Selected Presentations & Appearances
Bloodwork: Class, Race and Convertibility in Latin America from 19th Century Novel to Alfonso Cuarón's Roma
- Congress on the Global Middle Class
· April 11, 2019
Invited Talk
Loyola College, Baltimore
"Subjects of Credit: Capital and Writing in Latin America, 1820s-1890s"
- Imaginarios económicos en la literatura y el cine de España y Latinoamérica
· April 6, 2019
Keynote/Named Lecture
Department of Languages and Literature,
Lehman College
Melancholic Tropics: Tourism, Advertising and Colonialism in Puerto Rico, USA, 1955-2009”
· May 12, 2015
Invited Talk
Department of Romance Languages,
University of Oregon, Eugene
Banking and Literature in 19th Century Latin America
· April 10, 2015
Invited Talk
Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies,
University of Pennsylvania
Inconvertible Subjects: Capital and Writing in Latin America, 1820-1890
· March 12, 2014
Lecture
ACLA Congress,
New York, New York
“Repúblicas de papel”: especulación y literatura en el siglo XIX
- LASA
· May 30, 2013
Lecture
Washington, DC
Independece, Insurgency, Insolvency: Circuits of Debt in Manuel Payno's Mexico.
· November 9, 2011
Lecture
Duke University
Governing Tourism: Representation, Domination and Freedom in Puerto Rico: 1949"
· November 9, 2010
Lecture
Kingston, Jamaica
Literatura y turismo en Puerto Rico en los 1980s: el cas de Rodriguez Juliá
· June 13, 2009
Lecture
Rio de Janeiro
Of Swiss-watches and Slaves: Narrative and Political Economy in Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés
· April 16, 2009
Lecture
Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Northwestern University
Para llegar a Martineau Bay: turismo, estética y propiedad en Vieques
· January 19, 2007
Invited Talk
Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
New York University
Adulteraciones: Hostos y las economías de la letra
· March 16, 2006
International Meeting or Conference
Latin American Studies Association,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
LASA Congress