Speaking Engagements

Writing and Rhetoric

• "Writing a Persuasive Cover Letter." Address given 25 February 2009 to students at the American University Washington College of Law (Washington, DC).
• "A Wide Stance Indeed: a Narrative Analysis of Both Sides in the Senator Larry Craig Case."  Paper presented 24 July 2009 at the Applied Storytelling and the Law Conference (Portland, Oregon).
  
• "Establishing a Writing Curriculum at a Law Firm." Paper presented 18 July 2009 at the Council of Writing Program Administrators annual conference (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
• "Writing with Style."  Address given 17 June 2009 to the Washington Area Legal Recruitment Administrators Association.
• "Notes from the Editing Floor." Address given 21 March 2009 at National Conference of Law Review Editors (Baton Rouge, Louisiana).
• "Lucid Legal Writing." Address given 5 November 2008 to Utah State Bar Appellate Practice and Antitrust Sections (Salt Lake City, Utah).
• "The Art of Scholarly Writing."  Recurring address given twice yearly to incoming graduate students at the National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic University of America.  2006-present.
• "Keeping Your Audience Entertained." Recurring address given twice yearly to students at the American University Washington College of Law.  2007-present.
• "Business Writing for Professionals."  Address given 16 May 2007 to the Washington Area Legal Recruitment Administrators Association.
• "Obsession with Perfection: The Anorectic Writing Center Client." Paper presented 5 April 2003 at the Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference (Nashua, NH)
• "Using American Drama to Teach Writing to Social Work Students." Paper presented 9 March 2002 at the College English Association, Middle Atlantic Group spring conference (Washington, DC).
• "Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities in the College Classroom."  Address given in 2000 and 2001 to Catholic University Graduate Teaching Assistants Colloquium (Washington, DC).

Professional Development

• "Fitness, Films, and Feelings: A Case Study on the Use of Non-Traditional Learning in a Traditional Organization." Address given 28 October 2009 at the 12th Annual Talent Management Summit (Chicago, Ill.)

Dramatic Literature

• "A Bowenian Approach to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night: the Interminable Cycle.  Paper presented 20 June 2005 at the International Eugene O'Neill Conference (Provincetown, Mass.)
• "Structural Family Theory and Dementia in Tina Howe's Painting Churches." Paper presented 23 April 2005 at the William Inge Theatre Festival, Tina Howe Scholars Conference (Independence, Kansas)
• "It's the System Not the Sister: A Family Systems Approach to Disability in The Glass Menagerie. Paper presented 31 March 2005 at the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference (New Orleans).
• "Laura Wingfield and Paxil, or Teaching Williams' Family Plays to Social Work Students." Paper presented at 2001 Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference (New Orleans).
• "In Hot Pursuit: Chasing the Elusive Distancer in the Family Plays of Tennessee Williams." Address delivered April 2001 at Hope College (Holland, Mich.)
• "A Family Systems Approach to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."  Paper presented March 2000 at Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference (New Orleans).