Todd D. Snyder

My Professional Experience

Articles & Book Reviews

• The Webster County Blues: An Exploration of the Educational Attitudes of a Poor Appalachian Community
  Community Literacy Journal, vol. 2
  Fall, 2007

Awards & Distinctions

• Friar Peter Fiore Excellent in English Research Fellowship
  Category: Research
  Siena College English Department, 2020
• William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Nominee)
  Category: Research
  William Hill, 2020
• Faculty Mentor of the Year.
  Category: Service-University
  The Office of Academic and Community Engagement, 2017
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  Category: Research
  The Working Class Studies Association, 2012
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  Category: Teaching
  Ohio University, 2009
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  Category: Research
  Marshall University, 2006
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  Category: Teaching
  Marshall University, 2006

Books & Book Chapters

• BeatBoxing: How Hip-Hop Changed the Fight Game
  
  2021
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
  Hamilcar Publications
  2020
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia
  University of Virginia Press
  2018
• The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Studies
  
  2018
• Re-Reading Appalachia
  University of Kentucky Press
  2015
• The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity.
  McFarland
  2014
• Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism
  Praegar
  2013

Presentations

• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype.
  February, 2021
  WCONA Live! Sponsored by the Conference of Northern Appalachia., Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
  February, 2021
  English Department Colloquium, Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype /Discussion
  January, 2021
  Sponsored by Siena Alumni Relations, Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
  November, 2020
  Sponsored by Baker McKenzie Law Firm, the Washington DC Diversity Committee, DC Book Club, and the North American Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype.
  October, 2020
  Visiting Writer event sponsored by the Marshall University College of Liberal Arts, Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
  October, 2020
  Sponsored by the New York State Writer's Institute, Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
  September, 2020
  Literary Soul Fest. Sponsored by the Dock Bookshop (Dallas, TX), Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
  September, 2020
  Northshire Live: Todd D. Snyder Presents Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype. Sponsored by Northsire Books, Zoom, Virtual
• Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype
  August, 2020
  Sponsored by Fighter's Heaven: Deer Lake, Pennsylvania and the Muhammad Ali Center: Louisville, Kentucky., Zoom, Virtual
• "Coal Dust Encomium: The Rhetoric of Appalachian Propaganda."
  2020
  The Conference of the Appalachian Studies Association, Lexington, Kentucky
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym
  November, 2019
  Poughkeepsie Public Library District Presents the NEA Big Read, Zoom, Virtual
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym
  January, 2019
  Northshire Books. Saratoga Springs, New York., Saratoga Springs, New York
• "Rappalachia: The Performance of Appalachian Identity in Hip Hop Music."
  2019
  The Conference of the Appalachian Studies Association, Asheville, North Carolina
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  September, 2018
  New York Writer's Institute Book Festival, Albany, New York
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  June, 2018
  City Books, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  June, 2018
  Lunch with Books, Sponsored by The Ohio County Public Library., Wheeling, West Virginia
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  April, 2018
  -- Visiting Writer, sponsored by the Marshall University English Department, Huntington, West Virginia
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  March, 2018
  - Visiting Writer, sponsored by the Ohio University English Department, Athens, Ohio
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  March, 2018
  Little Bookhouse of Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, New York
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  March, 2018
  Siena College Book Release Event, Loudonville, New York
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  March, 2018
  State University of New York, at Albany, Albany, New York
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym Reading
  March, 2018
  Taylor Books, Charleston, West Virginia
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia
  2018
  Appalachian Studies Association, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia
  2018
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas, City, Missouri
• Guest Lecture
  February, 2017
  The First Generation in College Speaking Series, Sponsored by the Diversity Action Committee, Loudonville, New York
• Fighting Noah Milton
  2017
  Conference of the Sport Literature Association, Wheeling, West Virginia
• Writing About Fighting: Rhetoric and Working-Class Appalachian Masculinity
  2016
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, Texas
• "I Ain't No College Boy: Voices from Hip-Hop's Dirty South"
  2015
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida
• The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity -- Visiting Writer
  November, 2014
  Sponsored by the Virginia Military Institute English Department, Lexington, Virginia
• The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity -- Visiting Writer
  October, 2014
  Sponsored by The Marshall University Visiting Writers Series, Huntington, West Virginia
• The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity -- Visiting Writer
  October, 2014
  Sponsored by the Ohio University English Department, Athens, Ohio
• The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity
  October, 2014
  Empire Books Reading, Huntington, West Virginia
• "Soundtrack to Hip-Hop Values: Family, Feminism, and Education."
  March, 2014
  Sponsored by Damietta Cross Cultural Center, Loudonville, New York
• Spatial Rhetorics of Identity: Hip-Hop's Impact on Working-Class Appalachian College Students
  March, 2014
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Faces of Hip-Hop: A Discussion of Race and Identity
  November, 2013
  Sponsored by Damietta Cross Cultural Center, Loudonville, New York
• "Rhetoric(s) of the College Diploma: Acadmic Ethos in Rural Appalachia."
  March, 2013
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nevada
• "The Hillbilly as Rhetorical Myth: (Re)framing Appalachian Identity."
  May, 2012
  15th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• "College is Not a Fairytale: Re-Reading First-Year Writing."
  March, 2012
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Missouri
• "The Hillbilly Speaks of Rhetoric."
  March, 2012
  English Department Colloquium, Loudonville, New York
• "Barack Obama and the New Political Conversation with Hip-Hop Culture."
  April, 2011
  College English Association of Ohio – Spring Conference, Athens, Ohio
• "Contesting Hillbilly Identity: Appalachia and the American Imagination."
  April, 2011
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia
• "Writing with The Working Hands of Society: Critical-Rhetorical Inquiry and Localized Pedagogy."
  October, 2010
  Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, Kentucky
• "Appalachian Culture and Rhetoric-Based Learning: New Horizons on the Critical Pedagogy Landscape."
  April, 2010
  College English Association of Ohio – Spring Conference, Columbus, Ohio
• "Writing Identity: Rhetoric(s) of Appalachian Lives."
  March, 2010
  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, Kentucky
• "Digital Rhetoric: Unlocking Hip-Hop Literacy's Potential in the Composition Classroom"
  April, 2009
  The Ohio State University Expanding Literacy Studies Conference, Columbus, Ohio
• "Making 'Invisible Administrators' Visible: (Re) Designing the GSA Position"
  March, 2009
  College English Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• "The Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Culture: (Re) Defining Text in the Composition Classroom"
  October, 2008
  Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, Kentucky
• "Bad People use Bad Grammar: How Students Respond to Student Error"
  April, 2008
  College English Association of Ohio – Spring Conference, Columbus, Ohio
• "The Hillbilly Speaks of Rhetoric: Negotiating Identity in the Introductory Composition Classroom":
  April, 2007
  College English Association of Ohio – Spring Conference, Columbus, Ohio
• "The Webster County Blues: An Exploration of the Educational Attitudes of a Poor Appalachian Community":
  October, 2006
  Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, Kentucky