Conference Papers

“Play it by Ear.” Conference on College Composition and Communicatin. Chicago, 2006.

“A Sufi Dervish Dance for Western Ears: Sounding the Virtual in Bergson, Deleuze, and Massumi.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY 2006.

“Albert Ayler in Vietnam – and Out.” Experience Music Project. Seattle, WA 2005

“Rhetoric and Non-Violence.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco. 2005

“Writing Centerlessness: Affect, Interstubjectivity, and Sound in the Tutoring Session.” Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY 2004

“The Analyst, The Teacher, The Writer, The Lover: Untangling Transference, Trauma, and Prose-Style in the Composition Classroom.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication.  New York City. 2003.

 “Lacan in the Writing Center.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver 2001.

 “Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Work of Tutoring the Struggling Writer.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, 2000.

 “Rhetoric and the History of Writing as Healing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.  Atlanta 1999 (Workshop).             

“Tracing the Pleasures of Writing Through Three Technological Revolutions: From Public to Private to Breakdown and Beyond.”  Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Pittsburgh, 1998.

“Toward a Theory of Writing as Pleasure.” Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Washington, D. C. 1995.

“Literacy, Expressivism, Pedagogy, and the Magical Medicine of Gorgias.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America.  Norfolk, VA 1994.

 “The Human Genome Project: Another Machine in the Garden.” With Mary Rosner. Society for the Study of Literature and Science. Cambridge, MA 1993.

 “From Mary’s Birdcage to Molly’s Body: Toward a Theory of Gender in Joyce’s Stylistic Odyssey.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY 1993.

“Marginality, Magic, and the Body.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Diego, 1993.