Jennifer van Alstyne speaks virtually about
- online presence
- personal academic websites
- social media for faculty
- sharing your writing, research, leadership, and teaching online
Email me to talk about a workshop or professional development event for your group Jennifer@TheAcademicDesigner.com
2025
ContentEd Live 2025
Jennifer was on the event hosting team for this 48-hour global conference for content professionals in the education sector. She moderated and ran Q&A’s for 5 keynotes and 6 presentations. She hosted 2 Welcome to the Americas events and 3 between-session check-ins to keep the energy going, October 21-22, 2025
Social Media and Online Presence As Academics
An invited session for The Thriving PI Summit from Dr. Ana Pineda, about online presence for principal investigators and their research labs. Invite aligned collaborations, partnerships, and deeper engagement with your research through your research lab websites, personal academic websites, and digital presence for PIs, June 23-26
Promoting Your Book for Academics
A live virtual workshop with Dr. Sheena Howard designed to help academics and researchers amplify their work, attract media opportunities, and share their book or research in meaningful ways, April 12
I’ll update this page when the free course version of this workshop is launched for you!
2024
Online Presence for Your Research Lab
A choose your own adventure style workshop for the Sexual Health Equity and Empowerment Research (SHEER) Lab at the University of Central Florida as part of their group VIP Day on November 13
Personal Academic Websites and Online Presence
A live Q&A with Ana Pineda, PhD of I Focus And Write, Netherlands, November 10
Developing and Expanding your Academic Digital Presence
Guest speaker on personal academic websites for this faculty development workshop developed by Martine Cadet for Kean University in New Jersey, March 21
Build a Strong Online Presence for Faculty
A presentation for the STRONG STAR Training Initiative on March 3 and interactive group VIP Day with choose your own adventure activities on April 24
2023
Faculty Online Presence Really Matters: Here’s Why and How to Support Them
A presentation for the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) ReCON: ForwaRD! Virtual Conference, a session with Dr. Julia Barzyk of Wise Investigator, November 1-3
How Asking Client Questions Helps You and Them for Social Media Strategists
A presentation for the private Social Media Pro Platinum Mastermind with Kate Buck Jr., October 3
This presentation was also shared as an event in the Social Media Pro Connect Facebook Group.
Networking for Grad Students: Curating Your Professional Network
An Instagram Live panel with Adebukola Ajao and Dr. Emmanuela Stanislaus for the Grad School Success Summit (GSSS) hosted by Blk + In Grad School, May 24
Using Social Media to Reach Your Book’s Audience
An Instagram Live talk with Dr. Jane Jones of Up In Consulting, February 21
2022
10 Keys to Building an Incredible Brand for Academics
A live event with Dr. Sheena Howard on December 10 and December 11
Building Your Academic Presence on Social Media
An invited workshop and live session for the Public Management Research Association (PMRA), April 29
Your Curriculum Vitae Is For More Than A Job
An talk for Princeton University’s New Media Studio and GradFUTURES on the panel New Media & The Academic Job Search: Pedagogy, Service and the CV, April 4
2021
How to Get Professors and Grad Students Excited About Content Creation
A presentation for the All Day All Night 24-hour virtual conference, June 16-17
Grad Students, Talking About Yourself Online Can Help Your Real Life
An invited presentation for the Grad School Success Summit hosted by Blk + In Grad School, June 14-16
Talking About Yourself Online and How It Can Help Your Real Life
An invited workshop for the English students at Monmouth University by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society on April 14
2020
How to Manage Your Online Presence for Professors
An invited workshop for the faculty at Northeastern University, sponsored by the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development on November 17
How to Manage Your Online Presence for Graduate Students
An invited workshop for the graduate students of the Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment Engineering Research Center (NEWT ERC) at Rice University on November 4
Sharing Your Events on Social Media
An invited workshop for the presentation design Blast Off to Stellar Slides (BOSS) Community of Creative Research Communications from Echo Rivera in August
LinkedIn is Great for Faculty and Their Universities, Here’s Why and How to Get Started
A presentation, followed by a discussion with Dr. Carla Banks and Dr. Melanie Bruce of The Leveraged PhD on the Social Media for Academics panel for the All Day All Night 24-hour virtual conference in June 26-27
Stay Connected: Communicating with Empathy
A presentation for Naropa University in May
Stay Connected Online While Social Distancing
A virtual webinar in April
Thank you for sharing this event, Princeton University, GradFUTURES!
2019
Social Media for Students: Job Market Edition
An invited workshop for Technical Writing students of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette English Department, Lafayette, LA, March
2018
Science and Social Media: Using Instagram to Share Your Research
An invited webinar with Dr. Stephanie Watson (Twitter) for the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s (ARVO) Science Communication Training Fellowship program, October
The Landscape of The Wife’s Lament
A presentation for the Modern Language Association (MLA) panel #154 in New York City in January
Unable to attend due to weather
2017
Long Branch, U.S.A: Robert Pinsky’s Extended Metaphor for Tenuous Social Capital in America
A presentation for the American Literature Association Symposium on Regionalism and Place (ALA) in New Orleans, Louisiana in September
Political Wives and Wives as Politic: The Gender Roles of Alicia Florrick and Chaucer’s Alisoun of Bath
A presentation for the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference (PCA/ACA) in San Diego, California in April
Female Poets and Southern Identity: On the Place Poetics of Natasha Trethewey, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C.D. Wright
A presentation for the Deep South and the Global South Conference (DSGS) in Lafayette, Louisiana in April
2016
‘The Good Wife’ Then and Now: Feminism and Gender Roles on the Medieval Page and Television Screen
A presentation for the Literature/Film Association Conference (LFA) in Glassboro, New Jersey in October
2013
Aesthetics and Reality: Glenn Gould’s Scansioned Music
A presentation for the Northeast Regional Honors Council Conference (NRHC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April
Scansioned Music: A Glenn Could Collection
A presentation for the Honors School Research Conference at Monmouth University, Fall 2012
About the talk
Glenn Gould was a famous 20th century pianist, composer, conductor, and radio icon most well known for his Goldberg Variations. His drug addiction, hypochondria, and interpersonal relationships inspired this creative thesis, a collection of poetry based on his life. I have attempted to weave my personal experiences with music and his with both form and free verse – lending itself to the collection’s title, Scansioned Music. In turn, my writing has become my composition, my elegy, for him. The poem entitled “Orpheus” has been published in an earlier form in Midwest Literary Magazine.
Jennifer van Alstyne 