“‘¿De qué lado estás?’”: Upper-Class Womanhood, Complicity, and the Revenant in Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona (Guatemala, 2019)
- Presented at the 2021 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, held virtually, May 2021
“Gothic Spaces, Hidden Histories: The Haunted Houses of the Spanish Post-Dictatorship”
- Analysis of the relationship between the haunted house as filmic space and post-dictatorial legacies in El orfanato [The Orphanage] (Spain, J.A. Bayona, 2007)
- Presented at Progressive Connexions’ “Global Horror: Local Perspectives,” held virtually, February 2021
“The Sinister Influences of the Spirits: Spiritism and Political Power in Twentieth-century Argentina”
- Exploration of the ways that Spiritism and related spiritual practices were used to both gain access to and resist Argentine state power in the 1960s-1980s.
- Paper accepted for the 2020 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference, meant to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico in May 2020. Presentation withdrawn by author when conference was held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Sinister Influences of the Spirits: ‘El Brujo José López Rega, the Logia Anael, the AAA, and Spiritism in Twentieth-Century Argentine Politics”
- Analysis of the role played by Spiritism and related esoteric movements and organizations in late twentieth-century Argentine history
- Incorporated discussion of archival material gathered in Buenos Aires in November 2018 with the aid of a Field Research Grant from the Tinker Foundation
- Presented at the Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latinx Studies in April 2019
“El cielo se está cayendo a todos lados”: Monstruos escondidos y conflictos sociales en Los parecidos (2015) [“The Sky is Falling All around Us”: Hidden Monsters and Social Conflicts in The Similars (2015)] (co-authored with Eduardo Leão)
- Analysis of the 2015 Mexican horror film Los parecidos
- Presented at the Congreso Internacional México Transatlántico in March 2018
“Graduate Student Journal Editing and Publishing with Spanish and Portuguese Review”
- Roundtable discussing role as Managing Editor of Production for the Spanish and Portuguese Review
- Presented at the American Association for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese annual conference in July 2017
“Bestial Perspectives: Bodies, Signs, and the Development of Human-Animal Relationships in Un viejo que leía novelas de amor and ‘Meu tio o iauaretê’”
- Literary analysis and comparison of Luís Sepúlveda’s novel Un viejo que leía novelas de amor and João Guimarães Rosa’s short story “Meu tio o iauaretê”
- Presented at the University of North Carolina’s at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Conference for Romance Studies in March 2017
“Opposed Politics, Gendered Rhetoric: Commonalities in the Formation of Two Women’s Movements in Twentieth-century Argentina”
- Historical analysis of two Argentine women’s movements, the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo and the Liga de Madres, and their rhetorical and political strategies
- Presented at Georgetown University’s Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium in February 2017
“El arte de morir: La muerte, la deshumanización y la agencia femenina en Santa Evita de Tomás Eloy Martínez” [The Art of Dying: Death, Dehumanization, and Feminine Agency in Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Santa Evita]
- Literary analysis of the Argentine novel Santa Evita
- Presented at the University of Pennsylvania’s Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference in February 2017
“Tened cuidado: lo que ahi habita, no es humano”: Human and Inhuman Monsters in Pan’s Labyrinth as Expressions of a Collective Heritage of Fears
- Literary analysis of the Spanish film Pan’s Labyrinth
- Presented at the University at Albany’s Annual Undergraduate Research Conference in April 2012; awarded an Honorable Mention for undergraduate research