technical communication, rhetorical studies, composition studies, American literature, creative writing
Select Publications/Presentations
Articles
"What Isn't Technical Communication?" Technicalities Spring 2008.
"Familiar Ghosts, New Voices: Tim O'Brien's July, July." War. Literature & the Arts 15.1-2 (2003): 316-22.
"Form Versus Content: Classroom Practices and Essay Requirements." Academic Exchange Quarterly 7.1 (2003): 248-5.
"Beneath the Surface: Motives for Rhetoric and Action in Troilus and Cressida,A Response to Vernon Loggins et al." Connotations 11.2-3 (2002):262-71.
"A Discussion with Reginald McKnight." Concho River Review Spring (2001).
"A Reunion Ghost Story." Reunions Magazine 8.1 (1997).
Stories
"Night Audit." Concho River Review Fall (2003).
Reviews
Rev. of Quakertown, by Lee Martin. Texas Books in Review 21.2-3 (2001).
Rev of The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel, by Docia Schultz Williams. Texas Books in Review 21.1 (2001).
Rev of Men on the Moon, by Simon J. Ortiz. Southwestern American Literature 25.2 (2000).
Rev. of The Boy Orator, by Tracy Daugherty. Texas Books in Review 19.4 (1999).
Rev. of The Heart of America, by Tim Palmer. Austin American-Statesman
Rev of O dammit!: A Lexicon and Lecture from William Cowper Brann, The Iconoclast, by Jerry Flemmons. Texas Books in Review 19.3 (1999).
Rev of Tales of Badmen, Bad Women, and Bad Places: Four Centuries of Texas Outlawry, by C. F. Eckhardt. Texas Books in Review 19.2 (1999). Presentations/Panels/Readings/
Chair, Rhetorical Criticism, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. Oct. 2010.
"I have a Diminishing Dream: Positioning the American Dream Metaphor in Barack Obama's Speeches." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Snow Bird, UT. Oct. 2009. Presentation.
"Empty Playing Fields: "Common" Commonplaces in the Run for President." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Reno, NV. Oct. 2008. Presentation.
"Talk Loudly and Carry a Big Stick: Negative Incentive in Grammar Production." Two Year College English Association-Southwest (TYCA-SW) Annual Conference, San Antonio. TX. Oct. 2007. Presentation.
"Using a Computer-graded Writing Assessment as a Predictor of Academic (Writing) Success." MnSCU Conference on Composition, Century College. White Bear Lake, MN. Mar. 2007. Presentation.
"Editor's Choice: What Small Literary Magazine Editors Look For in Submissions." San Angelo Writers Club. San Angelo, TX. Mar. 2002. Lecture.
"Mind Control, Superficiality, and the Five-Paragraph Essay." Annual Meeting of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE). Huntsville, TX. Feb. 2002. Presentation.
