Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions
The Politics of Remembering: A Colonially-Shaped Education and the Cultural Identity of Arroyanos
- North Carolina Conference on Latin American Studies
· February 21, 2025
- February 22, 2025
Other
UNC Charlotte,
Charlotte, NC
I presented on Ana Lydia Vega’s novella *El baúl de Miss Florence*, a work that draws directly from the overlooked colonial history of Arroyo, Puerto Rico. Vega’s narrative revives local memory and collective trauma that are absent from the island’s official curricula — stories that I, too, never encountered in my own schooling. My talk highlighted how the novella challenges the silences and omissions in Puerto Rico’s colonially-shaped educational system, and how literature can function as a counter-archive to reclaim erased histories. Through Vega’s text, I explored the power of storytelling to resist historical erasure and to recover the complex legacies that formal education often fails to address.
Corporeal Constructions: The Making of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Ibero-Atlantic
- North Carolina Conference on Latin American Studies
· February 17, 2023
- February 18, 2023
Other
Duke University
Moderated a panel at the North Carolina Conference on Latin American
Studies titled “Corporeal Constructions: The Making of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Ibero-Atlantic”. February 17-18th, 2023.
Studies titled “Corporeal Constructions: The Making of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Ibero-Atlantic”. February 17-18th, 2023.
De Mirones a burlones: La deshumanización de los personajes a través del humor corporal en El entremés de los Mirones
- 2022 AHCT Almagro Symposium: La comedia entre dos mundos
· July 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater,
Almagro, Spain
Messing with the Entremés: Translation of Los Mirones/The Gawkers
- Diversifying in London: Humour and Comedy of the comedia in the 21st Century
· June 2022
International Meeting or Conference
A collaboration between Grumelot, UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics, UCL SELCS, Texas Tech University, the Instituto Cervantes and Shakespeare’s Globe.,
London, UK
This event brings together academic colleagues from across the country with a specialism in early modern Spanish theatre alongside translators, directors, performers, and actors with an interest in Spanish language theatre. At the heart of the event will be a performance-as-research stage reading/premiere of the entremés Los mirones/The Gawkers.
Service to the Profession
Mentorship
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October 2025
Consulting
Online
United States
Mentor to a Texas high school student pursuing interests in linguistics, language, and literature. Provided academic guidance, research mentorship, and career advising to support the student's exploration of cultural identity, heritage, and language studies. Assisted in developing critical reading, writing, and research skills while fostering engagement with scholarly conversations on language, literature, and culture, with the goal of encouraging future contributions to academic knowledge and community-centered scholarship.
United States
Mentor to a Texas high school student pursuing interests in linguistics, language, and literature. Provided academic guidance, research mentorship, and career advising to support the student's exploration of cultural identity, heritage, and language studies. Assisted in developing critical reading, writing, and research skills while fostering engagement with scholarly conversations on language, literature, and culture, with the goal of encouraging future contributions to academic knowledge and community-centered scholarship.
Academic & Administrative Activities
2024 - Spanish Representative in the Graduate Student Liaison of the Romance Studies Department.
2025 - Adjunct Spanish Instructor at Durham Technical Community College