Publications & Presentations
Publications
Canfield, D. "The Best Class You've Never Been To: (Second) Life (Role) Play." in Stone, L. and Wilson-Duffy, C., eds. Task-Based III: Expanding the Range of Tasks through the Web. International Association for LanguageLearning Technology, 2009, pp. 227-235.
Purple Patches, Ars and Decorum, Hole and Overflow: Ekphrasis in Horace's Ars Poetica ." Utah Foreign Language Review (1994): 163-167.
Conference Presentations
Papers Accepted
"Breathing a SecondLife into the L2 Curriculum : Google, Gaming, and Language Learning for the GNUbie." Henderson Plenary Award Winner. 2007 Meeting of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), Tufts University, Medford, MA, June 19-23, 2007
"Beyond 'collaborative' VoIP: Using Skype/Gizmo to model, practice, and assess Communicative and Socio-Cultural Competence."2007 Meeting of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), Tufts University, Medford, MA, June 19-23, 2007
“Engaging Interculture: Creating Internet2-Based Discourse Communities for Instruction and Research.”
2007 Meeting of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), Tufts University, Medford, MA, June 19-23, 2007
Papers Presented
“Leveraging Skype to Facilitate Authentic Language Use in the L2 Classroom.” 9th Annual Teaching and
Learning with Technology Conference, West Lafayette, IN, March 1-2, 2006.
"Towards New Media: Music as Bridge in the French Curriculum." 5th Foreign Language Education and Technology Conference, Provo, UT, August 5-10, 2005
"Performance and Technology." 46th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO. November 4-7, 2004.
"Marie de France--New Philologist? Towards a Synthesis in Lanval ." 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 2-5, 2002.
" The New Medievalism and Its Discontents: Towards a New Ekphrasis ." 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 3-6, 2001.
"Allegorizing the Purple Patch: Transformations of Horatian Ekphrasis in the Roman de la Rose and other Medieval Allegories." 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 4-7, 2000.
"' Le veir vus en dirai sanz faile ': Marie's remembrance of Lanval, and its import on the Prologue and the Arthurian canon." 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 8-11, 1997.
"The New Rage: Rhetorical Impulse and Sexual Desire in Guillaume de Lorris' Roman de la Rose ." 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 9-12, 1996.
"Mad Lovers, Mad Poets, and Horatian Decorum." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Meeting, Logan, UT. May 2, 1995.
Invited papers
"Ekphrasis: What the Medievals Knew and the New Medievalists Ignore." Department of French and Italian Lecture Series, Brigham Young University. October 5, 2000.
"Madness!: Rhetorical and Poetical Theatrics in Guillaume de Lorris' Roman de la Rose ." Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Oklahoma. November 15, 1995.