Navigating Sexual Borderlands & Dating Apps: Polysexual Experiences & Post-Digital Intimacies, Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA 5), May 21-24, Tilberg University, Netherlands. (Invited Panel: Structuring queerness, queering structures: social media and LGBTQ+ identities)
Polyamory Online Dating Strategies, Evergreen Hearts Lecture Series, Seattle, Washington USA. March 5, 2024.
Online dating, gender, & power: Digital turn-taking and making the first move on Bumble, Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA 4), University of Klagenfurt, Austria. October 12-14, 2023.
Polyamorous Online Dating, Evergreen Hearts Lecture Series, Seattle, Washington USA. November 3, 2023.
July 9-14, 2023. Panel: Communicative practices in online dating, Gender & online dating: Matching, messaging & making the first move on Bumble, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Brussels, Belgium.
March 9-11, 2023. Gender, Sexuality, & Shifting Styles: Codifying Language Use in Style Guides. Lavender Linguistics Conference. Boise, Idaho USA. (with Meg Robertson, UC Boulder)
September 8-9, 2022. Shifting Attitudes, Shifting Styles: Codifying Gender Inclusive Language Use in Style Manuals. Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A multinational perspective. London, United Kingdom. (With Meg Robertson)
July 13-16, 2022. Digital Dating Beyond the Gender Binary. Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, University of Ghent, Belgium.
July 6-8, 2022 – Digital Dating, Discourse, Design, & Normativity. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), University of Bergamo, Italy.
May 13-15, 2022. Reflective Approaches to Analyzing Digital Discourse. Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA 3), St. Petersburg, Florida USA.
April 6-9, 2022. Gender, Sexuality, & Shifting Styles: Knowledge Production and Codifying Language Use in Style Manuals. Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA). Boulder, Colorado USA. (With Meg Robertson)
March 3, 2022. Gender, power, and making the first move on the dating app Bumble. Invited Speaker: Language, Ideology and Power Research Group. Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
January 13, 2022. Growing pains: Expanding human connections in the new year. UW Work-Life and The Whole U Series, Seattle, Washington USA.
December 14, 2021. The politics of women making the first move on Bumble: Online dating, gender norms, and managing women through online talk. Grit City Think and Drink Series, Tacoma, Washington USA.
October 11, 2021. Gender & Sexual Normativity, (Dis)Empowerment, and the Digital Dating Paradigm
Scholarly Selections Series, Washington History Museum, Tacoma, Washington USA.
August 11, 2021. Dating in the digital age across the generations. Franke Tobey Jones Educational Series, Tacoma, Washington USA.
June 7-10, 2021. Dating in the Digital Age: Searching, Swiping, & Selling the Selfie. Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. University of Hong Kong, China.
January 27, 2021. Connecting digitally: Using social media to connect during the pandemic. Franke Tobey Jones Educational Series, Tacoma, Washington USA.
May 1, 2020. Researching the quest for love, lust, and connection during the time of COVID-19. SIAS Brown Bag Speaker Series, Tacoma, WA.
May 25, 2019. The Constructed Self of Online Dating. Washington State Library Series at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, Gig Harbor, Washington USA.
July 8, 2019. Making Mini Comics. =Family Strong – Steilly Con, Steilacoom School District, Washington USA.
December 7, 2018. Dating in the Digital Age: Swiping, Liking, and Selling the Selfie. Grit City Think and Drink Series, Tacoma, Washington USA.
July 4-6, 2018. From the medieval to the digital, and back again: Multimodality, innovation, and adaptation, CADAAD-Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines International Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark. (With Matthew Collins)
July 4-6, 2018. Telling the story of me & we: Online dating and identity construction for the non-monogamous, CADAAD-Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines International Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark.
March 28-31, 2018. Telling the story of me & we: Online dating and identity construction for the non-monogamous, PCA/ACA – Popular Culture Association · American Culture Association, Indianapolis, Indiana USA.
March 1, 2018. Drinks & Dialogue: Bridging the Divide. UW Impact: Common Ground Series, Seattle, Washington USA.
February 28, 2018. Championing Critical Conversations about College, Culture Goal: Lightening Talk, UW Tacoma, Washington USA.
April 13-16, 2017. Transformation of Interdisciplinary Teacher Educators: Collaborating to Develop Online Teacher Training for the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards, AERA – American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois USA. (with Louie, B, Thompson, R., Rios, J., and Zhu, M.)
September 27-28, 2014. Looking for acceptance: Negotiating online community through selfie-bios,
Social Media & Society Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
July 4-6, 2012. What not to wear: Governing women through fashion, CADAAD – Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines International Conference, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
May 10-12, 2010. Considering the digi: Questions the writing class faces in the Digital Age, Oregon Rhetoric & Composition Conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon USA.
March 25, 2009. Virtually thinking out loud in the electronic classroom: Metacognition and issues of audience, frequency, and medium for reflection, CCCC- Conference on College Composition & Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana USA. (With Katherine Anderson)
October 16-18, 2008. The good, the bad, & the ugly of writing in the web 2.0 world: Negotiating writing & technology in the digital age, Thomas R. Watson Conference- The New Work of Composing, University of Louisville, Kentucky USA.
May 23-26, 2008. Responding to the online journal interest form: Screwed up, but working on it, Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, Washington USA.
March 29-31, 2008. (Re)Gendering depression as a problem for “Real Men”: Narrative & governing mental health through public service announcements, GURT – Georgetown Linguistics Department Conference on Narrative, Georgetown, Washington D.C. USA.
December 6-9, 2007. Picking up the thread: Answering the call to converse on mental health forums, NZDC – New Zealand International Discourse Conference, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
2005 – Resisting traditional self-help: Discursive constructions of (un)wellness & healing online, Western States Rhetoric & Literacy Conference, October 10-12, San Francisco, California USA.
May 1-4, 2004. Personal names & transnationalism: Identity construction in the lives of Korean-Americans, AAAL – American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, Oregon USA.
October 24-26, 2002. Genre analysis in the “extracurriculum”: The healing journal as the site of genre evolution in discourse community, Western States Composition Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA.