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.

UBC Public Humanities Hub Launch Event, March 2020.