“The Celebration of Florida: New Urbanism's Victory in the Sunshine State.”

The Popular Culture Association in the South Conference.

Nashville, October 2000.

“How the Poet Can Give a World All Her Own: Eavan Boland's Search for an

Ethical Identity.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Conference. Santa Fe, October 1999.

“Poetry in the Next Millennium.” Southwest Florida Writers' Conference.

Fort Myers, February 1999.

“Art and Censorship.” Guest Lecturer, Sleeth Gallery. West Virginia

Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, January 1997.

“Signing the Sunshine State, or, The Prophylactic Tour Guide to Safe

Miami.” Collaborative Presentation with Gerri Reaves. The Popular Culture Association in the South Conference. Savannah, October 1996.

“Our Own Literary Idaho.” BSU Idaho Writers’ Rendezvous Conference.

McCall, October 1996.

“The Perils of a ‘Poster Girl’: Muriel Rukeyser, The Partisan Review,

and Wake Island.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1996.

“Teaching Arrogance.” Associated Writing Programs Conference.

Pittsburgh, March 1995.

“Our Honorable (dis)Charges: The Honors Curriculum at Belmont

University.” Tennessee College English Association Conference. Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, April 1991.

“Challenging the Idea of a Canon: The Case of Muriel Rukeyser.”

Tennessee College English Association Conference. Tennessee State University, Nashville, April 1989.

“The Oracular Poet as Pedagogue: The Controversy of Muriel Rukeyser’s

Response to World War II.” Modern Language Association Convention. San Francisco, December 1987.

“A Day at the Editor’s Office.” Indiana University Summer Writers'

Conference. Bloomington, June 1987.

“Poetry Goes to War.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.

University of Louisville, February 1987.

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