Upcoming Presentations
- “Migrant Sonority and More-than-Human Perspectivism in Emiliano Monge’s Las tierras arrasadas.” University of Utah, Department of World Languages & Cultures Lecture Series, September 2025
- “Muffled Protest: Silence as Activism.” MexicanEasts, Brigham Young University, UT, September 2025
- “Synesthetic Listening and Queer ‘Response-ability’ as Aural Care in Contemporary Mexican Narrative.” Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, January 2026
Past Invited Talks
“Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Mexican Fiction.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese Lecture Series, University of Toronto (March 2025)
“Echoes of a Migrant Crisis: Narrative Attunement and Sound as Ethics in 21st-Century Border Novels.” Reed College, Portland, OR (April 2024)
“Listening in the Anthropocene: Migrant Sonority and More-than-Human Perspectivism in Emiliano Monge’s Las tierras arrasadas.” El coloquio interdisciplinario, Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University Ontario (March 2024)
“Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Mexican Fiction.” Green College Lecture Series, University of British Columbia (February 2024)
“Necropolitical Romeo and Juliet: Migrant Sonority against Dehumanization in Emiliano Monge’s Among the Lost.” University of Cincinnati, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, Taft Public Lecture (February 2023)
“In the Key of Crisis: Intermediality, Temporality and Labor in Laury Leite.” Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC) Speaker Series, Stanford University (May 2022)
“Conspicuous Impunity: Ayotzinapa Seven Years Later.” Hispanic Heritage Month: Urgent Issues in Latin America Roundtable, Latin American Studies Program, UBC (October 2021)
“In the Key of Crisis: Intermediality and the Romanticization of Labour in Mexico City.” Mexican Studies Research Collective (September 2021)
“Academia Without Borders.” Desigualdades y Centralidad de la Vida, XXXIX Latin American Studies Association Conference, LASA Student Section (May 2021)
“La esclavitud, la maquila y la alegoría fracasada: Un renacimiento de Harlem en la Ciudad Juárez.” UC Santa Cruz Spanish Studies Colloquium (November 2020)
“Solidarity, Foodways, and Fierce Care on the Migrant Trail.” Global Resource Systems Program, University of British Columbia (November 2020)
“‘La violencia es macro:’ Natalie Beristáin’s Los adioses.” UBC Latin American Studies Program (January 2020)
“Trauma, Affect, and Testimonio in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez.” Professor Jonathan Risner, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University (April 2019)
For past conference presentations and sessions organized, please see CV.