Academic and Literary
Events and Awards
SCU Sustainability Champion Award
Faculty Co-Awardee
2019
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Frank Conley Scholarship Recipient
Fishtrap Gathering of Writers
2014
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Bryn Lunde Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Fishtrap Gathering of Writers
2013
Literary Readings
Flash Fiction Forum: Special Edition – Barbies We Wish Existed
2019
San Jose, CA
Play on Words
2018
San Jose, CA
Flash Fiction Forum
2014, 2015, 2018
San Jose, CA
Activate! Release Party
2018
DeAnza College’s Euphrat Museum, Cupertino, CA
Bay Area Generations: A Reading Series for the Ages #47
2017
San Francisco, CA
Cordoba Magazine Release Party for Issue 1
2017
Berkeley, CA
Lit Crawl for Los Gatos Listowel Writers Festival
2016
Los Gatos, CA
Flash Fiction Forum: Two Year Anniversary
2015
San Jose, CA
Foglifter Reading at Alley Cat Books
2015
San Francisco, CA
Bay Area MFA Mixer 3.0
2013
Cat Club in San Francisco, CA
“Endless Summer” Reading
2013
Small Press Traffic, Oakland, CA
Well-RED Reading Series
2012
coordinated by Poetry San Jose, San Jose, CA
Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses,’ Santa Clara County’s Favorite Poems
2012
Palo Alto, CA
“Henry and Mary,” a children’s short story presented at “15 Liars in San Jose”
2007
Local Writers Barnes and Noble Reading, San Jose, CA
Conference Talks
Image, Text, Sound: Multimodal Resources at SCU
2019
Sixth Annual ATXpo Conference
Santa Clara, CA
The Write Attitude! Creating Blog Posts as Digital Resources for Students…
And Celebrities!
2019
Cal State Tech Conference - Theme: “Connectivity”
San Diego, CA
’This is How We Do It’: Student Engagement and Multimodal Pedagogies
2019
Workshop at The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference
Monterey, CA
How Social Media Can Enhance Your Writing Center
2019
Northern California Writing Center Association Conference
San Jose, CA
Performing Writing Support Across Campus: A Comparative Empirical Study of Writing Fellows in First-Year Composition and Advanced, Discipline-Specific Writing Courses
2019
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Pittsburgh, PA
A Change is Gonna Come
2018
Workshop at The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference
Monterey, CA
Movin' on Up: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities during Major Growth at the SJSU Writing Center
2018
Grouped “Lightening” Talk at the Northern California Writing Centers Association
Conference
Santa Clara, CA
’Let it Go’: Achieving Both Expediency and Excellence in Teaching and Transitions
2017
Workshop at The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference
Monterey, CA
Writing Centers as Unofficial Creative Spaces
2017
Workshop at SJSU’s Regional Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Jose, CA
Coordinated Conferences
Linking Up: A One Day Bay Area Multimodal Conference
2020
Santa Clara, CA
Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference
2019
San Jose, CA
Bay Area Writing Center Colloquium
2017
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Selected Campus Talks
Santa Clara University
Panel Discussion: Universalizing Craft
2020
Write of Way Literary Festival - postponed due to COVID-19
On Vocation Discernment: Maria Judnick and Nicholas Collura
2017
Guest speaker in January Agape Latte speaker series
Bearing Witness, Imagining Otherwise: Reading and Writing Violence and Nonviolence: Jo Ann Beard’s "The Fourth State of Matter"
2016
University-wide Understanding and Resisting Violence speaker series
Re-mixing Detective Stories: Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew
2015
“Reboot, Remix, Remake” English Pop Culture Discussion
San Jose State University
On Adaptation: Sherlock vs. Hound of the Baskervilles
2017
Guest Lecture
On Adaptation: Sherlock vs. Hound of the Baskervilles
2017
Guest Lecture
Selected Public Lectures
Writing Tips: A Workshop for Genentech Employees
2019
San Francisco, CA
Presented on behalf of AnshinBiosolutions Writing Consultants
Inspiration for Young Writers
2019
Palo Alto, CA
Creator School at Gunn High School
Steinbeck Guest Lecturer
2012
Lafayette, CA
Bentley High School