“The Great White Savior: What the ‘Indian’ Books of Peggy Parish Tell Us About a World Without Native-Authored Stories for Children and Youths.” Native American Literature Symposium. Minnesota, 2020.

“New Conversations with Old Voices.” PCA/ACA National Conference. New Orleans, 2015.

“Paradigms and Paragons: Using Hard Science Theories of Thomas Kuhn to Analyze Hard Truths in American Indian Literature.” PCA/ACA National Conference. Washington DC, 2013.

“The Indigenous ‘We’: Changing Concepts of American Indian Communal Identity in Contemporary American Film.” PCA/ACA National Conference. Boston, 2012.

“A Conversation between Diasporas: American Indian and Irish Diasporas in Context and Contrast.” PCA/ACA National Conference. San Antonio, 2011.

“A Defense of the ‘Native’ Narrative in James Cameron’s Avatar.” South Central Modern Language Association. Ft Worth, 2010.

“Win, Lose, or Draw: The Problematic of Lensing American Indian Literature through Western Concepts of ‘Winners and Losers.’” PCA/ACA National Conference. St. Louis, 2010.

“American Indian Tropes of Cultural Trauma: Literary Discourse as Cultural-Group Rehabilitation.” European Society for Trauma and Dissociation. Belfast, Ireland, 2010.

“The Emergent Indian Whodunit Trope in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Frances Washburn’s Elsie’s Business.” PCA/ACA National Conference. New Orleans, 2009.

“The Father, the Son, and the Unholy Ghosts of Christianization in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded.” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, 2008.

“Robert A. Heinlein’s Conversation with the American Indian Diaspora in Stranger in a Strange Land.” PCA/ACA of Southwest Texas. Albuquerque, 2008.

“Alien Landscapes: Diaspora within Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles, and Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.” Western Literature Association. Tacoma, 2007.

“The Naming of the Screw: Incommensurate Sexual Paradigms in Emma Donoghue’s Hood.” American Conference for Irish Studies. Rock Hill, 2007.

“Technology Age Implications of Revisiting Lynching Discourse: The Lynching of Louie Sam Finds a Voice in the 21st Century.” PCA/ACA in the South. Savannah, 2006.