Conferences, Presentations and Interviews
When A Stranger Comes To Town
Caroline Davies interviews Diane Comer
Down in Edin Magazine, Issue 18, 2019
Bookenz radio — Ruth Todd interviews Diane Comer
Bookenz interviews with writers and poets, Plains FM 96.9 Radio and Access Internet Radio, 18 min., 2 July 2019
‘Distance looks our way’: The Geography of Emotion in Migrant Personal Essays
The History of Emotions Conference at Stout Research Centre Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. September 2015
Writing Between Two Shores
19th Australasian Association of Writing Programs AAWP Conference – Minding the Gap, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. December 2014
Braided Narratives: Migrant Experiences and the Personal Essay
Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Multidisciplinary Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. November 2014
University of Oxford doctoral scholarship experience
Women on Air radio interview by Ruth Todd on Plains FM 96.9 Christchurch, New Zealand. September 2011 (16½ min. playing time, 16 mb file)
Navigating Identity: Migrants and the Personal Essay
Writing the Future: Tertiary Writing Network Colloquium, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. December 2010
Teaching the Personal Essay – Migration and Identity
Women on Air radio interview by Ruth Todd on Plains FM 96.9 Christchurch, New Zealand. August 2010 (16 min. playing time, 15.5 mb file)
The Last Friday Reading Series
Main Street Coffee and News, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. September 2006
Gender and Childhood Trauma: Creative Responses
The Art of Gender in Everyday Life III Conference, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. March 2006
Poetry & Prose reading
Main Street Coffee and News, Pocatello, Idaho. September 2005
Tazzini chapbook publication reading
Main Street Coffee and News, Pocatello, Idaho. March 2004
Collaboration & the Hybrid Curriculum: Rethinking General Education Courses in English
Twentieth Computers & Writing Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. June 2004.
Poetry & Prose Series
Bas Bleu Theatre, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. April 1996
Live from Prairie Lights Books
Radio broadcast reading on WSUI AM 910, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. January 1996
Colorado Council for the Arts Fellowship Reading
Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado. August 1992
Contact Diane
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