Invited Talks
2010 “Narración y memoria: la emigración gallega en Antón Risco y Manuel Rivas.” Memory and Migration in Latin America and Spain. Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies. University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (November 18, 2010).
“Bagpipes, tambourines and drums: New Galician Music and a (G)localizad Identity.” Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI. (January 28, 2010).
2006 “A College Education: Academic Excellence and Engaged Citizenship for a Lifetime.” Keynote Speech. NSCS (National Society of Collegiate Scholars) Induction Ceremony. (October 15, 2006).
Conferences and Presentations
2012 “Músicas de ida y vuelta: Galician Global Musical Identities.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (MACHL). Lincoln, NE (October).
“‘Idas y venidas:’ The Void of Emigration in Galicia’s Everyday Life.” 43rd Annual Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Rocherster, NY (March).
2011 “The Double Discourse of Identity in Cuestión de amor propio by Carmé Riera.” 42nd Annual Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), New Brunswick, NJ (April).
2009 “Desde el mambo hasta la samba: La nueva música gallega y una identidad nacional globalizada.” IX Congreso da AIEG (Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos): “Galiza nos Contextos Globais: Perspectivas para o Século XXI (Galicia in Global Contextexts: Perspectives for the 21st Century),” Santiago, Vigo, A Coruña (July). <http://tv.uvigo.es/gl/serial/583.html>
“Museums and Mausoleums: Museographical Practices of Galician Identity.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April).
2008 “Buttons and Animals: Fantastic lieux de mémoire in Manuel Rivas’ En salvaxe compaña” Coming out of the Nation: Beyond the National in Contemporary Galician Cultural Production, University of Liverpool, University of Bangor, Centre for Galician Studies in Wales (March).
2006 “Botones, animales y museos: sitios de memoria en la literatura y cultura gallegas” Spanish Literatures and Cultures Colloquium, The Ohio State University (November).
“Second-class Discourses: (Dis)placed Immigrants in Cuentos de las dos orillas” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April).
2005 “Amusement Parks and Cemeteries: Fantastic Spaces of Galician Identity through Migration.” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D. C. (December).
“Space, Memory and Absence of Galician Emigration in Memorias dun emigrante.” 41st Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Convention, The University of Western Ontario (May).
“Viaje al Hades: En busca de una identidad gallega en No vuelvas.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April).
2004 “Sitios de memoria: perspectivas de una historia nacionalista en En salvaje compañía.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April).
2001 “IVAM: Between the Global and the Local, the Art Museum in the Construction of National Identities.” Symposium: Artists: Travelers and Nomads in the Era of Globalization, Department of Art History, Emory University (December).
“Aproximación literaria a la ciudad de México: paradigma de la ciudad postmoderna.” Sexto Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas at El Paso (March).
2000 “La practicalidad de la lengua: la virtud del vernáculo en El convivio.” Colloquium: La reivindicación de la lengua vulgar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University (December).
1999 “Algunos aspectos de la adaptación del texto dramático de El perro del hortelano.” Congreso de AITENSO (Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novo Hispano del Siglo de Oro), Universidad de Ciudad Juárez, México (March).