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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

October 26, 2019 — 2:30 p.m.

Boardman Road Branch Library

Poughkeepsie, New York


News/Media

“The Sweet Science: Thomas Hauser Review of “12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym.”

“Hannibal Boxing Podcast: Todd Snyder Discusses 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym & Bundini Brown.”

“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)

“12 Rounds’ Explores Power of Action, History of Appalachia.”(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)

“Marshall University Alumni Spotlight: Todd D. Snyder.” (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).

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Todd D. Snyder, Author
Associate Professor of English
Siena College
Loudonville, N.Y.
tdsnyder@siena.edu

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