ACADEMIC PAPERS AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
“The Psychocybernetics of Graduate School
Publication.” South Central Modern Language Association, 1976.
“Backing Up to the Road Not Taken.” Modern
Language Association, 1978.
“The Contributions of the Social Dramatists.”
American Studies Association of Texas, 1978.
“The Play Within the Play: Clifford Odets'
Waiting for Lefty.” South Central Modern Language Association, 1978.
“Some Approaches to Freshman Composition.”
Conference of College Composition and Communication, 1981.
“Back in the Saddle Again: Or How to Die
With Your Boots On: An Analysis of Preston Jones' Humor.” South Central Modern
Language Association, 1982.
“The Artist at War: The Vietnam Experience.”
Popular Culture Association, 1983.
“New Wars for Old: Archetypes in Literary
Response to Vietnam.” South Central Modern Language Association, 1983.
“Come Home Larry, All is Forgiven.” Popular
Culture Association, 1984.
“It's a Rave, It's a Pan, It's a Supercritic!”
Popular Culture Association, 1984.
“Come On Back, Cadillac Jack: A Native Son
Seeks His Direction.” South Central Modern Language Association, 1984.
“Exploding the Myths: One Author's Response
to War.” American Studies Association of Texas, 1984.
“The Breadth of Vision in One Regional Playwright:
A Look at the Popularity of Preston Jones.” Popular Culture Association, 1985.
“Studies in Slant Rhyme: Using Karnow's
Vietnam: A Television History.” Popular Culture Association, 1985.
“The Voice of Preston Jones: The People
Speak.” Western American Literature Association, 1985.
“Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin:
Sister Sirens of Wall Street.” American Studies Association of Texas, 1985.
“We'll Be Back Right After These Messages:
The Complexities of Radio Drama.” Popular Culture Association, 1986.
“Stranger Than Truth: Filling in the Gaps
of the Intimate Image in Fictional Biography.” South Central Modern Language
Association, 1986.
“What Does it Take to be a Texas Writer?
: Reflections on the Success of Texas Literature.” American Studies Association
of Texas, 1986.
“Remembering the Alamo: A Comment on the
New Colonization of Texas.” American Studies Association of Texas, 1987.
“The Role of the Artist in Popular Culture.”
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, 1988.
“Country and City Images in Popular Culture.”
Popular Culture Association, 1988.
“Crossing the Line of Poetic Biography: Andrew Hudgen's Narrative of the life of Sidney Lanier.” American Studies Association of Texas: 1988.
“A Review of Reviews.” Texas Association
of Creative Writing Teachers, 1989.
“An Interview: Contemporary Literature with
Kenneth Davis.” Popular Culture Association, 1989.
“Images of the Cowboy: The Search for the
Horseman.” National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration: The Culture of the American
Cowboy, 1989.
“Public and Private Voices: The Writer's
View.” Western Literature Association, 1989.
“To Pan or Not to Praise: The Importance
of Review Writing to the Publishing World.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
1989.
“John Wayne and Davy Crockett, Paul Newman
and Roy Bean, Robert Redford and the Sundance Kid, Billy Bone and William Bonney:
Square Pegs in Round Holes: Making the Myth Real in Anything for Billy.”
South Central Modern Language Association, 1989.
“Professor Scholarwriter, Come on Down!:
The Vagaries of the Great American Academic Job Hunt Game.” American Studies
Association of Texas, 1989.
“What You Hear is What You See: The Creative
Challenge of Radio Drama.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1990.
“The Texas Blacklands: Where the West Begins,
Or Where the South Ends?” Conference: The Texas Blacklands: Land, History, and
Culture, Baylor University, 1990.
“Texas Fiction in the Nineties: Something
of a Response.” UNT Centennial Literary Festival, University of North Texas,
1990.
“The Profits of Prose: Autobiography and
Regional Fiction.” Conference: “Telling Our Stories”: A Festival of Contemporary
Autobiography, Austin College, 1990.
“Melding the Historical With the Credible:
Research and the Writing of Fiction.” Western Writers of America, 1990.
“Pyrric Paradoxes, Vocational Victories:
The Sad State of the Great American Short Story.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association, 1990.
“Profs and Pros: The Clash of the Titans,
Part II: An Essay and A Response.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers,
1991.
“Writing Along with Workshops.” Popular
Culture Association, 1991.
“Getting Started: From Creative Writing
Class to 'Published Author.'“ Science Fiction Research Association, 1991.
“Defining the Southwest Through the Vernacular of Fictional Characters.” Center for the Study of the Southwest Faculty Symposium, 1993.
“Being Creative: A Treatise on the Concept
of Creative Being.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1995.
“After Lonesome Dove: McMurtry’s
Depressed.” South Central Modern Language Association, 1999.
“Using Humor and Satire to Diffuse Violence
in Western Fiction.” Southwest Popular Culture Association, 2001.
“The Beginning.” Popular Culture Association, 2005.
“Which Way Did They Go: What Happened to the Western: Backtrailing for Affirmation.” American Studies Association of Texas, 2005.
“Teaching Students to Write Short Fiction.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2007.
“Creative Writing Workshops.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2008.
“The First Western American Writer: Hugh Henry Brackenridge.” Western Literature Association, 2008.
“Origins of Fictional Ideas.” South Central Modern Language Association, 2008.
“Does the Workshop Work?” International Conference on Arts & Humanities, 2009.
“Icons of the American Western Hero.” Western Literature Association, 2010.
“Let’s Go: The Wild Bunch as Watershed.” Western Literature Association, 2012.