CONFERENCES AND TALKS GIVEN

INTERNATIONALLY

“Colonial Occupations on Theatrical Stages.” International Federation for Theatre Research. Melbourne, Australia. July 2026.

“How to Kill a Fascist.” Dismantling Fascism Forms: World-making, Refusal, and Critique. Berlin, Germany. June 2026.

“Postcolonial Postcards.” Complutense University de Madrid. Madrid, Spain, June 2023

“The Arabesque Perspective in Poe’s Eureka.Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association. Almeria, Spain. February 2020. 

“The Mutable Arabesque in Poe’s ‘Ligeia’” Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association. Almeria, Spain. February 2020. 

“Arabesque Spaces in Poe’s ‘Ligeia.’” Gothic Spaces. University of Tokyo, Japan. October 2019.

NATIONALLY

“Beauty of Killing Fascism.” (Coordinator and Presenter). American Comparative Literature Association. Montreal, Canada. February 2026.

“Caesura as Fascist Interruption in Rodrigues’ Beauty of Killing a Fascist.” American Society of Theatre Research. Denver, Colorado. November 2025

“Anti-Authoritarian Resistance in Brecht and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language. San Francisco, CA. November 2025.

“Caesura,” Political Concepts Conference. UC Irvine. January 2025.

“Southerning of Translation through Augusto de Campos’ Intradução” American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL. March 2023.

“Arabesque in Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest ColorPacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Las Vegas, NV. November 2021.

“The Arabesque in Poe’s ‘The Oval Portrait.’” American Comparative Literature Association. Georgetown University. March 2019. 

“Arabesque Borders in Poe’s ‘Ligeia’ and ‘Philosophy of Furniture” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Washington State University, Bellingham, WA. November 2018.

“Battle of Art Against Artist Using Schlegel’s Arabesque in Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance.” California State University-Long Beach Graduate Conference, Long Beach, CA April 2018.

“Art Against Artist using Schlegel’s ‘Arabesque’ in Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance.” ACACIA-Graduate Conference. CSU-Fullerton, Fullerton, CA. March 2018. 

“Bradbury’s ‘Usher II’ and the Plethora of Voices as Postcolonial Critique.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI, November 2017.