2020
“Writing Comics When You Don’t Have an Illustrator,” Full Sail Writers Conference
Panel Moderator: “What Makes a Great Story?,” Full Sail Writers Conference
“Make it Snappy: Dialogue Writing,” panel, Full Sail Writers Conference
“It Can’t Be Done! Or Can It?: How to Prep Your (Newly Online) Fall Class So It Isn’t Lackluster,” Course Community-Building in the Time of Coronavirus: Best Practices for How to Prep Your (Probably Online) Fall Course to Maximize Student Engagement & Retention During the Uncertainty and Isolation of the COVID-19 Pandemic panel, Secluded: A Virtual Writing Conference
“How To Become a Productive Writer: Evidence-Based Productivity Planning Strategies for Creative Writers and Academics,” Secluded: A Virtual Writing Conference
“Entering Sideways: Indirect Approaches to Scaffold Student Success,” The Tides of Change: English in STEM and Career Colleges panel, College English Association Conference (cancelled due to COVID-19)
“The Online Workshop: Bringing the Traditional into the Digital Era,” Creative Writing Studies Mini-Conference
“Metacognition Interventions for Student Success,” Sunshine State Teaching and Learning Conference
“Query Process” panel, Orange County Library System Writers Conference
2019
Moderator: “Writing Diverse Characters,” Full Sail Writers Conference
Workshop Facilitator: “Submitting to Literary Journals,” Full Sail Writers Conference
“Political Discourse in the Composition Classroom: Teaching Election Literacy by Using Ballot Measures as Topics for Analytical Essaying,” Florida Communication Association Conference
“So What? Why Do We Care? Using ‘Dimensions of the Human Experience’ as a Springboard for In-Depth Literature Discussion and Analysis,” Florida College English Association Conference
“Hapless No More: Contemporary Kids Cartoons Pave the Way for Dad Role-Models,” Let’s Retire the Trope of the Hapless Dad panel, Popular Culture Association of the South / American Culture Association of the South Annual Conference
“Women in Genre” panel, MegaCon
“Creating Characters” panel, MegaCon
“Hot for Teacher(s): Expectations of Performance for Young Female Faculty,” Sunshine State Teaching and Learning Conference
2018
“Speaking New Languages: Bridging Interdisciplinary Practices in Writing Classrooms” panel, College English Association Conference
“Writing Comics Workshop” Orange County Library System
“Productivity Planning for Writers” Orange County Library System Writing Conference
2017
Graphic Narrative Workshop, Litlando
“Diversity in Fiction” Orlando Writing Conference
“Diversify Your World: Teaching Creative Writers to Expand their Setting” Florida College English Association
““Go Ask Alice: Nibbles, Sips, and Little Pills to Make You Ten Feet Tall,” Other Words Literary Conference
2016
“Comics, Films, Songs, & More: Multimodality in Creative Writing & Composition Courses,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
“Drawing Outside the Lines: Teaching Comics in the Writing Classroom,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
Moderator: “It’s All True!” Orlando Book Festival
2015
“Scaffolding Courses through Multimodality,” Florida College English Association Conference.
“Injecting Imagery Into Your Work,” Florida Writers’ Association Annual Conference
“Submitting Your Short Work to Literary Journals,” Florida Writers’ Association Annual Conference
Moderator: “Writing Trauma,” Florida Writers’ Association Annual Conference
Moderator: “Roundtable with Self Published Authors,” Florida Writers’ Association Annual Conference
Moderator, The Immigrant’s Dream: Cuban Culture and Storytelling, UCF Book Festival
Panel Chair, E.08 – Pedagogy, Multimodality, and Digital Technology, Conference for College Composition and Communication
2014
Guest Speaker, Other Words Literary Conference
Roundtable, How Fiction Writers View Orlando, UCF Book Festival
Moderator, Long Stories Short: Authors of Short Fiction Read Their Work: David James Poissant, Vanessa Blakeslee, & Karen Brown panel, UCF Book Festival
“A Student’s Perspective,” Building a Space for Comics in the Creative Writing Program panel, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
Roundtable, Sorry, Did You Say Something? How Women Writers Get Heard, Get Read, and Get Even panel, Florida Writers’ Conference
2013
“Creating an MFA Reading Series,” Fostering Literary Communities in Florida Cities panel, Other Words Literary Conference
“Picky Eater: A Study in Sequential Art,” Graduate Research Forum
“Making Martial Art,” Living with Objects Panel, Reimagining Objects: English Symposium
“Comics as Legitimate Literature,” Video Games, Fan Fiction, & Comics: Alternative Genres as Legitimate Literature panel, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
2012
“Readers, Reading, and Reviews: An Exploration of Why Traditional Book Reviews Suck (And How We Can Make Them Better!),” Creative Readers and Writers panel, Reimagining Subjects: Inaugural English Symposium
“Editor’s Round Table,” Florida Writers’ Conference
“The Marriage of Painting and Poetry: Graphic Narrative as a Legitimate Medium for Storytelling in Introductory Creative Writing Courses,” Art as Literature panel, Blank Pages: Creative Writing Symposium
2011
“Shakespeare’s Strong Female Doctors: Portia and Helena,” The Sigma Tau Delta: Omega Mu 2nd Annual Undergraduate Symposium
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