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• “‘Shored Against My Ruins’: The Road to Recovery in The Waste Land.” Arts Festival, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA: March 2022.
• “Norman Mailer and Joseph Ellis: Unsettling Dialogues on Democracy.” Roundtable Participant. The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Virtual, October 2020.
• “‘Superman Comes to the Supermarket’ Sixty Years On.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Virtual, October 2020.
• “Project Mailer Update, 2020.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Virtual, October 2020.
• “A Meeting of the Minds: Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan.” The Media Ecology Association Convention, Virtual, June 2020.
• “Mailer and McLuhan.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Oct 2019.
• “Norman Mailer’s Short Fiction.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Macon, GA, Oct 2018.
• “Digital Mailer 2017.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, FL, Oct 2017.
• “‘Utopian Thinking’ in Action.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, Louisville, KY, Feb 2017.
• “Digital Mailer, 2016.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Long Branch, NJ, Oct 2016.
• “Project Mailer 2015: A First-Year Update.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, Oct 2015.
• “‘The White Negro’: Notes Toward a Digital Scholarly Edition.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, Oct 2015.
• “Breaking Bad: Walter White’s Hipster Transformation.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Oct 2014.
• “Teaching Norman Mailer.” Roundtable Participant. The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Oct 2014.
• “Teaching Norman Mailer in the Cloud.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, FL, Oct 2013.
• “Norman Mailer’s Novel(ist): In and Beyond the Late Age of Print.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, Oct 2012.
• “Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse: Signs and Maps Along The Road.” Southwest Texas PCA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Feb 2012.
• “Study Abroad: Local Challenges Facing the South.” SAMLA Roundtable, Atlanta, GA, Nov 2011.
• “Cutting Up Mailer: the Novel 2.0.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, FL, Nov 2010.
• “Faust, Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Washington D.C., Oct 2009.
• “Breaking the Girl: Poe’s ‘Ligeia’ and Lem’s Solaris.” PCA/ACA Conference, New Orleans, LA, Apr 2009.
• “Southern Baptists, Norman Mailer, and Me.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, Oct 2008.
• “The Harbors of the Moon: Media and the Mediated in Mailer’s An American Dream.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, Oct 2007.
• “Visual Storytelling: Flickr in the Literature Classroom.” SAMLA, Charlotte, NC, Nov 2006.
• “Science Fiction and the Metagame.” PCA/ACA, Atlanta, GA, Mar 2006.
• “Humanities Online: Some Ethical Considerations and Recommendations.” Southeastern Scholarship Conference on E-Learning, Macon, GA, Sep 2005.
• “Distance Education for Literature Courses: Some Ethical Considerations.” CCCC, San Francisco, CA, Mar 2005.
• “The Virtual Manifest: Solaris and the Persistence of Memory.” Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Mar 2004.
• “Three Views of Science: Lem’s, Tarkovsky’s, and Soderbergh’s Solaris.” FSU Literature and Film Conference, Tallahassee, FL, Jan 2004.
• “Crossing Sexual Boundaries in Sterling’s ‘Chattanooga Trilogy.’” Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, Apr 2003.
• “The Ethics of Cyberspace.” CCCC, Chicago, IL, Mar 2002.

Invited Speaker

• “Introduction to Digital Humanities.” Webinar via Blackboard Collaborate, MGA, Apr 2015.
• “Social Media: Top Ten Practices.” Webinar via Blackboard Collaborate, MGA, Apr 2015.
• “The Digital Mailer Project (DMP): A Proposal.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA Oct 2014.
• “Social Media: Top Ten Practices for College Faculty.” Faculty Development Presentation via Blackboard Collaborate, MGSC, Nov 2013.
• “Energize Teaching with Social Media.” Bainbridge State College Faculty Convocation, Bainbridge, GA, Aug 2013.
• “Why Study Abroad?” Cultural Journeys Conference, Macon State College, Macon, GA, Mar 2012
• “Pastiche and Portraits in Photography” The Macon State College Arts Festival, Macon, GA, Mar 2011.
• “Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Ligeia.’” The Macon State College English Studies Organization, Macon, GA, Oct 2009.
• “A Fine Time: Mailer Studies in the New Century.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, Oct 2006.