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Academic Conference Presentations

  • “Painted Books and Painted Bodies: Queer Reinterpretations of Cervantes’s El curioso impertinente in Book Illustration and Middleton’s The Second Maiden’s Tragedy.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA. Jan. 2025.

  • “Let’s Not Forget the Artist: Holistic Archival Studies of Don Quixote Book Illustrations as Framed by Salvador Dalí.”Cervantes Society of America (CSA). Panel: "How do Concepts of Visibility Shape the Narratives within Cervantes’s Works." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Seen and Unseen.” Jacksonville, FL. Nov. 2024.

  • “Open AI: Artificial Intelligence in Early Modern Spanish Pedagogy and Research.” Cervantes Society of America (CSA). Panel: “Insecurity and Fear: The Future of Cervantes Studies in the Humanities.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies.” Atlanta, GA. Nov. 2023.

  • “Artificial Intelligence in University Language and Literature Classrooms: Pedagogical Models of Input and Output Assessment.” Online conference: “Language X.0: The AI Revolution in Language Education.” University of Kent. 6 Sept. 2023.

  • “Teofanía y mito en ilustración: écfrasis inversa de la primera salida de don Quijote.” Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (AISO). XIII Congreso. Oviedo, Spain. July 2023.

  • “Expanding the Canon: Pintura as Unifying Referent in Don Quijote Magazine 1892-1902.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Change.” Panel: “The Hinge: Transformations for a Turn of a Century.” Jacksonville, FL. Nov. 2022. Online.

  • “Illustrating Eternal Homoaffect in Cervantes’s El curioso impertinente.” Symposium on Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Spain. National conference. Georgia College and State University. Milledgeville, GA. Nov. 2021.

  • “Queer Slum Tourism in the Works of Salvador Novo and Carlos Monsiváis.” 68th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS). Panel: “Queer Theory in Latin America: Honoring the Work of David William Foster.” Apr. 2021. Online.

  • “Homonormalizing Masculine Amicitia in Book Illustrations of Cervantes’s El curioso impertinente.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Scandal! Literature and Provocation: Breaking Rules, Making Texts.” Cervantes Society of American panel: “Themes of Boundaries, Rules, Limits, and Cultural Regulations in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes.” Atlanta, GA. Nov. 2020. Online.

  • “Don Quixote Slum Tourism: Quixotic Subjections and Privileges.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference: “Unfreedom.” Panel: “Subjections from Iberia to the Southeast and Southwest.” Tempe, AZ. Feb. 2020.

  • “Queering Early Modern European Literature: A History of Theoretical Issues and Challenges.” The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference: “Encounters in the 18th Century: Maps, Materials, and Media.” Panel: “Mapping Queer Theorizations in Early Modern Europe.” Macon, GA. Feb. 2020.

  • “Power through Surrealism: Terry Gilliam and Salvador Dalí Illustrate Don Quixote.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Language, Power, Identity, Relationships.” Cervantes Society of America panel: “Themes of Power, Identity, and Relationships in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes.” Atlanta, GA. Nov. 2019.

  • “Border Bias and the Black Legend.” Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Conference. Faculty Roundtable. Milledgeville, GA. May 2019.

  • “Appropriating don Quixote in Book Illustration.” The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. Panel: “Popular Readers in Early Modern Spain.” Toronto, ON. Mar. 2019.

  • “Don Quixote, Tourism, and Child-Star Cinema in Franco’s Spain.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. “Fighters from the Margins: Sociopolitical Activists and Their Allies.” EMIT Society panel: “Reinventing Don Quixote in Cultural Production: Sociocultural and Political Agendas.” Birmingham, AL. Nov. 2018.

  • “Surrealism, Kitsch, and Salvador Dalí’s Don Quixote.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. “High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture.” Panel: “Hispanic Literatures and Arts: Beyond Boundaries.” Atlanta, GA. Nov. 2017.

  • “Endowing Don Quixote with a Sexual Characterization: Queer Issues.” The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. “Unusual Vistas: Transforming Hispanic/Novo Hispanic Classicism in the Golden Age Matrix.” Chicago, IL. Apr. 2017.

  • “Edging the Spectator: Marco Berger’s Cinematic Queer Continuums.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention. Salt Lake City, UT. Oct. 2016.

  • “Salvador Dalí’s Pictorial Fanfare for the Common Man: Marketing Surrealistic Renaissance Classicism through Mid-Twentieth Century Don Quixote Illustrations.” The University of Chicago Center in Beijing Symposium. “Cervantes in China on his 400th Anniversary.” Beijing, China. June 2016.

  • “Salvador Dalí’s Everyman: Sublimation of Epic Myth in Don Quixote and the Windmills (1946). The Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference. “Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Scottsdale, AZ. Feb. 2016.

  • “It Falls on Caravaggio’s Homoerotic Shoulders.” The Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference. “Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Scottsdale, AZ. Feb. 2016.

  • “H-Cervantes: Networking Early Modern Scholarship.” The Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference. “Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Scottsdale, AZ. Feb. 2016.

  • “Dalinian Surrealism Befriends Cervantine Epic.” The Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference. “Trades, Talents, Guilds, and Specialists: Getting Things Done in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Scottsdale, AZ. Feb. 2015.

  • “Why did Dalí Invert that Image? Cervantes through Dalí.” University of Chicago Spanish Graduate Student Conference. “Eyes that Speak: Textual Visions and Visual Texts.” Chicago, IL. Apr. 2014.

  • “Asexualidad, matricidio y ausencia paternal en obras de Virgilio Piñera y Manuel Puig.” Arizona State University Spanish Graduate Literature Conference. “Transformaciones: nuevas perspectivas en el siglo XXI.” Tempe, AZ. Mar. 2014.

  • “Representaciones heterólogas de imaginería grecolatina: análisis semióticos de la primera salida de don Quijote en una ilustración de Salvador Dalí.” Arizona State University Spanish Graduate Literature Conference. Tempe, AZ. Mar. 2014.

  • “Representación del tabú queer: la relación lésbica madre/hija en la obra de Luzma Umpierre.” Brown University Graduate Student Conference. “Ruptures and Transgressions.” Providence, RI. Oct. 2012.

  • “Hacia una lectura queer: entrevista con David William Foster.” VI Simposio Internacional: Narratividad y discursos múltiples - Homenaje a David William Foster. Centros de Estudios de Narratología (CEN), Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2011.

 

Invited Presentations and
Guest Lectures

  • "Seizing the Boom of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Undergraduate Classrooms: Meaningful Activities and Assessable Moments." Digital Humanities Collaborative Fellowship. Georgia College & State University. 26 Feb. 2024.

  • “A Dalinian Don Quixote: Iconography, Illustration, and Pedagogy.” Cervantes Seminar. Arizona State University. School of International Letters and Cultures. 31 Aug. 2021.

  • “Dalinian Surrealism in Movie Posters of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).” Web Talks Series. Georgia College and State University. World Languages and Cultures. Milledgeville, GA. 9 Oct. 2020.

  • “Best Practices in Foreign Language Healthcare Interpretation.” Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Blacksburg, VA. Mar. 2018. Online.

  • “Queering Don Quixote: Theoretical Issues and Challenges.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Tempe, AZ. Oct. 2016.

  • “‘Modernization’ and (Anti)modern Woman in Franco’s Spain: 1968’s Patriarchal Paradox in Film and Posters.” Arts-Connect: Discover Spain and Portugal Series. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Scottsdale, AZ. Feb. 2015.

  • “Major Issues Affecting Foreign Language Healthcare Interpretation.” Clemson University VI Annual Language and International Health Symposium. Clemson, SC. Oct. 2014.

 

Academic Conference and
Panel Organization

  • Panel organizer and Co-Chair. Cervantes Society of America (CSA). Panel: “Seen and Unseen: How do Concepts of Visibility shape the Narratives within Cervantes’s Works?” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Seen and Unseen.” Jacksonville, FL. 15-17 Nov. 2024.

  • Panel organizer and Moderator. Undergraduate. “Engaging Quixotism in Generative Artificial Intelligence: A GC1Y Experience.” GCSU Research Day. 27 Mar. 2024.

  • Moderator. “Roundtable: Student Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence.” GCSU Research Day. 27 Mar. 2024.

  • Panel organizer and Co-Chair. Cervantes Society of America (CSA). Panel: “Insecurity and Fear: The Future of Cervantes Studies in the Humanities.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies.” Atlanta, GA. 9-11 Nov. 2023.

  • Panel organizer and Co-Chair. Cervantes Society of America (CSA). Panel: “CHANGE: Adaptation, Recreation, and Reinterpretation of Cervantes’s Literary Works.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Change.” Jacksonville, FL. Nov. 2022.

  • Conference organizer and Chair. Symposium on Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Spain. National conference. Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia. Nov. 5, 2021.

  • Panel organizer and Chair. “Queer Theory in Latin America: Honoring the Work of David William Foster.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS). 68th Annual Meeting. 15-18 April 2021. Online.

  • Panel organizer and Chair. Cervantes Society of America (CSA). Two panels: “Themes of Boundaries, Rules, Limits, and Cultural Regulations in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Scandal! Literature and Provocation: Breaking Rules, Making Texts.” Atlanta, GA online. Nov. 2020.

  • Panel organizer and Chair. Cervantes Society of America (CSA). Two panels: “Themes of Power, Identity, and Relationships in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes I and II.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: “Language, Power, Identity, Relationships.” Atlanta, GA. Nov. 2019.

  • Panel organization committee. “Issues Surrounding the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Latin American, Caribbean, & Latino Studies Conference/Senior Day. Georgia College. Milledgeville, GA. April 2019.

  • Panel organizer and Chair. Early Modern Image & Text Society (EMIT): “Reinventing Don Quixote in Cultural Production: Sociocultural and Political Agendas.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. “Fighters from the Margins: Sociopolitical Activists and Their Allies.” Birmingham, AL. Nov. 2018.

  • Roundtable organizer and Chair. “Unusual Vistas: Transforming Hispanic/Novo Hispanic Classicism in the Golden Age Matrix.” The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. “Unusual Vistas: Transforming Hispanic/Novo Hispanic Classicism in the Golden Age Matrix.” Chicago, IL. Apr. 2017.

  • Workshop organizer and Chair. “Social Networking, Publishing, and Outreach in Early Modern Scholarship.” The Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference. “Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Scottsdale, AZ. Feb. 2016.

  • Panel organizer and Chair. “Friendship and Respect in Baroque Spain and Latin America.” The Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference. Scottsdale, AZ. Feb. 2015.

  • Panel organizer and Chair. “Representaciones del Quijote.” Arizona State University Spanish Graduate Literature Conference. Tempe, AZ. Mar. 2014.

  • Conference organizer and Co-Chair. XVI Spanish Graduate Literature Conference Organizing Committee. “Social Imaginaries & Cultural Production.” Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. Feb. 2013.

  • Panel Chair: “El mito y el imaginario social: consciencias nacionales.” XVI Arizona State University Spanish Graduate Literature Conference. Tempe, AZ. Feb. 2013.

  • Conference organizing committee member. XV Spanish Graduate Literature Conference. “Migraciones y diáspora desde nuevas perspectivas.” Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. Feb. 2012.

  • Panel organizer and Chair: “Lo queer y lo homoerótico en la experiencia hispanoamericana y diáspora. XV Arizona State University Spanish Graduate Literature Conference.” Tempe, AZ. Feb. 2012.

 

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