Selected Presentations & Appearances
Raising Cubans in Exile: José Martí and the Education of Children in "the other America"
· July 2023
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: The Immigrant Communities of Florida and José Martí in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century,
Tampa
Celebrating Latinx Culture with a Spanish Reading Program: Evaluation of Program Impact on Latinx Families and Undergraduate Students (co-chair)
· March 2023
International Meeting or Conference
Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies,
Antigua
Unearthing Home in Exile: Re-Mapping Cuba as Far as the Hand Can Reach
· June 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Language Association,
Glasgow
Contra Fronteras: Caribbean Women Confronting Hostile Borders and (Re)mapping Home (co-chair)
· June 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Language Association,
Glasgow
(co-chair)
The STD Sermon: Discussing HIV Prevention and Exile in Graphic Testimonio
· November 2020
International Meeting or Conference
South Atlantic Modern Languages Association,
Virtual
Reassuring and Uncanny Voices: Recovering the Cuban Sexile Testimonio
· July 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Language Association,
Lisbon
The Politics of Censorship in Reinaldo Arenas’s Testimonio, Antes que anochezca
· November 2018
International Meeting or Conference
South Atlantic Modern Languages Association,
Birmingham
The Moonlight of Miami: Race in the Cuban Enclave
· November 2017
International Meeting or Conference
South Atlantic Modern Languages Association,
Atlanta
Desarrollando un(a) estétic@ transgénero en la diáspora
- 3rd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference
· April 2017
International Meeting or Conference
New York
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Bass Connections Team Leader - Celebra mi herencia: A Spanish Reading Program
· 2023
- 2024
Projects & Field Work
North Carolina
Bass Connections Team Leader - Celebrating Latinx Culture with a Spanish Reading Program
· 2022
- 2023
Projects & Field Work
Home Fire Campaign Member
· 2021
Community Outreach
American Red Cross (Cape Fear Chapter)
Disaster Relief Team Member
· 2021
Community Outreach
American Red Cross (Cape Fear Chapter)
Latino Engagement Team Member
· 2021
Community Outreach
American Red Cross (Cape Fear Chapter)