- 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 & 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