2021- a new normal: major league baseball's reactions to 9/11. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2019 - sugar and spice and some baseball is nice: women in baseball and juvenile baseball fiction. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2018 - whattaya, blind, ump?: insights from umpire memoirs. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2017 - going the distance: a retrospective of w.p. kinsella's life and baseball fiction. invited presentation at annual conference of the sport literature association, west liberty, west virginia.
2017 - going the distance: a retrospective of w.p. kinsella's life and baseball fiction. invited presentation at christian society for kinesiology, leisure, and sports studies, nashville, tennessee.
2017 - we interrupt this marriage for baseball season: the evolution of baseball wives' writings. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2017 - going the distance: a retrospective of w.p. kinsella's life and baseball fiction. nine journal spring training conference on baseball history and culture, tempe, arizona.
2016 - baseball and the most honest moments: the people, places, and memories of fan memoirs. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2016 - and ever the twain shall tweet: teaching mark twain in the 21st century. tennessee philological association, clarksville, tennessee.
2016 - say it ain't so . . . phil?: shufflin' phil douglas and baseball's post-black sox climate. nine journal spring training conference on baseball history and culture, tempe, arizona.
2015 - the birth of the family: the 1972 pittsburgh pirates and major league baseball's first all-black lineup. nine journal spring training conference on baseball history and culture, tempe, arizona.
2015 - it's ok, i've never heard of you either: minor league memoirs, major leaguer dreams. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2014 - going the distance: the cultural significance of field of dreams 25 years later. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2013 - from the inside looking out: analyzing first person narrative from the yankee dugout. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2013 - from the inside looking out: analyzing first person narrative from the yankee dugout. nine journal spring training conference on baseball history and culture, tempe, arizona.
2012 - poetic players: baseball poetry from within the game. nine journal spring training conference on baseball history and culture, tempe, arizona.
2012 - from battlefields to ball fields: creating an american myth. midwest modern language association, cincinnati, ohio.
2011 - like they never left: resurrection and restoration in the short fiction of w.p. kinsella. nine journal spring training conference on baseball history and culture, tempe, arizona.
2011 - for love of country and game: baseball and identity in bluegrass and country music. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2011 - what a long, strange trip it's been: experiential learning in an interdisciplinary approach to the civil war. midwest modern language association, st. louis, missouri.
2011 - and ever the twain shall tweet: teaching mark twain in the 21st century. christian scholars' conference, malibu, california.
2010 - he's one of us!: the intertwined identities of jeff shaw and washington court house, ohio. nine journal spring training conference on baseball history and culture, tempe, arizona.
2009 - heading for home: baseball and father-son relationships in shoeless joe and field of dreams. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2008 - america's yankee: bobby murcer's life in and out of baseball. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2008 - angels and the widow: honoring the past, preserving the future. tennessee philological association, clarksville, tennessee.
2007 - who's on first?: baseball and identity in the novels of w.p. kinsella. cooperstown symposium on baseball and american culture, cooperstown, new york.
2006 - praise the name of baseball: religion, baseball, and colonization. tennessee philological association, henderson, tennessee.
2005 - proving themselves men: the 1st south carolina colored volunteers and the 54th massachusetts regiment. tennessee philological association, nashville, tennessee.
2004 - suffering with faith: a comparative examination of job and elie wiesel. tennessee philological association, columbia, tennessee.
various book festivals, podcasts, radio shows, and other media appearances.
