Invited
“The Art of Being a Wolf,” Charles Mann Endowed Lecture, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, March 2018.
“Picturing the Wolf: The Art, Lore, and Science of Being a Wolf in Children’s Books,” Guest speaker, the departments of Education, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, and English Literature Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, February 2011.
“Picturing the Wolf: The Art, Lore, and Science of Being a Wolf in Children’s Books,” Guest speaker and book signing, Dorsey Women Attorneys, Minneapolis, MN, October 2010.
“Picturing the Wolf: Visual Images and the Construction of Knowledge in Children’s Books.” Presentation and seminar. Literacy and Learning: A 20 Year Celebration, Hamline Literacy Summer Institute, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, July 2010.
“Taming the Wolf.” Oxford Roundtable on Children’s Literature: Allusions to Culture and Religion Since 1850, Pembroke College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March 2009.
“Picturing the Wolf: The Art, Artifice, and Science of Being a Wolf in Children’s Books,” Keynote lecture, Children’s Book Exhibit, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, September 2008.
Refereed
“Shooting Wolves: Photographs and the Re-Configuration of the Wolf in Nonfiction for Children.” Paper presentation, International Wolf Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, October 2018.
“After the Battle: Women, Books, and Children’s Libraries in Belgium from 1918 to 1924.” Paper presentation, Society for the History of Authors, Reading and Publishing, Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.
“Jungle Animals Raising the Man’s Cub: The Slipperiness of Otherness in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books.” Paper presentation, Children’s Literature Association, Boston, MA, June 2012.
“Grizzlies, Cougars, and Wolves: The Art and Science of Being an Alpha-predator in Contemporary Informational Books for Young People.” Paper presentation, Society for the History of Authors, Reading and Publishing, Washington D.C., July 2011.
“Grizzlies, Cougars, and Wolves: The Science of Being an Alpha-predator in Contemporary Informational Books for Young People.” Paper presentation, The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, and Medicine Conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, September 2008.
“Learning About the World and About Ourselves: The Depiction of Other Peoples, Cultures, and Countries in Children’s Picture Books from 1920-1940.” Paper presentation, Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Oxford, UK, June 2008.
Hogan, Timothy P. and Debra Mitts-Smith. “Health for Sale: The Images and Text of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements.” Paper presentation, 2008 National Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.
“From Predator to Friend: The Wolf in Contemporary Children’s Picture Books” Paper presentation, 2008 National Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.
“Life in the Pack: The Human Side of Wolves in Contemporary Children’s Picture Books.” Paper presentation, Family, Youth, and Literature Conference, sponsored by the UIUC Center for Children’s Books/Youth Literature Interest Group and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at University of Illinois, Allerton, IL, October 2006.
“Shooting Wolves: Photographs and the Re-Imaging of the Wolf in Children’s Information Books.” Paper presentation, Education and Print Culture Conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, September 2006.
“Taming the Wolf of Gubbio: A Medieval Miracle in a Post-Modern World.” Paper presentation, Trading Books—Trading Ideas, 14th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, The Hague, Holland, July 2006.
“Reversal, Revision, and Rehabilitation: The Transformation of the Big Bad Wolf in Contemporary Picture Books.” Paper presentation, Transformations, Children’s Literature Association Conference, Manhattan Beach, CA, June 2006.
“L’Heure Joyeuse: Children, Libraries, and Books in Brussels,1920 to 1938.” Poster presentation, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, January 2006.
“Not So Bad After All: Re-visioning, Reforming, and Redefining the Wolf in Contemporary Children’s Picture Books.” Poster presentation, DocSig, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, January 2006.
“Les Heures Joyeuses: Children’s Libraries and Educational Reconstruction in Belgium, 1920 to 1938.” Paper presentation at the Library History Seminar XI, University of Illinois, Allerton, IL, October 2005.
“The Visual Image of the Wolf: The Construction of Social, Cultural, and Scientific Knowledge in Children's Books.” Paper presentation, Children’s Literature International Summer School, National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, Roehampton University, London, England, August 2005.
“A Knock on the Door, a Gleam in the Eye: The Visual Image of the Wolf in 19th and 20th Century French and German Children’s Books.” Research presentation, Brown-bag Research Scholar’s Presentation, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, July 2005.
“Imaging Wolves in Illustrated Children’s Books” Poster presentation, GSLIS Research Showcase, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, March 2005.
“Of Capes, Bonnets, and Nightshirts: Walter Crane’s Imaging and Re-Imaging of Little Red Riding Hood.” Paper presentation, Visual Culture Conference, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 2005.
“A Knock on the Door, A Gleam in the Eye: The Visual Image of Wolves in French and English Fables, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and Children’s Books from the Seventeenth Century to the Present.” Poster presentation, DocSIG ,Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, January 2005.