Faculty Colloquium. “The Mysteries of Poetic Inquiry: The Recondite Processes of Poetic Composition Revealed for All!” Eastern Oregon University. April 8, 2010.
Guest Presenter. “Conventions Revisited.” Oregon Writing Project. Summer 2009.
Invited Poetry Reader, “This Poem Changed My Life,” National Poetry Month Celebration sponsored by Ars Poetica Reading Series, Eastern Oregon University, April 26, 2007, La Grande, OR.
Invited Round Table Leader, “Covering the Distance Workshop,” National Writing Project Annual Convention, NCTE, November 2006, Nashville, TN.
Invited Poetry Reader, The 2nd Biennial East/West Poets Gathering, October 21, 2006, La Grande, OR.
Guest Presenter, “Accessories: Two Poetic Forms: The Prose Poem and the Short Line Poem,” Summer Writing Institute, Oregon Writing Project, June 2005, La Grande, OR.
Round Table Leader: Oregon Writing Project at Eastern, Hot Topics Session, annual meeting of the Oregon School Boards Association, October, 2005, Portland, OR.
Poetry Reading: Wee Mama’s First Thursday Poetry Night, October 7, 2004, La Grande, OR.
Inservice Presentation entitled "Writing Outcomes and Curriculum Development " for the Elgin School District, sponsored by the Oregon Writing Project, at the Elgin District Office, Elgin, OR, October 2003.
Delivered paper entitled "Outcomes for Introductory Literature Courses: A Case Study in Pedagogical, Theoretical, and Disciplinary Conflict" at the Developing Outcomes for Literature Courses: Extending the WPA Outcomes Statement session of the annual Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY, December 2002.
Program Coordinator, Annual Meeting of the Rural Sites Network, National Writing Project, at the annual National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2002.
Delivered paper entitled "Providing Roadmaps—Response Theories in Teacher Education" at the Varied Response Theories and Practices: For Student Learners, Traffic Jam or Access to the Streets of Academe? session of the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, March 2002.
Program Coordinator, Annual Meeting of the Rural Sites Network, National Writing Project, at the annual National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2001.
Workshop Co-Leader with Rob Davis for “Where do You Teach?: Prospects for an Inter-Institutional Online Writing Major” session a at Eleventh Annual Oregon Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, OR, May 2001.
Program Coordinator, Annual Meeting of the Rural Sites Network, National Writing Project, at the annual National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Milwaukee, November 2000.
Roundtable Speaker with Chet Pryor, Barry M. Maid, William F. Condon, and Irvin Peckham for “Composition Program Outcomes: A Chance for Articulation between Colleges and the High Schools” session at the annual National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Denver, November 1999.
Workshop Co-Leader with Ruth Overman Fischer for “First-Year Composition Outcomes and the National Writing Project: What We Did Last Summer, What We’ll Do Next” session at the annual National Writing Project meeting, National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Denver, November 1999.
Workshop leader for “Outcomes for First-Year Composition” at the Tenth Annual Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference, Bend, OR, May 1999.
Delivered paper entitled "Who Knows What: Ethnicity, Epistemology, and Ethnography in First-Year English" at the Multiculturalism in the Writing Classroom: Negotiating Differences session of the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, April 1998.
Workshop participant in "Defining Outcomes for College Writing” at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, April 1998.
"Oregon Writing Project—Celebrating 20 Years." Co-Chaired information session with Nat Teich, Dir., OWP at University of Oregon. Northwest Regional National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Portland, OR, May 1997.
Panelist on “Roundtable for Teachers: Reports from Summer Seminars on Teaching the Oregon Literature Series.” Northwest Regional National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Portland, OR, May 1997.
Co-Chair, Eighth Annual Oregon Conference on Composition and Rhetoric. La Grande, OR, May 1997.
Delivered paper entitled "Holistic Scoring and Whole Students: High Stakes Assessment Revisited" at the Holistic Scoring Redux session of the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI, March 1996.
Delivered presentation entitled "Holistic Scoring and Whole Students: A Study of Writing Proficiency, Critical Thinking, and Academic Performance" at the Eastern Oregon State College Arts and Sciences Faculty Colloquium. February 23, 1995.
Co-Chair for Special Session on The Summer Institute at the Annual National Writing Project Directors' Meeting at the annual National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Orlando, FL, November 1994, by invitation of the NWP Executive Committee.
Panelist for "Distance Learning Courses and EIES 2 at Eastern" at Coordinator's invitation for the Designing an Organizational Infrastructure for Distance Learning in Continuing Education Teleconference, NUCEA Learn from Success Seminar, Corvallis, OR, May 1994.
Delivered presentation entitled "Mina Shaughnessy Revisited: Language Acquisition and the Logic of Error" at Conference Coordinator's invitation at the fifth annual Spring Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, Monmouth, OR, April 1994.
Delivered presentation entitled "An Introduction to EIES 2 and Distance Learning: Eastern's Program" at spring meeting of State Composition Advisory Committee, Coos Bay, OR, May 1993.
Delivered presentation entitled "Looking Forward to It: What College Professors Expect in Writing" at First Annual OWP Young Writers' Workshop at Eastern, May 1993. Also served as campus coordinator of the day-long conference.
Delivered presentation entitled "The Oregon Writing Project in Your Future" with Dr. Nathaniel Teich, Dir., OWP at University of Oregon, at "WESTWARD HO! Along the Oregon Trail," Oregon Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference, Bend, OR, April 1993.
Delivered paper entitled "Distance Learning and the Virtual Self" at Lighting Out for the Territory: Multimedia Outreach to Rural Writers session of the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, CA, March 1993. Presented highlights of the paper to the Instructional Improvement Grant Summer Faculty Seminar at the Faculty Resource Center, Santa Barbara City College, August 1995, by invitation of the Director.
Delivered presentation entitled "Oregon Writing Project: The Magic of Math," an information session, with model demonstration by OWP Teacher-Consultant Gail Waite, Hermiston High School, at "Bridging the Disciplines: A Conference on Integrated Curriculum," co-sponsored by Eastern, Neomast, and Mountain Valley's Reading Council, La Grande, OR, March 1993.
Delivered paper entitled "The Logic of Error: Basic Writing, Grammatology, and Reader Response Criticism" at the Re-Thinking Basic Writing session of the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Boston, MA, March 1991.
Delivered presentation entitled "American Presence: The Nature of the Subject in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Art" at the Senior Seminar in American Philosophy, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, November 1990.
Delivered paper entitled "Contextuality: Notes Toward a Metatheory of Discourse" at the Postmodern Rhetorics section of the Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990s conference, co-sponsored by Semiotic Society of America and The Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, Norman, OK, October 1990.
Chair, Reader Response and New Historicism section of The Role of Theory in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom conference, co-sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, September 1990.
Delivered paper entitled "The 'Origin' of Consciousness in Henry James" at the Autobiography section of the Northeast Modern Language Association annual meeting, Toronto, April 1990.
Delivered paper entitled "Natural Order and Social Disorder in Rousseau's Emile and Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress" at the Litterature Francophone: Etudes Comparee/Interdisciplinaires section of the 1989 Congres of the Conseil International D'Etudes Francophones, New Orleans, April 1989.
Delivered paper entitled "Some Principles of Writing Assessment" as guest panelist for plenary Writing Assessment Session at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania College English Association, Chambersburg, PA, April 1989.
Delivered paper entitled "The Poisonous Pedagogy: The Toxic Effects of the Cultural Literacy Movement" at the Evaluating Writing Teachers session of the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Seattle, March 1989.
Delivered paper entitled "The Container Contained: Nature in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Art" as Department of English Colloquium Speaker, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, October 1987 and again before the American Philosophy Group, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, November 1987.
Workshop leader for "The Question Journal as Heuristic and Reading Tool," at the PDK Leadership Institute, State College, PA, April 1987 and again at the Pennsylvania Writing Project, West Chester, PA, October 1987.
Assistant Chair for "Toward Models of Advanced Composition," at the national Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1987.
Recorder for "Helping College Writers Learn When Too Soon Is Too Late: Teacher Intervention During the Rewriting Stage of the Composing Process" at the national Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, March 1986.
Delivered paper entitled "Basic Writing, Composition, the University and the State" and Respondent in panel discussion of "The Prospects for the EOP Student in Composition Programs in the 1980's" at the national Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 1982.
Delivered paper entitled "Henry James and The American Scene: Self-Definition at the Fin de Siècle at the American Literature section, Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Berkeley, CA, November 1980.