“Corrido Commemorations, Dissensual Memory Practices and Media Sociality in the Post-9/11 Era,” Sounding Latinidades: A Symposium on Sound Studies and Latinx Cultures,” Indiana University, Bloomington, April 19, 2019, invited speaker
“‘Esta guerra no tiene razón’: Undocumented/Immigrant Corridos in the Post/9/11 Era,” Latino Studies Association, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2018
“Meet the Author” panel, Latino Studies Association, Washington, D.C., July 13, 2018
“‘Love the only way I know how’: The Philosophy of Love in the Work of Sandra Cisneros,”
Sandra Cisneros Symposium, Texas State University, San Marcos, April 29, 2017, invited speaker
“In the Cut: Latina/o Literature and Criticism in a Time of Crisis,” New York City, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21st Century,” 3rd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, April 14, 2017
Discussant for “JROTC, Latina/o Youth and American Dreams,” panel on Gina Perez’s Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream, Rutgers University, March 31, 2017, invited discussant
“Home/land Insecurity or un desmadre en Aztlán: Virginia Grise’s blu (2011),” Philadelphia, PA, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, “Liberty Crack’d” panel sponsored by the Chicana/o Literature Forum, January 5, 2017
“Home/land Insecurity or un desmadre en Aztlán: Virginia Grise’s blu (2011),” New York City, Latina/o Studies Working Group Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, October 2015
“Domesticating War: Family, Time, and Nation in Post-9/11 Latina War Drama,” New York City, NY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Latina/o Utopias: Futures, Forms, and the Will of Literature,” 2nd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, April 2015
“The Ethics of Chicana Grief and Grievance: Antiwar Aesthetics in the U.S. War in Viet Nam,” State University of New York at Oneonta, NY, Ralph Watkins Lecture Series, Department of Africana and Latino Studies, invited lecture, April 2015
“Pancho Villa, La Soldadera and the Erotics of Violence in Mexican and Mexican American Theater,” Syracuse, NY, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project Conference: Prensa, latinidad y legado: Spanish Language Press and Print Culture, October 2014
“Bodies at War: Genealogies of War and Militarism in Chicana Literature,” Irvine, CA, University of California, Irvine, Conference of Ford Fellows, Passing the Torch for Transformative Leadership and Educational Equity, September 2014
“The Chicana/Latina Patriot and the Feminist Soldier: Representations of the Chicana/Latina Soldier in the Global War on Terror,” South Bend, IN, Young Scholars Symposium, the Institute of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, April 2014
“Ungrateful Chicanas: The Politics of Chicana Grief and Grievance,” Salt Lake City, UT, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies 41st Annual Conference, April 2014.
“The Semiotics of Military Recruitment: Latinas/os and the Browning of the National Body,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, conference on Gender, Race, and Representation in Magazines and New Media, October, 2013
Welcoming remarks, 1st Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, “Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures,” New York City, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, March 2013
Organizer and Moderator, “Reading Latina/o Literature in a Time of War,” Boston, MA, Modern Language Association Convention, January 2013.
“Puerto Rican Soldiering and the Theatre of War in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (2007),” San Juan, Puerto Rico, American Studies Association Conference, November, 2012.
“‘Estas son mis armas’: Neoliberal Militarism in Elena Rodriguez’s Peacetime and Lorna Dee Cervantes’s Drive,” Chicago, IL, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies 39th Annual Conference, March 2012.
“Preparing for the Job Talk,” Costa Mesa, CA, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Conference: Celebrating our Similarities, Embracing Our Differences, March 2012
“Reading Chicana Literature in a Time of Neoliberal Militarism,” New York City, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Inter-University Program for Latino Research, Fourth Biennial Siglo XXI Conference: Forging the Future of Latinos in a Time of Crisis, February 2012.
“Revolutionary Development Discourse in Maria Cristina Mena’s The Water Carrier’s Secret (1942),” Boston, MA, American Literature Association, May 2011.
Faculty commentator for film panel, “La Otra Familia,” New York City, Urban Male Initiative, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, December 2011
“Desiring History in Chicana Narratives of the Mexican Revolution,” New Orleans, LA, American Comparative Literature Association, April 2010.
“‘Your safety net is yourself’: Neoliberal Militarism in Chican@ and Latin@ Literature,” New York City, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, March 2010.
“Gender, Citizenship, and the Militarization of Latino Families,” Washington, D.C., American Studies Association, November 2009.
“The Semiotics of Military Recruitment: Latinas/os and the Militarization of Family Rhetoric,” New Brunswick, NJ, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 36th Annual Conference, April 2009.
“Gender, Race, and American Militarism: The Latina and Latino Soldier in U.S. Film and Literature,” Ithaca, NY, Ithaca College, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, March, 2009.
“Gender, Race, and the New American Military: Latina/o Soldiers in Film and Literature,” Salem, OR, Willamette University, English Department, March, 2009.
“Media, Militarism, and Mythologies of the State: The Latino Soldier in U.S. War Films, 1943 – 2008,” New York City, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Latino Studies conference on “Latinas/os and the Media,” February, 2009.
“Chicana Writing and the Viet Nam War: Recognition and the Politics of Chicana Grief and Grievance,” San Francisco, CA, Modern Language Association, December, 2008.
“Heroic Boys, Good Neighbors, and the U.S.-Mexican War in María Cristina Mena’s Boy Heroes of Chapultepec (1953),” Houston, TX, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, November, 2008.
“Loving Pancho Villa: Revolutionary Iconography in the Work of Josefina Niggli,” Austin, TX, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 35th Annual Conference, March, 2008.
“Haunting Rivers and Haunting Women: Chicana Ecofeminism in the Work of Ana Castillo and Pat Mora,” Philadelphia, PA, Society for the Study of American Women Writers Third Annual Conference, November, 2006.
“Edgar Allan Poe, the U.S.-Mexican War, and the Formation of Gothic América,” Cornell University, “Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane,” Graduate Student Panel “Poe and His Circle,” September, 2006.
“Eating Cuba: White Racial Melancholia in Maria Gowen Brooks’s Idomen (1843),” Cornell University, English Department Roundtable, September, 2006.
“Heroic Boys, Good Neighbors, and the U.S.-Mexican War in María Cristina Mena’s Boy Heroes of Chapultepec,” Manhattan Beach, CA, Children’s Literature Association 33rd Annual Conference, June, 2006.
“Writing the Revolution in Josephina Niggli’s Soldadera,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, The Future of Minority Studies Junior Scholars Caucus, September, 2005.
