Recent Featured and Keynote Addresses:
“Rhetorical Theory: Questions, Provocations, Futures.” Special “Conversations” Session with Bradford Vivian for the Rhetoric Society of America Conference. San Antonio, TX, May 24, 2014.
“Becoming a Professional: “Making it” in Graduate School.” Featured address for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2007.
“Rhetoric and Identification.” Commencement lecture for the European Graduate School, Media and Communications Division. Saas Fee, Switzerland: August 13, 2006
Recent Invited Lectures/Workshops
“Notes Toward a Postdeconstructive Responsibility; Or, Rhetoricity Without Sovereignty.” Spring 2015 Spotlight Scholar Research Colloquium presentation. Communication Studies Department, University of Georgia, February 23, 2015.
“Gossip Girls: On Networking and the Conference Scene.” With Michelle Ballif. Graduate Student Seminar. English and Communication Studies Departments, University of Georgia, February 23, 2015.
“Nonrational Rhetorics.” Workshop with Debra Hawhee for the Rhetoric Society of America Institute Program. Boulder Colorado, June 2011.
“Addicted Rhetorics: Figures of Dictation and Hallucination.” Invited presentation. USC Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia, SC, October 11, 2013.
“Performative Powerlessness: Yes, yes.” Invited lecture for the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. April 12, 2013.
“The (Language) Relation.” Invited presentation. USC Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia, SC, October 2011.
“Hot Topics in Rhetorical Theory.” Invited presentation for the graduate Rhetoric Interest Group. Austin, TX: September 30, 2011.
“What is Digital Humanities?” Invited presentation for the Texas institute for Literary and Textual Studies conference. Austin, TX: February 4, 2011.
“The Animal.” Invited presentation. USC Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia, SC, October 2009.
“Ethics and Dis-Figuration.” Invited presentation. USC Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia, SC, September 2008.
“Freud and Burke on Who You Are.” Invited lecture for Purdue University’s bi-annual David Hutton Interdisciplinary Lecture Series. West Lafayette, IN: September 28, 2006.
“Freud and Burke on Who You Are.” Invited lecture for Pennsylvania State University’s Rising Scholars Lecture Series. State College, PA: October 16, 2006.
“An Ethics of Ethics: Levinas and the Language-Relation.” Invited lecture for the European Graduate School, Media and Communications Division. Saas Fee, Switzerland: August 12, 2004
“Sovereignty.” Invited participant in a 6 hour colloquium conducted by Jacques Derrida, Avital Ronell, and Wolfgang Schirmacher. Paris, France: April 16, 2004
“Language and the Gift.” Invited lecture for the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Richmond. Richmond, VA. April 8, 2004
“Rhetorical Agency.” Invited workshop participant at the Association for Rhetoric Societies [ARS] Conference. Chicago: Sept 11-14, 2003
Recent National Conference Presentations
“Being-Called: Derrida’s Rhetorical Pre-Ontology.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, San Antonio, TX, May 2014.
“Human Acts: Animal Publics.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, March 2013.
“Hospitality: The Rhetoricality of Culture.” Modern Language Association Conference. Boston, January 2013.
“Sincerely, The Ape.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA, May 2012.
“Rhetorical Acts: Human and Animal.” Conference of the National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA, November 2011.
“Creaturely Rhetorics.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN, May 2010.
“Communication of Community.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2009.
“Response-Ability: An Ethics of the Addressee.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, May 2008.
“Cities of Refuge(es): Inscribing Aterritorial Modes of Solidarity.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2008.
“The Ethics of Civic Discourse.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Memphis, May 2006.
“(Dis)Identification.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2006.
“Excentric Egents.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2005.