2001-2002

2000-2001

Conference Paper: "The Enneagram Intelligences: New Approaches to Motivation and Personality Types in the Honors Classroom" given at the October 2000 convention of the National Collegiate Honors Council in Washingtton D.C.
Presentation: "The Enneagram Intelligences: New Approaches to Motivation and Personality Types in the Honors Classroom," SJU/CSB Learning Enhancement Services, March, 2001.
Presentation: "Electronic Workbooks, Wieldable Webs:  Approaches to the New Technologies in the Modern and Classical Languages Classroom."  MCL Department Presentation, October 2000.

Talks, Essays and Presentations as President of Saint John's Preparatory School. Topics:
Benedictine values and education, excellence in teaching and technology, the globalization of
education, the importance of study abroad, community service in the life of adolescents.

Conference Team Presentation: "Great Teaching Seminar," A one-day workshop conducted for 20 honors
directors and teachers at the National Collegiate Honors Council convention in Saint Louis,
October 1993. With Michael McHargue and Rinda West.

Paper: "Contemplation and Metaphor in Works of Rainer Maria Rilke." Given for the monastic
chapter of Saint John's Abbey, March 1993.
Panel Presentation: "Using the Mainframe Computer for Teaching Writing and Discussion."
Session organized by the SJU/CSB Learning Enhancement Services, December 5, 1992.
Presentation and Demonstration: "Getting Started on the Vax." Session organized by the
SJU/CSB Learning Enhancement Services, Jan. 1993.
Presentation: "Now That Your Classroom is Electronicized." SJU/CSB Learning Enhancement
Services, March, 1993.

Conference Paper: "Rainer Maria Rilke unter den Trappisten: Thomas Mertons Gebrauch von Rilkes
Gedichten in der Unterricht von Novizen in einem amerikanischen Kloster." [Rainer Maria Rilke
among the Trappists: Thomas Merton's Use of Rilke's Poetry in the Teaching of Novices in an
American Monastery.] Conference of the International Rilke Society at Sorbonne University,
Paris, September 1991.

Panel Presentation: "Does the SJU/CSB Curriculum Over-Emphasize Western Civilization?"
Session organized by Richard Ice and the SJU/CSB Forum Debate Society, November 1990.
Conference Panel Presentation: "Building Successful Honors Programs in Liberal Arts Colleges." Member
of a panel to inaugurate the Minnesota Collegiate Honors Council in a session organized by
John Deanhart, Philosophy Department, Saint Cloud State University, October 1990.
Presentation: "Moral Imagination and Liberal Arts in the 1990's: The Special Contributions of
Small Catholic Colleges." Phoenix area alumni gathering, October 1990.

Faculty Colloquium: "Hermitesses, Shrews, and Ornery Husbands: The Fate of Medieval
Narrative in the Early 13th Century," November 1989 at Saint John's University.
Conference Paper: "Great Books and Great Ideas: New Approaches for Today's Students," given at the
October 1989 convention of the National Collegiate Honors Council in New Orleans.
Panel Presentation: "The Stanford Controversy: Tradition vs. Pluralism." Session organized by
John Young for Parents Day at St. John's University. Together with Janet McNew.
Conference Keynote: "Tradition and New Needs: The Pros and Cons of Teaching Classic Texts and
Perennial Ideas Today." UMHC conference at Illinois Benedictine College.
Panel Presentation: "Benedictine Values in the Workplace." Chaired by Jeana Koenig for the
Administrative Assembly of Saint John's University. Together with Michael Naughton, Tom
Andert, Gordon Tavis, Jonathan Licari.
Faculty Workshop: "Plato's Meno and Honors Pedagogy." Three-day workshop conducted for
Honors faculty and students of Saint Leo's College, Saint Leo, Florida

Conference Presentation: "New Approaches to Teaching Great Works," given at the 1989 Annual
Conference of the Upper Midwest Honors Council at the University of Minnesota, April 1989.
Presentation: "The Critical Years: Tasks and Promises of an Undergraduate Liberal Arts
Education," given at the Saint John's University National Advisory Council Meeting, October
1988.
Presentation: "Martha Nussbaum's Moral Imagination," given at the June Workshop for Senior
Seminar Faculty, led by John Klassen, OSB.
Address: "Elements of Leadership," given at the Stillwater High School graduation honors banquet.

Paper: "The Irony of Values in Heinrich von Kleist's 'Erdbeben in Chili,'" presented at the
National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar at Stanford University, led by
Professor Lilian Furst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Paper: "A Precarious Pedagogy: The Parables of Franz Kafka and Jesus Christ," presented at
the annual faculty workshop at Saint John's University.
Presentation: "Internationalizing Undergraduate Education: The Importance of Modern
Languages and Study Abroad in the 1980's," given to the student body and faculty of Saint
John's Preparatory School.

Paper: "Sinful Saint, Holy Shrew: Gender and Genre in the Stricker's 'Eingemauerte Frau,'"
presented at the 1985 International Medievalists' Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in a
section titled "Feminist Re-readings of Medieval Texts," chaired by Professor Margaret
Schleissner, Haverford College.
Presentation: "The Awareness of Self: Study Abroad at a Tender Age," presented at 20th
Anniversary Academic Convocation at the Stiftsgymnasium in Melk, Austria.
Presentation: "New Research in the Literary Genres of the Early 13th Century," presented at
the St. John's University Medievalists' Colloquium, led by Fr. Wilfred Theisen, OSB.

Paper: "Narrator Reliability and the Reader's Freedom in W.H. Wackenroder's
'Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders,'" presented at the 1982 American
Association of Teachers of German Congress in New York City, in a section chaired by
Professor Herbert Lederer, University of Connecticut.
Conference Presentation: "Our Use of Language and the Search for Peace," given at the annual regional Pax
Christi Conference at Princeton, chaired by Elizabeth Schorske, Princeton University.