Presentations
Papers read at professional at meetings:
“El cuerpo cristianizado de Juan Francisco Manzano.” IV Congreso Internacional “Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, las Américas y Puerto Rico,” Universidad de Puerto Rico, Arecibo, November 2010.
“Sexuality and Marginalization in the Construction of the Argentine Nation.” Tinker Grant Symposium, Center for Latin American Studies, The University of Arizona, Tucson, November 2010.
“Imaginarios e identidades híbridas. Cuba per se.” Guest lecturer, Departamento de Letras, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, June 15, 2010.
“Una cabalgata en el siglo de las luces. Espíritu neoclásico y tipos americanos en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes. ” Twentieth Annual Symposium in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2010.
“José Kozer. Una habitación propia dentro del idioma.” Eighteenth Annual Symposium in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2008.
“La prosa de Dulce María Loynaz y su mirada oblicua de la historia.” Eleventh Annual Symposium “Voces convergentes: Literatura, lingüística y cultura,” Department of Spanish, Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2006.
“Identidad y transculturación. Narradores cubanos contemporáneos.” Sixteenth Annual Symposium in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2006.
“Emigraciones y exilios literarios en Hispanoamérica en el siglo XX. La diáspora cubana.” Workshop “Palabras sin fronteras,” The Center for Latin American and Border Studies at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, April 28, 2006.
Other Professional Activities:
Contributing author to the Latin America Data Base (LADB), Latin American and Iberian Institute of the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. http://ladb.unm.edu/
Contributing author to COAL / LaPress, a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Lima, Peru, specializing in the production of information and analysis about events across Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on human rights. English: http://lapress.org Spanish: http://www.noticiasaliadas.org/
