feminisms, Technical Communication, and Gender Studies.” Co-presenter with Marie Moeller and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins on collaboratively-produced panel entitled “Gateway to the Danger Zone: Technical Communication’s Considerations of Feminisms, Relationships, Representations.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, March 2012.

“Medical Check-In Kiosks and Patient Agency.” Co-presenter with Lee Brasseur, Matthew Kim, and Flourice Richardson on collaboratively-produced panel entitled “Research Methods in Composition.” Computers & Writing, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2011.

“Visioning Trans/Intercultural Communication: Ironic Reversal in the Responses of Citizens and Authorities to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” Graduate Research Network, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2011.

“Poaching (Re)Production: Why FYC  Needs Medical Rhetoric.” Co-presenter with Marie Moeller and Barbara Heifferon on collaboratively-produced panel entitled “Widening the Community: Re-thinking and Re-framing Medical Rhetoric/Writing.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 2011.

“Local Versus Guerilla: Ironic Reversal in the Responses of Citizens and Authorities to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” Co-presenter with Susan Youngblood and Stevens Amidon on collaboratively-produced panel entitled “Meltdowns, Tornadoes, and Oil Spills, Oh My! New Perspectives in Risk Communication.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Atlanta, GA, March 2011.

“Navigating Genre: How A Technological Pedagogy Can Empower Millennials.” The 75th Annual Convention of the Association for Business Communication Conference, Chicago. October 2010.

“Prescription and Poaching: An Examination of How Chinese and American Women Make Sense of Reproductive Technologies and Cultures.” Computers & Writing, West Lafayette, IN. May 2010.

“Race, Rhetoric, & Technology: Case Studies of Decolonial Theory, Methodology, and Pedagogy.” Co-presenter with Angela Haas and Jonathan Myers on collaboratively-produced project. Computers & Writing, West Lafayette, IN. May 2010.