Selected Presentations

Invited National Institute Presentations 

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2018, April 18-19). Writing-Enriched Curriculum Model Overview (roundtable presentation), Qualitative Data Analysis in a Writing-Enriched Curriculum (panel presentation with Chris Hassay), Conducting WEC Research with Pre-Professional Academic Units (panel presentation with Chris Hassay), and WEC at Small Liberal Arts Colleges (roundtable presentation). Writing-Enriched Curriculum Institute, Minneapolis, MN.

National Conference Workshop Leadership

Basgier, Chris, Galin, Jeffrey, Cox, Michelle, Morris, Kerri, Rosinski, Paula, Lannin, Amy, Mikovits, Meg, Cripps, Michael, Laurie, Prebel, Pemberton, Michael, Pinkert, Julie, Scheurer, Erika, Sheriff, Stacey, Nickoson, Lee, Fodrey, Crystal N. (Accepted for 2020 and 2021 but not presented due to COVID-19). Behind the scenes of WAC program development. WAC Standing Group sponsored workshop conducted at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Fodrey, Crystal N. & Mikovits, Meg. (2018, May 24). Creating/revising digital project assignments to foster writing transfer. Half-day workshop conducted at the Computers and Writing Conference, Fairfax, VA.

National Conference Presentations

Fodrey, Crystal N., Graff, Nelson, Martin, Caitlin, & Tremain, Lisa. (Forthcoming 2021, August). Recognizing (and inviting) leadership philosophies and theories into WAC scholarship and program development. International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. 

Hassay, Chris, Ferarra, Jillian, Fodrey, Crystal N., Horn, Elizabeth, Kleppinger, Elisabeth, Mikovits, Meg, Scott, Ryan, Shosted, Christopher, Stanley, Gabrielle. (Accepted for 2021 but not presented due to COVID-19). Inviting co-creation of knowledge and effecting curricular change through undergraduate research in writing studies. Panel presentation at the Conference on College Composition & Communication.

Fodrey, Crystal N., Mikovits, Meg, & Hassay, Chris. (2020, January 11). Activity theory as tool for SLAC writing program development and assessment. Roundtable discussion conducted at the Small Liberal Arts College Writing Program Administrators Conference, Lancaster, PA. 

Fodrey, Crystal N., & Hassay, Chris. (2019, March 15). “Define writing in your discipline”: Qualitative research practices as epistemological acts within a writing-enriched curriculum initiative. On “Writing Across the Curriculum Research as Performative Action” panel (Chris Anson, respondent). Conference on College Composition & Communication, Pittsburgh, PA.

Sheriff, Stacey, Fodrey, Crystal N., & Hassay, Chris. (2019, January). Writing-enriched curriculum projects as multimethodological research practices in SLAC contexts. Small Liberal Arts College Writing Program Administrators Conference; Davidson, NC.

Fodrey, Crystal N., O’Meara, Katherine, Austin, Sara, & Cox, Anicca. (2018, October 25) Making matters visible: Uncovering thinking, knowing, and being with institutional ethnography. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY.

Fodrey, Crystal N. & Hassay, Chris. (2018, June). How does institutional context impact adoption of best practices promoted in writing studies scholarship? International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Auburn, AL. 

Fodrey, Crystal N. & Mikovits, Meg. (2018, May 24). Creating/revising digital project assignments to foster writing transfer. Half-day workshop conducted at the Computers and Writing Conference, Fairfax, VA. 

Fodrey, Crystal N., Mikovits, Meg, Hassay, Chris, & Yozell, Erica. (2018, March 16). Designing for transfer in first-year writing, writing-enriched curriculum research, and writing fellows experiences in a developing WAC program. Writing Across the Curriculum Standing Group Sponsored Panel presentation at the Conference on College Composition & Communication, Kansas City, MO. 

Fodrey, Crystal N., O’Meara, Katherine, Sloggie-Pierce, Jenn, & Titus, Megan. (2017, July). WPAs in transition: Novice WPAs discuss the job market and the transition into WPA positions. Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Knoxville, TN. 

Babine, Karen, Fodrey, Crystal N., Spinner, Jenny, & Stuckey-French, Ned. (2017, February 11). “Our hybrid thing”: The cross-pollination of nonfiction studies and pedagogy. Panel presentation at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference; Washington D.C.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2016, September 23). Epistemological Liminality: Approaching Creative Nonfiction and/in the Space Between Composition and Creative Writing. Creative Writing Studies Conference. Asheville, NC.

Fodrey, Crystal N., Yozell, Erica, Nicholas, Lauren, & Mikovits, Meg. (2016, May 20). Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Implementing digital storytelling across the curriculum at a small liberal arts college. Panel presentation at the Computers and Writing Conference, Rochester, NY. 

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2016, April 7). A call for critical expressivist response to undergraduate creative nonfiction writers. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2015, October 17). From “writing about” to “writing with”: Problematizing immersion research in creative nonfiction. Conference on Community Writing, Boulder, CO.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2015, July 18). Pre-tenure writing across the curriculum director as rhetorical listener. Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Boise, ID.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2015, March 20). Toward a praxis of emergence: Embracing the risks and rewards of teaching socially situated creative nonfiction writing. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. 

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2014, March 22). Open to invention: Locating dominant ideologies in creative nonfiction pedagogical discourse. Conference on College Composition and Communication; Indianapolis, IN.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2013, July 18). Craft as/vs. Rhetoric: A Case Study of Creative Nonfiction Teacher Talk. Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference; Savannah, GA. 

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2012, March 24). Teaching Advanced Composition as Creative Nonfiction: A Rhetorical Enterprise. Conference on College Composition and Communication; St. Louis, MO.

Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica, Fodrey, Crystal N., & Harris, Sarah E. (2011, July 16). Contextualizing Success in Writing Center Spaces. Panel presentation at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference; Baton Rouge, LA.

Fodrey, Crystal N., Harris, Sarah E., & Ristow, Benjamin. (2011, February). As Long As People Write: Training and Supporting New Writing Teachers. Panel Presentation at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference; Washington D.C.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2010, May 28). The Rhetoric of Creative Nonfiction and its Potentialities for the Creative Writing Discipline. Rhetoric Society of America Conference; Minneapolis, MN.

Fodrey. Crystal N. (2010, March 19). Creative Nonfiction: Where Creative Writing and Composition Nearly Converge. Conference on College Composition and Communication; Louisville, KY.

Symposium and Seminar Presentations

Fodrey, Crystal N. & Mikovits, Meg. (2019, August 8). Investigating whether students’ conceptions of writing change after completing first-year writing. Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research, Hanover, NH. 

Kimme Hea, Amy C., Holmes, Ashley J., & Fodrey, Crystal N. (2011, April 22). Understanding Spatial Rhetoric: A Starter Kit to Theory & Practice. Presentation at Writing Takes Place: Situating Student Writing with 21st Century Literacies Symposium; Mesa, AZ.

Regional Conference Presentations

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2013, October 25). Spatial Immersion as Inventive Process in Creative Nonfiction Pedagogy. Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference; Salt Lake City, UT.

Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica, Fodrey, Crystal N., & Harris, Sarah E. (2011, October 21). Rhetorics of Sustainability, Reciprocity, and Stasis: Writing Centers as Social Space. Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference; Tempe, AZ.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2010, April 30). An Appeal to Open the Borders of Academic Prose. New Directions in Critical Theory Conference; University of Arizona.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2009, April 10). Critical Explorations of Personal Spaces: Expanding the Boundaries of the Rhetorical Analysis Essay Assignment. New Directions in Critical Theory Conference; University of Arizona.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2009, February 6). Autobiographical Memory Meaning Making in an Age of Ubiquitous Computing. Federation Rhetoric Society Conference; Commerce, TX.

Fodrey, Crystal N. (2004, April). The Necessity of Truth in Creative Nonfiction. Western Kentucky University Undergraduate Literature Conference

Research-in-Process Presentations

Hassay, Chris, & Fodrey, Crystal. “Teaching for Transfer from First-Year Writing to Graduation: Fostering Curricular Cohesion and Improved Student Learning through an Iterative, Reflective, Writing-Enriched Activity System.” Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication; Portland, OR; March 15, 2017.

Szabady, Gina, Fodrey, Crystal N., & Del Russo, Celeste. (2013, March 15). Digital Texts and Visual Logic Across the Composition Curriculum. Digital Pedagogy Poster Session, Conference on College Composition and Communication; Las Vegas, NV.