GUEST LECTURES
“Writing a Spanish/Filipino Life: the Literary Self-Portraits of Antonio Pérez de Olaguer, 1907-1968.” Phillips Fellowship Lecture. January 2019. Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
"Manga 'Made in Spain': Apropiación y aproximación cultural en los cuentos gráficos de Ken Niimura." December 2017. School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
"De paso por Manila: impresiones de Filipinas en el relato español de viajes de circunnavegación." Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispano-filipina. October 2015. El Colegio de San Luís, San Luís Potosí, Mexico.
“Blasco en el cine japonés.” Blasco Ibáñez y las artes visuales. July 2013. Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo/Casa Museo Blasco Ibáñez, Valencia, Spain.
“Spain’s 1810: The Elision of Latin American Independence in Benito Pérez Galdós’s Episodios nacionales.” 1810: Insurgency in Latin America. Latin American Studies 10th Anniversary Symposium. April 2010. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“De chinerías y japonerías: el tráfico de arte asiático en Fortunata y Jacinta.” XII Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. June 2022. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
“‘Meet me tonight in dreamland’: the Japanese City as Techno-Orientalist Fantasyscape in Interwar Spanish Travel Writing.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. June 2022. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (Online).
“‘La isla de los muertos vivientes’: Disease and Dark Tourism in Luis de Oteyza and Antonio Pérez de Olaguer’s Narratives of Travel in the Philippines.” 12th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations: Spanish-Language Filipino Cultural Production and Other East-West Cultural Exchange. June 2022. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
“Un león de hombre: japonismo budista y masculinidad krausista en La familia de León Roch de Benito Pérez Galdós.” XXXII Congreso CANELA. May 2021. Tokyo, Japan.
"“Un lugar donde no se debe ir”: Disability and Disease in Luis de Oteyza and Antonio Pérez de Olaguer’s Narratives of Travels in the Philippines." Northeast Modern Language Association. March 2020, Boston.
"Dos historias de casadas «A la carta»: A Cross-Media Approach to Teaching Fortunata y Jacinta." Northeast Modern Language Association. March 2020, Boston. "A Different 1868: Japan and the Pacific Rim in the Travel Writings of Enrique Dupuy de Lôme." Modern Language Association Convention. January 2020, Seattle.
“Dagoll Dagom Made for TV: Transition and Transmediality in Antaviana, Glups! and The Mikado.” 17th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. April 2019. University of Chicago, Chicago.
“Writing a Post/Imperial Life: the Literary Self-Portraits of Spanish/Filipino Author Antonio Pérez de Olaguer.” Filipino Literature in Spanish in the Context of Hispanic-Asian Studies. December 2018. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
“The Men in the Japanese Room: Masculinity and Decorative Excess in Galdós’s La familia de León Roch.” “Measure and Excess,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies International Conference. June 2018. University of Rome Tre, Rome, Italy.
“La imposible 'piemontesizzazione' de España: Amadeo de Saboya según Galdós y Miñarro.” XI Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. June 2017. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
“Manga Made in Spain: Cultural Appropriation and Approximation in the Graphic Short Stories of Ken Niimura.” Modern Language Association. January 2017. Philadelphia.
“Dagoll Dagom en televisión: transición y trasferencia intermedial.” Pensamiento crítico y ficciones en torno a la Transición española (1975-2016). TRANSLITME. November 2016. Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
"Streaming Isabel: Castilla personificada en la ficción serializada ." In collaboration with Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin College. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. April 2016. University of Kentucky, Lexington.
"Color, Corporeality and Embodied Japonisme in Segundo de Chomón's Pathé Films (1906-1909)."American Comparative Literature Association. March 2016. Harvard University, Cambridge.
"Transformative Friki-ness: Practices of Cross-Cultural Consumption in JM Ken Niimura's Graphic Short Stories." Congreso Internacional de Literature Hispánica. March 2016. Mérida, Mexico.
"Dagoll Dagom y el teatro en televisión: del circuit catalá al tercer canal." Congreso Internacional "El cine y la televisión en la España de la Post-Transición (1979-1992)." December 2015 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, Spain.
"Playing Japanese in Catalan: Dagoll-Dagom's Revival of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado." in collaboration with Elena Cueto Asín (Bowdoin College). 15th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. June 2015. Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona.
“Japone-asnerías: Comic Opera and Racial Imitation in Fin-de-siècle Spain.” "Intercultural Dialogues and Crossings among the East, the Americas, and the Iberian Peninsula." March 2015. Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, NY.
“The Zarzuela Yellowed-Up: the Practice of Racial Imitation in Fin-de-siècle Spain.” XV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, March 2015. Antigua, Guatemala.
"Venturing Forth from the Classroom with Camera in Hand: A Fernando Birri Film School." in collaboration with Sarah Childress (Bowdoin College). 55th Conference of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies. March 2015. Montreal, Canada.
“La vieja del cinema (japonés): una adaptación de la novela de Blasco Ibáñez.” 6th International Conference on Orientalism and the Asian and Arab presence in the Hispanic and Lusophone world: Toward An Alliance Of Civilizations: East-West Intercultural Dialogues. April 2014. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
“Capitalizing on Blood and Sand: the Japanese Adaptation of Blasco Ibáñez’s La maja desnuda.” Questions of Cultural Capital in Hispano-Asian Encounters. Capitals. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. March 2014. New York University, New York, NY.
“Las conquistas de Alonso de Ojeda según Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: una visión hispanoamericanista.” XIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. March 2014. Cartagena, Colombia.
“Tristana como novela japonista y japonesca.” X Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. June 2013. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
“Barcelona, ciutat neutral: Screening the Great War on TV3.” XIVth Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. May 2013. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
“Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in the Gruta de Camões.” Macau Narratives. May 2013. Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal.
“Hispania, la leyenda: tres viajes de un mito fundacional como alegoría desviada para la efeméride.” Hispanic Cinemas: En Transición. November 2012. Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
“Japonisme or Japonaiserie? Things Japanese among Galdós’s Bibelot.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. October 2012. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NB.
“Japanization and Regeneration in La Lectura, 1901-1920.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 2012. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
“The 47 Ronins in Spain.” New England Association for Asian Studies Conference. October 2011. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
“A Spanish Novelist’s Tour of Japan: the Image of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in the Taisho Press (1919-1928).” The Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan. June 2011. International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
“More was lost in Cuba”: Democracy and the 1898 Conflict in TVE’s Cañas y barro and La barraca.” 14th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association International Conference. May 2011. Ioanian University, Corfu, Greece.
“Las Japonerías de Blasco Ibáñez: la estela de Loti en La vuelta al mundo de un novelista.” I Congreso Internacional. X Congreso Nacional. Asociación de Estudios Japoneses en España. May 2011. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
“Dagoll Dagom’s La memòria del Cargols (1999) as comic theater and historical TV sit-com.” LVI Anglo-Catalan Society Conference. December 2010. Barcelona, Spain.
“‘The Two Japans’: Antinomy and Alterity in V. Blasco Ibáñez’s A Novelist’s Tour of the World.” XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. August 2010. Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.
“Oleguer Junyent’s Roda el món i torna al Born (1910): A Catalan Round-the-World Travel Book.” XIIIth Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society. May 2010. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
“Reaching Extremo Oriente: Post-Imperial Malaise and Spanish Round-the-World-Travel Narratives.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. April 2010. Montreal, Canada.
“Cañas y barro en TVE y la restauración de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez en la Transición.” Historical Crossroads: Spain from the II Republic to the 21st Century. February 2010. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
“Seeing Spain through Doña Elvira’s Eyes: Blasco’s Sangre y arena as Travel Film.” Geographical Imaginaries and Hispanic Film. An International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas. November 2009. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
“Restauración y Transición en la Fortunata y Jacinta de Mario Camus.” IX Congreso Galdosiano. June 2009. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
“147 Views of Japan: Yokohama-shashin and the Construction of Blasco Ibáñez’s Tourist Gaze.” Orientalismos: Symposium on Asian Influence on Spanish and Spanish American Literature and Film, April 2009, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
“Liminality, Reality and Reverie in Blasco Ibañez’s Narrative Passage through the Panama Canal.” VIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, March 2009, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
“From Silent Page to Silent Screen: the Visualization of Sound in V. Blasco Ibañez’s Sangre y arena (1916).” Sound & Vision. Third International Conference on Latin American & Iberian Cinemas, October 2008, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI.
“'Un destripador de antaño' (1890), entre el pintorequismo y el naturalismo.” “La Literatura de Emilia Pardo Bazán” I Congreso Internacional, June-July 2008, A Coruña, Spain.
“A Writer’s Wandering Home: Blasco Ibáñez on the S.S. Franconia.” Arrivals and Departures. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, April 2008, Long Beach, CA.