Panel Appearances
Paper Presentation at Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies--May 25, 2007
This was a presentation I did on V.S. Naipaul's A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS at a conference in Bergen, Norway. Not shown is the academic who asked me whether or not Naipaul was really "British enough" to be taken seriously as a critic of British imperialism. The mind boggles sometimes...
Paper Presentation at Virginia Woolf Conference--June 12, 2007
This is a presentation I did on sympathy in MRS. DALLOWAY at a conference in Ohio--which gave me the chance not only to talk about Virginia Woolf, but to see the home of the Miami Redhawks up close. And you thought Miami was an exclusive Florida creation!
Paper Presentation at the SAMLA Conference--November 11, 2007
This is a presentation I did at the SAMLA Conference in Atlanta on liminal space in Ben Jonson's PRINCE HENRY'S BARRIERS--some of this material ended up in my academic book LIMINAL SPACE AND THE COURT MASQUE, published by Clemson University Press in the same year.
Panel Appearance at Ad Astra, April 9, 2010--The Joy(s) of Teaching Speculative Fiction
This is a panel I was on at Ad Astra 2010 in Toronto, about issues concerning the teaching of courses in speculative fiction. I've been teaching such a course since just about the time I first got to St. John's, and so I was looking forward to finding out what other professors (in this case, Mike Johnstone and Bob Boyczuk) were doing in their classes. We had a small turnout (hey, I'm not sure I would be incredibly excited to attend a panel at 10 p.m. on a Friday night either!), but this was an informative panel, and we all (apparently) had a good time. (Keep in mind that although the audio quality was pretty good, there is still a spike or two in volume despite my best attempts to smooth them out.)
Panel Appearance at Worldcon, August 17, 2011--Stretching the Mind While Thinking Outside the Box
This is a panel I was on at Worldcon 2011 in Reno, about innovative ways teachers at all levels can integrate science fiction into their courses. This was part of the AboutSF program, which is a great outreach program out of the University of Kansas and a joint project of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Science Fiction Research Association. I had been asked to participate in the program a couple of years ago, but schedules didn't match up until this Worldcon; I was pleased to be able to do it this year with people like Maurine Starkey, Margaret McGaffey Fisk, Stephen Potts and Gary Wolfe. We talked about a number of things related to the teaching of science fiction and fantasy, and I got a few ideas myself from some of the panelists' suggestions here.