2024 “Undoing Latino Stereotypes in Media” Standing in Solidarity Series Sponsored by New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and Prime Latino Media. October 21, 2024.
2024 “On Being & Belonging: Teaching & Learning Gender & Sexualities in the Classroom & Beyond”. New School Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute. April 19th, 2024.
2024 “Online Teaching & Learning: New Approaches, Learning Outcomes & Programmatic Benefits” Modern Languages Association (MLA), Philadelphia, January 4th, 2024.
2024 “Fostering Spaces for African & Less Commonly Taught Languages: Methods & Modes of Delivery” Modern Languages Association (MLA), Philadelphia, January 5th, 2024.
2017 “Envisioning a Tier-One Languages Department: A Strategic Plan for Modern Languages & Literatures at The University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA), A job talk presentation, April 2017.
2015 “Foreign Languages Education, Beyond the Classroom: Fostering a Vision through Strategic Processes at The New School” A job talk presentation, April 2015.
2014 “Collecting & Curating Cuba: Memory, Museums, and Material Cultures.” A co-Lecture with Christian Larsen, Curator, The Wolfsonian Museum, FIU, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, September 22nd, 2014.
2014 “Collecting & Curating Cuba: Memory, Museums, and Material Cultures.” University of
California, Riverside, Department of English, May 19th, 2014.
2013 “Parodying the Popular: Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Afro-Cuban Havana” Howard University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, April 29th, 2013.
2013 “Cuban Material Cultures: Exilic, Diasporic, and Global Contexts,” Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, The Graduate Center (CUNY), March 1st, 2013.
2011 “Corporal Cuba: Embodying the Nation and the Revolution in Carmen Pelaez’s Rum and Coke” Symposium: “Woman. Embodied,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, October 3, 2011.
2009 “Approaching Cuban Material Cultural Studies in Current and Critical Times,” Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, The Graduate Center (CUNY), October 23, 2009.
2008 “Republican Era Cinematic Cuba: National and Transnational Perspectives (1930s-1950s)” Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Arizona, March 26, 2008
2008 “Cosas cubanas: cultura material cubana,” John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, February 29, 2008
2007 “On Stage and In-Life: Mediating Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Queer Rights through Stand-up Comedy,” Queer Exoticism Conference, Department of Foreign Languages, Hofstra University, October 2007
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