Papers and Speeches Given
(ordered chronologically)

Reading of selected poems.  Annual Conference of the Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Carmel, California, January 1965.

“Mormon Ethics.”  Forum address at Stanford L.D.S. Institute, Palo Alto, California, November, 1965.

“Dialogue—The Idea and the Journal.”  Presentation at Salt Lake City, Utah: L.D.S. Institute, 1966.

“Vietnam and Mormon Theology.”  Speech for BYU’s “Academics Emphasis Week,” March 1967.

“Modern Literature and Religious Experience.”  Paper read at Salt Lake City, Utah:  L.D.S.  Institute, 1969.

“Mormon Literature Past and Future.”  Presentation at Brigham Young University Humanities College Forum, October 1974.

“Frederick Goddard Tuckerman:  A Poet for Mormons.”  Paper read at English Department  “Loaf and Jug,” BYU, October 1974.

“Great Books or True Religion?  Defining the Mormon Scholar,” Phi Kappa Phi Lecture, BYU, April 1975.

“Mormon Biography.” Presentation to Andrew Jenson Club, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1976.   (Sponsored by L.D.S. Church History Institute)

“ ‘Deseret’ Through the Eyes of a Gentile Visitor: Elizabeth Kane’s Letters as Literature.” Paper read at “Utah History” workshop, Women’s Resource Center, UofU, October 1976.

“Conservative and Liberal:  The Scylla and Charybdis of Mormonism.” Graduation address.  Salt Lake City L.D.S. Institute, May 1977.

“Whipple’s The Giant Joshua:  Not the Great Mormon Novel But the Greatest.”  Paper read to English Department Faculty Seminar, BYU, November 1977.

“Brigham Young and Spencer Kimball.”  Forum address, Ogden L.D.S. Institute, Ogden, Utah, October 1978.

“Knowledge without Zeal.” Essay on Honors Program education, read at the Humanities College Faculty Meeting, BYU, December 1978.

“The Lord’s University.”  Honors Program “Flea Market Lecture.” BYU, September 1979.

“The Scriptural Motivations for Education.” Flea Market Lecture sponsored by Honors Program,  BYU, October 1979.

Reading of selected poems. “A Parcel of Poets,” sponsored by English Department, BYU, November 1979.

“The Dawning of a Brighter Day:  Mormon Literature after 150 years.”  Redd Lecture, BYU, February 1980.

Reading of selected poems.  Sponsored by Association for Mormon Letters, Provo, Utah, March 1980.

“Joseph Smith and the Dilemmas of American Romanticism.”  Paper read at the Mormon History Association annual Meeting, New York City, New York, May 1980.

“Brigham Young and the Mormon Intellectual Tradition.” Paper read at Andrew Jenson Club, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1980. (Sponsored by LDS Church History Institute.)

“The Progression and Perfection of God: Two Realms of Experience and Two Modes of  Discourse.”  Paper read at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah,  August 1980.

“Brigham Young and the Mormon Intellectual Tradition.”  Honors Program “Flea Market Lecture,” BYU, September 1980.

“Obedience and Integrity: The Paradox of Selfhood.”  President’s Address to the Association for Mormon Letters, Ogden, Utah, October 1980.

“Joseph Smith and the Tragic Quest.”  Paper read at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Denver, Colorado, October, 1980.

“`This Tempest in My Mind’:  King Lear and Tragic Redemption.” Seminar paper at the World Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, August 1981.

“The Atonement.”  Critique of paper at Sunstone Theological Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1981.

“Education as Trial and Adventure.” Presentation to Freshman Honors Conference, BYU, October, 1981.

“C.S. Lewis and the Decay of Young Mormon Minds.”  Presentation to English Honorary Society, BYU, January 1982.

“Can Nations Love Their Enemies?”  Paper read at Symposium on War and Peace at Brigham Young University, March 1982.

“Cordelia and Paulina: Shakespeare’s Healing Dramatists.”  Seminar paper at the Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April             1982.

“The Forms of Loss in Tuckerman’s ‘Elegy’.” Paper read at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Ogden, Utah, April 1982.

“Cordelia’s Offensive and Healing Love.”  Paper read at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Ogden, Utah, April 1982.

“Enduring.” Personal essay read at the Eastern Meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters, Boston, Massachusetts, June 4–5, 1982.

“King Lear and the Atonement: Improving Human Relationships through Mercy.”  Paper read in  “Let’s Talk” Lecture Series at Brigham Young University, July 29, 1982.

“Nations Can Love Their Enemies: A Mormon Theology of Peace.” paper read at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 27, 1982.

“Cordelia and Paulina, Shakespeare’s Healing Dramatists.”  Paper read at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1982.

“Hawthorne and the Virtue of Sin.”  Paper read at Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature Symposium, BYU, January 1983.

“The Possibility of a Mormon Social Services.”  Presentation at Midyear Meeting of Collegium Aesculapium.  The BYU Academy of Medicine, Park City, Utah, February 1983.

“Brigham Young’s University and the Music of Hope for This Planet.” Speech at Honors Program Annual Banquet, BYU, March 1983.

“The Direction of Mormon Literature.” Presentation to English Honorary Society, BYU, March 1983.

“Billy Budd and the Insanity Defense.” Presentation to Harvard Forum, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1983.

“Resolved:  Mormons Are Christians.” Presentation and debate,  sponsored by Sunstone Foundation, University of Utah, April 1983.

“Are Women More Free Under the Patriarchy?: The Evidence of Mormon Literature.”  Paper read at the Association of Mormon Letters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1983.

Reading of selected poems.  The Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Logan, Utah, April 1983.

“The Bard as Puritanical Libertine?”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Shakespeare Association of America, Ashland, Oregon, April 7–8, 1983.

“Brigham Young as Orator: The Language of Tradition and Perception.” Paper presented at the Mormon History Association meetings, Omaha, Nebraska, May 6, 1983.

“What It Means to be A Mormon Christian.”  Paper read at the 1983 Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 26, 1983.

“Thayer’s Ode to a Redtail Hawk.”  Paper read at the annual meetings of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Glendale, Arizona, October 1983.

“My Kinsmen: Major Molineux, the Mob and Myself.”  Paper read at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Glendale, Arizona, October 1983.

“The Wilderness Connection: Salvation in Peterson’s The Canyons of Grace.”  Paper read at Western Literature Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 1983.

“Cordelia’s Tough Love and the Cruxes of Lear.”  Paper read at the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Barbara, California, November 1983.

“Shakespeare and Melville.” Presentation to English Honorary Society, BYU, November 1983.

“Obedience and Integrity.”  Presentation to “Eccles Study Group,” Los Angeles, California, January 1984.

“Hawthorne and the Virtue of Sin.” Christianity and Literature, Regional Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 1984.

“`Unto the Grecians Foolishness’: Shakespeare’s Rejection of Classical Ethics.”  Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1984.

“Shakespeare and the Atonement.”  Forum Address, BYU, June 1984.

“Why the Church is as True as the Gospel.” Paper read at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1984.

“Unto the Grecians. Foolishness: Shakespeare’s Rejection of Classical Ethics.”  Paper read at the RMMLA, El Paso, Texas, October 1984.

“Life’s Absolute Boundary: Dickinson and Larson on Death.” Paper read at the RMMLA, El Paso, Texas, October 1984.

“Thayer’s Ode to a Redtail Hawk.”  Paper read at the Western Literature Association, Reno, Nevada, October 1984.

“Brigham Young in England.” Church Education Symposium, Manchester, England, June 1985.

“Brother Brigham.”  Church Education Symposium, Belfast, Ireland, June, 1985.

“Fasting and Food, Not Weapons:  A Mormon Response to Conflict.” Paper read at the Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1985.

“On Finding Truth and God:  From Hope to Knowledge to Skepticism to Faith.”  Personal essay read at the Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1985.

“Herman Melville’s Billy Budd.”  International Cinema Lecture. BYU, September 1985.

“Levi Peterson.” Lecture for Ogden Writers’ Series, Utah Endowment for the Humanities,  Ogden, Utah, October 1985.

“Tarkovsky’s Religious Vision.” International Cinema Lecture, BYU, October 1985.

“Fasting and Food, Not Weapons:  A Mormon Response to Conflict.” Day of Peace sponsored by Future Lawyers against War, BYU, November 1985.

“Living with Mormons and Working for Peace Together.”  Ecumenical Peace Vigil, Community Congregational Church, Provo, Utah, November 1985.

“Melville’s Confidence Man as Readers’ Judge.”  Paper read at the English Department Colloquium, BYU, December 1985.

“New Evidence for the Book of Mormon from Northrop Frye and Rene Girard.” Paper read at Association for Mormon Letters, Ogden, Utah, January 1986.

“Martin Luther King’s Legacy of Non-violence.”  Presentation at rally honoring Martin Luther King, BYU, January 1986.

“Becoming Bone of Bone and Flesh of Flesh.”  Paper read at Women’s Conference, BYU, March 1986.

“Shakespeare As a Healer.” Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, Canada, March 1986.

“Why the Church Is As True as the Gospel,” Personal essay read at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 1986.

“Sweet Are the Uses of Fidelity:  Why Celestial Marriage Is Monogamous.”  Paper read at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1986.

“Mormon Marriage:  Are the Rules Changing?”  Presentation in panel at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1986.

“Being a Learner/Teacher.” Presentation in “Faculty in Residence” program at Freshman Orientation, BYU, September 1986.

“Helping Mormons Affirm Church Activity, Or Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel.” Assoc. of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1986.

“Some Alternatives to Violence.” Presentation at “Sidefire” series, sponsored by Honors Program, BYU, October 1986.

“Dickinson and Death.” Paper read at Centennial Symposium on Dickinson, Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, BYU, October 1986.

“Hamlet against Revenge.”  Paper read at RMMLA, Denver, Colorado, October 1986.

“‘A House That Tries to Be Haunted’: Dickinson’s Poetry on Death.” “Flea Market Lecture” sponsored by Honors Program, BYU, November 1986.

“Tuckerman’s `The Cricket’ and the Tragedy of Language.” Paper read at Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Riverside, California, November 1986.

“Easter Weekend.” Personal essay read at Association for Mormon Letters, University of Utah, January 1987.

“Intellectual? Who Needs It Anyway?” Lecture given at Golden Key Scholarship Awards, BYU, October 1987.

“‘As Would Perhaps Trouble a Woman’: Sex and Violence in Hamlet.  Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America, Seattle, Washington, April 1988.

“Easter Weekend.”  Personal essay read at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Washington, D. C., May 1987.

“Beyond ‘Jack-Fiction’: Recent Achievement in the Mormon Novel.”  Paper presented at English Department Symposium, BYU, 28 January 1988.

“New Evidence for the Book of Mormon, Or Why Nephi Killed Laban.” Paper read at Sunstone Book of Mormon Lecture Series, Salt Lake City, Utah, 9 February 1988.

“‘Sweet Revenge Grows Harsh’: From Hamlet to Othello and Beyond.”  Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1988.

“On Saving the Constitution, Or Why Some Mormons Should Become Democrats.”  Paper read  at Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1988.

“Lovers As Mortal Enemies: Cather’s ‘Terrible Judgment on All We Hope For?’”  Paper at Willa Cather Symposium, BYU, September 1988.

“Virginia Sorensen as Personal Essayist.”  Paper read at Symposium for Virginia Sorensen, BYU, October, 1988.

“Orson Scott Card as a Mormon Writer.” Paper read at RMMLA, Las Cruces New Mexico, October 1988.

“On Being a Mormon Intellectual.”  Invited address at Golden Key Scholarship Award Presentation, BYU, October 1988.

“Billy Budd and the Tragedy of Justice.” Presentation at International Films lecture series, BYU, October 1988.

“The Legacy of Martin Luther King.”  Devotional address at Waterford School, Sandy, Utah, January 1989.

“Honors! Intellectual! Who Needs It?” “Sidefire” address for BYU Honors Program, January 1989.

“Virginia Sorensen as the Founding Foremother of the Mormon Personal Essay.”  Paper read at Association for Mormon Letters, Ogden, Utah, January 1989.

Selected poems read at Graduate Student Association meeting in Tandem with Leslie Norris, BYU, February 1989.

“Men and Women in the 80s.”  Panel presentation for BYU Women’s Conference, April 1989.

“Shakespeare Deconstructing Hamlet on Revenge.”  Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America,” Austin, Texas, April 1989.

“Women, War, and the Atonement: Radical Doctrine in the Doctrine and Covenants.”  Paper read at Sunstone Lecture Series on Scripture, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1989.

“Are All Alike unto God?  Confronting Racism and Sexism in Popular Mormon Thought.” Paper read at Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1989.

“On Being Male and Melchizedek.”  Personal essay read at First Anniversary Meeting of the Mormon Women’s Forum, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1989.

“New Tradition.”  Introduction for reading by poets anthologized in Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems, eds. Eugene England and Dennis Clark,  Sunstone Symposium, Salt             Lake City, Utah, August 1989.

“Do Peace and Human Rights Have a Chance at BYU?”  Lecture at Response Club Meeting,  BYU, October 1989.

“Racism, Sexism, and Other Halloween Horriblisms.”  Lecture at Honors Program Forum, BYU, October 1989.

“Is There Genuine Academic Freedom at BYU?”  Lecture at Honors Program Forum, BYU, November 1989.

“Are All Alike unto God?”  Paper read at Miller-Eccles Fireside, Los Angeles, California,  February 1990.

“Becoming the Right Person for Marriage.”  Joint lecture and workshop (with Charlotte England), Carmel, California, March 1990.

“Coping with Failure and Success.”  Joint lecture (with Charlotte England) at Boston Institute of Religion, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1990.

“Shakespeare’s Women.”  Paper read at BYU Women’s Conference, April 1990.

“The Weeping Buddha in Kurosawa’s Ran.”  Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1990.

“Learning to Serve at BYU.”  Lecture to the new Brigham Young University Student Service Association officers, BYU, July 1990.

“Book of Mormon Conversion Narratives, or Why We Stop Doing Theology and Tell Each Other  Stories.”  Paper read at Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1990.

“Summer Solstice.”  Personal essay read at Association for Mormon Letters session of Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1990.

“Is the God of the Old Testament a God of Violence?”  Paper read at Sunstone Lecture Series, Salt Lake City, Utah and also Logan, Utah, September 1990.

“Mormon Popular Fiction: Still Selling the Narrative Birthright for a Pot of Message.”  Paper read at English Department Faculty Symposium, BYU, March 1991.

“Shakespeare’s Paulina and the Pauline Renaissance in England.”  Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 1991.

“How We Lost the War in Vietnam.”  Paper read at Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1991.

“Monte Cristo.”  Personal essay read at Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1991.

“Appreciating the Good Gift of Intelligence.”  Lecture given at Golden Key Scholastic Awards, BYU, October 1991.

“On Being a Peacemaker in the World and the Church.”  Paper read at Northwest Sunstone Symposium, Seattle, Washington, November 1991.

“On Finding Christ the Merciful at Christmas.”  Paper read at Sunstone New Testament Lecture Series, Salt Lake City, Utah, December 1991.

“Christ’s Call to Serve.”  Presentation to BYU Women, Dec. 1991.

“Joseph Smith and the Dilemmas of Romanticism.”  Paper read at Joseph Smith Symposium, BYU, February 1992.

“Healing and Being a Peacemaker.”  Paper read at Sunstone West Symposium, Los Angeles, California, March 1992.

“A Case for Christian Pacifism.”  Association of Christian Philosophers Symposium, BYU,  March 1992.

“Why BYUSA and Not ASBYU.”  Presentation to new Brigham Young University Student Service Association officers, BYU, March 1992.

“Christ-centered Leadership.”  Presentation to BYUSA nominees for student body officers, BYU, January 1993.

“A Theology of Life:  Why I Oppose Abortion, Capital Punishment, and War.”  Sunstone Symposium, Washington D.C., March 1993.

“What Covenant Will God Accept in the Desert?”  Mormon Peace Gathering, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1993.

“The Prince of Peace.” Sunstone Symposium, San Francisco, California, April 1993.

“‘So I [Yield] to Her’: Mutual Healing in The Taming of the Shrew.”  Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, April 1993.

“‘A Heavenly Effect in an Earthly Actor’: Healing by Faith in All’s Well That End’s Well.”  Paper presented at Shakespeare Assoc. of America Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1993.

“‘No Respecter of Persons’: A Mormon Ethics of Diversity.” Sunstone Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, October 1993.

“The Case for Mormon Christian Pacifism.”  Symposium on Moral Perspectives on U. S.  Security Policy: Views from the LDS Community, Brigham Young University Kennedy             Center, October, 1993.

“Shakespeare’s Invitation to Revenge.”  Shakespeare Association of American, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 1994.

“Mormons Playing in the Dark.”  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 1994

“Measure for Measure as a Morality Play.” Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, April 1995.

“Some (Mis)uses of Shakespeare—For which He Is (Partly) to Blame.”  Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, California, April 1996.

Review essay on Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card.” “Life, the Universe, & Everything” science fiction and fantasy symposium held at BYU, 27–29 February 1997.

“On Living the Gospel.” 1998 annual conference of Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, Portland, Oregon, 6 September 1998.

More presentations still to be discovered and added.