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Ryan Leack

Lecturer
Ryan Leack
Email leack@usc.edu

Research & Practice Areas

Rhetoric and Composition. Quantum Mechanics. Space and Place.
Critical-Democratic Pedagogy. Continental Philosophy. Literature and Environment. Geographical Writing Studies. American Literature since 1900. Poetry and Poetics.

Biography

Dr. Ryan David Leack teaches writing and rhetoric in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside, where he studied the productive intersections between rhetorical listening, quantum mechanics, philosophy, composition, and poetry. In particular, Ryan studies the coalescing historical and conceptual developments between rhetoric and physics, as well as the implications for the teaching of writing and rhetoric.

His academic work has appeared in the edited collection Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies, and in the journal Composition Forum. His creative work has appeared in journals such as Chiron Review, Poetry Quarterly, Tipton Poetry Journal, Pif, Westwind, RipRap, Contemporary World Literature, Strong Verse, and Pomona Valley Review, for which he served as Editor-in-Chief for seven years.

Ryan’s instrumental music, which grounds his resonant approach to rhetoric through the ear (aurality) vs. the mouth (orality), is available on Apple Music, Spotify, and like services. His music, consisting of 55 solo instrumental tracks, has also been featured in films available at or on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Walmart, Target, and like services and retailers internationally, including Getty Music, in addition to films and TV shows on CBS, CNN, HBO, Showtime, and other channels, and has been played on radio stations in 50+ countries.

He also Co-Hosts the Dornsife Writing Program podcast Live Theory: Living Writing & Rhetoric, for which he designs and maintains the website and audio production. He leads a quiet life in Los Angeles seeking Thoreauvian tranquility and harmony with words and sound.

Education

  • Ph.D. English, University of California, Riverside, 2018
  • MA English, Cal Poly Pomona, 2012
  • BA English, Cal State Long Beach, 2008

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    My book project, Quantum Rhetoric: The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, grounds my pedagogy, service, and research. Quantum rhetoric deepens our view into the human by expanding our embodied relations to the nonhuman—to artifacts, places, and ecologies. The effects of such relations revise notions of agency, free will, action, and citizenship, effects that bear on our capacity to deliberate—to reason together responsibly. Quantum rhetoric reaches back 2,500 years to the elder sophists, especially Protagoras, and to Democritus and other atomists, to stress the material situatedness of human communication—the domain of rhetoric. Unlike other traditions in metaphysics and analytical philosophy that see the human as largely unaffected by its body and environments, quantum rhetoric renews the view that humans are, like celestial bodies, non-rigid bodies of reference. We are moved and affected by places, bodies, and minds in motion, and by conditions in flux. Whereas Aristotle roots rhetoric in persuasion, quantum rhetoric recovers Heidegger’s 1924 definition of rhetoric as “the art of listening” to persuade us (citizens, teachers, students) to listen to the forces that animate our convictions prior to staking claims. For it is in un-grounding our convictions, I argue, that we can critically re-ground them, and thus deliberate more responsibly, until shifting conditions demand still further revisions. Quantum rhetoric bears on pressing political issues: on our capacities to listen, speak, argue, create change, and to act effectively and virtuously—the most ancient of rhetorical concerns. As such, quantum rhetoric both generates and substantiates the practices I foster in students while uniting the sciences and humanities in the process.

    Research Keywords

    quantum rhetoric, new materialism, object-oriented rhetoric, quantum mechanics, place-based autoethnography, space and place, sophistic rhetoric, critical-democratic pedagogy, continental philosophy, postcomposition

    Detailed Statement of Research Interests

    Quantum Rhetoric empirically grounds and deepens rhetoric’s atomistic roots by engaging quantum mechanics. Working with quantum physicists from Claremont Graduate University, and with advanced texts such as David Bohm’s Quantum Theory, Georg Joos’ Theoretical Physics, and Niels Bohr’s Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge, I map humanity’s fundamental atomicity, and thus its affectability—its responsiveness to the world. “Quantum rhetoric,” therefore, is the necessary entanglement of physics and rhetoric, the material and symbolic, and matter and meaning, which more fully discloses the human condition as contingent, complex, and diverse in body and mind. Whereas Aristotle roots rhetoric in persuasion, quantum rhetoric recovers Heidegger’s 1924 definition of rhetoric as “the art of listening” to persuade us (citizens, teachers, students) to listen to the forces that animate our convictions prior to staking claims. For it is in un-grounding our convictions, I argue, that we can critically re-ground them, and thus deliberate more responsibly, until shifting conditions demand still further revisions. Quantum rhetoric bears on pressing political issues: on our capacities to listen, speak, argue, create change, and to act effectively and virtuously—the most ancient of rhetorical concerns. As such, quantum rhetoric both generates and substantiates the practices I foster in students while uniting the sciences and humanities in the process.

  • Conference Presentations

    • “Enriching Entanglements: Toward a Quantum Rhetoric” , Rhetoric Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Baltimore, MD,
    • “Member, Rhetoric Society of America Research Group, with Nathan Stormer, distinguished scholar of rhetoric and communication” , Rhetoric Society of AmericaResearch Workshop, Baltimore, MD,
    • “Radical Rhetoric: Rooting Rhetoric in Listening” , Relational Listening: Opening Your MindTalk/Oral Presentation, Arizona State University, AZ (Online due to Covid-19),
    • “‘Poetry Selections,’ The Illusions Beneath the Lights: Deconstructing Poetry with Pomona Valley Review (panel)” , PAMLATalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Las Vegas, NV, Spring Fall
    • “Beyond Persuasion: Revising Commonplaces in First-Year Composition” , Conference on College Composition and Communication (Panel canceled due to Covid-19)Talk/Oral Presentation, Spokane, WA, Spring Spri
    • “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, Office of Undergraduate Research, Invited, Online,
    • “Ephemera, Linger” , Prolific Press Reading Event with Glenn Lyvers (Online due to Covid-19)Talk/Oral Presentation, Prolific Press, Invited, Online,
    • “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, Portland, OR,
    • “Quantum Rhetoric: Grounding New Materialist Subjectivity” , Rhetoric Society of America (Canceled due to Covid-19)Talk/Oral Presentation, Portland, OR,
    • “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, Milwaukee, WI,
    • “Quantum Rhetoric: Grounding New Materialist Subjectivity” , Pacific Ancient and Modern Language AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, San Diego, CA,
    • “Between Words and Worlds: Performing Rhetoric and Composition with Portfolios” , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Pittsburgh, PA,
    • “Images & Words (Poetry)” , Mosaic Poetry Reading NightTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, University of California, Riverside, CA,
    • “Remembering the Way, Fires Rising (Poetry)” , Fifth Annual Creative Activities and Research SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Office of Undergraduate Research, Invited, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “Totality & Temporality: Elegies through Time and Space (Poetry)” , Harvest International Poetry ReadingTalk/Oral Presentation, Bronco Events and Activities Team, Invited, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Place-Based Autoethnography in First-Year Composition” , 8th Annual UC Writing Program ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Merced, CA,
    • “Reservoir of all Calls (Poetry)” , In Prose or In Verse 5Talk/Oral Presentation, Sigma Tau Delta and Pomona Valley Review, Invited, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “Rewriting Words with Worlds: Rhetoric, Quantum Physics, and First-Year Writing Classrooms” , Pacific Ancient and Modern Language AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA,
    • “The Phenomenology of Childhood (Poetry)” , In Prose or In Verse 4: A Night with Pomona Valley ReviewTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “Sophistry since the 20th Century: Origins and Contexts of Quantum Rhetoric” , 5th Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Merced, CA,
    • “The Indeterminate Immediate: A Selection of Elegies (Poetry)” , Graduate Student English Association’s Winter Poetry NightTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “Totality & Temporality: A Selection of Elegies (Poetry)” , Third Annual Creative Activities and Research SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Office of Undergraduate Research, Invited, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “Quantum Rhetoric: Definitions, Origins, Contexts” , Summer Research SeminarsKeynote Lecture, Invited, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “An Event on the Horizon: Gertrude Stein & Quantum Physics” , EcoMaterialismsTalk/Oral Presentation, EcoMaterialisms Collective, University of California, Davis, CA,
    • “An Event on the Horizon: Gertrude Stein, Quantum Physics, and the Rise of Rhetoric as First Philosophy” , Pacific Ancient and Modern Language AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Pasadena, CA,
    • “Quantum Rhetoric: The Rise of Rhetoric as First Philosophy” , (dis)junctions: Crude MatterTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Riverside, CA,
    • “From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies” , New DirectionsTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Arizona, AZ,
    • “From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies” , AbstractionTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Irvine, CA,
    • “An Event on the Horizon: Gertrude Stein & Quantum Physics” , (dis)junctions: Strange BedfellowsTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Riverside, CA,
    • “Ecocentering the Self: Thoreau, William Howitt, and the Environmental Imagination” , NaturesTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA,
    • “The ‘Defective and Disqualified Consumer’: Sylvia Plath, Existentialism, and the Proto-Neoliberal Regime” , Pacific Ancient and Modern Language AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Riverside, CA,
    • “From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies” , Southern California Rhetoric & Composition SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Irvine, CA, Fall Fall
    • “Bridging Expectational Gaps: Reviving Rhetoric in High School English Composition” , Southern California Rhetoric & Composition Research SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California, Irvine, CA,
    • “Promoting Conscientization: The Interrelatedness of Media, Identity, and Ideological Signifiers” , Cal Poly Pomona Graduate SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Spring Fall
    • “The Soul’s (Im)mortal Journey: Philosophical Intersections in Wordsworth’s ‘Ode’ and Phaedrus” , Cal Poly Pomona Graduate SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Spring Fall
    • “What Discourse Is and What Discourse Does: Facilitating Transitive Consciousness with Connectivity and Reflectivity” , Young Rhetoricians ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Monterey, CA, Spring Fall
    • “Language Acquisition Between Cultures: Strategies for Improving Phonological Awareness” , Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages ConventionTalk/Oral Presentation, New Orleans, LA, Spring Spri
    • “A Tale of Transformation: Gender Stress and Cultural Liberation in Eat a Bowl of Tea” , Cal Poly Pomona Graduate SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “The Role of L2 Proficiency in Communicative Tasks: Implications of Interactional Modification” , Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages ConventionTalk/Oral Presentation, Boston, MA,
    • “Vowel Epenthesis and Consonant Cluster Reduction: Developing English Pronunciation in a Spanish L2 Learner of English” , Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages ConventionTalk/Oral Presentation, Cal State Fullerton, CA,
    • “From Product to Process: Composition as Socio-Ideological Growth” , Rowland High School AVID ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Rowland Heights, CA,
    • “Reliably Unreliable: Narration as Qualitative and Syllogistic Progression in Remains of the Day” , Cal Poly Pomona Graduate SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • “The ‘I’ in Team: A Path to Self Discovery and Public Discourse in the First-Year Writing Course” , Cal Poly Pomona Graduate SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Cal Poly Pomona, CA,
    • (Spring 2023) WRIT 340. Advanced Writing, MWF 11:00am – 11:50am,
    • (Spring 2023) WRIT 340. Advanced Writing, MWF 01:00pm – 01:50pm,
    • (Spring 2023) WRIT 340. Advanced Writing, MW 02:00pm – 03:20pm,

  • Book

    • Leack, R. D. (2018). Quantum Rhetoric: The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Dissertation) University of California. pp. 356.

    Book Chapter

    • Leack, R. D. (2016). Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Dewey W. Hall). pp. 165-184.

    Book Review

    • Leack, R. D. (2021). Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World, by Slavoj Zizek Cleveland, OH: “Theory and Society” section, Cleveland Review of Books (forthcoming). (William Lennon).
    • Leack, R. D. (2019). What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, by Adam Becker San Diego, California. Basic Books.: Entropy Magazine. (Hanna Tawater).
    • 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 San Diego, California: Entropy Magazine. (Hanna Tawater).
    • Leack, R. D. (2012). Cosmonauts, by Jack Foster Pomona, California: A Few Lines Magazine. Vol. 3, (Jack Foster).

    Journal Article

    • Leack, R. D. (2019). From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Place-Based Autoethnography in First-Year Composition Centre County, PA: Composition Forum. Vol. 41., (Christian Weisser and Greg Giberson).
    • Leack, R. D. Enriching Entanglements: Sophistic Rhetoric and Quantum Mechanics (Under Review) State College, PA: Philosophy & Rhetoric.
    • 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
    • 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, 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
    • 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
    • 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, 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
    • 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
    • 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,
    • Dornsife Development Fund Award (USC), 2021-2022
    • Dornsife Development Fund Award (USC), 2020-2021
    • Professional Development Fund Award (UC Riverside), 2018-2019
    • Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship (UC Riverside), 2013-2014
    • Ted Pugh Poetry Prize (Cal Poly Pomona), 2011-2012
    • President’s Council Scholarship (Cal Poly Pomona), 2010-2011

  • Committees

    • Professional Development Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2019-CONT
    • Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Evaluation Committee for the English Teaching Assistantship, Office of Academic Programs, USC, 2022-2023
    • Lower Division Curriculum Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2021-2022
    • Professional Workshops Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2021-2022
    • RTPC/PT Caucus, Dornsife Faculty Council, Writing Program, USC, 2020-2021
    • Reading Group Sub-Committee, Professional Development Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC, 2018-2020

    Media, Alumni, and Community Relations

    • “Live Theory.” Co-Host Dornsife Writing Program podcast. Design, maintain site and audio (USC),
    • “Writing Remix Podcast.” Interviewed by Drs. Daniel Dissinger and Katherine Robison for the Writing Remix Podcast Episode 25 (Dornsife Writing Program, USC),
    • “Featuring Local and International Art at the Pomona Valley Review.” Interviewed by The Poly Post to discuss Pomona Valley Review (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • “Philosophy as a Way of Life.” Interviewed by “Filling the Blankhs,” a student community led by philosophy undergraduate Nikhil Gowda (UC Riverside),
    • “Literary Journal Resurrected.” Interviewed by The Poly Post to discuss the reemergence of Pomona Valley Review (Cal Poly Pomona), Spring Fall

    Other Service to the University

    • Workshop Leader, Freshman Seminar: “(W)rites of Passage,” a Joint Educational Project (JEP) and Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) (USC),
    • Instructor, Grading Contract Pilot Study for Writing 340 (USC), 2021-2022
    • Judge, Undergraduate Writers’ Conference, Proposal Category: “Professional/Moral Reasoning” (USC),
    • Moderator, Undergraduate Writers’ Conference, Proposal Category: “Analytical, Research, and Professional/Moral Reasoning” (USC),
    • Instructor, Grading Contract Pilot Study for Writing 150 (USC), 2020-2021
    • Reader, Analytical Writing Placement Exam (UC Berkeley, UCLA),
    • 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),
    • Guest Speaker, “Workshop on Writing for the Web and Journal Publishing,” with Pomona Valley Review, Harvest International, and The Poly Post (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Guest Speaker, “Applying to Ph.D. Programs,” by Dr. Dewey Hall (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Guest Speaker, “Publishers Q&A with Pomona Valley Review,” Mt. San Antonio College’s 10th Annual Writer’s Weekend (Mt. San Antonio College),
    • Organizer, Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Collective (UC Irvine),
    • Guest Speaker, “Applying to Graduate Programs: Strategies for the Obscure,” Summer Research Seminars (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Guest Speaker, “Life After Graduation: Stories from Recent EFL Alums,” by Drs. Dewey Hall and Kent Dickson (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Guest Speaker, “Applying to Ph.D. Programs,” by Dr. Dewey Hall (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Guest Speaker, English Graduate Orientation (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Guest Speaker, “Applying to Ph.D. Programs,” by Drs. Aaron DeRosa and Lise-He´le`ne Smith (Cal Poly Pomona), Fall Fall
    • Organizer, Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Symposium (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Module Designer, Expository Reading & Writing Course (Cal Poly Pomona), 2011-2012
    • Administrator, English Placement Test (Cal Poly Pomona),
    • Program Designer, South Basin Writing Project (CSULB),

  • Committees

    • “Professional Development Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC”, 2019-CONT
    • “Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Evaluation Committee for the English Teaching Assistantship, Office of Academic Programs, USC”, 2022-2023
    • “Lower Division Curriculum Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC”, 2021-2022
    • “Professional Workshops Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC”, 2021-2022
    • “RTPC/PT Caucus, Dornsife Faculty Council, Writing Program, USC”, 2020-2021
    • “Reading Group Sub-Committee, Professional Development Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, USC”, 2018-2020

    Conferences Organized

    • Chair, “Rhetorical Theory” (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association”,
    • Chair, “Multimedia Composition as a Practice of Relational Listening in Linguistically Diverse Writing Classrooms” (Panel), Relational Listening”,
    • Chair, “Beyond Persuasion: Rhetoric, Listening, Response-ability” (Panel), Rhetoric Society of America”,
    • Chair, “Rhetorical Theory” (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association”, Spring Fall
    • Chair, “Teaching Writing toward Democracy” (Panel), Conference on College Composition and Communication (Panel canceled due to Covid-19)”, Spring Spri
    • Chair, “Listening to Our Students: Rhetorical Listening and Response-ability in Writing Classes” (Panel), Rhetoric Society of America (Canceled due to Covid)”,
    • Chair, “(Re)Configuring First-Year Composition Courses as Common Places” (Panel), Conference on College Composition and Communication (Canceled due to Covid)”,
    • Chair, “Rhetorical Theory” (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association”,
    • Organizer, “Publishing Political Irony: Literary Arts with Pomona Valley Review” (Creative Writing Session), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association”,
    • Chair, “Military and State Violences” (Panel), (dis)junctions: Moving Voices”,
    • Chair, “Composition and Rhetoric II” (Panel), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association”,
    • Co-Host, “In Prose or In Verse 4: A Night with Pomona Valley Review” (Campus Event)”,
    • Host, “Poetry Reading, Open Mic, and Art Walk with Pomona Valley Review and Featured Poets” (Campus Event), Lingua Franca Speaker Series”,
    • Chair, “Imagining Alternatives: Ecology, Kinship, and Community” (Panel), (dis)junctions: Trauma and Mourning in a Time of Insecurity”,
    • Chair, “Poetry in (Digital) Process: A Poetry Reading and Publishing Discussion with Pomona Valley Review” (Panel), PAMLA”,
    • Chair, “Ideology and the Body” (Panel), (dis)junctions: Crude Matter”,
    • Chair, “I’m Naked Around You: Epistemology and the Technology of the Self” (Panel), (dis)junctions: Strange Bedfellows”,