“Modern Familias: Kinship and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty.” Invited Talk with Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson. Center for Mexican American Studies. University of Texas. Austin, TX. 7 Dec. 2012

“Justin Time: Queer Latino Youth on TV.” MESEA: Multi-Ethnic Studies of Europe and the Americas Bi-Annual Conference. Barcelona, Spain. 13-16 June, 2012.

“Betty’s Legacy: Leaving a Queer Latina/o Time and Place.” With Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson. Special Session of the Chicana/o Literature and Culture Society. Modern Language Association. Seattle, WA. 6 Jan. 2012.

“Chicana Gothic?: the Aesthetics of Violence and the Environment.” National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies Association. Seattle, WA. 9 Apr. 2010.

“Modern Familias? ABC, Comedy, and Latino Masculinity on TV.” Caribbean and Latin American Literature and Culture Division. PCA/ACA Annual Conference. St. Louis, MO. 2 Apr. 2010.

“Is Ugly the New Sexy? Dilemmas of Latina Sexuality on T.V.” Special Session of the Chicana/o Literature and Culture Society. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, CA. 29 Dec. 2008.

“Working in the Middle: The Intersections of Chicana Theory and Latina Practice.” American Studies Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 18 Oct. 2008.

“Bridges, Backs, and Homes: Teaching Women of Color Feminism in Literature.” RMMLA. Reno, NV. 11 Oct. 2008.

“U.S. Latina Art and Activism: A Workshop.” 2008 HALO Encuentro. Manhattan, KS. 9 Oct. 2008

"'Bad' Girls on Bird Ave: The Poetics of Girl Power." Latina/o Literature and Culture Society Session. American Literature Association San Francisco, CA. 22 May 2008.

“All About the Mother: Latina Subjectivity in Ugly Betty,” Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. 19 Mar. 2008.

“Creeping In: The Violence of (Mis)Reading.” Extremism and the Excluded Middle Conference. Manhattan, KS. 7 Mar. 2008.

“Buscando Betty: Transnational Representations of the “Good Girl” on TV.” Nuestra América in the U.S.? A U.S. Latina/o Studies Conference. Lawrence, Kansas. 9 Feb. 2008.

“Art and Activism in Chicana/o Studies.” Hispanic Heritage Month Speaker Series. Manhattan, KS, Sept. 2007.

“Ugly Betty: The Trouble with Being Good.” English Department Colloquia. Manhattan, KS, Sept. 2007.

“La Fea Mas Bella? Ugly Betty and The Monstrous Mujer.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA, May 2007.

“Las Otras:  Latina/o Gothic in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture.”  American Studies Association.  Oakland, CA, October, 2006.

“Teaching American Literature:  A Latina Look.”  American Literature Association.  San Francisco, May 2006.

“Towards a Transatlantic Exchange about Chicana/o Identity:  Fiction, Film, Performance, and Life-Writing.” Moderator. American Studies Association.  Washington, DC, November 2005.

“The Monsters Within: Gothic Criticism and Chicana/o Literary History.”  Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature of the Modern Language Association.  Philadelphia, PA, December, 2004.

“Specters of the Gothic in Latina/o Literature.”  American Fiction Conference.  San Diego, CA, October, 2004.

“Latina/o Performance Inside and Out.”  Moderator.  Latina/o Literature and Culture Special Session of the American Literature Association.  San Francisco, CA, May, 2004.

“Star Maps, Cantinflas, and the Gothic Family: Three Stories of Apparition.”  Literature/Film Association.  Towson, MD, November, 2003.

“Longing to BeLong:  Dinosaur Dics and National(ist) Violence in Eric García’s Casual Rex.”  American Studies Association.  Hartford, CT, October, 2003.

“Conversaciones con Cantinflas:  Ghostly Performance in Miguel Arteta’s Star Maps.”  Hemispheric Institute at NYU—Theories of Apparition Forum.  New York, NY, July, 2003.

“‘Making Familia from Scratch(es)’:  Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea.”  American Literature Association.  Cambridge, MA, May, 2003.

  

“Familiar Phantasms:  Latina/o Gothic in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters.”  American Gothic Symposium of the American Literature Association.  Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 2002.

“A Latina Guide to Hunting and Fishing (on T.V.)”  MALCS Summer Institute 2001 Conference.  Northridge, California.  August, 2001.

“Inspiration, Influence, and Insurrection:  From the Cables of Genocide.”  American Literature Association. Long Beach, CA, May, 2000.

“Pablo y Lorna:  Inspiration and Insurrection From the Cables of Genocide.” Rethinking the Avant-Garde:  Between Politics & Aesthetics Conference, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, April, 2000.

“La Virgen as Spectacle in Heroes and Saints.”  Southland Conference.  UCLA, Los Angeles, April, 1999.

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