TALKS, CONFERENCES, & PRESENTATIONS
“Coalition, Multiculturalism, Intersectionality: The Shifting Horizons of Racial Solidarity in Theorizing U.S. Literature.”
----MLA: Modern Literature Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. January 4-7, 2024.
“Cruising the Hard-Boiled Streets: Michael Nava’s Genre Refractions and Revisions.”
----Post45 Conference. University of Southern California. October 2023.
“The Migrant Pizcaresque: The Coalitional Aesthetics of Farm Labor in Chicanx and Filipino Fiction.”
----Third Annual June Dwyer Lecture, Manhattan College Department of English. New York, NY. October 2023.
“Desert Studies Against the Border: The Case of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.”
----5th Biennial Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference. CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. April 2023.
“The Social Life of Deserts: Silko's and Zepeda's Desert Lifeworlds.”
----ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL. March 2023.
“Poetically Archiving the Sonoran Desert.”
----Land and Imperial Space-Time Workshop, Heidelberg University Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany. February 3, 2023.
“Natalie Koch’s Arid Empire & Literature’s Desert to Desert Connections.”
----Arid Empire book launch, Heidelberg University Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany. February 2, 2023.
“How Cane Shaped Literary Style”
----MLA: Modern Literature Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA. January 2023.
“Sense and Sound in Yesenia Montilla’s Elegiac Poems”
----Afro-Latinx Poetry Now, University of Notre Dame, September 27-28, 2022.
“Cruising the Hardboiled Streets”
----ASAP/13 Hybrid Conference, Los Angeles, September 2022.
"Grieving and Caring for the World in Latinx Poetry"
----LSA: Latinx Studies Association, Notre Dame, IN, July 2022
“Against Emptiness and the Desert Grotesque | Desert Poetics of Creation and Inhabitation”
----Desert Futures. Yale University, April 29 - May 1, 2022.
“Deserts and Comparison”
----Keynote Roundtable Presentation. Post45 Graduate Symposium, hosted by Northwestern University. April 9, 2022.
“Plenary Presentation”
----1000 Years of Ice and Fire: Ecological Collapse and Migration from Vinland to the Anthropocene. University of Notre Dame. March 24-25, 2022.
“Chicanx Literature’s Queer Desert Grotesque”
----Queer Sahara | Queer Sonora. NeMLA Annual Convention. Baltimore, MD. March 2022.
“Why Brazil Matters to Toni Morrison”
----University of Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience & South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center. South Bend, IN. February 2022.
“Geopoetic Archives of the Sonoran Desert”
----MESA: Middle East Studies Association. December 2021.
“Lamentation in Latinx Poetry”
----Roundtable presentation. ASAP/12. Virtual Conference, October 2021.
“Blackpentecostal Presence as Reciprocity: Encountering the Art of D’Angelo and Ashon Crawley”
----ASAP/12. Virtual Conference, October 2021.
"Ofelia Zepeda’s Poetic Languages of Creation and Inhabitation"
----Language and Migration: Experience and Memory. Conference at the United Nations and Princeton University. Spring 2021. [Originally Spring 2020.]
"Signs of Protest: The Poetics of the Memphis Sanitation Strike and Gwendolyn Brooks’ Warpland Poems”
----ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL. Spring 2021. [Originally Spring 2020.]
CANCELED - “Lamentation and the Production of Presence in Latinx Poetry”
----ASAP/12. Salt Lake City, Utah. Fall 2020.
CANCELED - “Roundtable Presentation: The Body in Contemporary Latina/o/x Poetry”
----Latino Studies Association Conference. South Bend, IN. Summer 2020.
“Outside Sovereignty: Ofelia Zepeda’s Poetics of Creation and Inhabitation”
----Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. Winter/Spring 2020.
“Pastures of Plenty: Listening to Woody Guthrie and Odetta with Rabinowitz, Wald, and Kelley”
----American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2019. Honolulu, HI. Fall 2019.
“The Generation of Coalitional Form: Lineages, Arcs, and Echoes in Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Emplumada and Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec.”
----ASAP/11. Baltimore, MD. Fall 2019.
“Signs of Protest: The Diverse Lyric Field and the Poetics of the Memphis Sanitation Strike”
----Post45 Annual Symposium. Notre Dame, IN. Fall 2019.
“Edna St. Vincent Millay is better than Ezra Pound, and Anzia Yezierska is better than F. Scott Fitzgerald: or, how Modernism taught us to hate popular women”
----British Association of Modernist Studies International Conference 2019: Troublesome Modernisms. London, UK. June 22, 2019.
“The Geopoetics of the U.S. Southwest”
----West Chester University, Sonora/Sahara/Syria: Immigration and Borders Symposium. West Chester, PA. April 4, 2019.
“Unsettling Monuments of Latinx Masculinity in Estela Portillo Trambley’s ‘Rain of Scorpions’”
----Gender Studies Program Workshop, University of Notre Dame. October 24, 2018.
“Stranger in the Village: Discussing James Baldwin and Glenn Ligon”
----Snite Museum of Art. Notre Dame, IN. September 13, 2018.
“Old Stories Told Anew: D’Arcy McNickle’s Unmaking of the Reading and Writing of American Literature”
----American Literature Association Symposium 2018. Santa Fe, NM. Fall 2018.
“Lydia Mendoza’s Moving Homelands”
----University of Notre Dame Institute for Latino Studies: Young Scholars Symposium. Notre Dame, IN. Spring 2018.
"Forming Resistance and Justice in Emplumada and When My Brother Was an Aztec"
----Seminar. ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association. Los Angeles, CA. March 29 - April 1, 2018.
"This Bridge Called My Back and the Shape of Dialectics to Come"
----"Revolt, Retrench, Rethink: Feminist Thought and Practice, Late 1970s - Mid-1980s." Seminar. ASAP/9: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 9th Annual Conference. Oakland, CA. October 26-28, 2017.
“Lydia Mendoza’s Moving Homelands”
----CUNY Colloquium for the Study of Latina/o Culture and Theory. New York City, NY. May 5, 2017.
Panel Co-Organizer and Chair. "Queer Intimacies, Queer Spaces, and Scales of Desire I & II." NeMLA Annual Convention. Hartford, CT, Spring 2016.
Panel Co-Organizer, Chair, and Presenter. “Traveling Borderlands and Travesía Hermeneutics in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo." “We Made It” Panel. 29th Annual MELUS Conference. Athens, GA, Spring 2015.
Panel chair. Acts of Comparison, Comparative Literature Conference at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Fall 2014.
“Fleeting Forever: (Never)Ending Moments in Paradise, Housekeeping, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”
----University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference, Toronto, ON, Spring 2014.
“Complicating Power in Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead”
----Shapeshifters: Recycling and Literature conference at Yale University, New Haven, CT, Spring 2014.
“Dignity and Democracy: Rukeyser, Hurston, and New Visions of Black Migrant Laborers in the 1930s South”
----American Colloquium Research Symposium at Princeton University. Princeton, NJ, Spring 2013.
“The 20th Century Geopoetics of the American Southwest”
----NeMLA Annual Convention. Boston, MA, Spring 2013.
“‘Many lives, many poems, many acts of love’: Muriel Rukeyser and the Democratic Praxis of Documentary Poetics”
----American Colloquium Research Symposium at Princeton University. Princeton, NJ, Spring 2012.
“‘This bitter earth may not be so bitter anymore’: Political Promise and Sonic Geography in Killer of Sheep and We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”
----EMP Pop Music Conference. New York, NY, Spring 2012.