A. Papers Presented:
"My Name is Gloria: Transexuality in Extremófilos by Luis Fernando de Julián." Presented at the New Harmony International Conference, "Contemporary Spanish Theater: Stages of Utopia, Dystopia, and Myopia." Hosted by the University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, Oct 10-12, 2018.
"Federico García Lorca and Artistic Freedom: La casa de Bernarda Alba." Presented at the 62nd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, Oct 18-20, 2012.
“El proceso de crear en El biógrafo amanuense de Jerónimo López Mozo. Presented at “Acto seguido: el personaje del teatro español contemporáneo a escena.” Hosted by Austin College, Sherman, TX, Oct. 13-15, 2011.
“El teatro de Luis Araújo y el Siglo XXI”. Invited paper presented in a session titled “El Mundo Literario de Luis Araújo: Sesión Homenaje al Escritor y Su Obra,” honoring contemporary Spanish playwright Luis Araújo, invited from Spain as guest of the Convention. Presented at the 82nd Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). Hosted by Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Nov 5-7, 2010.
"A Different Kind of Love Story: El suicidio del Ángel de Aurora Mateos." Invited paper presented in a special session honoring Enrique Ruiz-Fornells. Presented at the 82nd Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). Hosted by Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Nov 5-7, 2010
"El sueño americano, el terrorismo y el siglo XXI: Sueños de arena de Antonio Rojano.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Hosted by McGill University. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. April 8-11, 2010.
“Forgetting the American Dream in Playback and Underground by Luis Miguel González Cruz". Presented at “The Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting (NeMLA). Hosted by Boston University, Feb 26-Mar 1, 2009.
"The Female Body as a Postmodern Landscape in Un olor a ámbar by Concha Romero". Presented at "España XX-XXI: Diálogos en el hispanismo peninsular." Hosted by the University of Ottawa, Canada. Mar 27-29, 2008.
"Coming of Age in Lucrecia Martel's La niña santa (Argentina 2004)." Presented at the 57th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC). Hosted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Oct. 11-13, 2007.
"Bernarda Alba Has No Sons: Reproductive Failures and Personal Recriminations". Presented at the 27th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literature. Hosted by the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. May 10-12, 2007.
"Marginal Identities in the Theatre of José Luis Alonso de Santos". Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NeMLA). Hosted by Johns Hopskins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1-4, 2007.
“Losing the Battle and Winning the War.” Presented at the 2006 Modern Language Association Convention. Hosted by Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. December 27-30, 2006.
"All Sex and No Fun in El local de Bernardeta A. by Lourdes Ortiz." Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Hosted by Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, March 2-5, 2006.
"Dramatizing Politics: El olvido está lleno de memoria by Jerónimo López Mozo." Presented at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Hosted by the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. February 23-25, 2006.
"Las manos and La llanura: Contemporary Spanish Playwrights Writing the Spanish Civil War." Presented at the 55th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Oct 13-15, 2005.
"Seeing and Seen in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella and Mala educación. Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association. Hosted by Boston University, Boston, MA, March 31-April 2, 2005.
"Mitologías contradictorias de lo femenino en el teatro de la dramaturga catalana Beth Escudé i Gallès." Presented at the XIII Congreso de la Asociación de la Literatura Femenina Hispana. Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. 24 al 27 de octubre del 2002.
"Speaking for Herself: "The Pluralism of Voice in La mirada by Yolanda Pallín and Pullus by Beth Escudé". Presented at "El Próximo Acto: Teatro Español en el Siglo XXI." Hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH. 18-20 April 2002.
"Cross Dressing as Empowerment: The Cinematic Aesthetic of Male Role Models for Women." Presented at the Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts. Hosted by Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. 26-28 April 2001.
"Spain's 'New Woman' for the New Millennium: Cultural Politics on the Big Screen in the 1990s." Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association. Hosted by Central Connecticut State University, Hartford, CT. 30-31 March 2001.
"Pullus by Beth Escudé i Galles: Writing With Words of Light." Presented at "España en el siglo XXI. Literature, arte y cultura." Hosted by Ohio State University, November 1-4, 2000.
"The Female Literary Imagination: Africa 30 by Mercè Sarrias and Pullus by Beth Escudé." Presented at the XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica:"Cruzando Fronteras: 25 años de hispanismo femenino en el extranjero." Hosted by Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada. 21-23 September 2000.
"Solas: Reinforcing the Patriarchy in Spain." Presented at the 3rd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference. Hosted by the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 21-25 June, 2000.
"Carmen Resino's Theatre of Women." Presented at the Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts. Hosted by Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. 13-15 April 2000.
"La mujer en el umbral del milenio: Maridos, abuelas y perros." Presented at the Congreso de Escritoras. Querétaro, Qro., Mexico. 23-25 September 1999.
"Getting All the Right Parts in All the Right Places: Genetic Engineering in Alien Resurrection." Presented at the Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts, hosted by Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. 8-10 April 1999.
"Fire and Ashes: Women, the Gender Code and Valle-Inclán's Theatre." Presented at "Nuevas Perspectivas Sobre el '98." Hosted by The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH. 16-18 April 1998.
"Agonía: Storytelling and Performance Theory." Presented "Entre Actos." Hosted by Penn State University, College Park, PA, September 18-20, 1997.
"La Cubanía: The Soul of Cuban Theater in the Mid-1990s." Presented at "Theatre of Latin American: A Festival and Symposium." Hosted by the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 2-5 April 1997.
"Body, Sex, Woman: The Struggle for Autonomy in Three Plays by Paloma Pedrero." Presented at La Chispa. Hosted by Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. February 27- 1 March 1997.
"Contemporary Spanish Theatre: A New Look for the 90s." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. 27-30 December 1996.
"The Creative Process in Democratic Spain: Antonio Onetti." Presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. Hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO. 12-14 October 1995.
"Sexuality and Identity in Paloma Pedrero's The Color of August." Presented at Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA). Hosted by Boston University, Boston, MA. 31 March- 1 April 1995.
"Texts and Contexts: Interpreting Spanish Women Writers." Panel discussion at the the 19th Annual Conference of Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA). Hosted by the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. 3-5 March 1995.
"Re-Writing/Re-Presenting Textual/Sexual Role Models in Female-Authored Spanish Drama." Presented at "Un espacio propio/A Stage of Their Own." Hosted by the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. October 5-7, 1994.
"Disenfranchized Society and Self-Conscious Structures in Antonio Buero Vallejo's Mito, libro para una ópera." Presented at the Southeast Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. 24-26 February 1994.
"How We Choose What Our Students Read." Presented at Alabama Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 05 February 1994.
"Writing the Text: Stephen King's Misery/Misery." Presented at the Forty-Third Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by Clemson University, Clemson, SC 7-9 October 1993.
"Can Women Characters in Spanish Drama Have an Adventure Plot?" Presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Meeting (AATPS). Phoenix, AZ. 9-13 August 1993.
"Role-Playing in Concha Romero's Un maldito beso." Presented at "De lo particular a lo universal: El teatro español del siglo XX y su contexto." Hosted by the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH. 15-17 April 1993.
"Stage Directions and Space in Buero Vallejo's Mito, libro para una ópera." Presented at the South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting. Knoxville, TN. 12-14 November 1992.
"Images of Women in Spanish Drama in the 1980s." Presented at the Nineteenth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Hosted by the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. 21-23 February 1991.
"Un drama nuevo: A Case of Double Vision." Presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by Clemson University, Clemson, SC. 28-30 September 1989.
"Women Writers in Post-Franco Theatre: A Tentative Feminism." Presented at the Seventh Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. Hosted by the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. 13-15 May 1987.
"Feminism or Vocation: The Emergence of Dramaturgas in Spain." Presented at the Second Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Hosted by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 26-27 September 1986.
"Scenes of Realism from Post-Franco Playwrights." Presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languagues (ACTFL). New York, NY. 28-30 November 1985.
"New Dimensions in Post-Franco Theatre: Fermín Cabal." Presented at ESTRENO. The 10th Anniversary Symposium. Contemporary Spanish Theater. Hosted by the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. 17-20 April 1985.
"Realism and Humor in Post-Franco Theatre." Presented at the Third Annual Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literature. Hosted by Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. 28 February-March 1, 1985.
"Images of Self and Other in Post-Franco Theatre." Presented at the Thirteenth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Hosted by the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. 20-22 February 1985.
"New Dimensions in Post-Franco Theatre: José Luis Alonso de Santos." Presented at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN October 4-6, 1984.
"Broken Images of Rage in the Poetry of León Felipe." Presented at the Eleventh Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Hosted by the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. 23-25 February 1983.
"Don Quixote's Rage for Order." Presented at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literature. Hosted by the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. 13-15 May 1982.
"Dragún's Distancing Techniques in Historias para ser contadas and El amasijo." Presented at the Symposium: "Contexts and Perspectives: Latin AmericanTheatre Today. Hosted by the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 13-17 April 1982.
B. Session Chair/Organizer:
Session Organizer: "The Contemporary Theater of Spain in the Age of Diversity" at the 50th Anniversary Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, titled "Transnational Spaces: Intersections of Cultures, Languages, and Peoples," in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the University of Buffalo, March 21-24, 2019.
Session Chair: "Utopian Re-imaginings of Body, Nation, and Reality Itself" at the New Harmony International Conference on the Contemporary Theater of Spain: Stages of Utopia, Dystopia, and Myopia. Hosted by the University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN. October 10-12, 2018
Organizer and Session Chair. “The Discourse of Time and Space in Contemporary Spanish Theatre” at the 62nd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Oct 18-20, 2012, Winston-Salem, NC, hosted by Wake Forest University.
Organizer and Session Chair. “Contemporary Spanish Theatre I”. The 82nd Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Nov 5-7, 2010, Atlanta, GA, hosted by Georgia State University.
Organizer and Session Chair. “Contemporary Spanish Theatre II”. The 82nd Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Nov 5-7, 2010, Atlanta, GA., hosted by Georgia State University.
Organizer and Session Chair: "Contemporary Spanish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Political Acts and Social Conscience", at the Thirty-Ninth Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Feb 26-Mar 1, 2009. Hosted by Boston University, Boston, MA.
Organizer and Session Chair: "Feminists Aren't Funny? Humor as a Pedagogical Tool". Program arranged by Feministas Unidas, an allied organization of the Modern Language Association. December 27-30, 2007, Chicago.
Organizer and Chair: "Contemporary Spanish Theatre: Cultural Conflicts and Conflicting Cultures" at the Thirty-Sixth Northeast Modern Language Association Conference at Philadelphia, PA, March 2-5, 2006.
Organizer and Chair: "Contemporary Spanish Theatre," presented at the 55th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, hosted by Wake Forest University. Oct 13-15, 2005.
Organizer and Chair: "Social Anxieties in Contemporary Spanish Theatre", at the XIX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de la Literatura Femenina Hispana. 23-26 April 2003. Boca Raton, FL.
Organizer: Speaking for Herself: Spain's Women Playwrights and Late Twentieth-Century Revisions of the Feminine" at the XIII Congreso de la Asociación de la Literatura Femenina Hispana. 24 al 27 de octubre del 2002. Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.
"El teatro alternativo". "El Próximo Acto: Teatro Español en el Siglo XXI". Ohio Wesleyan University. 18-20 April 2002.
Organizer and Chair: "Spanish Film in the 1990s" at the Thirty-Third Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. 11-14 April 2002. Toronto, Canada.
"Games and Ghosts in the Victorian Home" at the Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts. Appalachian State University. 26-28 April 2001.
"Sexual and Textual Borderlines in the 1990s: Plays by Spanish Women". The XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. "Cruzando Fronteras: 25 años de hispanismo femenino en el extranjero". Hosted by Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada. September 21-23. 2000.
"Spanish Literature II: History, Madness and New Voices in Twentieth-Century Spanish Drama" The Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities & Arts (BRICHA). Hosted by Appalachian State University. 13-15 April 2000.
"La dramaturga femenina española en el teatro actual hacia el 2000: Erotismo, matrimonio y mujer". Congreso de Escritoras. Querétaro, Qro., Mexico. 23-25 September 1999.
"Film I: Landscapes of Imagination, Myth, and Sacrifice" at the Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts (BRICHA). Hosted by Appalachian State University. 8-10 April 1999.
"Nuevas Perspectivas Sobre el '98". The College of Wooster, Ohio. 16-18 April 1998.
"New Plays and Old Politics: Contemporary Spanish Theatre." Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Montreal, Quèbec, Canada. 12-14 April 1996.
"How We Choose What Our Students Read." Presented at Alabama Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 05 February 1994.
"Women Writers and Sexuality." Forty-Third Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by Clemson University. 7-9 October 1993.
"La imagen femenina en el teatro español del XX." De lo particular a lo universal: El teatro español del siglo XX y su contexto. Wooster College. 15-17 April 1993.
"Women's Narrative of Spain Today: Gaite, Matute, Puértolas," at the Nineteenth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Hosted by the University of Louisville. 21-23 February 1991.
"Latin American Theatre" presented at the Eighteenth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Hosted by the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY., February 22-24, 1990.
"Twentieth-Century Theatre" presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted by Clemson University, South Carolina. September 28-30,1989.
"The Hispanic Stage," at the Fifteenth Twentieth-Century Literature Conference." University of Louisville, Kentucky. February 25-27, 1987.