Recent Presentations
Invited Talks/Conferences
Multiple Presentations & Panel Chairing over 2 Days.......Women Veterans Military Moral Injury Conference (Online) Jun. 2021
Multiple Presentation & Panel Chairing over 2 Days.........Women Veterans Military Moral Injury Conference, Charleston, SC Cancelled
"Laughter in the Cloister: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Monastic Art Controversy," 117th PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA Nov. 2019
"Cistercian Piety and Nursing in Bernard’s Sermons...”.....116th PAMLA Conference, Western Washington Uni., Bellingham, WA Nov. 2018
“‘Food and the Rhetoric of Consumption in Cistercian Lit.”International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Uni., MI May 2018
"The Slough of Revision".......................................................Roanoke Writers Association Conference, Hollins Uni., Roanoke, VA Feb. 2018
"Tongues of Fire: Literary Eroticism in Bernard".................University of Queensland, Brisbane, AUS Jul. 2017
Business Symposium Course................................................Radford University, Radford, VA Nov. 2015
British Universities Summer School' Scholarship Report...English-Speaking Union, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA Apr. 2015
"So I'm Writing a Love Scene: A Look at Sex in Writing".....Roanoke Writers Association Conference, Hollins Uni., Roanoke, VA Feb. 2015
"Charlotte Mason: Her Life and Methods”...........................North Carolinians for Home Education Conference, Winston-Salem, NC May 2014
"Pink Frocks & Teapots”........................................................The Great Homeschool Convention MidWest, Cincinnati, OH Apr. 2013
"When Johnny Hates Experiments”.......................................The Great Homeschool Convention SouthEast, Greenville, SC Mar. 2013
On Campus Talks
Myth and Literature Presentation & Panel Discussion....... Indiana University of Pennsylvania , Indiana, PA Feb. 2020
Dark Sacred Night" Thesis Presentation...............................Hollins University, Roanoke, VA May 2015
Presentation Given for the Hollins Student Conference......Hollins University, Roanoke, VA Apr. 2015
"The Words Escape Me: An Examination of Attributed Performance in Modern English" Hollins Student Conference, Hollins Uni. May 2014
"A Tour of Tours"....................................................................Community Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Feb. 2014
"In the Great Green Room: The Life and Times of Margaret Wise Brown” Comm. Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Oct. 2013
"The Sound and the Savour"..................................................Honors Institute Colloquium, VA Western Comm. College May 2013
"British Literature for Little Readers"...................................Community Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Mar. 2013
"A Non-Scary Approach to Literary Analysis"........................Community Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Oct. 2012
"Deluge: A Comparison of the Epic of Gilgamesh & the Flood of Noah” Honors Institute Colloquium, VA Western Comm. College Apr. 2012
Publications
Author
"Mountain Moment" Home School Enrichment Magazine, (Mar. - Apr., 2017) pp. 62-64.
Dark Sacred Night, Hollins University, May 2015.
"Remembering Fortitude: The Life & Methods of Charlotte Mason” Greenhouse, (Summer 2014) pp. 32-36.
"Year By Year: Homeschooling in the Roanoke Valley” The Roanoker, (Apr. 2014) pp.
And It Was Good, Creation Science Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2013.
Behold the Heavens, Physics and Astronomy Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2013.
"Unto The Whole World" Old Schoolhouse Magazine, (Apr. 2013) pp. 110.
"The Frugal Chariot" Home School Enrichment Magazine, (Mar. - Apr., 2012) pp. 50-53.
Further Investigation, Chemistry Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2012.
Summer by the Sea, Biology Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2011.
Editor
Across the Waters, Art Book Bindery, Inc., 2014.
Not Having to Apologize for Apologetics, Lulu Publishing, Inc., 2013.
Invited Talks/Conferences
Multiple Presentations & Panel Chairing over 2 Days.......Women Veterans Military Moral Injury Conference (Online) Jun. 2021
Multiple Presentation & Panel Chairing over 2 Days.........Women Veterans Military Moral Injury Conference, Charleston, SC Cancelled
"Laughter in the Cloister: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Monastic Art Controversy," 117th PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA Nov. 2019
"Cistercian Piety and Nursing in Bernard’s Sermons...”.....116th PAMLA Conference, Western Washington Uni., Bellingham, WA Nov. 2018
“‘Food and the Rhetoric of Consumption in Cistercian Lit.”International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Uni., MI May 2018
"The Slough of Revision".......................................................Roanoke Writers Association Conference, Hollins Uni., Roanoke, VA Feb. 2018
"Tongues of Fire: Literary Eroticism in Bernard".................University of Queensland, Brisbane, AUS Jul. 2017
Business Symposium Course................................................Radford University, Radford, VA Nov. 2015
British Universities Summer School' Scholarship Report...English-Speaking Union, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA Apr. 2015
"So I'm Writing a Love Scene: A Look at Sex in Writing".....Roanoke Writers Association Conference, Hollins Uni., Roanoke, VA Feb. 2015
"Charlotte Mason: Her Life and Methods”...........................North Carolinians for Home Education Conference, Winston-Salem, NC May 2014
"Pink Frocks & Teapots”........................................................The Great Homeschool Convention MidWest, Cincinnati, OH Apr. 2013
"When Johnny Hates Experiments”.......................................The Great Homeschool Convention SouthEast, Greenville, SC Mar. 2013
On Campus Talks
Myth and Literature Presentation & Panel Discussion....... Indiana University of Pennsylvania , Indiana, PA Feb. 2020
Dark Sacred Night" Thesis Presentation...............................Hollins University, Roanoke, VA May 2015
Presentation Given for the Hollins Student Conference......Hollins University, Roanoke, VA Apr. 2015
"The Words Escape Me: An Examination of Attributed Performance in Modern English" Hollins Student Conference, Hollins Uni. May 2014
"A Tour of Tours"....................................................................Community Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Feb. 2014
"In the Great Green Room: The Life and Times of Margaret Wise Brown” Comm. Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Oct. 2013
"The Sound and the Savour"..................................................Honors Institute Colloquium, VA Western Comm. College May 2013
"British Literature for Little Readers"...................................Community Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Mar. 2013
"A Non-Scary Approach to Literary Analysis"........................Community Scholars Lecture Series, VA Western Comm. College Oct. 2012
"Deluge: A Comparison of the Epic of Gilgamesh & the Flood of Noah” Honors Institute Colloquium, VA Western Comm. College Apr. 2012
Publications
Author
"Mountain Moment" Home School Enrichment Magazine, (Mar. - Apr., 2017) pp. 62-64.
Dark Sacred Night, Hollins University, May 2015.
"Remembering Fortitude: The Life & Methods of Charlotte Mason” Greenhouse, (Summer 2014) pp. 32-36.
"Year By Year: Homeschooling in the Roanoke Valley” The Roanoker, (Apr. 2014) pp.
And It Was Good, Creation Science Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2013.
Behold the Heavens, Physics and Astronomy Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2013.
"Unto The Whole World" Old Schoolhouse Magazine, (Apr. 2013) pp. 110.
"The Frugal Chariot" Home School Enrichment Magazine, (Mar. - Apr., 2012) pp. 50-53.
Further Investigation, Chemistry Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2012.
Summer by the Sea, Biology Textbook, Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc., 2011.
Editor
Across the Waters, Art Book Bindery, Inc., 2014.
Not Having to Apologize for Apologetics, Lulu Publishing, Inc., 2013.