[Keynotes   Invited    National    State&Local   Departmental   Media Coverage]

Featured and Keynote Addresses:

• "Becoming a Professional: "Making it" in Graduate School." Featured address for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2007.

• "Rhetoric and Identification." Commencement lecture for the European Graduate School, Media and Communications Division. Saas Fee, Switzerland: August 13, 2006

• "Ecstatic Rhetoric; Or, 'The Urge to Merge' and the Fate of the Other." Featured address for Penn State’s bi-annual Confe rence on Rhetoric, State College, July 2003  

• "'Hom[m]e-Sick Hermeneutics: Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and The Death Drive." Keynote presentation for The Gorgias Society National Confe rence, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, February 1999

• "Community Dis/Figured: A Rhetoric of Interruption." Keynote presentation for the English Graduate Student Organization Confe rence, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, February 1999

Invited Lectures/Workshops:

• "Freud and Burke on Who You Are."  Invited lecture for Purdue University's bi-annual David Hutton Interdisciplinary Lecture Series. West Lafayette, IN: September 28, 2006.

• "Freud and Burke on Who You Are." Invited lecture for Pennsylvania State University's Rising Scholars Lecture Series. State College, PA: October 16, 2006.

• "An Ethics of Ethics: Levinas and the Language-Relation." Invited lecture at the European Graduate School, Media Studies Division. Saas-Fee, Switzerland: August 12, 2004

• "Sovereignty." Invited participant in a 6 hour colloquium conducted by Jacques Derrida, Avital Ronell, and Wolfgang Schirmacher. Paris, France: April 16, 2004

• "Language and the Gift." Invited lecture for the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Richmond. Richmond, VA. April 8, 2004

• "Rhetorical Agency." Invited workshop participant at the Association for Rhetoric Societies [ARS] Conference. Chicago: Sept 11-14, 2003

• "Electrifying Pedagogy: Teaching in a Digital Age." Invited lecture for the College of Liberal Arts, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November 1997

National Conferences:

• “Creaturely Rhetorics.” USC Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia, SC, October 2009.

• “Communication of Community.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2009.

• “Ethics and Dis-Figuration.” USC Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia, SC, September 2008.

• “Response-Ability: An Ethics of the Addressee.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, May 2008.

• “Cities of Refuge(es): Inscribing Aterritorial Modes of Solidarity.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2008.

• "The Ethics of Civic Discourse." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Memphis, May 2006.

• "(Dis)Identification." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2006.

• "Excentric Egents." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2005.

• "Being-On-Call: Subjectivty, Responsibility, and the Language Relation." Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Austin, May 2004

• "Writing (as) Peace." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, March 2004
  

• "The Demand of Writing." Confe rence on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 2003

• "Women's Ways of Making It . . . in Rhetoric and Composition." Confe rence on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2002

• " Post-hermeneutic Rhetoric; Or, Toward a Non-Appropriative Relation." Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 2002

• "E(x)criture: Writing the Coming Community." Confe rence on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2000

• "Negotiating Feminist Differance: Take Three." Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Confe rence, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1999

• "Burke and Rhetoric 2000." Roundtable at the Triennial Confe rence of the Kenneth Burke Society, University of Iowa, May 1999

• "Communication Un/Plugged: (Int)Erupting Communal Mythology." Rhetoric Society of America Confe rence, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1998

• " MOO Literacy: The [R]Evolution." Computers and Writing Confe rence, Gainsville, FL, May 1998

• "Just Listening: A Hearing for the UnHearable." Confe rence on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, AZ, March 1997

• "Laughter and Third Sophistics." Rhetoric Society of America Confe rence, Tucson, AZ, May 1996

• "Being-Hard/Wired: Language and Addiction in the Cyburbs." Confe rence on College Composition and Communication, Washington, D.C., March 1995

• "Breaking Up [at] Totality: Post-Feminism's Chortling Hammer." Rhetoric Society of America Confe rence, Norfolk, VA, May 1994

• "The Pharce of the Phallic Pheminine: Beyond the Nurturing Mother in Feminist Composition Pedagogy." Confe rence on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, CA, April 1993

• "Beyond the Great Goddess: Rusing Rhetorics at the Brink of Foucault's Contemporary Episteme." Rhetoric Society of America Confe rence, Minneapolis, MN, May 1992

• "Ideology's Discourse: The Power of Language to Efface and Desensitize." Rhetoric Society of America Confe rence, Arlington, TX, May 1990

State and Local Conferences:

• "Coming to/through Writing: Cixous and Sexual Différance." The Female Principle: Eclipses and Re-Emergences, Arlington, Texas, March 2000

• "Writing Other/Wise: S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G the Limits of Service." Texas Tech's Annual Comparative Literature Confe rence: F rench Feminism Across the Disciplines, Lubbock, TX, January 1997

• "An Ethics in/of Motion: Responsible Responsiveness in a Post-Humanist World." University of Texas Graduate Student Confe rence, Arlington, TX, April 1995

• "Postmodern Paganism: Sub/verting the Great Subvertress." University of Oklahoma AEGS Graduate Student Confe rence, Norman, OK, April 1992

Departmental/University Colloquia:

• “Nonhermeneutic Rehtoric.” Monthly Rhetorics Seminar for UT graduate students. Austin, TX, February 2007

• "Preparing Conference Proposals." Professional Skills roundtable for UT graduate students in English. Austin, TX, April 2006

• "Preparing Conference Proposals." Brownbag discussion for UT graduate students. Austin, TX, April 2003

• "From CA to CV." Computers and Writing Research Lab Colloquium. Austin, TX, February 2003

• "Writing and Critical Theory." Invited lecture for Professor Davida Charney's E 398T teaching practicum. University of Texas, November 2002

• "Rhetoric and Reality in the Cyburbs." Technology Literacy and Culture roundtable presentation, UT, February 15, 2001

• "Educational VR." Invited lecture for Professor Joe Kearney's graduate seminar in Human-Computer Interaction. University of Iowa. April 18, 2000

• "Experimental Learning Facilities." New Media Confe rence, University of Iowa, February 2000

• "’Breaking Up,’ Some More: Laughter in/and Feminism." Featured Address for Old Dominion University’s Women’s Studies Lecture Series. Norfolk, VA, November 1996

Selected National, State, and Local Media Coverage:

• Janurary 2000. Syllabus Magazine. Chattsworth, CA. "Electric Rhetorics and the Emergence of Hypertext Literacy." Story on my Electric Rhetorics courses and on the new wireless laptop classroom I designed at the University of Iowa

• November 26, 1999. Chronical of Higher Education. "Technology Transforming Writing and the Teaching of Writing." Features interviews with a handful of teachers and media critics on writing in the electronic age

• February 1997. Chronical of Higher Education. Featured story on MOO-Teach, a website I co-designed to provide resources for teachers and students interested in using and/or creating realtime, virtual environments in their courses

• December 25, 1996. Sacramento Bee. Interviewed along with Mark Taylor and Deborah Tannen for an article on language and understanding