Conference Presentations

Facultad de Filología Española de la Universidad de Oviedo, España: 13 May 2009. "Un ilustrado antes de la Ilustración: el caso de Francisco Gutiérrez de los Ríos." Invited speaker.

Asociación Internacional del Siglo de Oro, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: July 2008. "Mentalidad ilustrada en El Hombre Práctico (1680)"

Twelfth International Enlightenment Congress, Montpellier, France: July 2007. "Gender and Cross-Dressing in 18th-century Spanish Discourse."
Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Atlanta: March 2007. "Fake Women and Intellectual Charity in 18th-century Spanish Essays."

Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago: November 2006. "Manipulation and Hybridity in La Pensadora gaditana (1764)."

Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Montréal: March 2006. "To Quill a Mockingbird: Constructing the Ideological Enlightened Woman in 18th-century Spanish Essays."

Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Conference, Messina, Italy: May 2005. "Enlightenment Aesthetics in Spanish and English Prose."

Congreso Ilustracion y Romanticismo de la Universidad de Cadiz, Spain: November 2004. "Diálogo epistolar y opinión pública en La Pensadora gaditana."
Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain: May 2004. "Seguidillas folklóricas del siglo XVIII español."
International Press Club Conference, Madrid, Spain: February 2004. "Marruecos y Argelia en el contexto de la España moderna."
Congreso Internacional Francisco Nifo: La España del siglo XVIII, Alcañiz, Spain: December 2003. "Travestismo literario en el siglo XVIII: El caso de La Pensadora gaditana."
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Conference, Madrid, Spain: July 2003. "El protagonismo del lector en la novelística de Cadalso."
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Marquette University: November 2002. "The Most Scandalous and Elusive Epistolary Novel of Spain: Cornelia Bororquia (1801)."
Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Conference, Granada, Spain: May 2002. "Asesinatos, violaciones y ex frailes: Luis Gutiérrez y su Cornelia Bororquia (1801)."
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference, San Francisco: July 2001. "El genio poético de las coplas populares del siglo XVIII murciano."
Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France: May 2001. "Gazel Ben-Aly: Modern Moroccan Traveller in late 18th-century Spain."
Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans: April 2001. "Suicide in Noches lúgubres and Ugo Foscolo's Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis"
Conference of the Asosiación de Amigos de la Lengua Española, Milwaukee: March 2001. "El poeta como hombre entre bastidores en El rayo que no cesa de Miguel Hernández."
Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Madison: September 2000. "Proper Guidance; Or, Tourist Guide Books in Cultural Studies." Session Chair.
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Conference, New York: April 2000. "El problema de La Pensadora gaditana (1763-64)."
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Conference, San Diego: April 1999. "El significado historiográfico de las Aventuras de Juan Luis (1781) de Rejón y Lucas."
Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota Annual Conference, Winnipeg: October 1998. "The Power of the Quill: Epistolary Technique in Richardson's Pamela."
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference, Madrid: August 1998. "La eternidad de lo vulgar en Doña Inés de Azorín."
International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Bordeaux, France: July 1998. "Novelistic Nuance and Enlightenment Thought in England and Spain."
Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota Annual Conference, Fargo: October 1997. "Naturalism Revised in Clarín's Su único hijo."
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.: December 1996. "Innovaciones dieciochescas en la novela española." Special Session Chair.
Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Montreal: April 1996. "La revaloración del naturalismo español en Su único hijo de Clarín."
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin: March 1996. "Perspectivas extranjeras de la España dieciochesca." Paper presented in absentia.
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Colloquium in Romance Languages: March 1996. "La filosofía amorosa de Fedro y Erisímaco en el 'Himno a las estrellas' de Quevedo."
Boston College Graduate Student Conference on Romance Studies: March 1996. "Experiencias inmediatas en las Cartas marruecas de Cadalso."
Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Boston: April 1995. "Viajes en las Cartas marruecas de Cadalso."
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Colloquium in Romance Languages: April 1995. "Juegos metafictivos." Moderator, Conference Director and Chair.
Temple University Graduate Student Conference in Hispanic Literature: April 1994. "El espejo proteico roto en Señas de identidad."
Columbia University Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Literatures: March 1994. "El espejo proteico roto en Señas de identidad."
Princeton University Graduate Student Colloquium in Hispanic Literature: December 1993. "Las perspectivas del naturalismo español en Galdós, Pardo Bazán y Clarín."