INVITED TALKS

“Nurse Practitioners and Patient-centered Care: What Linguistics Can Tell Us” Georgetown University, Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series. Georgetown, DC: October 2017.

  

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Small stories, direct reported speech, and patient identities in medical visits” International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) World Congress. Groningen, the Netherlands: August 2021.

“Unmasking public perceptions: Examining medical providers’ advice on Facebook during COVID-19” presented with Elizabeth Weems (first author) and Suzanne Gut. Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET). Online: July 2021.

“The new Face(book) of medicine: Medical professionals, social media & advice-giving during COVID-19” presented with Suzanne Gut (first author) and Elizabeth Weems. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Online: March 2021.

“Communicating the complexity of diabetes: A case study of NP-patient interactions” 9th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). Norfolk, VA: February 2020.

“Bless your heart”: Constructing the Southern Belle in the modern South” presented with Karen Taylor (first author). Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Boca Raton, FL: June 2019.

“Bless your heart”: Constructing the Southern Belle in the modern South” presented with Karen Taylor (first author). Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. Boca Raton, FL: June 2019.

“Why can’t we be friends? Conflict and alignment in the alt-right” presented with Patrick T. Greene (first author). American Association for Applied Linguistics. Atlanta, GA: March 2019.

“A simple solution?’ The false promise of diabetes management in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising?” Kentucky Health Communication Conference. Lexington, KY: April 2018.

“I’m just a guide’” Medical providers’ positioning in the era of neoliberalism” Georgetown Roundtable on Linguistics (GURT): Approaches to Discourse. Georgetown, DC: March 2018.

“Direct to consumer advertising and the reproduction of medical consumerism” Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET). Indianapolis, IN: June 2017.

“Treading lightly: Indirect speech and the enactment of patient-centered communication” DC Health Communication Conference. Fairfax, VA: April 2017.

“Talk to your doctor’: Constructing the patient-consumer in pharmaceutical advertising” American Association for Applied Linguistics. Portland, OR: March 2017.

“Neoliberal Interpellations of the ‘Patient-Consumer’ in US Medical Visits” Sociolinguistic Symposium, Murcia, Spain, June 2016.

“Rethinking Epistemic Access, Primacy and Responsibility: Enactment of Nurse Practitioners’ Professional Competency” American Association for Applied Linguistics, Orlando, Florida, April 2016.

“The ‘Good Diabetic’ and the ‘Competent Provider’: Identity Constructions in Medical Encounters” American Association for Applied Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, March 2015.

“Understanding Agency: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Nurse Practitioner-Patient Interactions” (poster) Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, January 2015.

“Agency of Intention and the Neoliberal Ideology in Diabetes Narratives” SALSA: Symposium About Language and Society-Austin, Austin, Texas, April 2014.

 “Finding a Voice: An Examination of Blogs Written by Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder” Poster presented with Hillary Mosier (2nd author) Kentucky Conference on Health Communication, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2014.

“Management of Care vs. Management of Face: Indirectness in Nurse Practitioner/ Patient Interactions” Teaching and Learning (Impoliteness), University of London School of Oriental and Asian Studies, London, July 2013.

 “Solidarity and Alignment in Medical Visits: An Examination of Nurse Practitioner/Patient Interactions” 5th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistic Society, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2013.

“A Balancing Act: Power in Nurse Practitioner/Patient Interactions” American Association for Applied Linguists, Dallas, Texas, March 2013.

“The Art of Preaching: Audience Design at Work in Christian Sermons” East/West Cultural Passage, Sibiu, Romania, May 2011.

“A Discourse Analysis Approach to Teaching Grammar” English Language Teachers Association, Novi Sad, Serbia, April 2011.

 “Beyond the Human Container: Expressions of Anger is US English” American Association for Applied Linguists, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2010.

“Expressing Disagreement While Saving Face” Indiana Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2009.

“Teaching Group Discussion Strategies for University Classrooms” Poster presented with Naomi Lancaster & Theresa Rhodes Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Graduate Student Forum, Denver, Colorado, March 2009.

“Organization of Turn-taking in a Chaired Meeting” Practical Criticism Midwest Conference, Muncie, Indiana, January 2009.