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Papers Presented at Professional Meetings.
“Jews, Irishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen: Who fared the worst?”
The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Society For Eighteenth-Century
Studies, April 10, 1979, San Francisco, California.
“Teaching Composition,” The Basic Skills Conference, October
1979, San Marcos, Texas.
“Why Teach Grammar?” The 1980 Wyoming Conference on Freshman
and Sophomore English, July 9, 1980, Laramie, Wyoming.
“Heuristics,” The 1981 Wyoming Conference on Freshman
and Sophomore English, July 6, 1981, Laramie, Wyoming.
“Syntax in the Composition Class,” The 1982 Wyoming Conference
on Freshman and Sophomore English, June 29, 1982, Laramie, Wyoming.
“An Evaluation of the Recent Novels of Texas and New Mexico,”
Southwest Writer’s Conference, June 1983, Flagstaff, Arizona.
“Let the Computer Do It,” The Basic Skills Conference,
April 1983, San Marcos, Texas.
“Teaching the Grammar of Confidence and Doubt in Advanced Composition,”
Conference on College Composition and communication, March, 1983, Detroit,
Michigan.
“Zowie Batman: A Study in De-emphasis,” The 1983 Wyoming
Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, June 28, 1983.
“Surprise: An Approach to Teaching Subordination,” CCCC,
March 30, 1984, New York.
“Tone in the Composition Class: Vaccination or Infection,”
The 1984 Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, June
26, 1984, Laramie, Wyoming.
"Cages and Eagles in Leaving Cheyenne and The Good Old Boys,"
Western American Literature Convention, October, 1990.
“Michener’s Texas: Palatable History,”
Texas Voices, Wimberley Library, October 1986.
“Taking the Grand Tour of the Southwest:: Humor,” Texas/Southwest
Popular Culture Association, February 20, 1987, Lawton, Oklahoma.
“Sniding and Being Snided: Horse Trader’s Tales,”
presented at Texas Folklore Society Convention, March 1989, Uvalde,
Texas.
“Musing about Moseying: the Language of the Cowboy,” Texas/Southwest
Popular Culture Convention, February 1990, Abilene, Texas.
“The Syntax and Diction of Printed Cowboy Yarns,” The
Texas Folklore Society Convention, April 1990, Kingsville, Texas.
“The Humor of John Erickson,” Texas/Southwest Popular
Culture Convention, February, 1993, Kingsville, Texas.
“Texas Dialect in the Stories of O. Henry,” Texas/Southwest
Popular Culture Convention, February, 1994 Waco, Texas.
“Texas Spring Names,” Texas Folklore Society, April 1994,
Victoria, Texas.
“Of Dachshunds and Dashes: Subjects and Style in E. B. White
and John Graves,” at John Graves Symposium, Southwest Writers
Collection, August 2002.
“Edwin Lanham: an Important Western Writer,” at Western
American Literature Convention in Tucson, October 2002.
“Insider, Outsider: Two West Texas Oil Novels: Honor at
Daybreak and Chocolate Lizards. Texas/Southwest Popular
Culture Convention, February 2003, Albuquerque, N. M.
“The Detective Novels of Edwin Lanham.” National Popular
Culture Convention, New Orleans, April 2003.
“Nature Writing in Two Oil Novels of the Texas Coast: Mary King’s
Quincie Bolliver and William A. Owens’ Fever in the
Earth.” Convention of the Association for the Study of Literature
& Environment, Boston, June, 2003.
“Metamorphoses: From Cowboy to Oilman in Western Novels”
at Western American Literature Convention in Houston, October 2003.
“Old Men of Oil in Mary Austin’s The Ford, Upton
Sinclair’s Oil!, and Robert Hyde’s Crude”
at Western American Literature Convention in Big Sky, Montana, September
2004.
"From Edna Ferber's Cimarron to Linda Hogan's Mean
Spirit: Native Americans in Oklahoma Oilfield Novels." Southwest
Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, January 2005.
"The State of the Arts in Texas," The Conference of College
Teachers of English, Waco, Texas, March 2005.
"Matrices: Eggs Boiled and Scrambled in Cormac McCarthy's The
Crossing." Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque,
NM, February 2006.
Poetry Readings
Southwest Writer’s Conference, Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff, Arizona, June 1983.
Central College, September 1984, Pella, Iowa.
Wyoming Conference, The 1986 Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore
English, June 1986, Laramie, Wyoming.
The Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Convention, February
1990, San Angelo, Texas
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, February 1990, Abilene,
Texas.
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, February 1994, Waco,
Texas.
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Convention, February 2003, Albuquerque,
N. M.
Angelo State Writers Conference, March, 2003. San Angelo, Texas.
The Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Convention, September
2003, Fredericksburg, Texas.
The Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Convention, September
2004, San Antonio, Texas.
South Central Modern Language Association Convention, October 2004,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
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