Conferences (Forthcoming):
Will present "From Exquisite Housewife to Being Ophelia: Female Imagery in the Poetry of Krisma Mancía." at the 2012 SCMLA Conference in San Antonio, November 8-10, 2012.
Conferences (Presented Papers):
"El sincretismo y la resistencia cultural en 'Virgen negra Oyá de La Candelaria' de Pedro Blas Julio Romero," 3rd Annual International Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies (Negritud Conference), March 22-24, 2012, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe & Ateneo Puertorriqueño, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"When Clarity Counts: The Use of Rubrics in the Foreign Language Classroom," co-presented with Dr. Paul Mandell, 12th Annual Texas A&M Assessment Conference, February 19-21, 2012, College Station, Texas.
"La poesía y la tradición oral: El 'Poema de amor' de Roque Dalton," 61st Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, September 29-October 1, 2011, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
"Esta nueva blogoesfera: Los textos electrónicos, el canon y la relevancia de la crítica literaria," 64th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 14-16, 2011, University of Kentucky.
"Herding Cats: Creating a Culture of Assessment in an Interdisciplinary Arts & Humanities Department," 11th Annual Texas A&M Assessment Conference, February 20-22, 2011, College Station, Texas.
At the request of Dr. Blas Hernández of Radford University, I chaired the session Narratives of Violence and Redemption (Session 21 Latin American Literature III) at the 60th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 7-9, 2010, Radford University.
"Propuesta para un nuevo esquema de clasificación para la poesía social centroamericana," 60th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 7-9, 2010, Radford University. This paper forms a part of the panel Multiple Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature: A Panel Honoring Donald Shaw, which I also organized and chaired.
"Entre avispas, elefantes, y caballos: El bestiario de Manlio Argueta en 'Post-card y otros poemas,'" 2nd International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS), March 15-19, 2010, Fundación Universitaria del Area Andina/Pontificia Universidad Javeriana/University of Cartagena (Colombia) & University of Texas Pan American. I was invited to form part of a panel focusing on the Salvadoran writer Manlio Argueta by Dr. Rhina Toruño-Haensly of the University of Texas-Permian Basin.
"La intertextualidad y la metapoesía en 'Y el poeta como un pequeño dios' de Manlio Argueta," AATSP 91st Annual Conference, July 9-12, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
"La pérdida de la inocencia y la animalización del hombre en tres poemas de Manlio Argueta," 62nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 16-18, 2009, University of Kentucky. I also organized the panel Aspects of Modern Spanish American Poetry: Borges, Paz, Pizarnik and Argueta, which this paper is a part of. Co-chairs: Dr. Raquel Patricia Chiquillo (University of Houston-Downtown) and Dr. Iana Konstantinova (Southern Virginia University).
"La poesía de posguerra: temas y tendencias de la nueva poesía salvadoreña," Conference on Spanish and Hispanic American Poetry, November 8-10, 2007, University of Virginia.
At the invitation of Dr. Susan Carvalho of the University of Kentucky, I chaired the session Rereading Twentieth Century Spanish American Poetry (Hispanic Studies session 68) at the 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21, 2007, University of Kentucky.
"La política, el feminismo y la revolución: técnicas y temas en la poesía de Claribel Alegría y Silvia Elena Regalado," 60th
Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21, 2007, University of Kentucky. I was invited to form part of this panel, Poets and Revolutionaries, by Dr. Kathryn Taylor Bowers of Guilford College.
" 'Cuando me maten / todo seguirá igual': Exploring the Certainty of Death in Three Salvadoran Poems," 56th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 12-14, 2006, James Madison University.
" 'Oh, Señor, las cápsulas venados que entre mi sangre viajan...': enfermedad y muerte en El libro de Dios y de los húngaros," 59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 20-22, 2006, University of Kentucky. I also organized and chaired the panel Voices in Hispanic Poetry: A Panel with Donald Shaw, of which this paper was a part.
"Entre el mutismo y la esperanza: el uso del color y la naturaleza en tres poemas de Antonio Cisneros," 54th Mounatin Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 14-16, 2004, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
"España en la memoria poética salvadoreña: El caso de Armijo, Contreras y Dalton," III Congreso Internacional: Madrid en la literatura española, iberoamericana y universal, July 9-11, 2004, organized by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades at the Hotel Castilla Plaza, Madrid, Spain.
"La palabra indómita de Cristina Piña: el quehacer poético en Taller de la memoria," The Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, March 25-27, 2004, Georgia Southern University.
" 'Open Le Monde, Listen to the BBC': The Media, the Salvadoran Civil War and David Escobar Galindo," 56th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 24-26, 2003, University of Kentucky.
" 'Me estoy riendo' como poema de transición en la obra de César Vallejo," 53rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 27-29, 2000,
University of Kentucky.
"Entre la sonrisa y la solidaridad: Dos poemas de Luis García Montero," 21st Congress of the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures held at the Radisson Hotel, Baton Rouge, March 2-4, 2000, Louisiana State University.
"Las imágenes híbridas de Antonio Cisneros," XIXth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 6-8, 1999, University of Cincinnati.