Attending conferences and presenting my research are regular aspects of my professional life. Academic conferences provide me with opportunties to travel to new places (places associated with my research: New York, Missouri, Oregon, California, Colorado, New Mexico) and to access scholarly materials in libraries and archives that I find in those locations. 

2010. "The Teaching Professor Conference." Boston, Massachusetts.

2008. "From the Foundation of the City of Quebec to Present-day Canada (1608-2008)." Polish Association for Canadian Studies Conference. Ustroń, Poland .

2007. "Agnes C Laut and the Early Conservation Movement in the United States." Taking a Stand Conference. Ottawa , Canada .

2005. "The Grace R. Hebard and Agnes C. Laut Correspondence: American Historian Meets Canadian Roughneck." The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States 18th Biennial Conference. St Louis, Missouri.

2003. "Agnes Laut: Romancing the American West." Canadian Studies Conference. Portland, Oregon.

2002. "'Why Go Abroad?': Agnes Laut and the Politics of Travelling at Home and Abroad." 7th Triennial Conference. Stockholm, Sweden.

2000. "Elizabeth Bishop in Newfoundland : 'Sad and Still and Foreign'." American Literature Association Annual Conference. Oakland, California.

1999. "Worldly Women and the Land of Frost and Fire." 6th Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. Reykjavík, Iceland.

1998. "Last of the Beothuks; or, The Blizzard Moans Her Name." Popular Culture Conference. Orlando, Florida.

1998. "Agnes C. Laut's The New Dawn (1913): 'It's Life that Matters and the Key is Love'." Western Social Science Association Conference. Denver, Colorado .

1997. "The Strangest Journeys Made by Women: Opium Dreamers, Planet Pilgrims and Mountain Women." Western Social Science Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1997. "Bernice Morgan's Random Passage (1992) and Waiting for Time (1994): Women, Writing and Marginalia." Popular Culture Conference. San Antonio, Texas.

1996. "Journey-Women in the Ark of the Wilderness." 5th Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. Aarhus, Denmark.

1996. "Albalucía Angel's "The Guerrillero": Writer as Watch-Woman or Night-Light of the World." Presented at the Popular Culture Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada.

1996. "Kristjana Gunnars' Zero Hour: 'When Mourning Becomes Language'". Western Social Studies Association Conference. Reno, Nevada.

1996. "Agnes C. Laut: What the New Nation to the North Thinks about the United States ." The Viking Connection Conference. Greifswald, Germany.

1995. "Sara Jeannette Duncan's A Social Departure (1890): 'This Carnal, Beautiful, Drunken World'." Paper accepted for the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 10th Triennial Conference. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Due to political unrest (Civil War), conference was not attended.

1995. "Dream of a Nation." Round-Table Paper Presentation on Quebec Succession. Western Social Science Association Conference. Oakland, California .

1995. "Canadian Women: Agnes C. Laut, Women and Westerns." Popular Culture Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1994. "Agnes C. Laut's Freebooters of the Wilderness: Borderlands and Bitterwaters." Mountain West Canadian Studies Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia.

1993. "Lords of the North (1900) and Heralds of Empire (1902): Agnes C. Laut's Northern Fictions about High Carnival and Romancing the Land." NACS/ANEC Fourth Triennial Conference on Societies in Transition: Canada and the Nordic Countries. Turku, Finland.

1993. "Designing Women: Literature and Feminist Inventions." INKSHED 10:"Invention: The Muse in a Museless World." Ottawa, Canada.

1992. Lily Dougall's The Madonna of a Day (1895): The Female Body as Spiritual Fortress." Women-Focused Research Conference. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

1992. "From Confinement to Carnival: Collaborative Pedagogy in a Postmodern World." ACCUTE Conference. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. 1992.