“Teaching Ethnic Personal Narratives.” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US Conference, Nashville, TN, March 18-21, 1999.

“ ‘I Am a Woman’s Rights’: Sojourner Truth’s Negotiations of Cultural Constraints.” American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., October 30-November 2, 1997.

“Welcome to the Jungle: Whiteness and Identity in Beloved.” American Women Writers of Color Conference, Ocean City, MD, October 11-13, 1996.

“ ‘A Woman Question and a Race Problem’: Negotiations of Cultural Constraints in Women’s Slave
Narratives.” Conference for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature,
Richmond, VA, April 11-13, 1996.

“W.B. Yeats, Women, and Sexuality: A Study in Worldview.” Conference on Women and Society, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 4-6, 1993.