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Medieval Scholarship Presentations

• “Electronic Resources for Teaching Gower,” 47th Int. Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2012)
• “Teaching Gower Online,” John Gower in Iberia: Six Hundred Years, II International Congress of the John Gower Society, University of Valladolid, Spain (2011)
• “Gower, Law, and Business: Economy of Need and the Need for Economy,” 46th Int. Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2011)
• "Doing His Business: Gower's Urban Rhetoric, ” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (scheduled 2008)
• “‘Nevere a Betre Taxe’: Chaucer’s Business with Gower” International Congress on John Gower, London, England (scheduled 2008)
• "The Femme Sole Juridical Subject in The Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston’s Letters" Law and Vernacular Literature: Law and Women session, Fortieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2005)
• "Chaucer’s Household Economies," Chaucer and Home Session, Fourteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Glasgow, Scotland (2004)
• "Chaucer’s Pandarus: Desire as Illicit Investment" Medieval Romance Society session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2003)
• "'Encresse or Maken Dymynucioun of My Langage': Translation as Investment in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," Medieval Translation Theory and Practice session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2001)
• “‘Yef me this labour and this bisynesse’: Chaucer, Romance, and the Matter of Business,” Chaucer and Philosophy Session, Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Medieval Association, Asheville, NC (2000)
• "Genre, Gender and Sexualities," E-Seminar Participant, Twelfth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, London, England (2000)
• “Chaucer and the Business of Romance,” at the Chaucer Yearbook’s Seeing Chaucer Through His Genres session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2000)
• “Balancing the Books: Merchants, Marriages, and the Femme Sole Textual Tradition in the Early Fifteenth Century,” Seventh Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), Coral Gables, FL (1999)
• "Chaucer and the Rural Femme Sole," Construction of Marriage in the Later Middle Ages session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (1998)
• "The Late Medieval Female Mercantile Subject," Female Subjectivity in Medieval Literature session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (1997)
• "Marriage, Narrative Debt, and Chaucer's Mercantile Romances," Narrators in Medieval Romance Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (1996)
• "A Moral Tale Vertuous: Chaucer's Melibee and the Conduct of Style," Fictive Advice: Exempla in Conduct Literature Session, Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medievalist Association (SEMA), Arlington, VA (1994)
• "Working Women: The Trope of the Businesswoman in Late Medieval Literature and Society," Women as Authority: Text, Image and History Session, 1993 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (1993)
• "Patriarchal Hermeneutics: The Engendering of Class in Late Medieval Literature and Society," Old and Middle English Session, NEMLA, Buffalo, NY (1992)

Selected Pedagogy and Writing Presentations and Workshops

• “Writing and Editing Strategies for Compliance Certification,” Half-day workshop with Ann Hallyburton, 20067 Southern Association of Colleges and Schools – Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC) Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (scheduled 2007)
• “Writing and Editing for Compliance,” with Carol Burton, 2006 SACS-COC Annual meeting, Orlando, FL (2006)
• "Teacher-Ed / Student-Ed: Selling Medieval Studies in the Age of Engagement," Roundtable Participant for “Devyne Service Perpetuell”: Service Learning and the Medieval Studies Curriculum,” TEAMS (Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages), Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2006)
• "Words Revising Words: A Modified Delphi Peer Editing Technique," Association for Business Communication Spring Convention, Toronto, ON (2003)
• "Medieval Studies and Teacher Education Technology Portfolios" International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2002)
• Appalachian Rural Teachers of Technology Alliance (ARTTA) Group Leader - Technology Lesson Plans for Learning Disabled 11-12th grade Language Arts Instruction, Asheville, NC (2001).
• "Technology, Humanities Courses, and the Public Good," invited speaker at Teaching for the Public Good: The Future of the Humanities in Public Higher Education, Chapel Hill, NC (2000)
• "Writing with the Web," 1997 Summer Gateway Project, University of Delaware (http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/misc/gateway/), Newark, DE (1997)
• "The Delphi Workshop: Low Pressure Self-Help," Sixth Annual Colloquium on Assisting Under-Prepared Students, Miller Learning Resource Center, Wilmington, DE (1990)
• "Students Teaching Students: Peer Editing," Annual Conference for Graduate Teaching Assistants, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (1990)

Panel Administration

• Chair: “Romance and History I: The Subject of History” session, Sponsored by the Medieval Romance Society, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (Scheduled: 2004)
• Chair: “Justice” session, Seventh Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), Coral Gables, FL (1999)
• Chair: “Women at Work in Medieval Literature” session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (1999)
• Chair: “The Textual Environment of Old and Middle English Literature” Old and Middle English Session, Twenty-Fifth Annual NEMLA Convention, Boston, MA (1995)
• Secretary: Old and Middle English Session, NEMLA, Pittsburgh, PA (1992)