Invited Talks

• “Doom Patterns: Violence, Pleasure, and the Pedagogies of Latinx Horror,” Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 12, 2024

• “Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge,” Sponsored by the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, Johns Hopkins University, March 13, 2024

• “Solid, Viscous, Dissipating: Her Body, Our Horror,” Colloquium on Literature, Philosophy, & Aesthetics, Boston University, Boston, MA, October 13-14, 2023

• “Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge,” American Literature and Culture Seminar, Mahindra Center, Harvard University, (Respondent: Ralph Rodriguez, Brown University) April 19, 2023

• “Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge,” The Center for Latin American Studies, Boston University, March 21, 2023. You can watch the recording here.

• “Doom Patterns: Violence and Pleasure in Latinx Speculations,” English and Comparative Literature Department, Columbia University, February 2, 2023

• “Doom Patterns: Violence and Pleasure in Latinx Speculations,” Writing, Literature, and Publishing Critical and Scholarly Lecture Series, Emerson College, January 25, 2023

• “Colonial hauntings: Pedagogies of Latinx Horror,” National Humanities Center, Webinar Series, October 25, 2022. You can watch the recording here.

• Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds Conference, June 4-6, 2021 (virtual event)

• First Book Symposium, American University, December 5, 2020 (virtual event)

• “Against Silence: Crisis, Violence, and Aesthetic Pleasure in Américan Literature.” University of Massachusetts Lowell, February 11, 2019

• “Against Silence: Unstable Sites of Crisis and Aesthetic Pleasure in Junot Díaz.” Symposium: “Crisis, Conflict, and Contemporary Literature: Postcolonial/Minority Experiences from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States.” George Washington University, Washington D.C., October 5, 2018

Invited Classroom Talks

Guest speaker for ENGL 5322: Literature and Culture, graduate seminar, University of Texas El Paso, Dr. Marion Rhorleitner, November 16, 2021

Guest speaker for HIST-LIT 90EX: Queer Latinx Borderlands, Harvard University, Dr. Thomas Conner, October 21, 2021.

Guest speaker for ENGL 3925: Rhetorics of Social Movements, Dr. Jenna Vinson, and SOCI 1115: Social Problems, Dr. Tom Pineros-Shields, University of Massachusetts Lowell, October 5,   2021

Guest speaker for ENGL 6510. Writing Race and Nation: U.S LatinX Literature and Culture, graduate seminar, George Washington University, Dr. Antonio López, April 19, 2021 

Guest speaker for Spanish 4480: Studies in Latinx Cultural Production, George Washington University, Dr. Manuel Cuellar, March 7, 2021

“‘I think about you, X—’: Junot Díaz After ‘The Silence.’” Guest Lecture for Studies in AML 5637: Latino/a Literature, Florida State University, Dr. John Ribó, September 3, 2019