Conference Presentations



2018 - “Everyday Nettles: T. S. Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding III’,” 39th Annual T. S. Eliot Society Meeting and Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, 21-23 September.

2018 - “Remains To Be Seen: Alienation and Affirmation in Eliot’s ‘Burnt Norton’,” American Literary Association (ALA) conference, San Francisco, 24-27 May.

2018 - “Geopolitics, Ecopoetics, and the Southern Agrarians in Pound’s Adams Cantos,” American Literary Association (ALA) conference, San Francisco, 24-27 May.

2017 - “Alienation and Affirmation in Eliot’s ‘Burnt Norton’,” 38th Annual T. S. Eliot Society Meeting and Conference, St. Louis, 22-24 September.

2016 - “Conversations: the Prose of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound,” accepted for T.S. Eliot Society Bi-Annual Convention, Rapallo, Italy, 17-21 June (withdrew, paper read).

2016 - "Some Observations on Pound's Responses and Reactions to Aristotle and Eliot," Ezra Pound Panel MLA 2017 Conference, Austin, TX, 7-10 Jan.

2014 - “Opened Ground: Ireland and America. The Rural Roots of Seamus Heaney and Christian Wiman,” Seamus Heaney Memorial Conference, Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland, 10-13 Apr.

2011 - “Intent to Deceive: Self-Deception in Sense and Sensibility,” Break-Out Session for A.G.M. of the Jane Austen Society of North America, 14-16 Oct.

2011 - “Homage to Sextus Propertius: Ezra Pound as Architect of Words,” 24th Ezra Pound Int’l Conference, London, England, 5-9 July (withdrew).

2011 - “Modernity’s Anthropologist: Reconsidering Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius,” 22nd American Literature Association, Boston, MA, 26-29 May.

2011 - “Medieval Love in a Modern World: Richard of St. Victor and Ezra Pound,” 46th Int’l Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 12-15 May.

2010 - “Irish Poetry as a Landscape of Modernism: the Mutual Influences of Yeats and Pound,” Ireland & Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Conference, The Center for Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland, 11-13 Nov.

2010 - Regional Poets’ Panel – Original Poetry Reading, South Central 67th MLA Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, 28-30 Oct.

2010 - “David Foster Wallace—Where the Jack-a-lope Lives,” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 1-3 Oct.

2010 - “Translating a post-Postmodern World: rE-visionism in Christian Wiman’s Every Riven Thing,” Cosmopoetics Conference, Centre for Poetry and Poetics at University of Durham, England, 8-10 Sept.

2010 - “Translation as Making: Ezra Pound’s ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius’,” RAW Symposium, UTD, 22-23 Mar.


Panels Chaired and Moderated



2018 - Chair, “Ezra Pound and his Palpable Poetics of Environment in The Cantos: The Making Visible of Ideas,” Pound Society Panel, American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 24-27.

2014 - Faculty Chair & Panel Facilitator, “Considerations of the Greek Classics in the Environment of the Trojan War,” Panel Presentation of five student papers, Collin College Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference, Richardson, April 16-7.

2013 - RAW (Reading, Art, and Writing) University of Texas at Dallas, Spring.

2012 - RAW (Reading, Art, and Writing) University of Texas at Dallas, Spring.

2011 - RAW (Reading, Art, and Writing) University of Texas at Dallas, Spring.