"Betty, Veronica and Papa LaBas Walk into a Bar: Graphic Humor and the Rise of the African American Comic Novel" Forthcoming: International Conference on Narrative: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA. March 2014
"It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Coonskin Cap: Superhero Archetypes and the Return of the 19th Century Tall-Tale" MAPACA: Atlantic City, NJ. November, 2013
"Wikis in the Classroom and Student Driven Collaborative Textbooks" WIDE-EMU: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. October, 2013
"Sell the Image to Sell the Book: (De)Constructing Masculinity in Fan-Boy (and Fan-Girl) Culture" ComicsForum: Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. March, 2013
"Blogs Aren't Dead: The Corporatization of the On-Line Journal" Computers and Writing: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI. May, 2011