RESEARCH INTERESTS

“Decolonial Healing and Epistemic Disobedience in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God” (Forthcoming in 2023, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, vol. 7 no. 2, 2023, p. 5-31.)

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“Entre juego y guerra: violencia e infancia en la película Los colores de la montaña de Carlos César Arbeláez.” Hispanic Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2019, pp. 81-95.

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“Photography and Neobaroque Imaginary in Julio Cortázar’s ‘Las babas del diablo.’ Can the Neobaroque Name a Photograph?” Hispania vol. 101, no. 2, 2018, pp. 286-93.

 

“The Machiavellian Narrator in Machado de Assis’s ‘Missa do Galo.’” Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature, vol. 30, n. 56, 2017, pp. 43-57.

“El mito del barroco: deconstrucciones fílmicas” XII Congreso BETA 2022, Universidad de Alicante, Spain, December, 2022.

 

“Female Bodies and Decolonial Imaginaries in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God” LASA Virtual Congress, 2022.

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"The Rhetoric of “Implied Lines”: De-coding Tomas van Houtryve’s Photographs from the Mexico-United States Border." LASA 2020 Virtual Congress, May 2020.

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"Finding Carnival outside the Frame: Arturo Ripstein's El carnaval de Sodoma" SCOLAS, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, March 2019.

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“Inheriting Fear: The Allegorical Body in Claudia Llosa's La teta asustada.” LASA 2018, Barcelona, Spain (accepted).

 

“History and Neobaroque in ¡Bolivar soy yo!” IV Congreso Internacional Historia, Arte y Literatura en el Cine en Español y en Portugués. Salamanca, Spain, June 2017.

 

“Entre juego y guerra: violencia e infancia en Los colores de la montaña.” Congreso Internacional Infancia y Violencia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, November 2016.

 

“Photography and Neobaroque Imaginary in Julio Cortázar’s 'Las babas del diablo.' Can Neobaroque Name a Photograph?” XII International Conference on Literature: Memory and Imagination of Latin America and the Caribbean through the Oral and Written Paths, St John’s University, Queens, NY, October 2016.

 

“Soy Cuba: Sentiments of Movement.” Tropical Exposures Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 2016.

 

“El mito artificial de Ifigenia de Teresa de la Parra: una lectura barthesiana.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2016.

 

“Contrainsularismo: la poesía de Julia de Burgos.” Purdue Languages and Cultures Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 2016.

 

“Memories as I Remember Them: Reconstruction of the Past in Carlos Saura’s La Prima Angélica.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY, April 2014.

 

“Theory of Mind in Machado de Assis’s ‘Missa do Galo.’” Theory of Mind Class Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 2014

 

“Negotiating Female Identity through Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares.” Diálogos 10th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February 2013.