CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Ph.D. English, University of California, Riverside, 2018
M.A. English, Cal Poly Pomona, 2012
B.A. English, Cal State Long Beach, 2008
Conference Presentations
“Readerly Double Consciousness in Publishing with Pomona Valley Review,” PAMLA, Talk/Oral Presentation, Denver, CO, Invited, Fall 2023
"Enriching Entanglements: Toward a Quantum Rhetoric", Rhetoric Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Baltimore, MD, Spring 2022
"Member, Rhetoric Society of America Research Group, with Nathan Stormer, distinguished scholar of rhetoric and communication", Rhetoric Society of America, Research Workshop, Paper, Baltimore, MD, Spring 2022
“Radical Rhetoric: Rooting Rhetoric in Listening,” paper at Relational Listening: Opening Your Mind, Arizona State University, AZ. (Online due to Covid-19)
"'Poetry Selections,' The Illusions Beneath the Lights: Deconstructing Poetry with Pomona Valley Review (panel)", PAMLA, Talk/Oral Presentation, Las Vegas, NV, Invited, Fall 2021
"Beyond Persuasion: Revising Commonplaces in First-Year Composition", Conference on College Composition and Communication (Panel canceled due to Covid-19), Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Spokane, WA, Spring 2021
"Décadence via Nietzsche, Metaphysics for Socrates, Wave Function Collapse, Entanglement", Sixth Annual Creative Activities and Research Symposium (Online due to Covid-19), Talk/Oral Presentation, Online, Office of Undergraduate Research, Invited, Fall 2020
"Ephemera, Linger", Prolific Press Reading Event with Glenn Lyvers (Online due to Covid-19), Talk/Oral Presentation, Online, Prolific Press, Invited, Fall 2020
"Member, Rhetoric Society of America Research Group, with Stuart Murray, distinguished scholar of philosophy and rhetoric", Rhetoric Society of America (Canceled due to Covid-19), Research Workshop, Paper, Portland, OR, Spring 2020
"Quantum Rhetoric: Grounding New Materialist Subjectivity", Rhetoric Society of America (Canceled due to Covid-19), Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Portland, OR, Spring 2020
"To Persuade, or to Listen: Rethinking Commonplaces in First-Year Composition", Conference on College Composition and Communication (Canceled due to Covid-19), Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Milwaukee, WI, Spring 2020
"Quantum Rhetoric: Grounding New Materialist Subjectivity", Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, San Diego, CA, Fall 2019
"Between Words and Worlds: Performing Rhetoric and Composition with Portfolios", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2019
"Images & Words (Poetry)", Mosaic Poetry Reading Night, Talk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Riverside, CA, Invited, Spring 2019
"Remembering the Way, Fires Rising (Poetry)", Fifth Annual Creative Activities and Research Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Invited, Spring 2019
"Totality & Temporality: Elegies through Time and Space (Poetry)", Harvest International Poetry Reading, Talk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Bronco Events and Activities Team, Invited, Spring 2019
"From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Place-Based Autoethnography in First-Year Composition", 8th Annual UC Writing Program Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Paper, University of California, Merced, CA, Fall 2018
"Reservoir of all Calls (Poetry)", In Prose or In Verse 5, Talk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Sigma Tau Delta and Pomona Valley Review, Invited, Fall 2018
"Rewriting Words with Worlds: Rhetoric, Quantum Physics, and First-Year Writing Classrooms", Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Fall 2018
"The Phenomenology of Childhood (Poetry)", In Prose or In Verse 4: A Night with Pomona Valley Review, Talk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Invited, Fall 2018
"Sophistry since the 20th Century: Origins and Contexts of Quantum Rhetoric", 5th Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Paper, University of California, Merced, CA, Spring 2018
"The Indeterminate Immediate: A Selection of Elegies (Poetry)", Graduate Student English Association’s Winter Poetry Night, Talk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Invited, Spring 2018
"Totality & Temporality: A Selection of Elegies (Poetry)", Third Annual Creative Activities and Research Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Invited, Fall 2017
"Quantum Rhetoric: Definitions, Origins, Contexts", Summer Research Seminars, Keynote Lecture, Paper, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Invited, Spring 2017
"An Event on the Horizon: Gertrude Stein & Quantum Physics", EcoMaterialisms, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, University of California, Davis, CA, EcoMaterialisms Collective, Fall 2016
"An Event on the Horizon: Gertrude Stein, Quantum Physics, and the Rise of Rhetoric as First Philosophy", Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Pasadena, CA, Fall 2016
"Quantum Rhetoric: The Rise of Rhetoric as First Philosophy", (dis)junctions: Crude Matter, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, University of California, Riverside, CA, Fall 2016
"From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies", New Directions, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, University of Arizona, AZ, Spring 2016
"From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies", Abstraction, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, University of California, Irvine, CA, Spring 2016
"An Event on the Horizon: Gertrude Stein & Quantum Physics", (dis)junctions: Strange Bedfellows, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, University of California, Riverside, CA, Fall 2015
"Ecocentering the Self: Thoreau, William Howitt, and the Environmental Imagination", Natures, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA, Invited, Spring 2015
"The ‘Defective and Disqualified Consumer’: Sylvia Plath, Existentialism, and the Proto-Neoliberal Regime", Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Riverside, CA, Fall 2014
"From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies", Southern California Rhetoric & Composition Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, University of California, Irvine, CA, Fall 2013
"Bridging Expectational Gaps: Reviving Rhetoric in High School English Composition", Southern California Rhetoric & Composition Research Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, University of California, Irvine, CA, Spring 2012
"Promoting Conscientization: The Interrelatedness of Media, Identity, and Ideological Signifiers", Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Fall 2011
"The Soul’s (Im)mortal Journey: Philosophical Intersections in Wordsworth’s ‘Ode’ and Phaedrus", Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Fall 2011
"What Discourse Is and What Discourse Does: Facilitating Transitive Consciousness with Connectivity and Reflectivity", Young Rhetoricians Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Monterey, CA, Fall 2011
"Language Acquisition Between Cultures: Strategies for Improving Phonological Awareness", Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2011
"A Tale of Transformation: Gender Stress and Cultural Liberation in Eat a Bowl of Tea", Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Fall 2010
"The Role of L2 Proficiency in Communicative Tasks: Implications of Interactional Modification", Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Boston, MA, Fall 2010
"Vowel Epenthesis and Consonant Cluster Reduction: Developing English Pronunciation in a Spanish L2 Learner of English", Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Cal State Fullerton, CA, Fall 2010
"From Product to Process: Composition as Socio-Ideological Growth", Rowland High School AVID Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Rowland Heights, CA, Invited, Spring 2010
"Reliably Unreliable: Narration as Qualitative and Syllogistic Progression in Remains of the Day", Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Spring 2010
"The ‘I’ in Team: A Path to Self Discovery and Public Discourse in the First-Year Writing Course", Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Spring 2010
Publications
Book Project
Leack, R. D. (2018). Quantum Rhetoric: The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Dissertation). University of California. UC Open Access Publications.
Book Chapters
Leack, R. D. (2016). Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination. Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies, pp. 165-184. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Book Reviews
Leack, R. D. (2019). The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty, by Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber. Entropy Magazine.
Leack, R. D. (2019). What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, by Adam Becker. Entropy Magazine.
Leack, R. D. (2012). Cosmonauts, by Jack Foster. A Few Lines Magazine.
Journal Articles
Leack, R. D. (2023). Enriching Entanglements: Sophistic Rhetoric and Quantum Mechanics (Revise & Resubmit). Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
Leack, R. D. (2019). From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Place-Based Autoethnography in First-Year Composition. Composition Forum. Vol. 41.
Popular Media
Leack, R. D. (2023). ‘Rhetoric’ doesn’t need to be such an ugly word – it has a lot to teach echo-chambered America. The Conversation, Ethics & Religion section. “Editor’s Pick” on USC News (May 19-May 22).
Leack, R. D. (2023). Steel men for stalemates: Trump, Plato and the Sophists. The Fulcrum, Big Picture section (May 17).
Poetry Collections
Leack, R. D. Critiques Of (In Progress).
Leack, R. D. (2020). On the Verge of Vanishing (Under Review). (Kristine Snodgrass, Jay Snodgrass, Carol Lynne Knight, Ed.). Tallahassee, FL. Anhinga Press.
Leack, R. D. (2020). Totality & Temporality: Elegies through Time and Space (Under Review). (Kristina Marie Darling, Ed.). North Adams, MA. Tupelo Press.
Poems
Leack, R. D. (2023). The Tree. (Rachel Jurasevich and Kasinda Lang, Ed.). pp. 175. Pomona, CA. Pomona Valley Review.
Leack, R. D. (2022). In Preparation for Platonism. (Rachel Jurasevich and Kasinda Lang, Ed.). pp. 236-7. Pomona, CA. Pomona Valley Review.
Leack, R. D. (2021). Décadence via Nietzsche. (Gerald Locklin, Wendy Rainey, Clint Margrave, Kareem Tayyar, Grant Hier, Rafael Zepeda, John Brantingham, Sarah Daugherty, Ed.). pp. 69. St. John, KS. Chiron Review.
Leack, R. D. (2020). Linger. (Glenn Lyvers, Ed.). pp. 6. Johnstown, PA. Poetry Quarterly.
Leack, R. D. (2020). Ephemera. (Glenn Lyvers, Ed.). pp. 5. Johnstown, PA. Poetry Quarterly.
Leack, R. D. (2020). Flying Kites in the Dark. (Joanna C. Valente, Ed.). Yes Poetry (Special Feature).
Leack, R. D. (2020). For Wang Wei, A Poem. (Barry Harris, Ed.). pp. 38-39. Indianapolis, IN. Tipton Poetry Journal.
Leack, R. D. (2019). Far Away. (Gerald Locklin, Wendy Rainey, Clint Margrave, Kareem Tayyar, Grant Hier, Rafael Zepeda, John Brantingham, Sarah Daugherty, Ed.). pp. 80. St. John, KS. Chiron Review.
Leack, R. D. (2015). How to Get Your Wife to Leave You. (Daniel Noh, Tina Lawson, Dylan Karlsson, Ed.). pp. 37. Los Angeles, CA. Westwind (UCLA).
Leack, R. D. (2015). For Wang Wei, A Poem; Dreaming of My Daughter, Not Yet Grown. (Ryan Leack, Chris Baarstad, Marta Albala-Pelegrin, Amanda Lynn Riggle, John Danho, Ed.). pp. 131-135. Pomona, CA. Pomona Valley Review.
Leack, R. D. (2014). Where My Grandmother Forgets My Name; A Dreamer of Dwellings in a House of Memory. (Ryan Leack and Chris Baarstad, Ed.). pp. 110-114. Pomona, CA. Pomona Valley Review.
Leack, R. D. (2012). When You Left Dad; A Midwinter Night’s Sleep. (Rebecca Colbert, Susan Summers, Justin Burnside, Sandra Hooven, Paul Sacksteder, Molly O'Donnell, Ed.). pp. 23-25. Las Vegas, NV. Word River (UNLV).
Leack, R. D. (2012). Replanting Perfection; Straw Hat Man; Sugar Bear; Finite Reflections; That Last Thought. (Steve Glines, Kate Hanson Foster, Carol Smallwood, Teisha Twomey, Tim Gager, Doug Holder, Ed.). pp. 1-8. Littleton, MA. Wilderness House Literary Review.
Leack, R. D. (2012). Magic Mirror. (Orson Scott Card, Ed.). Strong Verse. Hatrack River Enterprises.
Leack, R. D. (2011). Where God Is; No Say I Love You. (Jack Foster, Ed.). pp. 16-17; 45. Pomona, CA. A Few Lines Magazine.
Leack, R. D. (2011). When Mom Left; Fields of Time. (Ryan Leack, Chris Baarstad, Raul Madrid, Patricia do Carmo, Ed.). pp. 77-80. Pomona, CA. Pomona Valley Review.
Leack, R. D. (2011). Escape to Recollection. (Alexandra Panic, Mariah Beckman, Tristan Beach, Danielle Hayden, Derek Alger, Ed.). Poetry, Interviews, Fiction (Pif).
Leack, R. D. (2011). The Bus Stop Girl; The Conductor. Contemporary World Literature.
Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
Media Project, Live Theory: Living Writing & Rhetoric (USC): Co-Host podcast created and managed by the Professional Development Committee of the Dornsife Writing Program. Design and maintain website (livetheory.org), as well as production of audio, 2020-
Media Project, 4th Annual The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival. Contributed “Episode 10: Chatting about ChatGPT with USC” of our Writing Program podcast Live Theory: Living Writing & Rhetoric to a popular podcast by Dr. Charles Wood at Texas A&M, which produces and gathers podcasts in rhetoric and writing, Fall 2023
Media Project, 3rd Annual The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival (Texas A&M): Contributed "Episode 8: Jonathan Alexander: Writing and Desire" of our Writing Program podcast "Live Theory: Living Writing & Rhetoric" to a popular podcast by Dr. Charles Wood at Texas A&M, which produces and gathers podcasts in rhetoric and writing, Fall 2022
Media Project, Medicinal Music Makers (USC): Contribute songs to a recognized student organization (RSO) that works with the Keck Hospital staff of the Patient Experience department, as well as the Music as Medicine department, to distribute music videos to patients, their families, caregivers, and staff at USC hospitals to help shape a positive environment, 2021-2022
Film Score, Ana Luna & the Deep (Solo Instrumental Film Score Material), Available On: Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, and like services. Tracks used in TV shows on CBS, CNN, NBA TV, HBO Max, Showtime, Movie Channel, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and in TV shows, commercials, and radio in 50+ countries, 2013-2014
Film Score, Nature Kids (Solo Instrumental Film Score), Available On: Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, and like services. Tracks used in TV shows on CBS, CNN, NBA TV, HBO Max, Showtime, Movie Channel, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and in TV shows, commercials, and radio in 50+ countries, 2012-2013
Film Score, Blackwood Hill (Solo Instrumental Film Score Material), Available On: Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, and like services. Tracks used in TV shows on CBS, CNN, NBA TV, HBO Max, Showtime, Movie Channel, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and in TV shows, commercials, and radio in 50+ countries, 2011-2012
Album, Sola Fide (Solo Instrumental Album), Available On: Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, and like services, 2010-2011
Film Score, Absentia (Solo Instrumental Film Score), Available On: Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, and like services. Film featured on Showtime, HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and like services internationally. Film awards include "Best Narrative Feature," "Best Feature Film," and "Best American Independent Feature" in multiple film festivals, 2010-2011
Musical Composition, Cottage Housing: Composed music for the not-for-profit institute in Sacramento, "Cottage Housing," which builds homes for the homeless. The music supported a fundraising campaign for further construction projects, 2009-2010
Musical Composition, I Am a Person: Composed the score for a not-for-profit PSA commercial promoting respect for disabled persons, 2009-2010
Album, Two Dimensional Paradise (Solo Instrumental Album), Available On: Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, and like services, 2008-2009
Film Score, Mother's Milk: Composed the score for a not-for-profit short film to promote research in causes and prevention of miscarriages, as well as generate awareness and create women support groups. The film was distributed to hospitals in California and Hawaii, including Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, 2008-2009
Guest Lectures
English 20C: Introduction to Alternative Critical Perspectives in Literature and Culture (UC Riverside), "Althusser to Foucault: Moving to the Exterior of Ideology and Discourse", Fall 2016
Honors and Awards
Dornsife Development Fund Award (USC), 2020-2023
Professional Development Fund Award (UC Riverside), Fall 2018
Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship (UC Riverside), 2013-2014
Ted Pugh Poetry Prize (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2011
President's Council Scholarship (Cal Poly Pomona), 2010-2011
Services to the University
Committees
Co-Chair, Professional Development Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2020-
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Evaluation Committee for the English Teaching Assistantship, Office of Academic Programs, USC, 2023-2024
Member, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Evaluation Committee for the English Teaching Assistantship, Office of Academic Programs, USC, 2022-2023
Member, Lower Division Curriculum Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2021-2022
Member, Professional Workshops Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2021-2022
Member, RTPC/PT Caucus, Dornsife Faculty Council, Writing Program, USC, 2020-2021
Co-Chair, Reading Group Sub-Committee, Professional Development Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2019-2020
Media, Alumni, and Community Relations
"Editor's Pick." USC News selected my article on rhetoric and echo chambers at The Conversation as an Editor's Pick for the site's front page (USC), Spring 2023
"Writing Remix Podcast." Interviewed by Drs. Daniel Dissinger and Katherine Robison for the Writing Remix Podcast Episode 25 (Dornsife Writing Program, USC), Fall 2020
"Featuring Local and International Art at the Pomona Valley Review." Interviewed by The Poly Post to discuss Pomona Valley Review (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2018
"Philosophy as a Way of Life." Interviewed by "Filling the Blankhs," a student community led by philosophy undergraduate Nikhil Gowda (UC Riverside), Fall 2016
"Literary Journal Resurrected." Interviewed by The Poly Post to discuss the reemergence of Pomona Valley Review (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2011
Other Services to the University
Thematic Coordinator for Writing 150: Health and Healing (with Course Releases for Fall and Spring) (USC), 2023-2024
Instructor, Summer Bridge Program, "GESM 120: Quantum Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Matter and Meaning," Office of Undergraduate Education (USC), Summer 2023
Workshop Leader, Freshman Seminar: “(W)rites of Passage,” a Joint Educational Project (JEP) and Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) (USC), Fall 2022
Instructor, Grading Contract Pilot Study for Writing 340 (USC), 2021-2022
Judge, Undergraduate Writers’ Conference, Proposal Category: "Professional/Moral Reasoning" (USC), Spring 2022
Moderator, Undergraduate Writers’ Conference, Proposal Category: "Analytical, Research, and Professional/Moral Reasoning" (USC), Spring 2022
Instructor, Grading Contract Pilot Study for Writing 150 (USC), 2020-2021
Reader, Analytical Writing Placement Exam (UC Berkeley, UCLA), Spring 2019
Guest Speaker, "Applying to Ph.D. Programs," by Dr. Dewey Hall (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2018
Guest Speaker, "Publishers Q&A with Pomona Valley Review," Mt. San Antonio College’s 10th Annual Writer’s Weekend (Mt. San Antonio College), Fall 2018
Guest Speaker, "Publishing Workshop 2018," by the Graduate Student English Association, with Leah Pennywark of Stanford University Press, and Michelle Chihara of Los Angeles Review of Books (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2018
Guest Speaker, "Workshop on Writing for the Web and Journal Publishing," with Pomona Valley Review, Harvest International, and The Poly Post (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2018
Organizer, Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Collective (UC Irvine), 2015-2018
Guest Speaker, "Applying to Graduate Programs: Strategies for the Obscure," Summer Research Seminars (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2017
Guest Speaker, "Life After Graduation: Stories from Recent EFL Alums," by Drs. Dewey Hall and Kent Dickson (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2015
Guest Speaker, "Applying to Ph.D. Programs," by Dr. Dewey Hall (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2014
Guest Speaker, English Graduate Orientation (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2014
Guest Speaker, "Applying to Ph.D. Programs," by Drs. Aaron DeRosa and Lise-He´le`ne Smith (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2013
Organizer, Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Symposium (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2012
Module Designer, Expository Reading & Writing Course (Cal Poly Pomona), 2011-2012
Administrator, English Placement Test (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall 2010
Program Designer, South Basin Writing Project (CSULB), 2006-2009
Services to the Profession
Conferences Organized
Chair, "Rhetorical Theory" (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland, OR, Fall 2023
Chair, "Rhetorical Theory" (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2022
Workshop Leader, "Publishers Workshop with the Editors of Pomona Valley Review" (Panel), May Culturama, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA, Fall 2022
Chair, "Beyond Persuasion: Rhetoric, Listening, Response-ability" (Panel), Rhetoric Society of America, Baltimore, MD, Spring 2022
Chair, "Multimedia Composition as a Practice of Relational Listening in Linguistically Diverse Writing Classrooms" (Panel), Relational Listening, Arizona State University, AZ (Online due to Covid-19), Spring 2022
Chair, "Rhetorical Theory" (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, NV, Fall 2021
Chair, "Teaching Writing toward Democracy" (Panel), Conference on College Composition and Communication (Panel canceled due to Covid-19), Spokane, WA, Spring 2021
Chair, "(Re)Configuring First-Year Composition Courses as Common Places" (Panel), Conference on College Composition and Communication (Canceled due to Covid-19), Milwaukee, WI, Spring 2020
Chair, "Listening to Our Students: Rhetorical Listening and Response-ability in Writing Classes" (Panel), Rhetoric Society of America (Canceled due to Covid-19), Portland, OR, Spring 2020
Organizer, "Publishing Political Irony: Literary Arts with Pomona Valley Review" (Creative Writing Session), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, Fall 2019
Chair, "Rhetorical Theory" (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, Fall 2019
Chair, "Military and State Violences" (Panel), (dis)junctions: Moving Voices, University of California, Riverside, CA, Spring 2019
Chair, "Composition and Rhetoric II" (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Fall 2018
Co-Host, "In Prose or In Verse 4: A Night with Pomona Valley Review" (Campus Event), Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Spring 2018
Host, "Poetry Reading, Open Mic, and Art Walk with Pomona Valley Review and Featured Poets" (Campus Event), Lingua Franca Speaker Series, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Fall 2017
Chair, "Imagining Alternatives: Ecology, Kinship, and Community" (Panel), (dis)junctions: Trauma and Mourning in a Time of Insecurity, University of California, Riverside, CA, Spring 2017
Chair, "Poetry in (Digital) Process: A Poetry Reading and Publishing Discussion with Pomona Valley Review" (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Pasadena, CA, Fall 2016
Chair, "Ideology and the Body" (Panel), (dis)junctions: Crude Matter, University of California, Riverside, CA, Spring 2016
Chair, "I’m Naked Around You: Epistemology and the Technology of the Self" (Panel), (dis)junctions: Strange Bedfellows, University of California, Riverside, CA, Spring 2015
Editorships and Editorial Boards
Adviser, Pomona Valley Review, 2018-
Editor-in-Chief, Pomona Valley Review, 2010-2017
Professional Memberships
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), 2017-
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), 2017-
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2016-
Association for the Study of Literature & Environment (ASLE), 2015-
Rhetoric Reading Group (UC Irvine), 2015-
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), 2013-
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), 2009-2012
Reviewer for Publication
Routledge (Taylor & Francis), Reviewer, Book Proposal Category: "Communication," Spring 2023
Pomona Valley Review, Editor-in-Chief, 2010-2017
Other Service to the Profession
Reviewer, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Proposal Categories: “Rhetorical Theory,” “Rhetorical Criticism,” “Public Rhetoric,” Denver, CO, 2022-2023
Reviewer, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Proposal and Panel Categories: "Rhetorical Theory," "Rhetorical Pedagogy," "Material/Bodily Rhetorics," Baltimore, MD, 2021-2022