Conference and Presentations

• “Spanish Peninsula No More. Becoming Part of Spanish (Pen)Insular Studies.” NeMLA, Boston, March 7-10.

• "Underwater Bonds and Afro-diasporic Nightmares in the Global Hispanophone." Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispanophone. MLA 2022 Convention, Washington DC, January 6-8, 2022.

• "African Voices. In Conversation with Trifonia Melibea Obono and Juan TomásÁvila Laurel." Duke University, April 2, 2021. 

• "African and Asian Women’s Voices in Spanish: Borders within the Global Hispanophone" Sessions chair at the 52nd NeMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 11-14 2021. (Chaired Panel).

• “Connecting the Global Hispanophone. African and Asian Literature in Spanish” Panel proposal. NeMLA Annual Convention, Boston, March 5-8, 2020. (Chaired Panel).

• “La isla olvidada. El legado colonial español en la narrativa guineoecuatoriana.“ 50th NeMLA Annual Convention, Washington DC, March 21-24, 2019. 

• Between Geography and the Imagination: San Borondon Island and the Haunting Power of Insular Spaces.” 49th NeMLA Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, April 12-15, 2018 

• “The Anthropocene Effect and the Lost Insular Paradises.” Boston University Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference. Boston, April 28, 2018. 

• “Dystopian Insular Narrative and Anthropocene Discourse.” Culture and Identity Configurations: Reflections on the 21st Century. New York, Hofstra Cultural Center, October 26-27, 2017

• “Sin vicio indecoroso ni extracción infame: De las islas al bayou, las otras trayectorias atlánticas.” On Historical Links Between Spain and North America: Past, and Present. New York, 

• The Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE), CUNY, May 4-7 2016.

• “El viaje (transoceánico) a ninguna parte: Voces y silencios en ‘La travesía’ de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo.” On Historical Links Between Spain and North America: Past, and Present. New York, CUNY, May 4-7, 2016.

• “Paraísos perdidos: El caso de una revista cubano-canaria.” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, April 2016.

• “Canary Islanders from Louisiana: From the Canary Islands to the Bayou, other Paths of Atlantic Spanish.” Cervantes Institute, Harvard University, Feb. 25, 2016.

• “Solo de ida: De las Islas Afortunadas a las marismas de Luisiana.” II Congreso del Centro de Estudios Canarias-América, Los límites del Atlántico II. Tránsitos y migraciones. New York, Hunter College, Sept 17-18, 2015. 

• “Más que mar. Experiencias complejas e identidades fluidas en la emigración ilegal: ‘Boat people’, balseros y yoleros en el Caribe contemporáneo.” Latin American Studies Association Conference 2015 (LASA), Precariedades, exclusiones, emergencias. San Juan, PR, May 27-30, 2015.

• “Annobón, una más entre las ínsulas extrañas: Configuración del espacio insular en la literatura hispanoafricana.” 6th International Conference on Transatlantic Studies, Transatlantic Poetics. Toward a Cross-Cultural Syntax, Brown University RI, April 10-14, 2012.

• “La memoria negra de los retornados: Guinea Ecuatorial en la narrativa española actual.” International Conference Between Three Continents: Rethinking Equatorial Guinea on the 40th Anniversary of its Independence from Spain, Hofstra University, NY, April 2-4, 2009.

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