Technical and Professional Communication Conferences
Applying EquilibriUX to (Re)Envision Technical and Professional Writing Curriculum. CPTSC. Lubbock, TX. October 2025.
Expanding Professionalism’s Intersectional Potential Through EquilibriUX: A teaching case study. SigDoc. Lubbock, TX. October 2025.
Challenging Professional Norms through Narrative Inquiry and Disability Justice: A teaching case study. ProComm. Denmark. July 2025.
Integrating Narrative Inquiry with Collaborative Rubrics to Promote Social Justice in Professional Writing Courses. Association of Business Communication International Conference. Tulsa, OK. October 2024.
Developing AI Literacy through discussion and practice: A reflection on an AI seminar. ACM. SigDoc. Arlington, VA. October 2024.
Engaging Narrative Inquiry to Further the Social Justice Potential of Collaborative Rubrics in Technical and Professional Communication. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). Remote. June 2024.
“Integrating generative AI in the writing classroom: An evidence-based approach.” Sam Houston State University Digital Education Summit. Co-presenters: Brandon C. Strubberg & Carroll Nardone. Remote. September 2023.
“Forging Connections and Fostering Conversations: Artificial Intelligence in the TPC Classroom.” Co-presenters: Brandon C. Strubberg & Carroll Nardone. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. Charleston, SC. September 2023. (Dr. Nardone attended only due to funding limitations)
“How to Navigate Shifting Tides: Mapping Technical Writing Students’ Use of Artificial Intelligence.” ProComm. Co-presenters: Brandon C. Strubberg & Carroll Nardone. Ithaca, NY. July 2023.
“Prioritizing Intersectional Understandings of Disability in Standardized Digital Classroom Spaces through a Combination of User-Experience and Universal Design Methods.” Association of Business Communication. Remote. October 2022.
“Framing Access as Justice in Digital Class Design through a Combination of User-Experience and Universal Design Methods.” Computers and Writing: Remote. May 2022.
“Nothing About Us Without Us: Analyzing Discourse on Disability Twitter to Develop More Inclusive and Accessible Workplace Communications.” Co-presenter: Mark Hannah. Association of Business Communication: Remote. October 2021.
“Fostering Inclusive Documentation Practices by Teaching Disability Studies in Technical and Professional Communication: A Case Study.” Association for Business Communication. Online. October 2020.
“Interrogating Normalizing Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices in Professional Writing through Disability Studies.” ProComm. Remote. July 2020.
“Access as a Dynamically Embodied Process: Fostering Inclusive Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices in Technical Writing through a Spirit of Universal Design.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. March 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
“The Multifaceted-Nature of Access in Online Learning Environments.” (Roundtable) Computers and Writing: East Lansing, MI. June 2019. Presented remotely due to funding constraints.
Rhetoric, Composition, and Rhetorics of Health and Medicine Conferences
“We Are All Disabled”: The Limits and Possibilities of Disability Justice Rhetoric.” Co-presenters: Jared Colton, Steve Holmes, and Rachel Bryson. Rhetoric Society of America. Denver, CO. May 2024.
“Promoting Anti-Ableist Abundance in Technical and Professional Communication through Critical Collaborative Rubric Construction.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA. March 2024.
“Dwelling in Rhetorical Possibility By Interrogating Ableism’s Circulation Across Self-Care Documents.” Rhetorics of Health and Medicine Symposium. Remote. October 2023.
2023 “Enacting Disability Access as Justice in Academic Conferences through Twitter Analysis.” Conference on College Composition and Communication: Chicago, Illinois. February 2023.
“A Charge for Change in University Self-Care Documents through the Rejection and Replacement of Ableist Assumptions.” Rhetoric Society of America: Remote. May 2022.
“Interrogating Commonplaces in Technical and Professional Communication through Disability Studies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication: Remote. April 2021.
“Interrogating the Role of Self-Care Documents and Documentation Practices in the Rhetorical Circulation of Ableism Across University Spaces.” Rhetorics of Health and Medicine Symposium. Remote.
“Disabling Hospitality: Cultivating Neurodiverse Rhetorical Engagement through the Redesign of Social Networks for those with Disabilities. Rhetoric Society of America: Portland, Oregon. May 2020. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Overwriting Neoliberal Neutrality in Composition Department Documents through Cripistemological Coalition and Mētic Differential Consciousness.” Conference on College Composition and Communication: Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 2020. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Reading, Writing, and Learning with Our Students: A Workshop on Designing Case Studies for Teacher Research in the Writing Classroom.” (Workshop). ASU Composition Conference: Tempe, AZ. February 2020.
“Cultivating Coalition Among Individuals with Disabilities in Digital Interfaces: A Feminist Post-Structural Analysis of The Mighty and /r/Anxiety.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference: Harrisonburg, Virginia. November 2019.
“Universal (Re)design of Digital Classrooms Through a Spirit of Flexibility.” Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Austin, Texas. October 2019.
“Embracing Universal Design in Departmental Document Construction through Mētic Differential Consciousness.” Council of Writing Program Administrators: Baltimore, Maryland. July 2019.
“Combating Neoliberal Neutrality through Intersectional Coalitions of Difference.” Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Austin, TX. October 2018.
“Combating War-Time Commodification: Reconstructing Female Identity Through Craft” and“Critical Narrative as a Liberatory Space: The Impact of Collective Narratives Upon Trauma Victims.” Rhetoric Society of America: Minnesota, MN. June 2018.
Tutoring and Residential Learning Conferences
“Connecting Learning to Life: Bridging the Gap Between Academics and Student Affairs Through a Residential Retention Initiative.” Association for the Tutoring Profession: Nashville, TN. 2014.
“Using Qualitative Assessment in Student-Centered Programming.” Kean University 2014 Assessment Institute: Union, NJ. 2014.
Kristin C. Bennett, Ph.D. 