Selected Presentations & Appearances
"Atlantic Latinidades: Memory Sites of Transatlantic Crossings in U.S. Latina/o/x Caribbean Cultural Production."
· July 2022
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Latino Studies Association (LSA),
South Bend, Indiana
“Tomás Rivera’s Site of Memory and the British Scramble for the Congo”
- “Remembering Empire” Virtual Seminar Series, Arts and the Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
· October 2021
Invited Talk
Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham, UK
"Reading Trails, Visiting Texts: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's UNESCO Slave Route & Latinx Writiing in the Global South"
· March 2021
International Meeting or Conference
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
online
“On Roberto Fernández Retamar and the Mambí"
- Presentation for Course “Crossing the Atlantic: Race and Identity in the African Diaspora”
· February 2021
Invited Talk
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Chair: “Retrospective Latinx Studies: A Look Back at the Discipline.”
· 2020
International Meeting or Conference
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), ,
Guadalajara, MEXICO.
(POSTPONED TO 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic)
"Atlantic Latinidades: Memory Sites of Transatlantic Crossings in U.S. Latina/o/x Caribbean Cultural Production."
· July 2022
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Latino Studies Association (LSA),
South Bend, Indiana
“Tomás Rivera’s Site of Memory and the British Scramble for the Congo”
- “Remembering Empire” Virtual Seminar Series, Arts and the Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
· October 2021
Invited Talk
Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham, UK
"Reading Trails, Visiting Texts: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's UNESCO Slave Route & Latinx Writiing in the Global South"
· March 2021
International Meeting or Conference
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
online
“On Roberto Fernández Retamar and the Mambí"
- Presentation for Course “Crossing the Atlantic: Race and Identity in the African Diaspora”
· February 2021
Invited Talk
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Chair: “Retrospective Latinx Studies: A Look Back at the Discipline.”
· 2020
International Meeting or Conference
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), ,
Guadalajara, MEXICO.
(POSTPONED TO 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic)
Discussant: “Thinking Latinidad Beyond the U.S.”
· 2020
International Meeting or Conference
Latin American Studies Association (LASA),
Guadalajara, MEXICO
(CANCELLED due to the coronavirus pandemic)
“Gabriel García Márquez and the Cold War in Angola"
· September 2019
Invited Talk
Post45 Symposium,
"Re-Membering Ourselves: Afro-Atlantic Praxes of Memory, Pleasure, and the Sacred”
· May 24, 2019
- May 27, 2019
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Latin American Studies Association (LASA),
Boston, MA
“Achy Obejas’ Havana”
- Colloquium “La ville et ces discours/The city and its discourses"
· April 2019
Invited Talk
The University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
“The Decolonial Turn: Visiting Literature, Reading Memorials of the Atlantic”
- Decolonial Collaborative Research Group
· March 2019
Lecture
Stanford Humanities Center,
Stanford, CA
"New Diasporas: A Roundtable"
· January 11, 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Languages Association (MLA),
Chicago, IL
"Mess, Excess, and the Pleasures of Latinx Creativity,” Latinx Seminar,
· 2019
International Meeting or Conference
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
Washington, DC
Chair: “Trans-Hemisheric Latinidades”
· July 16, 2018
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Latino Studies Association (LSA),
“Rudolfo Anaya and Transatlantic Latinidad”
- Global Latinidades Panel
· May 26, 2018
International Meeting or Conference
at Latin American Studies Association (LASA), ,
Barcelona, SPAIN
“Mapping Atlantic Empires: Reading African Travel Literature, Visiting Latino Texts”
- Colloquium for the Study of Latina, Latino, and Latinx Culture and Theory
· February 16, 2018
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY),
New York, NY
“Sites of Memory in the Diaspora: Chicanx and Latinx Intersections Towards West Africa
- New Directions in Latin@ Studies: A Celebration of Twenty Years of LASA Latino Studies Section
· April 29, 2017
International Meeting or Conference
Latin American Studies Association (LASA),
Lima, PERU
“Reading Space, Visiting Texts: Theorizing a Latin/o African Tourism in Caribbean Literature”
· February 6, 2017
Invited Talk
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI
"Dialectics of a Gendered Maroon Memorial in Gloria Rolando’s Roots of My Heart"
· March 17, 2016
International Meeting or Conference
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Theorizing Heritage Tourism: Approaches to Transatlantic Textual Memory
· February 12, 2016
Invited Talk
Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College,
Hannover, NH.
“Transatlantic Sites: Gabriel García Márquez’s Inclusion of the Black Atlantic in Chronicle of a Death Foretold.”
- Presidential Theme
· January 11, 2015
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Languages Association (MLA),
Vancouver, BC, CANADA
“An Exported Atlantic: Forging Cultural Exchanges between Cuba and Benin.”
- 7th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora
· October 30, 2013
International Meeting or Conference
ASWAD,
Santo Domingo, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
“The Poetic Corpus of a Nerudian Caribbean.”
- “Insisting on Modernity: Vision and Revision of the Luso-Hispanic World”
· April 13, 2013
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) ,
“Chamoiseau’s Evolution from Slavery to Restoration of Environmental Alienation in Les Neuf Consciences du Malfini”
· May 23, 2012
International Meeting or Conference
Latin American Studies Association (LASA),
San Francisco, CA
“Les neuf consciences du Malfini Gives Voice to Nature: Chamoiseau’s Evolution from Slavery to Ecocriticism and Environmental Alienation"
- "Comparative Caribbeans"
· November 3, 2011
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Emory University,
Atlanta, GA