"Heart of Darkness: Blind Spot of the Past." Virginia Humanities Conference. Radford University.  Radford, VA, 4 April 2008.

"Manfred of the Jungle: Tarzan as Byronic Hero"  International Conference on Byron and Modernism.  University of British Columbia, 26 October 2007.

"Of Apes and Ethics: A Swing at Tarzan's Moral Framework."  Virginia Humanities Conference.  University of Mary Washington, Fredricksburg, VA, 11 March 2006.

"Technology of the Primitive: The Rope in Tarzan's Jungle Tales." Virginia Humanities Conference, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA, 18 March 2005.

"(Un)Natural Theology: 'The God of Tarzan.'"  Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA, 28 March 2004.

"Alienation in 'Tarzan's First Love.'"  Virginia Humanities Conference, Bridgewater College, 20 March 2004.

“On Teaching Tarzan.”  ECOF 2003  [annual convention of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship], Baltimore, 28 June 2003.

“Poetic Response to Apartheid Injustice.”  Virginia Humanities Conference, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 12 April 2003.

“Upon My Honor: Truth and Lies in the Burroughs Hero’s Moral Code.” ECOF 2002 Woodland Hills, CA, 31 August 2002.

5 lectures on American literature since 1865 – “Realism in American Literature,” “Naturalism in American Literature,” “Modernism in American Literature,” “Diverse Threads in American Literature,” and “Open Form Poetry in Twentieth-Century America” -- as a visiting scholar at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, August-September 2001.

"Maru and the Intricacies of Cultural Prejudice." Fourth North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa, Burlington, VT, 28 October 2000.

"A Synthesis of Wells and Burroughs in Heinlein's The Puppet Masters." Thirtieth Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, 22 April 2000.

"Web-Based Discussion Pages in the Literature Classroom." Educational Media Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 3 September 1998.

"Niamh: A Symbol of Desire in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats." Sixth International Conference of the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monte Carlo, 30 May 1998.

"Breathing Medieval Water: Denise Levertov's Julian Poems." Eleventh International Annual Conference on Medievalism, Kalamazoo College, September 1996.

"The Song of the Mountain in the Poetry of Denise Levertov." Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, April 1996.

"Monogamy to Exogamy: Female Heroes in Science Fiction." Popular Culture Association Silver Anniversary Meeting, Philadelphia, 12 April 1995.

"Knights in the Nursery: The Image of Knighthood in A.A. Milne's Children's Poetry." Ninth General Conference on Medievalism, Montana State University, September 1994.

"Tristram, Tennyson, and Tarzan, Or Tarzan of the Round Table." Eighth International Conference on Medievalism, University of Leeds, September 1993.

"Future Relations: Female Sexual Attitudes in American Science Fiction." 1993 General English Literature Conference, Emporia State University, 16 April 1993.

"The Greystoke Connection: Medievalism in Two Edgar Rice Burroughs Novels." Seventh Annual General Conference on Medievalism, University of South Florida, 2 October 1992.

"Train Up a Child: The Christian Father in the Stick Foster Mystery Novels." Southwest Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, Oklahoma Baptist University, 25 September 1992.

"A Hand Like This Hand: Incarnate Love in Robert Browning's 'Saul.'" Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Louisiana State University-Shreveport, 6 February 1992.

"As Seen Through Human Eyes: The Incarnation in Three Robert Browning Poems." Northeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 19 October 1991; and at the Southwest Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, Texas Tech University, 27 September 1991.

"Availability and Awareness in Margery Paston's Clandestine Decision." Sixth Annual General Conference on Medievalism, University of Delaware, 3 October 1991.

"Christian Unorthodoxy: The Image of God in Denise Levertov's Poetry." Southern Humanities Council Annual Convention, Clearwater, FL, 15 February 1990.