Jennifer van Alstyne is available for speaking engagements on topics like
- how your online presence can change your life
- social media
- personal websites
- sharing your work online
- starting my own business (often requested for graduate student groups)
Email me to talk about speaking with your group or organization. I am also available for virtual class visits.
Jennifer@TheAcademicDesigner.com
2022
New professional development workshop offerings are now available.
Building Your Academic Presence on Social Media
A virtual workshop and live session for the Public Management Research Association, April 29
Your Curriculum Vitae Is For More Than A Job
A 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 live 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
A live presentation for the Grad School Success Summit hosted by Black + In Grad School, June 14-16
Talking About Yourself Online and How It Can Help Your Real Life
A live workshop for the English students at Monmouth University, hosted by Sigma Tau Delta, April 14
2020
How to Manage Your Online Presence for Professors
A live workshop for the faculty at Northeastern University, sponsored by the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development, November 17
How to Manage Your Online Presence for Graduate Students
A live workshop for the graduate students of the Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment Engineering Research Center (NEWT ERC) at Rice University, November 4
Sharing Your Events on Social Media
A virtual workshop for the presentation design BOSS Community of Creative Research Communications from Echo Rivera, 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, June 26-27
Stay Connected: Communicating with Empathy
A video presentation for Naropa University, May
Stay Connected Online While Social Distancing
A webinar from The Academic Designer LLC, April
Thank you for sharing this event, Princeton University, GradFUTURES!
2019
Social Media for Students: Job Market Edition
An online workshop designed for Technical Writing students of the UL Lafayette English Department
Invited by Dr. Disha Acharya
Lafayette, LA, March
2018
Science and Social Media
Using Instagram to Share Your Research
A webinar with Dr. Stephanie Watson (Twitter)
Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s (ARVO)
Science Communication Training Fellowship program, October
The Landscape of The Wife’s Lament
MLA panel #154
New York City, January
[Unable to attend due to weather]
2017
Long Branch, U.S.A
Robert Pinsky’s Extended Metaphor for Tenuous Social Capital in America
ALA Symposium on Regionalism and Place
New Orleans, September
Political Wives and Wives as Politic
The Gender Roles of Alicia Florrick and Chaucer’s Alisoun of Bath
PCA/ACA National Conference
San Diego, April
[Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant]
Female Poets and Southern Identity
On the Place Poetics of Natasha Trethewey, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C.D. Wright
Deep South and the Global South Conference
Lafayette, LA, April
2016
‘The Good Wife’ Then and Now
Feminism and Gender Roles on the Medieval Page and Television Screen
Literature/Film Association Conference
Glassboro, NJ, October
[Lit/Film Association Travel Grant]
2013
Aesthetics and Reality
Glenn Gould’s Scansioned Music
NRHC Conference
Philadelphia, April
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