"We Think We Know the World When We Divide," Irreantum, Winter 2011
"From Cellar Stones to State of the Art: Edith Ann Smith Writing the Joseph Smith Memorial Monument," A Sacred Journey: Edith Smith's 1905 Trip to ermont Dedicating the Joseph Smith Memorial Monument, ed. Richard Holzapfel, Scott Cameron,and others, May 2011
"Using Nature and Nature-Oriented Texts in the Classroom." Young Adult and Children's Literature Conference.Brigham Young University, October 2010.
"Disowning the Environment: The Problem of Relinquishing Ownership in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses." Faulkner and Chopin Conference, Southeastern Missouri State, October 2008.
"From Cellar Stones to State of the Art: Edith Ann Smith Writing the Joseph Smith Memorial Monument," Mormon History Association, May 2005
"From Lived-in Place to Uninhabitable Space: The Effects of Renaming Ireland in Brian Friel's Translations," Rhetorics of Place Panel Discussion, Northeast Modern Language Association, April 2005
"The Poet-Prophet and the Miracle of the Ordinary: Redefining Nativeness in Eric Roach's The Flowering Rock," Central New York Conference on Language and literature, SUNY Cortland, October 2004
"Adam and Eve: Bridging Mark Twain's Incongruities," Insight, 14 (1999), 32-49. (College Journal)
"Embracing the 'House Habit': Thoreau's Attempts to Redefine Wilderness and Ownership." (Under consideration American Literature special ecocriticism edition).
"In a Jail in Genoa," "The Words We Keep Meaning to Say," "To Jessica, for Bringing Winter Early to Missoula, Montana" (Poetry under consideration at Willow Spring).
