“‘Jamás he sentido cimarrones’: Racial cartographies of 19th-century Vuelta Abajo.” 54th Annual SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. March 12–14, 2020.

“Slavery, Nationalism, and the Pastoral Vision in the 19th-Century Cuban Literature.” Marquette Caribbean Conference: “Calibans and Caribbeanisms: Spaces and Topographies.” Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. April 5–7, 2018.

“Indian Country and the Duke City: Rudolfo Anaya’s ‘Sonny Baca’ Novels.” 52nd Annual SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) Conference. San Antonio, Texas. March 1–3, 2018.

“International Crimes, Local Investigations: The Nation as Vanishing Mediator in Contemporary Neopolicial.” LASA 2017. Lima, Peru. Apr. 29–May 1, 2017.

“Reimagining the National Community from the New Mexico Borderlands.” MACHL 2016 (Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures). University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas. Nov. 3–4, 2016.

“History and Freedom: Mario Conde, Realism, and the State.” LASA 2016 (Annual International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association). New York, New York. May 27–30, 2016.

“Digital Cuba: Problems and Possibilities.” Digital Humanities Forum 2015: Peripheries, Barriers, Hierarchies. Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas. Sept. 24–26, 2015. Slides (.pdf) | Transcript | Sources and Image Credits

“Unsolving Crime: Anti-Police Detectives in Contemporary Latin American Noir Fiction.” LASA 2015 (Annual International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association). San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 27–30, 2015. | Audio en español

“Che and His Doubles: the Fate of the Socialist Male Hero in Contemporary Cuba.” 23^rd Annual Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 20–22, 2014.

“Gender Politics in Cuba after 1991.” Invited Lecture. University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Feb. 25, 2014.

“Después de todo, compromiso: la ficción de Leonardo Padura.” Invited Lecture. Semana de Autor 2012. Casa de las Américas. Havana, Cuba. Nov. 27-30, 2012. | Artículo

“Struggle in the ‘Public’ University.” Invited Lecture. “Labor in the University.” A symposium sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute and the American Cultures and Politics Research Cluster. Davis, California. May 11, 2012.

“Papa in Cuba: Hemingway in an Island’s Imagination.” 7th Annual Colloquium on Latin American and Peninsular Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. University of California, Davis. Oct. 21, 2011. Expanded Article

“Las de abajo: la ficción policial de Myriam Laurini.” Conferencia Internacional de Literatura Detectivesca en Español. Texas Tech University. Sept. 29–Oct. 1, 2011.

“Labor is a Cold Mistress: the Post-Soviet Moment in Two Cuban Novels.” UC–Cuba Graduate Student Conference. University of California, Irvine. April 28–29, 2011.

“A Teoria Crítica e a Atual Crise da Educação.” VII Congresso Internacional de Teoria Crítica: Natureza, sociedade: crises. UNICAMP, Campinas (São Paulo), Brazil. Sept. 13–17, 2010.

“Critical Standpoints in Post-Soviet Cuban Literature: Ena Lucía Portela.” Invited Lecture, UC Berkeley Cuba Working Group. Center for Latin American Studies, Berkeley, California. March 1, 2010.

“Reflections on Consumption and the Culture Industry in Light of the Grundrisse.” Annual MLG Institute on Culture and Society, Portland, Oregon. June 16–20, 2009. | Book Chapter

“Canary in a Coalmine: Two Decades of Capitalist Crisis in Cuba.” The Politics of Crisis: 4th Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, University of California, Irvine. April 3–4, 2009.

“La neblina del ayer: Heterotopía y posmodernidad en Leonardo Padura Fuentes.” Cuba: New Research Directions, UC Cuba Multi-Campus Research Program, University of California, Irvine. May 2–3, 2008. | Artículo

“Extrañas formas de colectividad: La distorsión de motivos ‘noirs’ en Papel picado de Rolo Diez”. RMCLAS Annual Conference: Flagstaff, Arizona, April 9–12, 2008.

“Julián del Casal en la posmodernidad cubana.” Perspectives Colloquium: University of California, Davis. October 20, 2007.

“El lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevo de Senel Paz: Una versión anotada para el estudiante de literatura.” Public presentation of Masters Capstone. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. April 28, 2006.

“Entre el amor y la soledad: Las expresiones del amor en la obra de García Márquez.” 10th Annual Spanish Graduate Student Symposium: Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. April 14–16, 2005.