Lo’s Gym Book Tour:
March 1, 2018 – 7:00 p.m.
Book Release Event / Reading / Book Signing
Fr. Benjamin Kuhn, O.F.M., House
Siena College, Loudonville, NY
March 10, 2018 – 3:00 p.m.
Book Signing
Bookhouse of Stuyvesant Plaza
Albany, New York
March 15, 2018 – 4:45 p.m.
Conference Presentation
Kansas City Marriot Downtown / Convention Center
The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, Missouri
March 22, 2018 – 6:30 p.m.
Reading
University at Albany, Alumni House
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY
March 31, 2018 — 4:00 p.m.
Reading / Book Signing
Taylor Books
Charleston, West Virginia
April 3, 2018
Book Signing (4:00 p.m -5:00 p.m.)
MU Bookstore
Reading (5:00 p.m.)
Memorial Student Center
Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
April 4, 2018 — 5:00 p.m.
Reading & Book Signing
Baker Center
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
April 6, 2018 — 11:30 a.m.
Conference Presentation
Millennium Hotel
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, hosted by the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition (UACC), Cincinnati, Ohio.
April 14, 2018
Reading / Book Signing
City Books
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 12, 2018
Lunch with Books
Ohio County Public Library, Wheeling, West Virginia
July 28, 2018
Reading / Book Signing
Barnes & Noble
University Town Centre, Morgantown, West Virginia
September 29th, 2018 — 1:00 p.m.
Albany Book Festival
University at Albany Campus Center
October 13, 2018 — 1:00 p.m.
518 Author Event / Book Signing
Barnes & Noble
Colonie Center, Colonie, New York
January 12, 2019 — 7:00 p.m.
Northshire Bookstore
Saratoga Springs, New York
News/Media
“Author of 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym Todd Snyder joins Lavack & Goz on ESPN 104.5 The Team.”
“City Books’ Shelf Life Episode 8: Todd Snyder.”
“Snyder Sees Book as Metaphor for West Virginia’s Fighting Spirit.” (2018)
“Todd Snyder: Upstate Sports Edge” (2018)
“WV Native Releases Memoir of Growing up in Webster County.” (2018)
“Siena Professor Writes Book about Father’s Boxing Gym.” (2018)
“Review of 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym: Sport Literature Association.” (2018)
“12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym: Booktimist Feature.” (2018)
“Kirkus Review, 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym” (2018)
“Booktimist Midwinter Roundup: Reviews, Media, and Author Events”(2018)
“News Pages Book Stand Review of 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym” (2018)
“First-Generation College Student Discussion Series” (2017)
“Fourth Annual Hip-Hop Week at Siena College,” Albany Times Union (2017)
Chuck D Visits Siena College, AllOverAlbany.com (2016)
Siena College Admissions Blog: Q&A With Professor Snyder (2016)
Her Campus: Siena College Interview (2015)
Marshall University Guest Speaker, Campus Visit (2014)
Siena College News Feature: Todd Snyder, Nontraditional Hip-Hop Teacher (2013)
Recent Conference Presentations
Fighting Noah Milton — from 12 Rounds in “Lo’s Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia.” 34th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association. West Liberty University, West Liberty, W.V.(2017, June)
Writing About Fighting: Rhetoric and Working Class Masculinity. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, Texas. (2016, April)
I Ain’t No College Boy: Voices from Hip-Hop’s Dirty South. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida. (2015, March)
Spatial Rhetorics of Identity: Hip-Hop’s Impact on Working-Class Appalachian College Students.Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Indiana. (2014, March).
“Rhetoric(s) of the College Diploma: Academic Ethos in Rural Appalachia.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nevada. (2013, March).
“The Hillbilly as Rhetorical Myth: (Re)framing Appalachian Identity.” 15th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (2012, May).
Recent Speaking Engagements
Visiting Writer. Sponsored by the Virginia Military Institute Department of English, Lexington, Virginia. (2015, November).
Visiting Writer. Sponsored by the Ohio University Department of English, Athens, Ohio. (2015, October).
Visiting Writer. Sponsored by The Marshall University Visiting Writers Series, Huntington, West Virginia. (2015, October)
“The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity” Book Signing. Empire Books, Huntington, West Virginia. (2015, October).
“Soundtrack to Hip-Hop Values: Family, Feminism, and Education.”. Sponsored by Damietta Cross Cultural Center, Loudonville, New York. (2014, March).
Faces of Hip-Hop: A Discussion of Race and Identity. Sponsored by Damietta Cross Cultural Center, Loudonville, New York. (2013, November).