CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS, 1978-1995:

"Susanna and Me: Writing Autobiography." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1995.

"Illegitimacy and Identity." Invited Lecture at the Conference of the European Genealogical Society, 1994.

"Susanna: A Case Study of One Immigrant's Life." Invited Lecture, The 21st International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, 1994.

"First Person Plural: Women's Life Stories." Paper, International Symposium on Autobiography, Hofstra University, 1994.

"Teaching Critical Thinking in the Literary Theory Classroom." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1993.

"The Role of a Center for Faculty Development in Values Assessment."  Presenter at Conference of Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, 1993.

"Teaching Diversity." Paper, National Council of Teachers of English Midwestern Conference, 1993.

"Teaching Multicultural Literature." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1992.

"Household Words: The Functions of the Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1992.

"Recent Developments in Theory of Autobiography." Invited Lecture, Marquette University, 1992.

"Issues in the Preparation of an Edition of the Diary of Caroline Seabury." Paper, Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1991.

"Subjectivity and Self-Reflexivity in the Study of Women's Diaries as Autobiography." Paper, International Symposium on "The Subject of Autobiography." Portland, Maine, November, 1989.

"The Dual Role of Women's Diaries Along the Midwestern Frontier." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1989.

"Women's Diaries as a Form of Autobiography: Intersections of Class, Race, Gender Identity." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1988.

"Freedom and Constraint in Unpublished Midwestern Diaries." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1988.

"What Do Women Really Mean? Speculating About Meaning in Coded Texts." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1987.

"Encoding/Decoding: Issues in the Study of Women's 'Private' Writings" Forum. Panel Chair, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1987.

"Identity Issues in the Study of Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women's Unpublished Diaries, Journals, and Memoirs." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1987.

"Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women's Diaries and the Formation of Gender Identity." Paper, Women's Culture in the Great Plains Symposium, 1987.

"Gender/Genre Connections in the Diaries of Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1986.

"'Faithful Friend': Nineteenth-Century American Women's Unpublished Diaries." Paper, Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1986.

"An Appraisal of Prairie Women: Images in Canadian and American Fiction." Panelist, Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1986.

"The Aesthetics and Politics of Women's Humor." Paper, Popular Culture Association Convention, 1986.

"Midwestern Diaries and Journals: What Women Were (Not) Saying in the 1880's." Invited Lecture, International Symposium on Autobiography and Autobiography Studies, 1985.

"Exploring the Academic Culture: Students, Faculty, and Administrators as Partners." Panelist, Minnesota Women in Higher Education, 1985.

"Narrational Strategies in the Civil War Diaries of Emily C. Quiner and Caroline Seabury." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1984.

"Women's Autobiography" Session. Panel Chair, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1984.

"Rediscovering Women in American History and Life." Presenter at Workshop in the Series, "A New Look at Our Past: Women's History in Community Museums," sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society, 1984.

"Women Writers of the 1880's." Panel Chair, Modern Language Association Convention, 1983.

"Incorporating the Goddess into Our Lives." Paper, Women and Spirituality Conference, 1983.

"Writing Our Story: Learning About Our Matrilinear Heritage." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1983.

"A Changed Perspective: Women's Autobiographies, Journals and Diaries as Literature." Paper, Minnesota Council of Teachers of English Conference, 1983.

"Willa Cather's My Antonia and Josephine Donovan's Black Soil: Two Views of the Midwestern Woman as Homesteader." Paper, National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 1982.

"Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary: The Values of Self-Reflexive Writing." Paper, Virginia Woolf Conference, 1982.

"Using and Evaluating Peer Tutoring" Session. Panel Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1982.

"Stories for the Seventh Generation" Contest. Panelist and Judge, Minnesota Humanities Commission, 1982.

"Images of the Older Woman in May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1981.

"Women and Writing: A Roundtable Discussion." Panelist, Great Lakes Women's Studies Association Conference, 1981.

"Recording Oral History Workshops." Presenter, sponsored by Fairmont and Le Sueur, MN, Community Education Programs. 1981.

"The Re-entry Student in the Off-campus and Continuing Education Setting." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1980.

"Women and Writing: Attitudes, Problems, Solutions." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1980.

"Humor in Women's Popular Literature, Music, and Cartoons." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1980.

"Josephine Donovan's Black Soil: Re-discovering the Work of a Midwestern Writer." Paper, Midcontinent American Studies Association Conference, 1980.

"Images From the Heartland: Photographic and Cinemagraphic Images of the Midwest." Panel Chair, Midcontinent American Studies Association Conference, 1980.

"Female Humor." Special Session Chair. Modern Language Association Convention, 1979.

"Children's Literature" Section. Discussant, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1979.

"Bringing Women's Studies to Re-entry Women." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1979.

"Images of Women and Nature in Sarah Orne Jewett's Fiction." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1979.

"Dorothy Parker: Feminist and Social Critic." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1978.