Curriculum Vitae
Billie R. Tadros
The University of Scranton
Department of English and Theatre, McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts
Scranton, PA 18510
billie.tadros@scranton.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English and Creative Writing, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017.
Dissertation: Graft Fixation, and Collision, Consent, Construction: Narrating Injured Women Runners’ Identities, and Notes toward a Feminist Injury Poetics.
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), Sarah Lawrence College, 2012.
B.A., Creative Writing, B.A. Music, Susquehanna University, 2010. Summa cum laude
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, The University of Scranton, Department of English and Theatre, 2023-present.
Assistant Professor, The University of Scranton, Department of English and Theatre, 2018-2023.
Program Director, The University of Scranton, Health Humanities Concentration, 2021-2024; 2025-present.
Faculty, The University of Scranton, Health Humanities Concentration, 2021-present.
Faculty, The University of Scranton, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2019-present.
Lecturer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of English, 2017-2018.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of English, 2012-2017.
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry Books
Graft Fixation. Gold Wake Press, 2020.
Winner, Open Reading Period, 2019.
Was Body. Indolent Books, 2020.
Winner, National Indie Excellence Awards, 2021.
The Tree We Planted and Buried You In. Otis Books, 2018.
Poetry Chapbooks
Am/Are I. Francis House, 2020.
inter: burial places. Porkbelly Press, 2016.
Containers. Dancing Girl Press, 2014.
Poems in Anthologies
“Interim.” In Haunted. Ed. Nicci Mechler. Porkbelly Press, 2022. 16-17.
“You say ravine and ravenous derive from the same, so.” In Dream of the River. Ed. Natalie Eleanor Patterson. Jacar Press, 2021. 50.
“We Were Women, We Were Already Receding.” In Dream of the River. Ed. Natalie Eleanor Patterson. Jacar Press, 2021. 57.
“Because a line has no endpoint.” In #GhostMotel White Stag Anthology. Ed. Courtney Leigh Jameson and Kathryn Gutting. White Stag Publishing, 2017. 18-19.
“Voicemail on Your Birthday Three Years after You Didn’t Do It.” In #GhostMotel White Stag Anthology. Ed. Courtney Leigh Jameson and Kathryn Gutting. White Stag Publishing, 2017. 27.
“Epithalamion.” In #GhostMotel White Stag Anthology. Ed. Courtney Leigh Jameson and Kathryn Gutting. White Stag Publishing, 2017. 29-34.
“Interstate.” In The Queer South. Ed. Douglas Ray. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014. 247-248.
“Intercourse.” In The Queer South. Ed. Douglas Ray. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014. 249.
“Interact.” In The Queer South. Ed. Douglas Ray. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014. 250.
“Interstices.” In The Queer South. Ed. Douglas Ray. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014. 251.
“Again-running.” In Bearers of Distance. Ed. Martin Elwell and Jenn Monroe. Eastern Point Press, 2013. 10.
“Gunning.” In Bearers of Distance. Ed. Martin Elwell and Jenn Monroe. Eastern Point Press, 2013. 11.
“Un.” In Bearers of Distance. Ed. Martin Elwell and Jenn Monroe. Eastern Point Press, 2013. 12.
“Nude with Puzzle Piece.” Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. Ed. Laura Madeline Wiseman. Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013. 178.
“Nude with Circular Saw.” Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. Ed. Laura Madeline Wiseman. Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013. 179.
Poems Published in Print and Online
“U-Haul Epithalamion.” Suffolk County Community College LGBTQ+ Task Force National Poetry Month LGBTQ Poem-a-Day, 3 Apr. 2025.
“Visualization.” Bone Bouquet 10.2 (2023): 26.
“Attribution.” Bone Bouquet 10.2 (2023): 27-28.
“Because He Never Taught Me, I Bought an English-Arabic Phrasebook, but Next to Four of the Characters in the Column Representing Phonetic Pronunciation, the Editors Had Written ‘No English Correspondence,’ so.” CALYX 34.1 (2023): 100-101.
“Loophole Elegy.” CALYX 34.1 (2023): 102.
“Because ‘I do take this woman to be my lawful wedded wife’ is a performative utterance, but so is ‘I now pronounce you—’’’ Frontier Poetry (2023). Finalist for the Frontier Poetry Open Contest.
“Sonnet for the Physical Therapist Who Told Me This Is Just the Way the Good Lord Made Me.” Hobart (2022).
“D is for Delta, or, Estuary, as Two Marry, a Tidal, a Bridal Opening.” Discover NEPA, 7 Oct. 2021. Winner of the inaugural Live Out Proud Poetry Contest organized by the Rainbow Alliance, NEPA Pride Project, and NEPA Creative.
“Recently Out Queer Woman Does Flaming Dr. Pepper Shots with Grade School Crush at Their High School Reunion.” Lover’s Eye Press (2021).
“The Art of Flossing Isn’t Hard to Master.” Lover’s Eye Press (2021).
“Twenty-six Words for ‘Vulva’: B is for ‘Bloodroot,’ or, We Loved Like Bloodroot, Like Stemless Bleeding Things.” Lover’s Eye Press (2021).
“We Were Women, We Were Already Receding.” Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, 2 Jan. 2020,. Selected by Meg Day.
“Twenty-six words for Vulva: S is for Seedpod.” Whale Road Review (2019).
“Associations with Acid.” Glass: A Journal of Poetry (2019).
“Hypnopompia.” We Were So Small (2019).
“Thorn.” We Were So Small (2019).
“Twenty-six words for Vulva: A is for Aperture.” phoebe (2019): 91.
“What It Looks Like inside the Spinning.” Black Warrior Review 45.2 (2019): 156.
“Stichs/Stitches.” Black Warrior Review 45.2 (2019): 157.
“Anticipation.” Black Warrior Review 45.2 (2019): 158.
“Legs.” Black Warrior Review 45.2 (2019): 159.
“Scans.” Black Warrior Review 45.2 (2019): 160.
"Postcards Left Unaddressed." Crab Fat Magazine (2018).
“Full.” Heron Tree (2018).
"Twenty-six Words for Vulva: R is for Ravine." Lavender Review (2018). Nominated for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net.
"(re)peat." Fairy Tale Review (2018).
"Convalescence." r.kv.r.y. (2018).
“Hollandaise.” Crab Fat Magazine (2017).
"Anatomy of an Accident: Erasure with Gray's." Bone Bouquet (2017): 15.
“Fugue/state 1.” Entropy (2017).
“Fugue/state 3.” Entropy (2017).
“Fugue/state 4.” Entropy (2017).
“Fistula: theme and variations.” Entropy (2017).
“Notes on orchestration.” Entropy (2017).
“Release: theme and variations.” Entropy (2017).
"Husbandry, an American Tale." Eureka Literary Magazine 22 (2017): 32-33.
"Cellar Door: theme and variations." Eureka Literary Magazine 22 (2017): 34-35.
"Cinco de Mayo, 2014." Eureka Literary Magazine 22 (2017): 36-37.
"How to Prop." pnk prl (2017).
"Fun House Mirrors: Invert." Menacing Hedge (2016).
"Fun House Mirrors: Refract." Menacing Hedge (2016).
"Fun House Mirrors: Warp." Menacing Hedge (2016).
"Fun House Mirrors: Fray." Menacing Hedge (2016).
"Dysmorphia." Word Riot (2016).
"Dysmorphia." Word Riot (2016).
"Dysmorphia." Word Riot (2016).
"Pardon." Word Riot (2016).
"Phantasmagoria: gossamers." The Collapsar (2016).
"Phantasmagoria: crocuses." The Collapsar (2016).
"Phantasmagoria: peel peal appeal." The Collapsar (2016).
"Phantasmagoria: darkroom." The Collapsar (2016).
“Fugue State 2.” Kindred 11, Mason Dixon Issue (2016): 12.
“Variable: x admits light.” Horse Less Review (2016)
“Variable: x emits light.” Horse Less Review (2016).
“Variable: x remits light.” Horse Less Review (2016).
“Acreage: theme and variations.” Gigantic Sequins (2016): 28-29. Finalist for 4th Annual Poetry Contest.
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: N is for Noose.” No Tokens 1 (2014): 105-106.
“Piecemeal.” Tupelo Quarterly (2013). Top 20 Finalist for Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky.
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: C is for Clingstone.” Wicked Alice (2013).
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: G is for Grotto.” Wicked Alice (2013).
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: H is for Honeycomb.” Wicked Alice (2013).
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: O is for Origin.” Wicked Alice (2013).
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: P is for Polyp.” Wicked Alice (2013).
“Chance, Practices, Limitations.” Barely South Review (2013): 51-53.
“Lighter fluid: theme and variations.” The Boiler (2013).
“Warfare: theme and variations.” The Boiler (2013).
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: L is for Lyre.” The Boiler (2013).
“Twenty-six Words for Vulva: W is for Whalebone.” The Boiler (2013).
“Reactor.” Yalobusha Review 17 (2012): 95-96. Selected by Sandra Beasley for the Yellowwood Poetry Prize.
“Dendrochronology.” Barely South Review (2012): 13.
“Airfoils, Cross Sections.” Barely South Review (2012): 14-17.
“To Adam.” The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review 17 (2012).
“Medium.” The Susquehanna Review (2010): 11.
“Drops.” The North Central Review (2010): 1.
Essays
“‘As a queer woman and the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant,’ or, Parts of an (Auto)Ethnography.” Foglifter 10.1 (2025): 74-86.
“‘These kind of wounds/They last and they last’: On Taylor Swift, Wounded Reading, and Metaphor.” 1508 [A Blog Where Poetry Lives], 2 Feb. 2024, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Arizona Board of Regents, https://poetry.arizona.edu/blog/taylor-swift-wounded-reading-metaphor.
“Run Like an Egyptian: On Race and Races, and Erasure.” Essay (2023): 41-83. Commissioned for the 2023 Cunningham Essay at Susquehanna University.
Book Chapters
“Poetry: From Performance to Analysis.” Digital Voices: Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom. Ed. Leigh Camacho Rourks and Saul Lemerond. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 71-90.
“‘Most doctors will just say “Stop running”’: Women Runners' Narratives, Agency, and Identity.” Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century, Ed. Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Cathryn Molloy. Routledge, 2020. 122-131.
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, AND WORKSHOPS
Invited Participant, Ignatian Colleagues Program, Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities, 2024-2026.
Accepted Participant, Foundational Narrative Medicine Virtual Workshop, Columbia University, October 2024.
Invited Participant/Everytown Survivor Fellow, Gun Sense University, Everytown for Gun Safety, June 2024.
Invited Participant/Everytown Survivor Fellow, Gun Sense University, Everytown for Gun Safety. August 2023.
Invited Participant/Everytown Survivor Fellow, Everytown for Gun Safety Fellows Advocacy Day, Everytown for Gun Safety. May 2023.
Faculty Fellowship, The Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities, The University of Scranton. “As a queer woman and the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant,” or, Parts of an (Auto)Ethnography. Fall 2022.
Accepted Participant in Poetry, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The University of the South. July 2022.
Accepted Participant in Poetry, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Kenyon College. June 2022.
AWARDS
Faculty Enhancement Award for Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, The University of Scranton. Awarded by the Office of the Provost, 2025.
Teacher of the Year, The University of Scranton. Awarded by the Graduating Class of 2022, 2022.
Robert and Bernice M. Webb Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching at the Advanced Level, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Awarded by the Department of English, 2016.
Dr. Shelley Anne Martin Award for Best Graduate Seminar Paper in English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Awarded by the Department of English, 2015.
Dr. James H. Wilson and Paul T. Nolan Creative Writing Award in Drama, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Awarded by the Department of English, 2014.
Timothy W. Adams Award for Creative Writing, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Awarded by the Department of English, 2013.
EXTERNAL GRANTS
National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Connections Planning Grant, University of Scranton (project co-director with Ana Ugarte), “A Health Humanities Concentration and Community-based Learning,” 2019-2020. Award amount: $34,958.
INTERNAL GRANTS
The Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities, Humanities Forum, The University of Scranton, The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America by Nick Ripatrazone, 2023-2024. Award amount: $2500.
Office of Equity and Diversity, Diversity Initiatives Grant, The University of Scranton, “The University Reading Series: Poet Kayleb Rae Candrilli,” 2021-2022. Award amount: $2500.
Clavius Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Fund, The University of Scranton, “Supporting Faculty from Underrepresented Backgrounds: Supporting the Mandate of the Society of Jesus to Serve Faith and Promote Justice.” 2021-2022. Award amount: $1500.
Office of Equity and Diversity, Diversity Initiatives Grant, The University of Scranton, “Embodied Writing across Genres: A Reading and Panel Discussion,” 2019-2020. Award amount: $2500.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT INTERNAL GRANT PROJECTS ADVISED
Humanities Student Fellowship, The Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities, The University of Scranton. Student Project: “The Impacts of Empathy on Medically Underserved Communities through Patient-centered Storytelling,” 2023-2024. Award amount: $2500.
rHIP (Research as High Impact Practice) Grant, The University of Scranton. Student Project through Faculty Student Research Program, 2021-2022. Award amount: $500.
Humanities Student Fellowship, The Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities, The University of Scranton. Student Project: I [AM I] AM ( poems), 2020-2021. Award amount: $3500.
Undergraduate Awards for Humanistic Inquiry, Humanities Initiative, The University of Scranton. Student Project: “Conservation and Charity: A Jesuit Perspective,” 2019-2020. Award amount: $1434.
Undergraduate Awards for Humanistic Inquiry, Humanities Initiative, The University of Scranton. Student Project: Unfinished (poems), 2019-2020. Award amount: $1364.
Undergraduate Awards for Humanistic Inquiry, Humanities Initiative, The University of Scranton. Student Project: “Playing with Power: The Distinction of Game Players’ Agency through Interactive Storytelling in Dan Salvato’s Doki Doki Literature Club, Toby Fox’s UNDERTALE, and Toby Fox’s DELTARUNE,” 2019-2020. Award amount: $1434.
Undergraduate Awards for Humanistic Inquiry, Humanities Initiative, The University of Scranton. Student Project: The Chaos Woke to Greet Me (poems), 2018-2019. Award amount: $1500.
Undergraduate Awards for Humanistic Inquiry, Humanities Initiative, The University of Scranton. Student Project: “Discourse on Gender Pay Gap: A Dialogue in One Act,” 2018-2019. Award amount: $1300.
Undergraduate Awards for Humanistic Inquiry, Humanities Initiative, The University of Scranton. Student Project: “‘Peck Small Tracks’: A Jesuit Reading of Work & Days,” 2018-2019. Award amount: $1500.
Undergraduate Awards for Humanistic Inquiry, Humanities Initiative, The University of Scranton. Student Project: "Tess Taylor’s Work & Days: Response to Theology and Science,”2018-2019. Award amount: $1500.
TEACHING
Associate Professor, The University of Scranton, 2023-present Assistant Professor, The University of Scranton, 2018-2023.
English Literature 489 (Honors Thesis), Spring 2022 Autoethnography of Women’s Health
English Literature 489 (Honors Thesis), PTSD Spring 2020 Narratives
English Literature 488 (Honors), Patient Advocacy Fall 2019 & Narratives
English Literature 388 (Honors), Spring 2023 American Women & Auto-writing
English Literature 388 (Honors), Treatment of Spring 2022 Mental Illness in Literature
English Literature 387 (Honors), Fall 2021 Autoethnographies of Women’s Health
English Literature 387 (Honors), Forms of Elegy Fall 2021
English Literature 387 (Honors), Fall 2022 @TaylorSwift_as_Literature
English Literature 386 (Honors), Spring 2023 Body Image & Body Imagination
English Literature 386 (Honors), Spring 2022 Literature of Trauma and Witness
English Literature 386 (Honors), Queer Writers, Spring 2021 Queer Writing
English Literature 385 (Honors), Fall 2023 Body Rhetoric & Aesthetics
English Literature 385 (Honors), Terminal Illness Fall 2020 Narratives
English Literature 384/326 (Honors), Spring 2024 Queer Writers & Queer Writing
English Literature 259, Contemporary American Spring 2019, Fall 2021 Poetry
English Literature 254, “Bodybuilding”: Narratives Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023 of Health and Ability
English Literature 224, Perspectives in Literature Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, about Illness Spring 2024, Fall 2025
English Literature 216J, Rhetoric and Poetics Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2025
English Literature 121, Introduction to Poetry Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, __ Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall __ 2025
Women’s and Gender Studies 383, Guided Spring 2019 Independent Study—Women’s Stories & Sexuality
Writing 484, Poetry Writing III Spring 2020
Writing 483,Guided Independent Study— Fall 2021 (En)Gendering Genre
Writing 483, Guided Independent Study— Fall 2019, Spring 2024 Writing the Chapbook, Poetry
Writing 482, Guided Independent Study— Fall 2019 Writing the Book, Poetry
Writing 482, Guided Independent Study— Spring 2019 Advanced Poetry Writing
Writing 482, Guided Independent Study— Fall 2020 The Multimodal Chapbook
Writing 385 (Honors), Grammar: Theory & Praxis Fall 2023
Writing 316, Poetry Writing II Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2025
Writing 216, Poetry Writing I Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, __ Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall __ 2023
Writing 107, Composition Fall 2018, Fall 2019
The University of Scranton Prison Education Initiative, State Correctional Institution—Dallas/The University of Scranton
Writing 107, Composition Summer 2023
The Schemel Forum, The University of Scranton
Crossing the Line(s): Reading and Writing Fall 2022 Contemporary Poetry
Eros and Metaphor: Contemporary Love Poems Spring 2021
Lecturer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017-2018.
English 103, Accelerated College Writing— Spring 2018 "Forms of Memory, Forms of Re-membering"
English 101, College Writing I Fall 2017
English 105, Honors English Seminar— Fall 2017 “Page and Plague: Modern and Postmodern Illness and Injury Narratives”
Graduate Teaching Assistant/Instructor of Record, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2012-2017.
English 380, Readings in Literature by Women Fall 2015
English 223, Introduction to Creative Writing Spring 2015
English 211, Thematic Approaches to Literature— Spring 2017
“Bodybuilding” and Trauma: (Re)Constructions of the Body in Literature
English 211, Thematic Approaches to Literature— Fall 2014
The Treatment of Mental Illness and Suicide in Literature
English 205, American Literature I Fall 2015
English 202, British Literature II Fall 2016
English 102, Writing and Research about Culture— Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016
Issues of Gender
English 101, Introduction to Academic Writing Fall 2012, Fall 2013
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Restructuring Stakes and Silence in the Literature Classroom: How Writing Leads to Discussion.” Modern Language Association. Toronto, ON: January 2026.
“‘Vulnerable Reading’ and Vulnerable Teaching as Narrative Competence in the Health Humanities Classroom.” Modern Language Association. Toronto, ON: January 2026.
“Let Me ‘Pass’: An Autoethnography about Embodying Jesuit Ideals as a Queer Woman Scholar-Teacher.” National Women’s Studies Association. San Juan, PR: November 2025.
“‘A, B, C, one, two, three/baby, you and me, girl’: Lesbian Abecedarians.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA: April 2025.
“‘But if the story’s over/Why am I still writing pages?’: Taylor Swift and Narrative Competence.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA: April 2025.
“Where Do We Draw the Line(s)?: ‘I Poems,’ Poetic Transcription, and (Inter)Disciplinary Identity Crisis.” Creative Writing Studies Organization Creative Writing Studies Conference. Blacksburg, VA: November 2024.
“‘But if the story’s over/Why am I still writing pages?’: What Taylor Swift Taught Me about Narrative Medicine and Vulnerable Reading and Teaching.” Midwestern Medical Humanities Conference. Medical Humanities Workgroup, Western Michigan University. [Virtual.] October 2024.
“One Hundred Demons—An Autotheoretical Procession/Possession.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. San Antonio, TX: April 2023.
“The Ethics of ‘Autopsy Poetry’ and Autopsy Metaphors: Writing Documentary Poetry That Witnesses Violence without Sensationalizing It.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. San Antonio, TX: April 2023.
“Mad Deaths, Mad Elegies: Narrating Suicide through Autoethnography and ‘Autopsy Poetry.’” Northeast Modern Language Association. Niagara Falls, NY: March 2023.
“‘As a queer woman and the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant,’ or, Parts of an (Auto)Ethnography.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. [Virtual.] April 2022.
“Putting the ‘I’ in and Taking the ‘I’ Out: I Poems as Invention, Inventory, and Embodied Methodology for (Auto)Ethnographic Work on Injury and Identity.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. [Virtual.] April 2022.
“Multimodal Identities: How Podcasting Can Unbind Creative Voices.” (Panel with Saul Lemerond, Leigh Camacho Rourks, Kase Johnstun, and Rebecca Hazelwood.) Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Philadelphia, PA: March 2022.
“‘As a queer woman and the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant,’ or, Parts of an (Auto)Ethnography.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore, MD: March 2022.
“Was Femoral, Was Femme Moral: Notes toward a Feminist Injury Poetics and Pedagogy.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Milwaukee, WI: November 2021. [Rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19.]
“Putting the ‘I’ in and Taking the ‘I’ Out: I Poems as Invention, Inventory, and Embodied Methodology for (Auto)Ethnographic Work on Injury and Identity.” Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium. [Virtual.] September 2021.
“Was Femoral, Was Femme Moral: A Queer Feminist Injury Poetics.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. [Virtual.] June 2021.
“Rhetorical Ingenuity and the Subversion of Commonplace Practices in Women’s Health and Medicine.” (Roundtable with Bryna Siegel Finer, Kelly Whitney, Jamie White-Farnham, Sheri Rysdam, Cathryn Molloy, Laurie McMillan, Lisa DeTora, Lori Beth De Hertogh, Maria Novotny, and Erin Fitzgerald.) Conference on College Composition & Communication. Spokane, WA: April 2020. [Roundtable cancelled amid schedule changes due to COVID-19.]
“The Erotics of Women’s Running and Narrating the Injured Erotic: Restoring and Re-storying, or How We Write the Body When We Can’t Right the Body.” Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium. [Virtual due to COVID-19.] September 2020.
“Teaching the Podcast: A New Exercise in Creative Writing Multimodality.” (Panel with Saul Lemerond, Leigh Camacho Rourks, and Kase Johnstun.) Associations of Writers & Writing Programs. San Antonio, TX: March 2020.
“The Multimodal Classroom: Embracing Creative Writing in the 21st Century.” (Panel with Saul Lemerond, Leigh Camacho Rourks, and Ephraim Sommers.) Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Portland, OR: March 2019.
“Instructor’s Performance of Self in Student Composition Feedback.” (Panel with Julie Naviaux, Michael McGinnis, Ramona Hyman, Andrea Holliger, and Adrienne Jankens.) Conference on College Composition & Communication. Pittsburgh, PA: March 2019.
"Did ‘Whe’ Really Just Say That?: Close Reading Tone and Connotation in Freshman Composition." Northeast Modern Language Association. Pittsburgh, PA: April 2018.
"Graft Fixation: Cyborg Notes Toward a Feminist Injury Poetics." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Indianapolis, IN: March 2018.
“Scholarly Bodies (Th)at Work: How We Write the Body When We Can’t Right the Body.” The Deep South in the Global South Conference. Lafayette, LA: March 2018.
“Online, On Your Own Time, and Still in Line with Writing Center Ethos: The Dialogical and Pedagogical Potential of Asynchronous E-mail Consultations for Graduate Student Writers.” Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, MO: November 2016.
“Rites and Rights of (Creative) Writing Instruction: Variable Authority in Classrooms and Writing Center Consultations.” Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, MO: November 2016.
“Re-membering, Re-mothering: Female Suicide as a Catalyst for Recovering Female Bodies and Female Relationships in Toni Morrison's Jazz.” Celebrating African American Literature and Language Conference. State College, PA: October 2016.
“Write to Refuse: Sexual Consent as Authorial Agency in Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Philadelphia, PA: November 2015.
INVITED RESEARCH TALKS
“‘These kind of wounds,/They last and they last’: On Taylor Swift, Wounded Reading, and Metaphor.” Keynote Address, Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2025.
“‘But if the story’s over/Why am I still writing pages?’: What Taylor Swift Taught Me about Narrative Medicine and Vulnerable Reading and Teaching.” Keynote Address, Pennsylvania College English Association Conference, Slippery Rock University, 2024.
“‘As a queer woman and the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant,’ or Parts of an Autoethnography: Autotheory, Autoethnography, Poetic Inquiry, & Vulnerable Reading.” The Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities, The University of Scranton. Scranton, PA: October 2022.
“‘Running Makes Me Feel Like a Badass’: Queer Resistance, the Erotics of Running, and Women Runners’ Injury Narratives.” Faculty Seminar Series. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, The University of Scranton. Scranton, PA: November 2019.
“A (Gendered) Poetics of Athletics and Injury: One Woman Poet-scholar-runner’s Response to Macrotrauma.” Department of English & Theatre Colloquium, University of Scranton. Scranton, PA: May 2019.
OTHER INVITED TALKS
Guest Presenter, Mission and Identity Committee, Board of Trustees, The University of Scranton, 2025.
Guest Presenter, The University of Scranton Prison Initiative, Panel Discussion. The University of Scranton, 2025.
Guest Lecturer (with Elias Kerr), LitFest, “Connection, Collaboration, and Craft: A Conversation about Creative Mentorship.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention, 2025.
Guest Lecturer (with Kassia Krone), “Teaching/Writing/Publishing/Advising: Making it All Work.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, “POUND®—and the Poetics of Exercise.” Community Health Humanities Workshops, The University of Scranton, The Wright Center for Community Health, and Marywood University, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, Sarah Levine’s 12th Grade AP Literature class, Williston Northampton School, 2025. [Virtual.]
Guest Lecturer, The University of Scranton Prison Initiative, Student Orientation, “A ‘Crash Course’ in College Writing.” State Correctional Institution—Dallas/The University of Scranton, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “Cross-Fit for Poets—To Everything, There Is a Season—Turn! Turn! Turn!: Models and Exercises in Poetic Structure and Poetic Turns.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “Learn the Lingo.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “Resume/CV Workshop.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “Rhyme as Reason and Reason for Rhyme: Making Sound Poetic Decisions.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “Taking Care of Business.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2025.
Guest Lecturer, Summer Residency, “Cross-cohort Poetry Workshop.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Summer Residency, "Crossing the Line: Enjambment and the Art of Ambiguity.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Summer Residency, “MFA Orientation.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Summer Residency, “Taking Care of Business.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “Craft—Your Thesis Road Map.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “Cross-Fit for Poets—‘Crossing the Line(s)’: Lineation as Muscular Failure and Growth (Context and Exercises in Developing the Line).” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Winter Residency, “MFA Orientation.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Summer Residency, “Cancelling the Distance: Eros and Metaphor.” Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University, 2023.
Guest Lecturer, May Poetry Retreat, “Cancelling the Distance: Eros and Metaphor.” Gather Community Space, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 2023.
Guest Speaker with Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety, Sandy Hook 10 Year Anniversary Vigil, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Scranton, PA, 2023.
Guest Presenter on Poetry of 9/11, Dr. Madeline Gangnes’s First-year Seminar class, The University of Scranton, 2022.
Guest Lecturer, Dr. C.S. Carrier’s Poetry II class, Franklin College, 2022. [Virtual.]
Guest Presenter, Honors Ideamaking Panel, Honors Program, The University of Scranton, 2022.
Guest Presenter on Poetry of 9/11, Dr. Madeline Gangnes’s First-year Seminar class, The University of Scranton, 2021.
Guest Lecturer, Dr. Nolan Meditz’s Contemporary Poetry class, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 2021. [Virtual.]
Guest Lecturer, Dr. Gary Fincke’s Advanced Creative Nonfiction class, Susquehanna University, 2021. [Virtual.]
Guest Lecturer, Sarah Levine’s 12th Grade AP Literature class, Williston Northampton School, 2021. [Virtual.]
Guest Presenter, Honors Ideamaking Panel, Honors Program, The University of Scranton, 2021. [Virtual due to COVID-19.]
Guest Presenter, National Coming Out Day, Jane Kopas Women’s Center and SAFE (Scranton Alliance for Equity) Space, The University of Scranton, 2020. [Virtual due to COVID-19.]
Guest Presenter, Mission Committee, Board of Trustees, The University of Scranton, 2020. [Virtual due to COVID-19.]
Guest Presenter on LGBTQ+ Writers, SAFE (Scranton Alliance for Equity), The University of Scranton, 2020. [Virtual due to COVID-19.]
Guest Panelist, “Fail Forward” Panel, The University of Scranton, 2019.
Guest Presenter on Mental Health/Illness, SAFE (Scranton Alliance for Equity), The University of Scranton, 2019.
Guest Presenter on Illness Narratives, Buckhorn Middle School, Huntsville, AL, 2017.
Guest Presenter for National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, GLASS (Giving Love, Acceptance,Safety, and Support), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016.
Guest Presenter on Poetry, GEAR UP & Acadiana Writing Project, University of Louisiana at Lafayette,June 21, 2016.
Guest Presenter for National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, GLASS (Giving Love, Acceptance,Safety, and Support), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014.
INTERVIEWS AND ONLINE FEATURES
“Graft Fixation.” Written feature by Darrell Laurant. Snowflakes in a Blizzard, 24 Sept. 2024, https://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/graft-fixation/.
“Critique of the Week: A Weekly Interview Series.” Video interview by Matthew Schmidt. 1-Week Critique, 5 Aug. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KgOCVVAwhM&feature=youtu.be.
“An Interview with Billie R. Tadros.” Written interview by Jon Riccio. The University of Arizona Poetry Center, 24 Jul. 2020, poetry.arizona.edu/blog/interview-billie-r-tadros.
“How Poetry Can Help Articulate the Beauty + the Pain of Embodiment.” Video interview by Rachel Meyer. studio BE, 19 Jul. 2020, www.studiobemindfulness.com/blog/how-poetry-can-help-articulate-the-beauty-and-the-pain-of-embodiment/.
SELECT INVITED POETRY READINGS
Moms Demand Action Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties Poetry Reading and Trail Beautification Event for Wear Orange Weekend. Scranton, PA: June 2025.
Maslow Winter Reading Series with Nancy McKinley, Alexis Paige, and Taylor Polites, Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University. Wilkes-Barre, PA: January 2025.
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. New York City, NY: May 2024.
Indiana University Kokomo. Kokomo, IN: February 2024.
The College of New Jersey. Ewing, NJ: November 2023.
Word to Word—A May Poetry Reading Series. Wilkes-Barre, PA: October 2023.
Maslow Winter Reading Series with Marlon James, Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Wilkes University. Wilkes-Barre, PA: January 2023.
Moms Demand Action Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties Poetry Reading and Trail Beautification Event for Wear Orange Weekend. Scranton, PA: June 2022.
Sundress Publications Zoom Reading Series. [Virtual reading due to COVID-19.] May 2021.
Moms Demand Action Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties Speaker Series. April 2021. [Virtual reading due to COVID-19.]
SAFE (Scranton Alliance for Equity), The University of Scranton. Scranton, PA: April 2021. [Virtual reading due to COVID-19.]
New Orleans Poetry Festival. New Orleans, LA: April 2020. [Cancelled due to COVID-19.]
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Creative Writing Remote Club Reading Series. Lafayette, LA: May 2020. [Virtual reading due to COVID-19.]
SAFE (Scranton Alliance for Equity), The University of Scranton. Scranton, PA: April 2020. [Virtual reading due to COVID-19.]
Eureka Literary Magazine Poetry/Short Story Stream for the Midwest Food Bank. Eureka, IL: April 2020. [Virtual reading due to COVID-19.]
The University of Southern Mississippi Center of Writers Salon Reading Series. Hattiesburg, MS: April 2020. [Cancelled due to COVID-19.]
Susquehanna University Writers Institute 2019-2020 Seavey Reading Series. Selinsgrove, PA: April 2020. [Virtual reading due to COVID-19.]
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Creative Writing. Association for Writers & Writing Programs Conference (off-site reading). San Antonio, TX: March 2020.
Menacing Hedge. Association for Writers & Writing Programs Conference (off-site reading). Portland, OR: March 2019.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Creative Writing. Association for Writers & Writing Programs Conference (off-site reading). Portland, OR: March 2019.
SAFE (Scranton Alliance for Equity), The University of Scranton. Scranton, PA: November 2018.
Visiting Guest Writers Reading, The Deep South in the Global South Conference. Lafayette, LA: March 2018.
Thursday Night Reading Series. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Lafayette, LA: March 2017.
Retirement Reception in Honor of Gary Fincke, Susquehanna University. Association for Writers & Writing Programs Conference (off-site reading). Washington, D.C.: February 2017.
Yellow Flag Press, Gigantic Sequins, and University of Louisiana at Lafayette Reading. Association for Writers & Writing Programs Conference (off-site reading). Washington, D.C.: February 2017.
Gigantic Sequins 7.1 Louisiana Release Event. Lafayette, LA: March 2016.
Barely South Review. Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (off-site reading). Seattle, WA: February 2014.
Benefit for Festival of Words. Lafayette, LA: April 2013.
Metro Rhythm Reading Series. Brooklyn, NY: November,2011.
EARSHOT NYC. New York, NY: September 2011.
SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT
to the Department of English & Theatre at The University of Scranton
Faculty Moderator, Mu Omicron Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, The University of Scranton, 2018-present.
Assessment Subcommittee Member, The University of Scranton, 2022-present.
Faculty Moderator, Literature Club, The University of Scranton, 2019-2021.
Faculty Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition, The University of Scranton, 2020-2021.
Faculty Search Committee Member, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fiction, The University of Scranton, 2020.
Faculty Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of 19th Century British Literature, The University of Scranton, 2019-2020.
to the Department of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
Creative Writing Committee Member, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017-2018.
Composition Assessment Committee Member, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017-2018.
Awards Committee Member, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017-2018.
Station Eleven Fiction Award Judge, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017.
Poetry Workshop Leader, Poetry Out Loud, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017.
to the Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
English Graduate Student Association Professionalism and Service Grant Committee, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017.
Sophomore Course Proposal Committee Member, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016-2017.
Assistant Director of the Writing Center, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015-2017.
First Year Writing Committee Member, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014-2017.
Diversity Committee Member, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014-2017.
Faculty Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing-Fiction, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015-2016.
Creative Writing Assistant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014-2015.
SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY
to The University of Scranton
Committee Member, HPEC (Health Professions Evaluation Committee), The University of Scranton, 2022-present.
Board Member, The Ellacuría Initiative, The University of Scranton, 2019-present.
Faculty Mentor, Women’s Track & Field, The University of Scranton, 2019-present.
Safe Zone Facilitator, The University of Scranton, 2019-present.
Committee Member, General Education Review Committee, The University of Scranton, 2023-2024.
Committee Member, Women’s & Gender Studies Program Steering Committee, The University of Scranton, 2021-2024.
Faculty Liaison to the Jane Kopas Women’s Center, The University of Scranton, 2022.
Committee Member, Committee on Gender Equity [previously named Committee on the Status of Women], The University of Scranton, 2019-2022.
Mentor, PILLAR (Partners in Learning, Leadership, and Reflection) Program, The University of Scranton, 2022.
Faculty Executive Committee Member, The Gail and Francis Slattery Center for the Ignatian Humanities, The University of Scranton, 2020-2021.
PACT (Promoting Awareness of the College Transition) Program Support Person, The University of Scranton, 2018.
to the University of Alabama in Huntsville
Archery Club Faculty Advisor, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2018.
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Editorial Work and Peer Review
Associate Poetry Editor, Fairy Tale Review, 2019-present.
Poetry Editor, Gigantic Sequins, 2020-2025.
Assistant Poetry Editor, 2019-2020.
Outside Thesis Reader, MFA in Creative Writing, Butler University, 2025.
External Reviewer, Geisinger College of Health Sciences, 2025.
Peer Reviewer, Modern Language Studies, 2024.
Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2024.
Preliminary Reader, Tupelo Press, Helena Whitehill Book Award, 2023
First-round Reviewer, Lilly-Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, The Poetry Foundation, 2023.
Preliminary Reader, Tupelo Press, Berkshire Prize, 2022.
Preliminary Reader, Tupelo Press, Dorset Prize, 2022.
Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2022.
Peer Reviewer, Pennsylvania English, 2018.
Other Evaluation and Judging
William C. Johnson Distinguished Scholarship Application Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2025.
Judge, Indiana Collegiate Press Association Contest, 2025.
Convention Award Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2025.
Convention Submission Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2024.
Judge, Indiana Collegiate Press Association Contest, 2024.
Convention Submission Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2023.
Erik Kirkland Memorial Prize Outside Judge, Susquehanna University, 2023.
Convention Submission Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2022.
Scholarship Application Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2021.
Classroom Library Grant Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2020.
Juliet Gibson Memorial Award Outside Judge, Susquehanna University, 2020.
Convention Submission Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2019.
Convention Submission Evaluator, Sigma Tau Delta, 2018.
Gary and Elizabeth Fincke Portfolio Prize Outside Judge, Susquehanna University, 2018.
Mary Reid McBeth Creative Writing Scholarship Outside Judge, Indiana State University, 2018.
Conference Organization and Moderation
Area Chair, Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry, Popular Culture Association, 2023-present.
Panel Moderator, “The Tortured Poets Department: Taylor Swift and Celebrity Poets’ Cultural, Confessional, and Compassionate Legacies.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA: April 2025.
Panel Moderator, “Queer as Form, Queer as Forged: Embodying Selves on the Page.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA: April 2025.
Panel Moderator, “Creative Nonfiction: Family Takes.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. Pittsburgh, PA: March 2025.
Panel Moderator, “Original Poetry: In a Queer Light.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. Pittsburgh, PA: March 2025.
Panel Moderator, “Common Reader: Romance, Love, and War.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. St. Louis, MO: April 2024.
Panel Moderator, “Creative Nonfiction: Grief as Life Goes on.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. St. Louis, MO: April 2024.
Panel Moderator, “Then the War: Limits of Language and Jesuit Values.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. St. Louis, MO: April 2024.
Panel Moderator, “Poetry: LGBTQ+ in Transition.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. Denver, CO: April 2023.
Panel Moderator, “Author Spotlight: Toni Morrison & Generations.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. Denver, CO: March 2023.
Panel Moderator, “Roundtable: Gender Stigmas—A Jesuit Reflection on The Rock Eaters.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. Denver, CO: March 2023.
Panel Moderator, “Original Poetry: Out with Poetry.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. Atlanta, GA: March 2022.
Panel Moderator, “Creative Nonfiction: LGBTQ+ Voices.” Sigma Tau Delta Convention. Atlanta, GA: March 2022.
Panel Moderator, “What It Means to Recover (or Not): Poems of Illness, Injury, & Women’s Bodies.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. June 2021. [Virtual due to COVID-19.]
Panel Moderator, “Conservation and Charity: A Jesuit Perspective.” Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. Las Vegas, NV: March 2020. [Cancelled due to COVID-19.]
Panel Moderator, Creative Plenary Panel, The Deep South in the Global South Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018.
Panel Moderator, “(Un)Natural Woman: Embodied Feminist Poetics.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Indianapolis, IN: March 2018.
Panel Moderator, “Voices of the Global South,” The Deep South in the Global South Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017.
Assistant Conference Chair, South Central Writing Centers Association Conference Planning Committee, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015-2016.
SERVICE TO EXTERNAL COMMUNITIES
Member, Moms Demand Action of Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties, 2022-present.
Survivor Fellow, Everytown for Gun Safety Survivor Fellowship Program, 2023-2025.
Poetry Workshop Facilitator, NEPA Youth Shelter, 2022.
Coach, Girls on the Run of South Louisiana, 2017.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Creative Writing Studies Organization Narrative Mindworks
Health Humanities Consortium Popular Culture Association
Modern Language Association Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society
National Council of Teachers of English South Central Writing Centers Association
National Women’s Studies Association