Conference Papers:

• “Snapshots of Hockey's Arena: 1953 and 2013". Visioning and Re-Visioning Hockey's Arena. University of Western Ontario. London, June, 2014.


• “Hogarth, Spectatorship and the Jacobite Executions". Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Annual Meeting. Edmonton, October, 2012.


• “The Literature on Hockey's 'Bad Boys'”. Constructing the Hockey Family. Putting It on the Ice III: St. Mary's University, Homberg Centre for Wellness and Sport. Halifax, July 14, 2012.


• “Another English Translation of The Memoirs of the Chevalier de Johnstone and Why Should Anyone Care?” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Annual Meeting. Hamilton, October 2011.


• “’A Dialogue betwixt General Wolfe, and the Marquis Montcalm, in the Elysian Fields’: Lucianic Satire or British Propaganda?” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Annual Conference. Ottawa, Ontario. November 7, 2009.


• "A Commemorative Lecture on David Foster Wallace," Halifax Public Library. September 15, 2009.


• “A Representation of Collage Before Collage? The Great Trompe-l'Oeil or Medley Print.” The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Bubbles of 1720. Beinecke Library and Yale School of Management. April 17-19, 2008.


• “Intertextuality and Commemoration: Bubble Prints and Playing Cards.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Annual Conference. Portland, Oregon. March 27-30, 2008.


• “The Practice and Function of Hockey Photography, 1945-55.” Canada and the League of Hockey Nations Conference. University of Victoria. April 19-21, 2007.


• "Thomas Bowles' Commemorative Prints and Playing-Cards: Popular Art and the South Sea Bubble," Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fredericton Conference, September 30, 2005; also the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Trois-Rivieres Conference, October 20, 2005.


• "David Foster Wallace and Writing Tennis: Game, Set, Match." Sports Literature Association. 22^nd Annual Conference. Iowa State University. June 23, 2005.


• "EndNote and HIP (Hockey in Print): Establishing and Maintaining an Interactive, Annotated Online Bibliography." ACCUTE/COCH Joint Session. Congress 2004. University of Manitoba. May 30, 2004.
• "Women's Hockey in Print (WHIP): A Literature Review." Women's Hockey: Gender Issues On and Off the Ice. Gorsebrook Research Institute / Centre for the Study of Sport. Saint Mary's University. March 28, 2004.
• "Abduction to America: Peter Williamson, Lord Annesley and the English Novel." Eighteenth Annual DeBartolo Conference. University of South Florida. February 19, 2004.
• "The Sports/Hockey Raconteur: Telling the Story of Eddie Shore and the Springfield Indians." Sports Literature Association, Annual Conference, Springfield College, 2003.
• "Fictionalizing America: Curious and Capital Speculations," Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Halifax Conference, November 2001.
• "The Origin, Idealization and Romance of the North American Indigene," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Saskatoon Conference, October 2001.
• "To Play or Not to Play: Gerry Mcneil and the 1953 NHL Playoffs," Putting it on Ice, Gorsebrook Research Institute Conference . St. Mary's University, October 2001.
• "An Interdisciplinary Reading/Viewing: Thomas Bowles' Medley Prints of the 1720 Bubbles," ACCUTE, Edmonton Conference, May 26, 2000.
• "In the Wake of Crusoe: The Multifarious Narratives in Rufus Chetwood's Travel Novels of the 1720s," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dublin Conference, July 1999.
• "The Chetwoods in Ireland: A Theatrical Family," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dublin Conference, July 1999.
• "Laguerre's Scenes of the Battle of Blenheim: Official Decoration and the Popular Press, " Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Annual Conference, September 1998.
• - "Critical Awareness and the Theatricality of Hockey," Invited Lecture and Panel Discussion, Kamloops Art Gallery, October 3, 1998. [invited]
• "The Interactive Web We Weave," ISETA (International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives), with Jason Merry, October 1997.
• "William III and the Spectacle of War," Purcell Symposium: A Tercentenary Festival, King's College University, Halifax, November 1995.

Updated: August 11, 2014.