On 11 February, Oliver Brearey presented a paper titled "Employment Writing and Knowledge Mobilization" at Camp Rhetoric 2017, a conference organized by the Penn State Arnold-Ebbitt Interdisciplinary Rhetoricians. The conference was held in State College, PA.
On 2 June, he will present a paper titled "Employment Writing and Composition Studies" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication's (CCCC) 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. The conference will be held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
He will also present a paper titled "Reading Writings about WPA Work as Exemplar Texts in Organizational Communication" at the Council of Writing Program Administrators' (CWPA) 2017 Conference. The conference will be held in Knoxville, TN on July 20-23.