Presentations
Scholarly Presentations
“Empathy and Edge: Post-pandemic Trauma-informed Pedagogy Alongside the Cultivation of Grit.” Two-Year College English Association—Midwest (Glen Ellyn, 2025).
“‘Archie’s Girls’ Reinvented: The CCA Approval Process’ Impact on Betty & Veronica.” Pop Culture Association (New Orleans, 2025).
“A Perfect Storm: Post Covid Teaching Complicated by AI.” Michigan Education Association (East Lansing, 2024).
“Students in the Gap: Creativity and Intellectual Risk in the Community College Composition Classroom.” Two-Year College English Association (Spokane, 2024).
“Accelerated Learning Pedagogy & Politics: Have First Year Writing Courses Become the New Frontline of Two-Year Institutions?” Two-Year College English Association (Chicago, 2023).
“Gothic Girls Gone Wild.” Popular Culture Association National Conference (Virtual, 2021).
“Scary Vulnerability: Considering the ‘Guilty Mom’ Horror Film Through the Lens of Lacan’s the Real.” Popular Culture Association National Conference (Washington, D.C., 2019).
“IDEA vs. ADA: Differences in Laws Governing Students with Disabilities.” Student Success Summit (East Lansing, 2018).
“Got Trolls?: Understanding and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Your Virtual Brand.” Popular Culture Association National Conference (Indianapolis, 2018).
“Getting Past the Pilot Phase: Overcoming challenges while implementing integrated developmental reading and writing courses.” Conference on Excellence in Gateway Course Completion (Houston, 2018).
“One plus one equals one: Implementing lessons learned while integrated developmental reading and writing courses.” Conference on Excellence in Gateway Course Completion (Las Vegas, 2017).
“Online Learning: Bigger Than Just the Screen.” Conference on Excellence in Gateway Course Completion (Atlanta, 2016).
“Establishing a Human Presence for Online Learning Environments.” Conference on College Composition & Communication (Tampa, 2015).
“It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Maximizing Human Presence for Online Learning Environments.” Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching & Learning (Traverse City, 2014).
“Looking Back to the Future: Customizing the ALP to Promote Student Success at LCC and KVCC.” Michigan Community College’s Student Success Summit (East Lansing, 2014).
“A Culture of Acceleration: Removing Institutional Barriers for Developmental Writing Students.” Michigan Developmental Education Consortium (Lansing, 2014).
“Gateways to Completion: Strategies for Institutional Change.” Conference on Excellence in Gateway Course Completion (Indianapolis, 2014).
“The Irony of the Internet: Reevaluating and Redefining Business and Creativity in the Digital Age.” Association of Writing Programs (Seattle, 2014).
“Cell Phones in the Classroom: When and How to Say Yes.” Liberal Arts Network Development (Bay City, 2014).
“Accelerating Successful Completion of First Semester College-Level Composition.” Conference on Excellence in Gateway Course Completion (Indianapolis, 2013).
“Mass-placed and Often Misplaced: The challenges in Placing Developmental Writing Students Using Computerized Placement Tests.” Michigan Developmental Education Consortium (Lansing, 2013).
“Compressing Composition: Accelerating Student Success.” Achieving the Dream (Anaheim, 2013).
“Collapsing the bridge: Reimagining the Two Semester Developmental-College-Level Writing Course Sequence.” Michigan Community College’s Student Success Summit (East Lansing, 2013).
“Student Engagement in New Community College Classrooms.” Liberal Arts Network Development (Traverse City, 2012).
“Life After the MFA: Paths to Publishing.” Pine Manor College (Boston, 2012).
“Got Structure? Using the mythological hero’s journey to shape and develop creative writing and personal narratives.” Two-Year College English Association (Columbus, 2011).
“Got Structure? Using the mythological hero’s journey to shape and develop creative writing and personal narratives.” Michigan Developmental Education Consortium (Clinton Township, 2011).
“Got Structure? Using the mythological hero’s journey to shape and develop creative writing and personal narratives.” Liberal Arts Network Development (Traverse City, 2011).
“Exclusionary Structure or Cultural Clash, Why do Immigrants Dropout?: Comparing One Group in Different Countries.” Comparative and International Education Society (Ypsilanti, 2010).
Lansing Community College High School Diploma Completion Initiative Commencement Speaker. Lansing Community College (Lansing, 2010).
“Fiction as a Springboard for Critical Thinking and Expository Writing.” Michigan Developmental Education Consortium (East Lansing, 2010).
“Exclusionary Institutional Structure or Cultural Clash, Why do First and Second Generation Immigrants Dropout?: A Comparison of One Group in Two Different Countries.” Comparative and International Education Society (Chicago, 2010).
“Fiction as a Springboard for Critical Thinking and Expository Writing.” Liberal Arts Network Development (Port Huron, 2010).
“LCC’s High School Diploma Completion Initiative: New Solutions for Familiar Dilemmas.” Michigan Career Education Conference (Detroit, 2008).
Writing Portfolio Preparation Series. Lansing Community College (Lansing, 2003–2006).
Literary Presentations
“Keeping it Lit.” Association of Writers & Writing Programs (Kansas City, 2024).
“Give and Receive: Making Best Use of Feedback.” Rally of Writers (Lansing, 2023).
“Writing Your Way to the End.” Rochester Hills Public Library (Rochester, 2022).
“Pitches, Blurbs, Tags, and More: Conceptualizing Your Novel.” Greater Detroit Romance Writers of America (Virtual, 2021).
“The Write Stuff: Planning and Writing Your Novel.” Hartland Public Library (Hartland, 2021).
“Honoring Your NANO Journey.” Capitol City Writers’ Association (Lansing, 2019).
“Elemental Magic: Crafting Scenes with Power and Purpose.” Capitol City Writers Association (East Lansing, 2018).
“How the Magic Happens: Scene Structure Simplified.” Greater Detroit Romance Writers of America (Royal Oak, 2018).
“Spotlight on Romance.” Write on the Red Cedar Conference (East Lansing, 2016).
“Killer Queries and Perfect Pitches.” Mid-Michigan Romance Writers of America (Grand Rapids, 2015).
“Writing Like a Writer, Not an Academic: Tools for Getting it Done.” Michigan State University guest lecturer (East Lansing, 2015).
“Making the Good Bad: Intimacy & Conflict in Scenes.” Capital Area Writers Special Interest Workshop (East Lansing, 2015).
“The Attraction of Fiction: Emotional Connection.” Grand Rapids Writers’ Group (Grand Rapids, 2012).
“These Reviews are Giving Me Mood Swings.” Romanticon (Akron, 2012).
“Readers Town Hall: Getting at the Heart of What Readers Want from the Romance Genre.” RT Booklover Convention (Chicago, 2012).
“Sense-Sational: The Fictive Dream in Popular Fiction.” RT Booklovers (Los Angeles, 2011).
Moderator, Harlequin/Silhouette Editors Panel. Romance Writers of America Conference (Denver, 2002; New York, 2003; Dallas, 2004).
“Perfect Pitches & Killer Queries.” Lansing Area Writers Workshop (Lansing, 2003).
“Developing Your Writers Voice.” Booklovers Readers & Writers Convention (Orlando, 2001).
“Promoting Your YA Novel.” Booklovers Readers & Writers Convention (Houston, 2000).
Moderator, Jennifer Blake. Romance Writers of America Conference (Dallas, 1996).