Panels Organized
Exploding the Ear of American Empire, American Studies Association Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. November 20-22, 2025
Ana Menéndez’s The Apartment: Coalition, Opacity, and Bearing Witness, Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA. January 4-7, 2024
Papers
“Sound and Literature Now,” Modern Language Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. January 9-12, 2025
“Strategies for Positive Visibility in Student and Community Engagement,” Modern Language Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. January 9-12, 2025
“Havana Revisited, Review 105,” Latin American Studies Association. Vancouver, Canada, May 24-27, 2023
“Finding Each Other: How Women of Color Feminists Practice Relationality,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD. March 23-26, 2022
“Listening Well: Embodied Practices of Difference & Relationality,” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute, Fort Collins, CO July 27-30, 2022
“Towards Placing María Lugones on the Ancestor Altar: A Collaborative Correspondence,” American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Chicago, IL. February 23-26, 2022
“Native American Conceptions of Time to Understand World Literature Differently,” American Comparative Literature Association, Online. April 8-11, 2021
“Empathy and Foreignness: Generative Possibilities in Genocide Prevention,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA. March 5-8, 2018
“Thinking Otherwise: Practicing Coalition at the Outside of Modernity's Boundary,” Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Vancouver, Canada. June 21-24, 2018
“Decolonial Pedagogy: Building Communality in the Classroom through María Lugones’ Work,” Toward Decolonial Feminism: A Conference Inspired by the Work of María Lugones, State College, PA. May 11-13, 2018
Workshop Presentations
“Exploring Implicit Bias in Our Work with Students,” CUNY Start All-Staff Professional Development Conference, Manhattan, NY. October 30, 2015; November 4, 2016
“Felt Sense: Teaching Students Writing that ‘Feels Right,’” CUNY Start All-Staff Professional Development Conference, Manhattan, NY. October 30, 2015
PRESENTATIONS
The Assimilationist Ear: Learning University Listening in Jennine Capó Crucet’s Make Your Home Among Strangers and Kristen Millares Young’s Subduction. Florida Atlantic University. January 22, 2024
A Practice of Tantear: Rereading Cuban-American Women Writers, The College of Wooster. February 15, 2023
Coalitional Ancestries, Coalitional Futures: Making Relation in Cuban-American Literature by Women Writers, SUNY New Paltz. January 26, 2023
Making Relation in Cuban-American Literature by Women Writers: A Teacher-Scholar’s Perspective, Elon University. January 4, 2023
MALCS: Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, Syracuse University. March 18, 2021