“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)
Conference Presentations
“Escuchar contra la extinción: La auralidad como acción en la poesía mexicana contemporánea.” Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Novi Sad, Serbia (July 2025)
“Oímos cantar al pirirí: Attuning to the More-than-Human in Mexican Literature.” Sound and Literature Now (sponsored panel, Sound Forum). Modern Language Association Annual Conference, New Orleans (January 2025)
“Silent Toxicity: Extractivism and Machismo in Jorge Comensal’s Mutaciones.” XLII Latin American Studies Association Conference, Bogotá (June 2024)
“La comunidad única: Listening as Community and Care in Guadalupe Nettel.” XXVIII Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, UC Irvine (April 2024)
“Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Guadalupe Nettel.” XLI Latin American Studies Association Conference, Vancouver (May 2023)
“The Sounds and Spatiality of Crisis in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive.” XL Latin American Studies Association Conference (May 2022)
“Intermediality and Economic Migration in Laury Leite’s En la soledad de un cielo muerto.” XXVI Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, Soundscapes of Mexico, University of California, Irvine (April 2022)
“Left Decadence and Intertextuality in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s (Post-)War Fiction.” Central American Literature as World Literature, Rice University (November 2021)
“A Sensual Palimpsest: History, Memory and the Sonic in Laury Leite’s En la soledad de un cielo muerto.” Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida, XXXIX Latin American Studies Association (May 2021)
“Rewriting Shit: Dirt and Excrement in Latin American Indigenous Literature.” Building Worlds, Green College Leading Scholars Series, University of British Columbia (January 2021)
“A Harlem Renaissance in Ciudad Juárez: Race, Gender, and a Crisis of Intersectionality in Roberto Bolaño’s ‘La parte de Fate.’” Améfrica Ladina, XVIII Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, México (May 2020)
“Broken Bodies, Broken Nations: Roberto Bolaño on Neoliberal Logic and (Un)Mediated Violence.” Hispanic Studies Seminar, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (October 2019)
“Dissensus and Alternative Left Politics in Postwar El Salvador: Jazz as Metonymy in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s La diáspora.” Mesa Centroamérica, LV Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Vancouver, Canada (June 2019)
“Specters of Roque: The Pen and/as the Sword.” Nuestra América, XXXVII Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Boston (May 2019)
“Precursors of 1968: Borges, Bolaño, and the Latin American Left.” Textual Transactions, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference, Chicago (January 2019)
Co-Organizer (with Isabella Vergara, Northwestern University), “Espacios sonoros: El silencio como expresión en la literatura y la cultura latinoamericanas contemporáneas” (joint session), XLII Latin American Studies Association Conference, June 2024
Organizer, invited lecture by Prof. Carolina Sá Carvalho (University of Toronto), “How to See a Scar,” FHIS Research Seminar, November 2023
Organizer, “Sensing (In)Justice in Feminist Literature: Listening in/against the Lettered City,” XLI Latin American Studies Association Conference, May 2023
Co-Organizer (with Dylan Robinson and Julen Etxabe), invited lecture by Prof. Trevor Reed (Arizona State University), “Restorative Justice for Indigenous Voices,” March 2023
Organizer, invited lecture by Prof. Tom McEnaney (U. of California, Berkeley), “Stop Listening: Surveillance, Sound, Sexuality, and Race in Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman,” November 2022
Joint Session, Co-Organizer (with Prof. Ali Kulez, Boston College), “Reframing Crisis in Contemporary Latin American Literature.” Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias, XL Latin American Studies Association Conference (May 2022)
Co-Organizer (with Prof. Amanda Smith, UC Santa Cruz), “Sensible Disruptions: Soundscapes in Contemporary Latin American Literature.” Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida, XXXIX Latin American Studies Association (May 2021)
Co-Organizer (with Profs. Yankai Cao and Katie Marshall, UBC), “Waste Not: Rethinking Poop through Bugs, Books and Power.” Building Worlds, Green College Leading Scholars Series, University of British Columbia (January 2021)
Co-Organizer (with Prof. Amanda Smith, UC Santa Cruz), “Listening in Latin America: Narrative Soundscapes & Literary Aurality.” MLA Convention: Persistence, Toronto (January 2021)
Co-Organizer (with Prof. Ali Kulez, Boston College), “Géneros: Gender and Genre in the Literatures of Améfrica Ladina.” Améfrica Ladina, XVIII Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, México (May 2020)
Organizer, “Nuestra América through a Latinx Lens: Reading (with) Héctor Tobar.” Roundtable with the author. Nuestra América, XXXVII Latin American Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA (May 2019)
Organizer, “Residues of the Archive: On Belonging, Inequality, and Crisis from the IsthmUS.” Nuestra América, XXXVII Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Boston, MA (May 2019), Section-sponsored Session
Co-Organizer (with Prof. Matt Johnson, New Mexico Tech), “Borgesian Transactions: Literary Debts, Literary Inheritances.” Textual Transactions, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago (January 2019), Presidential Session
Organizer, “Consumption of the Other, Consumption of the Self: Aesthetic Mutilation as Neoliberal Critique.” Consuming Cultures, Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Kansas City (November 2018), Special Session
Organizer, “Political and Literary Geographies in Flux: Culture and Media in the Era of Post-National Globalization.” Latin American Studies in a Globalized World, XXXVI Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Barcelona, Spain (May 2018)
Organizer, “Impactos del capitalismo globalizado: Fenómenos literarios glocales desde una perspectiva intercontinental.” Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, The Ohio State University (October 2017)
Organizer, “Culture on Crisis / Culture in Crisis: Art and the Neoliberal Market.” Diálogos de saberes, XXXV Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Lima, Peru (April 2017)
Panel Moderation
“Reframing Crisis in Contemporary Latin American Literature.” Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias, XL Latin American Studies Association Conference, May 2022
“Oralidades y textualidades,” FHIS Graduate Student Symposium, May 2022
Listening in Latin America: Narrative Soundscapes & Literary Aurality. MLA Convention: Persistence, Toronto (January 2021)
Crossing Borders. On the Move: Narratives of Displacement, Travel and Mobilities, Graduate Student Conference: French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia (October 2019)
History and its Shadows: Re-Thinking Historical Narratives in Contemporary Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Literature. Diálogos 13: Graduate Student Research Conference, Indiana University (February 2016)
Luso-Brazilian Literature & Culture. Diálogos 10: Graduate Student Research Conference, Indiana University (February 2013)
UBC Public Humanities Hub Launch Event, March 2020.
