Conferences/Papers Read:
"Marco Solís El hombre de arena" (selections)
University of California, Santa Barbara, May 18-20, 2023
"El Camino"
XII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana y Estudios Latinos
Barcelona, Spain, June 20-22, 2022.
"El sol de Texas de Conrado Espinoza" Novela de inmigración y nacionalismo mexicano"
XXV Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos
Lima, Peru, March 4-6, 2020
"State of Emergency: La lucha por la sobrevivencia del español en la literatura chicana a través de dos revistas literarias: La Palabra y Puentes"
1st International Conference of the Spanish Association for Dialogue with the Hispanic Cultures of North America and Miguel Hernández University
Elche, Spain, May 29-31, 2019
"Binarios culturales chino/nuevomexicanos en A Chicano in China de Rudolfo Anaya"
11th International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino Studies
Salamanca, Spain, May 28-30, 2018
"México en la imaginación del chicano"
XIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica
Buenos Aires, Argentina, March, 6-9, 2017
"El laberinto borgiano en A Chicano in China de Rudolfo Anaya"
30 Years After Borges: Argentina, Politics and Culture Conference
Beijing, China, July 16, 2016.
“Los cuentos pre-chicanos de Mario Suárez”
XXV Jornadas: Binacionales de Literatura Abigael Bohórquez
San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, México April 20-23, 2016
“Presencia de íconos culturales mexicanos en La otra frontera de Alfonso Rodríguez”
National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies 2016 National Conference: ¡Chicana/o Power! Transforming Chicana/o Activism, Discourse and Scholarship into Power
Denver, Colorado, April 6-9, 2016
“Revistas literarias chicanas en español: el caso de Puentes: Revista méxico-chicana de literatura, cultura y arte”
II Festival Cultural Internacional El Gran México: Las culturas mexicanas más allá de las fronteras
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Baja California, September 11, 2014
"Perspectivas españolas en la literatura chicana”
9th International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino Studies
Oviedo, Spain, May 28-30, 2014
“La carpa y el laberinto en Ensueños de Saúl Cuevas”
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2014
“La sensibilidad rasquache en la obra de Saúl Cuevas”
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
San Antonio, Texas, March 2013
"Los jardines de Versalles de Alejandro Morales"
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Chicago, Illinois, March 2012
"Las revistas chicanas: Puentes (Analysis of the literary journal Puentes: Revista méxico-chicana de literatura, cultura y arte)"
Transtitions and Continuities in Contemporary Chicana/o Culture
University College Cork, Ireland, June 24-25, 2011
"Revistas literarias chicanas"
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Pasadena, California, March, 2011
"Rolando Hinojosa-Smith y su narrativa"
III Encuentro de Escritores Iberoamericanos en Estados Unidos: Tribute to Rolando Hinojosa
Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona, November 19, 2010
"Seminario: Acercamiento a las revistas chicanas del siglo XX y XXI"
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México, July 9-18, 2010
"Las revista chicanas/latinas de los Estados Unidos"
7th International Conference of Chicano Literature in León
León, Spain, May 27-29, 2010
"La base folclórica de la literatura chicana"
13th Annual Spanish Graduate Conference
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 5-6, 2010
"La otra frontera de Alfonso Rodríguez: Golpe a la hispanidad chicana"
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Seattle, WA, April, 2010
"Literatura méxico-americana de urgencia y compromiso social de las primeras décadas del siglo XX"
XV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea
University of Texas, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 3-6, 2010
“Revistas literarias chicanas en español: la lucha por sobrevivir"
National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies
New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 2009.
“Los cuentos de Rosaura Sánchez: ¿escritora chicana o mexicana?”
Tierra Tinta: Third Annual Conference on Latin American, Spanish, and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 18-19, 2007.
“José de la Luz Sáenz: Precursor de la literatura del movimiento chicano. Contextualizando espacios autobiográficos”
National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies
Miami, Florida, April 2005.
“El espíritu de la Raza”
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, November 11, 2003.
“El mexicoamericano en la gran guerra: ¿confesión o testimonio?”
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, December 2000.
“La frontera como falso refugio chicano: El caso de Oscar Zeta Acosta: the Brown Buffalo”
National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies
México City, México, June 1998.
“José de la Luz Sáenz: Literature of Identity and Social Protest”
Southwestern Social Science Association 78th Annual Meeting
Corpus Christi, Texas, March 1998.
“Los chicanos de afuera”
Latin American Studies Association XX International Congress
Guadalajara, México, April 1997.
“La frontera como falso refugio chicano”
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies
Austin, Texas, February 1997.
“Las palabras de nuestra gente”
Ninth Annual Southwest Student Conference on Latino Affairs
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February 1996.
“José de la Luz Sáenz: precursor de la literatura del movimiento chicano”
The National Association for Chicano Studies
Spokane, Washington, March 1995.
“El español en la literatura chicana: ¿una literatura sin destino?”
Center for Chicano Research
Stanford University, Stanford, California April 1994.
“El español en la poesía de Ricardo Sánchez,”
The National Association for Chicano Studies
San José, California, March 1993.
Invited Speaker/Book Presentation:
"La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas"
(Book Presentation, with Co-editor Dr. Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez) Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL) 196, Institute for Humanities Research
Arizona State University, November 9, 2023
Horizonte, Arizona PBS (TV Program) Interview on La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas (Book published by the University of Arizona Press, 2023)
Arizona State University Downtown Campus, October 27, 2023
"Bilingual Reading: Marco Solís El hombre de arena (selections)"
Voces Nuevas Latinx Authors Series The Global Latinidades Center
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, May 19, 2023
"Roundtable: Chicano Literary Spanish Language Journals"
Voces Nuevas Latinx Authors Series The Global Latinidades Center
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, May 18, 2023
Interview UCSB (video)
Voces Nuevas Latinx Authors Series The Global Latinidades Center
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, May 18, 2023
"Marco Solís: El hombre de arena" (Zoom presentation)
Department Language and Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Sociology,
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, April 2023
"Marco Solís: El hombre de arena" (Zoom presentation)
University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, April 2021
"El libro en español en Estados Unidos"
Feria Internacional del libro, ciudad de Nueva York, October 24, 2020
CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, New York, New York
"Literatura chicana"
Keynote Speaker, November 15, 2019 XVIII Binational Literary Conference
Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas
“Revistas Literarias Chicanas en Español: Pasado y Presente”
Keynote Speaker, April 17, 2015
El Consulado General de México in Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
"Chicano Literary Journals"
Keynote Speaker, April 17, 2013 Latin American Lecture Series
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
"Marco Solís El hombre de arena" (selections)
University of California, Santa Barbara, May 18-20, 2023
"El Camino"
XII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana y Estudios Latinos
Barcelona, Spain, June 20-22, 2022.
"El sol de Texas de Conrado Espinoza" Novela de inmigración y nacionalismo mexicano"
XXV Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos
Lima, Peru, March 4-6, 2020
"State of Emergency: La lucha por la sobrevivencia del español en la literatura chicana a través de dos revistas literarias: La Palabra y Puentes"
1st International Conference of the Spanish Association for Dialogue with the Hispanic Cultures of North America and Miguel Hernández University
Elche, Spain, May 29-31, 2019
"Binarios culturales chino/nuevomexicanos en A Chicano in China de Rudolfo Anaya"
11th International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino Studies
Salamanca, Spain, May 28-30, 2018
"México en la imaginación del chicano"
XIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica
Buenos Aires, Argentina, March, 6-9, 2017
"El laberinto borgiano en A Chicano in China de Rudolfo Anaya"
30 Years After Borges: Argentina, Politics and Culture Conference
Beijing, China, July 16, 2016.
“Los cuentos pre-chicanos de Mario Suárez”
XXV Jornadas: Binacionales de Literatura Abigael Bohórquez
San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, México April 20-23, 2016
“Presencia de íconos culturales mexicanos en La otra frontera de Alfonso Rodríguez”
National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies 2016 National Conference: ¡Chicana/o Power! Transforming Chicana/o Activism, Discourse and Scholarship into Power
Denver, Colorado, April 6-9, 2016
“Revistas literarias chicanas en español: el caso de Puentes: Revista méxico-chicana de literatura, cultura y arte”
II Festival Cultural Internacional El Gran México: Las culturas mexicanas más allá de las fronteras
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Baja California, September 11, 2014
"Perspectivas españolas en la literatura chicana”
9th International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino Studies
Oviedo, Spain, May 28-30, 2014
“La carpa y el laberinto en Ensueños de Saúl Cuevas”
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2014
“La sensibilidad rasquache en la obra de Saúl Cuevas”
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
San Antonio, Texas, March 2013
"Los jardines de Versalles de Alejandro Morales"
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Chicago, Illinois, March 2012
"Las revistas chicanas: Puentes (Analysis of the literary journal Puentes: Revista méxico-chicana de literatura, cultura y arte)"
Transtitions and Continuities in Contemporary Chicana/o Culture
University College Cork, Ireland, June 24-25, 2011
"Revistas literarias chicanas"
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Pasadena, California, March, 2011
"Rolando Hinojosa-Smith y su narrativa"
III Encuentro de Escritores Iberoamericanos en Estados Unidos: Tribute to Rolando Hinojosa
Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona, November 19, 2010
"Seminario: Acercamiento a las revistas chicanas del siglo XX y XXI"
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México, July 9-18, 2010
"Las revista chicanas/latinas de los Estados Unidos"
7th International Conference of Chicano Literature in León
León, Spain, May 27-29, 2010
"La base folclórica de la literatura chicana"
13th Annual Spanish Graduate Conference
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 5-6, 2010
"La otra frontera de Alfonso Rodríguez: Golpe a la hispanidad chicana"
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Seattle, WA, April, 2010
"Literatura méxico-americana de urgencia y compromiso social de las primeras décadas del siglo XX"
XV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea
University of Texas, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 3-6, 2010
“Revistas literarias chicanas en español: la lucha por sobrevivir"
National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies
New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 2009.
“Los cuentos de Rosaura Sánchez: ¿escritora chicana o mexicana?”
Tierra Tinta: Third Annual Conference on Latin American, Spanish, and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 18-19, 2007.
“José de la Luz Sáenz: Precursor de la literatura del movimiento chicano. Contextualizando espacios autobiográficos”
National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies
Miami, Florida, April 2005.
“El espíritu de la Raza”
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, November 11, 2003.
“El mexicoamericano en la gran guerra: ¿confesión o testimonio?”
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, December 2000.
“La frontera como falso refugio chicano: El caso de Oscar Zeta Acosta: the Brown Buffalo”
National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies
México City, México, June 1998.
“José de la Luz Sáenz: Literature of Identity and Social Protest”
Southwestern Social Science Association 78th Annual Meeting
Corpus Christi, Texas, March 1998.
“Los chicanos de afuera”
Latin American Studies Association XX International Congress
Guadalajara, México, April 1997.
“La frontera como falso refugio chicano”
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies
Austin, Texas, February 1997.
“Las palabras de nuestra gente”
Ninth Annual Southwest Student Conference on Latino Affairs
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February 1996.
“José de la Luz Sáenz: precursor de la literatura del movimiento chicano”
The National Association for Chicano Studies
Spokane, Washington, March 1995.
“El español en la literatura chicana: ¿una literatura sin destino?”
Center for Chicano Research
Stanford University, Stanford, California April 1994.
“El español en la poesía de Ricardo Sánchez,”
The National Association for Chicano Studies
San José, California, March 1993.
Invited Speaker/Book Presentation:
"La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas"
(Book Presentation, with Co-editor Dr. Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez) Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL) 196, Institute for Humanities Research
Arizona State University, November 9, 2023
Horizonte, Arizona PBS (TV Program) Interview on La Plonqui: The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas (Book published by the University of Arizona Press, 2023)
Arizona State University Downtown Campus, October 27, 2023
"Bilingual Reading: Marco Solís El hombre de arena (selections)"
Voces Nuevas Latinx Authors Series The Global Latinidades Center
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, May 19, 2023
"Roundtable: Chicano Literary Spanish Language Journals"
Voces Nuevas Latinx Authors Series The Global Latinidades Center
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, May 18, 2023
Interview UCSB (video)
Voces Nuevas Latinx Authors Series The Global Latinidades Center
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, May 18, 2023
"Marco Solís: El hombre de arena" (Zoom presentation)
Department Language and Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Sociology,
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, April 2023
"Marco Solís: El hombre de arena" (Zoom presentation)
University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, April 2021
"El libro en español en Estados Unidos"
Feria Internacional del libro, ciudad de Nueva York, October 24, 2020
CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, New York, New York
"Literatura chicana"
Keynote Speaker, November 15, 2019 XVIII Binational Literary Conference
Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas
“Revistas Literarias Chicanas en Español: Pasado y Presente”
Keynote Speaker, April 17, 2015
El Consulado General de México in Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
"Chicano Literary Journals"
Keynote Speaker, April 17, 2013 Latin American Lecture Series
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico