Invited talks

  • (2025 Fall). Invited talk in preparation to be given at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
  • (2025 September). Invited talk in preparation to be given at the Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.
  • (2024, October). “Integrating Artificial Intelligence with the Humanities: Enhancements to Teaching and Research Methods.” Invited talk given at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • (2023, December). “Estragos de la condición femenina: María de Zayas, violencia sociohistórica, y nuevas herramientas de enseñanza.” Invited talk given as the inaugural keynote speaker for the ARTYHUM Symposium at the University of Murcia, Spain.
  • (2023, December). “María de Zayas: dinámicas de género en Novelas amorosas y Desengaños amorosos.” Invited guest seminar organized by the Monteagudo literary journal published by the University of Murcia, Spain. 
  • (2022, February). “Early modern social justice.” Invited talk given to the Blount Scholars Program at the University of Alabama.
  • (2021, November). “Translation and community-based service learning: Learning to translate for meaning.” Invited talk given during the Future Thinking: The Future of Translation discussion series by the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Refereed conference papers

  • (2025, February). “Digitalización, procesamiento y análisis de fuentes archivísticas: Metodologías humanísticas vía inteligencia artificial y aprendizaje automático de máquinas.” Research presented at I Congreso Internacional de Lectura y Escritura (COILES 2025), Fundación Alonso Quijano, Málaga, Spain.
  •  (2025, January). “Modelos lingüísticos y computación: explorando la intersección entre Lingüística e Inteligencia Artificial.” Research presented at LIII Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, Salamanca, Spain.
  • ​(2024, October). “renAIssance: AI/ML OCR for the Humanities.” Research presented at Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, Sunnyvale, California.
  • (2024, April). “Early modern tensions: Gender inequality, victimization, and challenges to moralist texts.” Paper presented at South Central Renaissance Conference, Savannah, Georgia.
  • (2024, March). “Gender biases and politicized bloodlines in early modern Spanish law.” Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America Chicago 2024 Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2024, February). “New Educational Tools: Teaching Genz Students about Renaissance Gender Dynamics,” Alabama World Languages Association Conference, Alabaster, Alabama.
  • (2023, November). “Inseguridades patriarcales: jerarquía social, autoridad legal y evasión en el teatro del Siglo de Oro.” Paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 95 conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • ​(2022, October). “Justicia sangrienta: la función literario-legal de la efusión sanguínea en las novelas de María de Zayas.” Paper presented at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Association’s 71st Annual Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.
  • ​(2022, March). “Corruption and cleansing: spiritual and bodily sanctions early modern moralistic treatises.” Paper presented at the South Central Renaissance Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
  • ​(2022, January). “Bodily fluids, early modern law and the conflictive nature of a gendered national unit.” Paper presented at the Southern Humanities Council conference, Memphis, Tennessee.
  • ​(2021, October). “Victims and Writers: early modern Spanish women’s multimodal struggle against sexual violence.” Paper presented at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Association’s 70th Annual Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.
  • (2021, July). “Service-learning in the grammar classroom: fostering diversity, reciprocity and reflection through Spanish translation.” Paper presented at the 103rd American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • (2020, November). “Don Quijote y los cambios educativos en la sociedad nobiliaria a principios del Siglo XVII en España.” Paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 92 conference, digitally via Zoom.
  • (2020, October). “Victims and Writers: early modern Spanish women’s multimodal struggle against sexual violence.” Paper selected to be presented at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Association’s 70th Annual Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.
    *Postponed to 10/2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
  • (2020, March). “CBSL in the grammar classroom: reciprocity, reflection & students’ relationship with L2” Paper selected to be presented at the Colloquium on World Languages and Cultures at the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
    *Cancelled on 3/12 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
  • ​(2020, February). “Irreverent sexualities: religion, law and gendered immorality in Early Modern Spain”. Paper presented at the Southern Humanities Council conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • (2019, November). “Questioning the veil of patriarchal order: Cervantes’s paradoxical defense of women”. Paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 91 conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • (2019, October). “La palabra poética como herramienta patriarcal: el poder de la voz, el silencio y el género”. Paper presented at the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry conference, Irvine, California.
  • (2019, July). “Cuando el honor es insuficiente: supresión de la voz femenina en la trilogía de honor de Calderón de la Barca”. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the ASPHS, Barcelona, Spain.
  • (2019, April). “When honor is not enough: suppression of the feminine voice in Calderón de la Barca’s honor plays”. Paper presented at the South-Central Renaissance Conference, Lubbock, Texas.
  • ​(2018, November). Didacticismo irónico y crítica implícita en las Novelas Ejemplares de Miguel de Cervantes. Paper presented at the SAMLA 90 Conference, Birmingham, Alabama.
  • (2018, September). Towards early modern female independence: authority, self-representation and amalgamation of the masculine and feminine. Paper presented at the AEGS Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2018, April). Converging gender identities: the conflictive early modern masculine persona. Paper presented at the 49th Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Conference, Portland, Oregon.
  • (2018, February). Towards a Subversion of Patriarchy: Defying Early Modern Spanish Gender Inequity. Paper presented at the 26th National Association of African-American Studies & Affiliates Conference, Dallas, Texas.
  • (2016, September). Masculinidad desplazada: Transgresiones femeninas y autoridad social en Antona García. Paper presented at the Displacement in Language, Literature, and Culture Symposium, Starkville, Mississippi.
  • (2016, March). Woman reclaimed: female subversion of Early Modern male violence. Paper to be presented at the Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
  • (2014, April). Illegitimate masculinities: Sadism and excess in Early Modern Spanish courts. Paper presented at Legalities & Beyond: The (il)legitimations of violence Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2014, February). Aggression, sexual narrative and political expectations in Zayas’ storytelling. Paper presented at In Between: The Soundscapes of Culture Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2014, January). Imperfect courtiers: Inobservance of courtly male ideals in María de Zayas. Paper presented at the Newberry Library Multidisciplinary Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2012, October). Organismos decadentes y cuerpos decrépitos en Imán de Ramón J. Sender. Paper presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • (2012, April). Problemáticas en la transformación de sistemas pictográficos a alfabéticos. Paper presented at Transits, Transition, Revolution Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2010, February). Pasado, presente, coexistencia: palimpsesto y espectralidad en Tusquets y Guerín. Paper presented at Interstices & other spaces Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2009, June). The Latin American detective: a centrifugal evolution. Paper presented at LASA2009: Rethinking Inequalities Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.​
  • (2008, April). Naturaleza e Identidad Femenina en Peregrinaciones de una alma triste. Paper presented at Nuevas Lecturas Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • (2007, April). Exclusion & Segregation of North American slavery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Paper presented at Cuerpo y Esclavitud Conference, Bilbao, Spain.

Campus or departmental talks

  • (2024, March) “AI in the Humanities Classroom: Connecting Renaissance Gender Dynamics with the Post-Millennial Student Population.” Presented at Online Learning Innovation Summit 2024, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
  •  (2022, November). “Monograph publication and archival review.” Guest lecture for Dr. William Worden’s SP 594 course.
  • (2020, October) “When honor is not enough: masculine power and uxoricide in Calderón de la Barca.” Paper presented at the Department of Modern Languages and Classics ‘Works in Progress’ seminar.
  •  (2020, October) “Frustration and backlash: literary nostalgia in the midst of a changing Renaissance Spain.” Paper presented at the University of Alabama ‘Medieval and Premodern Faculty Brownbag Series’.
  • (2019, November). “Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Providers”. Invited talk for The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing. 
  • (2018, February). Refashioning Masculinity: gender identity performance and conduct manuals. Paper presented at the University of Alabama Medieval and Early Modern Faculty Brownbag Series.