"Citizens of Color and for Color"
Refereed presentation to the National Council of Teachers of English
St. Louis, Missouri, November 19th, 2017
"Black Religion Matters: African American Prophecy as a Theoretical Frame for Rhetorical Critiques"
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Portland, Oregon; March 2017
"Rechanneling the Waters: Rereading ‘The Negros Speaks of Rivers' Using Rhetorical Hermeneutics"
Refereed presentation to the College English Association
Hilton Head, Island, South Carolina; March 2017
“Ralph Abernathy”
Invited lecture at Rochester College
Rochester Hills, Michigan; October 2015
“Sandra Gibbs”
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Las Vegas, Nevada; March 2013
“‘Hear Me Tonight’: The Out-Loud Public Literacies of the Birmingham Mass Meetings”
Refereed presentation at a featured session, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Atlanta, Georgia; April 2011
"Cultural Winds and Religious Waves: Negotiating Student Uses of Religious Discourses in the Classroom"
Invited lecture at Claflin University
Orangeburg, South Carolina; October 29, 2009
“My Tales from the Hood and the Academy: Reflections on Culturally Relevant Pedagogies"
Invited lecture at Claflin University
Orangeburg, South Carolina; October 28, 2009
"Mama's Baby, Daddy's Maybe: Elaine Brown and the Emergence of an Afro-Feminist Rhetoric of Black Nationalism"
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Francisco, California; March 2009
“Reclaiming the Word: Fred Shuttlesworth and the Rhetoric of Precept Hermeneutics"
Refereed presentation at the Rhetoric Society of America
Seattle, Washington; May 2008
“Mediating Messages from Moses and the Messiah: Ralph Abernathy's Ethos and the Nommo of Spoken Literacy"
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
New Orleans, Louisiana; April 2008
"Recasting the Kingdom, Reclaiming the Word: Race, Religion, and the Democratic Paradoxes of African American Rhetorical Sovereignty”
Invited lecture at Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida; October 22, 2007
“Faith Comes by Hearing: Recovering the Rhetoric of the Birmingham Civil Rights Mass Meetings”
Invited lecture at the Birmingham Public Library Archives
Birmingham, Alabama; August 8, 2007
“(Re)masking the KKK: Fred Shuttlesworth’s Precept Hermeneutic and the African Rhetorical Tradition of Critical Patriotism”
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
New York, New York; March 2007
“Citizens of Color and for Color: Teaching Whiteness for Cross-Racial Democracy”
Refereed presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English
Nashville, Tennessee; November 2006
Chair, African American Studies Section
Christian Scholars Conference
Rochester Hills, Michigan; June 2006
Chair, “Rhetorical and Political Bodies”
Invited presentation at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Memphis, Tennessee; May 2006
“Affirmative Reactions: King, Kennedy, Nixon and the Origins of Color-Blind Rhetoric”
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Francisco, CA; March 2005
Invited Chair, "Archival Research and Researchers of Color"
Featured Session at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Francisco, CA; March 2005
“Showing and Telling: The Alabama Civil Rights Movement and the Pedagogy of Place”
Refereed presentation at the Association of Integrated Studies Conference
Charlotte, North Carolina; October 15, 2004
“Forgotten Voices and Future Visions: Civil Rights, Place and Emancipatory Composition” Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Antonio, Texas; March 2004
“Do the Right Thing”
Invited panelist at the City of Angels Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA; October 24, 2003
“Between Shadow and Substance: Alain Locke’s Meta-Theory of Collective Race Ethos”
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
New York, NY; March 2003
“Talking the Walk: Vernacular and the Culture of Change”
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Chicago, IL; March 2002
“Dressing in the Dark: Hugh Blair and the Racialization of Rhetorical Invention”
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Minneapolis, MN; April 2000
“Talking on Water: Race, Natural Law, and the Voice of Liberation in Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave”
Refereed presentation at the College English Association Conference
Philadelphia, PA; April 1999
“Spoken Literacy: Harry Hoosier and the Paradox of Black Preaching”
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Atlanta, Georgia; March 1999
"Between Black and White: Biracial Identity and the Ambiguity of Racialized Voice"
Refereed presentation at the College English Association Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana; April 1996
"Toward an African-American Rhetoric"
Refereed presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Washington D.C.; March 1995
"A New Heaven and a New Earth: The Conflation of Ceremonial and Political Rhetoric in James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time"
Refereed presentation at the National Association of African-American Studies Conference
Petersburg, Virginia; February 1995
