Talks

Select Invited Talks

“Latinx SF.” LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York. October 2021.

“Imagining Latinx Futures.” Recording Complete. Series Releasing 2022. Imagination and the Future International Video Lecture Series. Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, and CoFUTURES, University of Oslo.

“Introduction to Latino/a Speculative Fiction.” 10 January 2016. NEH/ALA Funded Latino Americans Grant.  Santa Fe College. Gainesville, FL.

 “Digging for Utopia: Recovering Victorian Feminist Utopias.” 8 August 2012. Eberly Family Special Collections, Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA.

 “Imagining a Feminist Utopia in 19th Century Iowa: Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant’s Unveiling a Parallel.” 8 March 2013. University of Iowa Council on the Status of Women. Iowa City, IA.

 “Gender, Science Fiction, and the Postapocalypse.” 21 October 2010. Presentation and Discussion of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s boom. Riverside Theatre. Iowa City, IA

Selected Conference Presentations

“Defining Latinx Futurisms II: Latinx Futurisms Don’t Need to be Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Research Association Conference. June 2021.

“Defining Latinx Futurisms: Latinx Diasporic Science Fiction.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. March 2021.

 “Indigenous Sciences, BIPOC SF, and Environmental/Restorative Justice.” Opening Plenary Panel with Grace L. Dillon, Andrea Hairston, Isiah Lavender III, & Joy Sanchez-Taylor. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. March 2021.

“Race, Bias, and Belonging in the Academy.” Plenary Roundtable. The Science Fiction Research Association. June 2021.

“Latinxs Unidos: Latinx Futurism in Hip-Hop.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. March 2019.

“India as Feminist Utopia: Victorian Women Imagining the Global South.” North American Victorian Studies Association. October 2018.

“Mapping Empire in the Nineteenth Century British Feminist Utopian Tradition.” 36th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida, March 2015.

“Towards a Nineteenth Century Global Anglophone Feminist Utopian Tradition.” Science Fiction  Research Association Conference. Madison, Wisconsin, May 2014.

“Realism, the Fantastic, and Cultural Tourism: Using Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro’ to Read His Realist Fiction.” 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida, March 2013.

“Social ‘Fantasy,’ Political Change, and the Fantastic in Victorian Feminist Utopias.”33nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida, March 2012.

“Shape-shifters and Sexuality: Reading a Victorian Feminist against Twenty-First Century Popular Culture. 32nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida, March 2011.

“New Amazonia: Proto-feminist Utopic and Dystopic Warning?” 17th Annual Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference. Iowa City, IA, April 2009.