INVITED LECTURES
2017 Panel
Member Respondent for The Messenger,
a public reception for the Spring Sustainability Film Series, Athena Cinema,
Athens, OH. April 19.
2016 “Communicating
with Multidimensional Beings.” Lecture, Phoenix Bookstore, Columbus, Ohio,
November 18
2016 “Nepantla
and ‘Alam al-Mithal: Gloria Anzaldúa and Henry Corbin on the Imaginal Realm.”
West Virginia Philosophy Society Annual Meeting. Marshall University,
Huntington, West Virginia. April 8.
2015 “The
Matakin Sky Spirits: Lessons From Our Atmospheric Devas.” Public Presentation
hosted by Alternate Universe House of Phacops Rock Shop. Locust Grove, Ohio.
July 11. https://www.facebook.com/events/1586938204891403/
2011 “Langston
Hughes’s Montage and Jazz Aaesthetics.” University of Basel, Basel,
Switzerland, December 5.
2011 “Gloria
Anzaldúa’s Medicine Wheel.” Graduate Theory Class Lecture and Discussion,
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2.
2011 “Decolonization
Theory.” Lecture, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 1.
2011 “Strategies
of Decolonization.” Lecture, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen Switzerland,
November 30.
2006 “Under
the Sign of Paideuma: Scary Ideograms and the New Fascism.” Paper given under
the auspices of the National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, at the
Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma October.
Invited Speaker.
2006 “The
Music of Nathaniel Mackey’s Poetry.” Invited Speaker Presentation, New York
University Department of Music, March 28
2001 “History
and the Avant-Garde of Web Poetry.” Guest Lecturer, Seminar on History and the
Avant-Garde, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Rice University,
Houston, Texas, October 17.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2016 “Nepantla
and ‘Alam al-Mithal: Gloria Anzaldúa and Henry Corbin on the Imaginal Realm.”
El Mundo Zurdo Conference, Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. University
of Texas—San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas. November 4.
2016 “Nepantla
and ‘Alam al-Mithal: Gloria Anzaldúa and Henry Corbin on the Imaginal Realm.”
English Department Faculty Colloquium. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. April 22.
2014 “In
Heidegger’s Temple.” Faculty Research Colloquium. Department of English. Ohio
University, October 17.
2014 “Gloria
Anzaldúa and Contemporary Feminist Theory.” Presentation. English Graduate
Student Roundtable. Ohio University. October 15.
2010
“Anzaldúa’s Backpack: Nahuala Inventories of New Mestiza Indigenism.” El Mundo
Zurdo: an international conference on the life and work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. University of Texas-San Antonio,
November 5.
2010 “Continental
Divide: North Native Challenges to Chicana Indigenism.” American Indian Studies
Association Conference at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, February 5.
2009 “Coatlicue
Appropriations and Transformations: The Decolonizing Strategies of Gloria
Anzaldúa and Norma Alarcón.” Ethnic Studies: 40 Years Later: Race, Resistance,
Relevance Conference. San Francisco State University Department of Ethnic
Studies. San Francisco. October 8.
2009 “The
Curandera of Conquest: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Decolonial Remedy." El Mundo
Zurdo: an international conference on the life and work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. University of Texas-San Antonio. May
17.
2009 “Gloria
Anzaldúa, the Curandera of Conquest." English Faculty Colloquium, Ohio
University, March 6.
2009 “Disfiguring
Gaza: The Discourse of Parity and Its Distortions in the Palestinian-Israeli
Conflict.” Co-presented with Loren Lybarger. International Studies Forum, Ohio
University, February 13.
2009 “What?
Is Decolonization Dead? Let’s Ask Waziyatawin and Taiaiake.” American Indian
Studies Association Conference at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona,
February 5.
2008 “We
Need a Mau Mau in Mississippi: African Independence Movements and Malcolm X’s
Political Lessons for Today.” Paper delivered at the African Decolonization
Conference at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, October 2.
2008 “The
U.S. Media Creates a Venezuela Dictator.” Paper delivered at the 7th Annual
Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, May
2008 “Privilege
and Oblivion: Some Structures of White Power at Ohio University.” Panel
Presentation at Ohio University, April
2008 “Anzaldúa’s
Trash Matrix and the Poetics of Abjection.” Paper delivered at the MELUS 22nd
Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 29
2008 “Anzaldúa
as Nahuala and the Politics of Shamanic Poetry.” Paper delivered at the
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 14
2008 “The
U.S. Media, Global Hegemony, and Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform Vote of
2007.” Paper delivered at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American
Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 14
2007 Opening
Remarks to a viewing of A Day Without a
Mexican. Latino Student Union public forum. Ohio University, October
2007 “Peace
as War: The Struggle Over Defining Autonomy in the San Andrés Accords.” Paper
delivered at the First Annual Saint Rose Womens Studies Regional Conference,
Saint Rose College, Albany, New York, March
2007 “Anzaldúa’s
Womb-Tomb and the Poetics of Coatlicue.” Paper delivered at the Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February
2006 “Poetry
and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement.” Athens Public Library, Athens, Ohio,
May 4
2006 “Anti-Essentialism
as Institutional Racism, or, We’re So Liberal We Hire White People.” Race and
the Spectrum of Critical Consciousness, Ohio University, April 28
2004 “Or
Does It Explode? The Jazz Politics of Langston Hughes’s Discordant Montage.” A
Conference on Poetries of the 1940s, National Poetry Foundation. Orono, Maine,
June 25
2002 "Corky
Gonzales and the Birth of the Chicano." Class presentation, International
Studies, Ohio University, May
2002 “Virtual
Migration: Brazilian Digital Poetry.” 4th Annual McKay-Costa Symposium. Latin
American Studies Program, Ohio University. April 26
2002 “The
Construction of Chicano Identity.” Great Lakes American Studies Conference.
Athens, Ohio. April
2001 “Body
Info Web: The Internet Poetry of Mez.” Modern Language Association
International Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 28
2001 "Corky
Gonzales and the Birth of the Chicano." Class presentation, International
Studies, Ohio University, May
2001 “On
Web Poetry.” Class web presentation. English Department, Ohio University, May
2000 “Script
Language=‘Poetry’: The Poetic Potential of JavaScript and DHTML.” E-Poetry
2000: An International Digital Poetry Festival, SUNY-Buffalo, April 19
2001 “Pregnant
Chads: Reading the Florida Election.” Interactive web presentation. Ohio
University Board of Regents, April
2001 “I Am Joaquín and the Chicano Movement.”
Parkersburg High School, March 27
2001 “I Am Joaquín and the Retroactive
Construction of Chicanismo.” SCOLAS, Santa Fe, NM, March
2000 "Spivak's
Sublime Subaltern." English Department Faculty Colloquium, Ohio
University, October
2000 "Corky
Gonzales and the Birth of the Chicano." Class presentation, International
Studies, Ohio University, September 26
2000 "Yo Soy Joaquín: Chicano Poetry and
Retroactive Identity, 1967." North American Poetry Conference, The
University of Maine at Orono, June 29
2000 "Hegemony
and the Construction of the Chicano: Francisco X. Alarcón's Snake Poems." Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February
2000 Reading
of I Am Joaquín and other Chicano
poetry, Noche de Poesia, Hispanic Awareness Month, Ohio University, October
1999 "On
Chicano Poetry." Class presentation, International Studies, Ohio
University, September 26
1998 “The
Symptom of the Nation: Hybridity, Code-Switching, and the Politics of Chicano
Poetry,” Poetics Seminar, The Hall Center for the Humanities, University of
Kansas, October 14
1997 “Hysteria
Before History,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, April 5
1995 "Kant's
Dinner Party, or, Enjoying Aesthetics After Zizek." Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 23
1993 "Kant's
Dinner Party." English Graduate Organization Forum, Ohio State University,
April
1991 "Althusser
Metonymy China Wall." Modern Language Association Convention in San
Francisco, December 26
1991 "On
Language Poetry." Class presentation, Honors Introduction to Poetry, Ohio
State University, January 31
1990 "Sublime
Decadence and the Poetry of Sacrifice: Sulfur
22 and the Language Poetry Debate." Twentieth-Century Literature
Conference, University of Louisville, February
1989 "Dissertations
and Publications." Class presentation, Poetics (Graduate), University of
New Mexico, May
1989 "Sponsoring
the Arts Magazine." Independent Schools Association of the Southwest
Convention, New Orleans, March 17
1987 "Poetry,
Ideology, Practice: The Avant-Garde Text's Challenge to Dominant Cultural
Studies." International American Studies Convention, New York, November
1985 "Christopher
Lasch." Class presentation, Sex and Ideology (Graduate American Studies
class), University of New Mexico, January 20