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All Presentations, Events, and Readings "MacGuffins and Mad Science: How Lost Dodges Moral Consequences by Ignoring the Bloody Promise of Its Premise.”  Opening remarks for “Religious Themes and Human Prospect in Lost,” a public panel discussion with Dave Calhoun, Michael Collender, and Daniel Walter.  Faith, Film, and Philosophy Lecture Series, Whitworth and Gonzaga Universities, Spokane, WA (Oct. 2010). “The Story of ‘Digital Storytelling’: Developing a No-Budget Course in Emerging Writing Technologies” at the Computers and Writing Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (May 2010). “Starting with Bad PowerPoint: Slideware Instruction and the New Media Composition Course” at the Computers and Writing Conference, UC Davis, Davis, CA (June 2009). “The Awe of Arrival: The Devil in the White City and ‘End of the Road’ Stories” at the Indiana College English Association Annual Conference, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN (Oct. 2007). "A Portable Ecology: Planning Your Next Move" (workshop session), as part of the "Technological Ecologies: Methods, Modes and Assessment" workshop chaired by Dickie Selfe at the Computers and Writing Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (May 2007).  “Simple Tactics for Efficient Web Design.”  Workshops for Dr. Carole Papper's undergraduate course on public discourse (2 sessions) and graduate seminar on teaching in higher education (3 sessions), Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Apr. 2007). “How to Refuse Friendship and Irritate People: The Formation, Fracturing, and Control of Social Networks in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away” at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2007).  “Help Me Find It: Teaching Research as a ‘Long Tail’ Conversation” at the Indiana College English Association Annual Conference, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN (Sep. 2006). “Teaching in Laptop Classrooms.”  Ball State Writing Program orientation session/workshop, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Aug. 2006). “From the ‘Long Tail’ to the Center: How Blogging and the Internet Make Little Things Big” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL (Mar. 2006). “Exploiting the Apopheniac: How Power Circumvents Itself in William F. Gibson’s Pattern Recogniton” at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2006).   “How to Write a Dissertation.”  Roundtable discussion sponsored by graduate student organization.  Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Dec. 2005). “Innovators and Manipulators: Sci-Fi Social Networks in Ender’s Game and Pattern Recognition” at the Indiana College English Association Annual Conference, Manchester College, N. Manchester, IN (Sep. 2005). “Kevin Bacon in West Egg: Social Networks and Disruptive Agency in The Great Gatsby” as a Friday Forum (speaker series) presentation for the Ball State University Department of English, Muncie, IN (Apr. 2005). “Access at the Hubs: the Pedagogical Potential of ‘Weblogs’ and Other News Hubs” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA (Mar. 2005). “Nets with Disabilities: a Network Science Approach to Motherless Brooklyn, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and The Pleasure of My Company” at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2005). “Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry National Showcase” (co-coordinator, with Joseph F. Trimmer and James W. Miles) in conjunction with the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN (Nov. 2004). “Collaborative Learning at $20,000 a Team: What We Learned about Teaching, Teamwork, English Majors, and Pragmatic University Politics by Spending $116,000 on 40 Students and Six Interactive Multimedia Projects” at the National Council of Teachers of English National Convention, Indianapolis, IN (Nov. 2004). "Tom Corey in the Court of the Paint King: the Unstable Social Network in W. D. Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham" at the Indiana College English Association Annual Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Oct. 2004). “Getting Organized for Graduate Study.”  Panel discussion on graduate studies and research for Dr. Patrick Collier’s graduate research methods course, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Sep. 2004). “Interdisciplinary Lessons from Tell-a-Vision: Stakeholders, Visions, and the Building of Teams” (poster presentation) at the Ball State University Teaching and Learning Conference VI, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Apr. 2004). “How They Play the Kevin Bacon Game in West Egg (and at Fangoso Lagoons): Approaching Literary Criticism Through Network Science” at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2004). “A Few ‘Do’s’ for Post-Graduate Work.”  Panel discussion on careers in English for Taylor University senior English majors, E.B. Ball Center, Muncie, IN (Jan. 2003, Jan. 2004). “Audio Interactive, Student-Driven Projects, and the Tell-a-Vision Awards” for the Muncie Children’s Museum Donor’s Meeting, Muncie Children’s Museum, Muncie, IN (Nov. 2003). “Michel Foucault Plays the Kevin Bacon Game: the Science of Networks in Literature Classrooms and Literary Criticism” at the Indiana College English Association Annual Conference, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN (Sep. 2003). “What I Wish I’d Known about Graduate School.” Panel discussion on graduate studies and research for Dr. Lauren Onkey’s graduate research methods course, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Sep. 2003). “Revenge of the Flukeman: Agents, Scenes, Subversions, and Darin Morgan’s X-Files” at the Twentieth Century Conference, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2003). “A Tour of the Panoptic(online)” at the Conference on College Composition and Communications, Chicago, IL (Mar. 2002). “Punch Blindly Like Children” (poetry reading) at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2002). “Good Glitch, Bad Glitch: Aspects of Resistance and Control in the Postmodern” at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2001). "The Stinkeye Rhymes" (poetry reading) at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Feb. 2000). "Depravity, Hope, and Fiction: Shelley’s Pursuit of Love" at Practical Criticism Midwest VII, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (Jan. 1997).