Conference Presentations, 2017-2024
“Her Body, Our Horror: Self-Abnegating Apocalypses,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, January 2024
Respondent, “Futures of Climate Joy and Sorrow,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, January 2024
“Latinx Speculation as Method,” American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2023
“Thinking with Disaster: Doom Patterns in Latinx Speculations,” Latinx Visions, University of New Mexico, March 2023
“Speculative California, Speculative Latinx,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, January 2023
“Aesthetics of the Unfinished in Hemispheric Venezuelan Imaginaries,” American Studies Association, New Orleans, November 2022
“Infrastructures of Latinidad in Catastrophe,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Los Angeles, September 2022
“‘When did I go under?’: Blackness on the Border, Fragmentation, Mourning,” Latina/o Studies Association, University Notre Dame, July 2022
“Cuando sea Latinx/When I am Latinx: Brown-Face Performance and Latinx Longing,” Modern Language Association International Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2022
“Like a Puzzle: Fragmentation, Horror, and the Grotesque on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Modern Language Association, Washington DC, January 2022
“Self-Care as Self-Annihilation: Turning to Nature After the Apocalypse,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, virtual conference, October 2021
“Cuando sea Latinx/When I am Latinx: Brown-Face Performance in Latinx Letters,” AmericanComparative Literature Association, virtual meeting, April 2021
“Returning to Nature, Destroying the Self: Apocalyptic Desire,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, virtual conference, March 2021
“Apocalyptic Destruction in Hemispheric Venezuelan Imaginaries,” Latina/o Studies Association, Notre Dame, IN, July 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Self-Abnegation and the Female Body as Speculative Arena in Carmen Maria Machado and Han Kan,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March 2020
“Apocalyptic Destruction, Eternal Aftershocks, and Aesthetics of Refusal in Hemispheric Venezuelan Imaginaries,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2020
“‘I think about you, X—’: Crisis and Loss in the Latinx Canon,” Modern Language Association International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019
“‘The Devil’s Recipe’: Protest and Destruction in Hemispheric Venezuelan Imaginaries,” 4th Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism, New York, April 2019
“‘I think about you, X—’: Teaching Junot Díaz after ‘The Silence,’” Colloquium for the Study of Latina, Latino, and Latinx Culture and Theory, CUNY, Graduate Center, New York, April 12, 2019
“After ‘The Silence’: Mess in the Latinx Canon,” American Comparative Literature Association, Washington DC, March 2019
“Who shall give us flesh to eat?: Horror, Haunting, and Monstrous Embodiment in Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro,’” Modern Language Association, Chicago, January 2019
“Konquering Aesthetiks: Brown-Face, Time Travel, and Aesthetics of Violence in Atomik Aztex,” Latina/o Studies Association, Washington D.C., July 2018
“Rekonkista: ‘Brown-Face’ and Time Travel in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex,” American Comparative Literature Association, UCLA, Los Angeles, March 2018
“‘Rodeado de fantasmas’: Death, Pleasure, and Fragmentation in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666,” 3rd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism, New York, April 2017
“Beyond the Countercultural: Monstrous Desire in Latina/o Science Fiction,” Modern Language Association, Denver, January 2017
“Speculative Latina/o: Histories of the Future,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, January 2017
Conference Organizing, 2017-2023
Chair, “The (non)Human at/as Border,” American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2023
Co-organizer and Chair, “The Death and Life of a Category: Unmaking and Remaking ‘Latinidad,’” 5th Biennial U.S. Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2023
Co-organizer and Chair, “¿Pa dónde vamos?: New Modes, Forms, and Genres in Latinx SF,” Latinx Visions, University of New Mexico, March 2023
Organizer and Chair, “Resistance Movements and Sites of Protest in Latin(x) American Imaginaries, American Studies Association, New Orleans, November 2022
Organizer and Chair, “Speculative Latinx and Latinx Horrors,” Latin American Studies Association, virtual conference, May 2022
Co-organizer and Chair, “New Worlds of Speculation: Reflections on ASAP/Journal Special Issue,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, October 2021
Chair and organizer, “Latinx Apocalypse Aesthetics: Representation and the “End Times,” Past and Present” Latina/o Studies Association, Notre Dame, IN, July 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Organizer, “The Machado Moment and the Latinx Literary Present: New Critical Engagements of Her Body and Other Parties,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March 2020
Co-organizer, “Mess, Excess, and the Pleasures of Latinx Creativity,” American Comparative Literature Association, Washington DC, March 2019
Chair, “New Perspectives in Ecocriticism: Latinx Approaches,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, January 2019
Respondent, “Urban Materiality in Latin American Art Practice,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, New Orleans, October 2018
Chair, “Latina/o New York II: Contemporary Authors Writing On or From New York,” Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018
Co-organizer, “‘New Ways of Doing Things’: SF, Identity, and World-Making,” American ComparativeLiterature Association, UCLA, Los Angeles, March 2018
Co-organizer, “Imagining Black-Brown Solidarity: Forms, Limits, Futures,” 3rd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism, New York, April 2017