"Metaphors We Work By: New Writing Center Directors’ Labor and Identities" with Rebecca Jackson and Nikki Caswell for WPAs in Transition.
"A Peripheral Vision of Writing Centers." International Writing Center Association Research Grant. 2008. Funded.
Creative Teaching Grant. Ball State Office of Teaching and Learning. 2004. Funded.
"Uncovered: Studying Writing Center Director Satisfaction, Burnout, Retention, and Migration." International Writing Centers Association." Chicago, IL. October 2017.
"Writing Center Leadership 101." East Central Writing Center Association. Dowagiac, Michigan. March 2017.
"Preparing for Writing Center Leadership Roles." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017.
"Beyond the Anecdotal: Studying Writing Center Director Labor." International Writing Centers Association. Denver, CO. October 2016.
"Acting Out: The Legacy of Hephzibah Roskelly and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX. March 2016.
"Anonymous Subjects." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March 2015.
"Studying Writing Center Stories: Methods for Qualitative Narrative Inquiry." IWCA Collaborative @CCCC. March 2015. Tampa, FL.
"Neither Here Nor There: Opening the Story of Writing Center Labor." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. March 2014. Indianapolis, IN.
"The Social Center: Closing the Echo Chamber and Opening the Writing Center on Twitter." IWCA Collaborative @CCCC. March 2014. Indianapolis, IN.
"The Public (Face) Work of Administration: A Case Study of Six New Writing Center Directors." CCCC. Las Vegas, NV. March 2013.
"'The Problems of Remaking Are Many': Contingency in 21st Century Writing Centers." International Writing Center Association. San Diego, CA. October 2012.
"Action Research: Making Responsible Changes in the Writing Center." East Central Writing Center Association Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana. March 2012.
"Generating Writing Center Stories: Action Research as Activism." IWCA Collaborative @CCCC. St. Louis, MO. 21 March 2012.
"From Writing Center to Multiliteracy Center: Imagining the Twenty-First Century." Panel Presentation with David Sheridan, Nancy Grimm, Valerie Balester, Sohui Lee, and Naomi Silver. Computers and Writing. Ann Arbor, MI. May 2011.
"Rogue Peer Feedback: Students are Doing it for Themselves." CCCC. Louisville, KY. 19 March 2010. Session G/42 09:30 to 10:45.
"Epic Fail: Research on Sessions Gone Awry." IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC. Louisville, KY. 17 March 2010. With Graduate Students/Assistant Directors Emily Standridge and Dani Weber.
“Developing IM in the Writing Center: Platforms, Discourses, and Hidden Benefits,” East Central Writing Center Association, April 2009, Purdue University. Panel presentation with Nikki Caswell (Kent State University) and Jason Luther (Syracuse University).
"Views from the Bridge: Surveying the Landscape of 21st Century Writing Center Work," IWCA@CCCC, March 2009, San Francisco, CA.
"Professional Concerns of Writing Center Directors: What Happened?" CCCC, March 2009, San Francisco, CA.
"Co-Emergence: Interdependency of Writing Program and Writing Center for Evolving and Sustaining New Media Writing." Thomas Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2008. Roundtable of contributors to Technological Ecologies and Sustainability.
"Writing Center Hacks: Tapping into the Possibilities of Freeware." East Central Writing Center Association. Columbus, OH. April 2008. Chair and Presenter.
“Crafting a Writing Center Logo, Designing an Identity.” CCCC. New York, NY. March 2007. Chair and Presenter.
“Where, oh, Where Has Our Identity Gone?: Reading the Story in Writing Center Promotional Writing.” Thomas Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2006.
“Visualizing the Writing Center: Training Tutors to Work with New Media.” East Central Writing Center Association. Mount Union College. March 2006.
“Now For My Next Trick: Performing the Role of a Female/Administrator.” CCCC. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
“Teaching Teachers Gloria Anzaldua’s ‘How to Tame a Wild Tongue’: Exploring Issues in Language, Diversity, and Identity." Composing Cultures: Diversity and the Teaching of Writing. Durham, NH. October 2004.
“Composition Classroom Design.” CCCC. San Antonio, TX. March 2004.
“3D Tutoring: Visual Rhetoric and the Writing Center.” International Writing Center Association Conference. Hershey, PA. October 2003.