Invited Academic Presentations
February 2023
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO
"The Island Belongs to Sycorax"
Department of English
San Antonio, TX
February 2023
NEWBERRY LIBRARY
"Shakespeare and Latinidad"
Lecture and Discussion, Newberry Teachers' Consortium (NTC)
Chicago, IL
September 2022
SESHASDRIPURAM EVENING DEGREE COLLEGE
“Shakespearean Soundscapes and the Performance of Culture”
The Pleasure of Teaching Shakespeare
Bangalore, India
May 2021
GGDSD COLLEGE
"Ethnicizing Shakespearean Tragedy on Film"
Unravelling the Bard from Global Perspectives
Chandigarh, India
October 2020
NEWBERRY LIBRARY
"Teaching Intersectionality"
Lecture and Discussion, Newberry Teachers' Consortium (NTC)
Chicago, IL
January 2019
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
“Myth, Masculinity, and the Morality Play: Cleopatra in the Spanish Golden Age”
Department of English
Tallahassee, FL
April 2018
TEXAS A&M - SAN ANTONIO
“‘Hear All, All See’: Aural and Visual Dramaturgies of Latinx Romeo and Juliet(a)"
Keynote, Latinx Shakespeare Symposium
San Antonio, TX
March 2018
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
“‘Let’s Talk about Sex’ But Not See It: American Shakespeares in the Cultural Olympiad”
Keynote, Exploring Resistance through Medieval and Early Modern Culture: Early Modern Colloquium Graduate Conference
Ann Arbor, MI
April 2017
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, EL PASO
“Shakespeare and Latinidad: A Performance History”
Department of English
El Paso, TX
February 2017
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
“Shakespeare and Hip-Hop: Seeing and Hearing Race in Othello: The Remix"
IDEA and the Early Modern Colloquium
Ann Arbor, MI
January 2017
UCLA
“Romeo and Juliet in Spanish Language & Performance Traditions"
Shakespeare, Philosophy, Performance, Conference 2: Cut Him Out in Little Stars: Romeo and Juliet in Diaspora
Los Angeles, CA
October 2016
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
“Shakespearean Englishes for Today’s Classroom”
Teaching Shakespeare within Diverse Communities
Miami, FL
February 2016
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
“Ad-rap-tation and Aural Otherness: Shakespeare across the Language Divide”
Shakespeare across the Divide
Miami, FL
November 2015
WHITTIER COLLEGE
“The Untold History of Latinos and Shakespearean Performance in the United States"
Department of English
Whittier, CA
February 2014
ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY,
MADRID CAMPUS
“Homosocial and Paternal Bonds in The Merchant of Venice"
Department of English
Madrid, Spain
February 2014
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST
“Identity and Language Politics Today for U.S. Latinos”
Department of Hispanic Studies
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Conference Plenaries and Curated Panels
SAA
March 2023
“Shakespearean Disidentifications”
“Shakespeare en Nuestra América” Panel
Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis
SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE
November 2022
“The Spanish ‘A’ of Othello: Sounding Boricua in Raúl Juliá’s Othello”
Shakespeare and Race: Spoken Word(s) Symposium
Shakespeare’s Globe, virtual/London
SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE
December 2021
"The Island Belongs to Sycorax: Decolonial Feminist Storytelling and The Tempest"
Women and Power Symposium
Shakespeare's Globe, London (virtual)
ASTR
November 2021
“Staging Shakespeare for a Borderlands Epistemology”
Concurrent Plenary, American Society for Theatre Research
New Orleans, November 2020, cancelled due to Covid-19, now San Diego, November 2021
SAA
April 2015
“From West Side Story to Hamlet, Prince of Cuba: Shakespeare & Latinidad in the United States”
NextGenPlen (early-career plenary)
Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver
IFTR
July 2013
“Shakespeare and Latinidad: Constructing Cultural Difference through Translation/Adaptation”
Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy General Panel
International Federation for Theatre Research, Barcelona
Webinars and Conversations
2021: Diversifying the Classics and UCI New Swan Shakespeare Center
INVITED PANELIST, "ROMEO & JULIETAS: ALL ALIKE IN DIGNITY"
2021: "Virtually Everything," Folger Shakespeare Library
FEATURED GUEST, "INTRACULTURAL THEATRE"