[Teaching] [Conference Abstracts]
For my most current conference talks, academic articles, and teaching materials, please see my profile at Academia.edu.
Teaching
Teaching Philosophy -- Statement of my aims and methods in teaching writing, religion, and literature.
WR100 D2: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Literature (Syllabus, 2006) -- Freshman writing seminar presented at Boston University.
Annotated Bibliography of Histories and Ethnographies of Interest to Neo-Pagans (2005) -- Designed especially for the smart and skeptical contemporary Pagan practitioner who is frustrated with the bad history that is rampant in so many Pagan books.
Conference Abstracts
Alan Moore’s Promethea: Comics as Neo-Pagan Primer and Missionary Tool (2006, 2007) -- Charming & Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media, Harvard University; God and the Graphic Novel, Northeast Modern Language Convention, Baltimore, MD.
From Het Polarity to Queer Eros: The Development of Ritual Sex in the Twentieth-century Novel (2006) -- God & Sexuality Conference on Religion and Issues of Sexuality and Gender, New York City.
Most Her Own, Yet Most Taken Away: Sexuality and Desire in Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2005) -- Comic Books and Graphic Novels: Feminist Approaches. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Coeur D’Alene.
Gender Essentialism in Matriarchalist Utopian Fantasies: Are popular novels vehicles of sacred stories, or only sacred propaganda? (2005) -- New Religious Movements Group. American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
Self and (M)other: Apocalypse as Return to the Womb in Neon Genesis Evangelion (2004) -- Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group. American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio.
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