Romance Languages and Literatures

“‘Yo no soy un hombre’: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Gothic Conventions in Galdós’s La sombra (1871).” Hispanic Review, vol. 88, no. 3, 2020, pp. 243-63.

“From Photography to Forensics: Technology, Modernity, and the Internationalization of Spanish History in Gran Hotel.” In Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas. Ed. David R. George, Jr. and Wan Sonya Tang. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 93-115.

“Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives.” In The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain: Beyond the Secular City, ed. Antonio Córdoba and Daniel García Donoso. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 21-40.

“La princesa, el granuja, y el obrero condenado: El retrato de las clases sociales en dos cuentos fantásticos de Galdós.” Anales Galdosianos 49 (2014):107-20.

“'Mirar tapices flamencos por el revés': Elogio implícito de la traducción en Don Quijote.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 42:3 (2008): 483-502.

“Églogas épicas y comedias trágicas: El elogio del poeta en Garcilaso de la Vega y Shakespeare.” LLJournal (2008): n. pag. Web.

“Pida y recibirá: Palabra, poder y fiesta en Ecue-Yamba-O de Alejo Carpentier.” LLJournal (2007): n. pag. Web.

“Cursed to Extinction: Imperialist Cultural Encounters in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s ‘El brasileño’ (1911).” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA, January 5-8,  2023.

“Monstruos, maldiciones e imperialismo en el cuento ‘Tropiquillos.’” XII Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. Casa Museo Pérez Galdós, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. June 20-23, 2022.

“Fantastic Fiction and the Critique of Capitalism in Early Restoration Spain.” Imaginarios económicos en la literatura y el cine de España y Latinoamérica. Symposium. Lehman College, Bronx, NY.  April 5-6, 2019.

“Galdosian Spain, Francoist Censorship, and the Construction of Masculinity in José Luis Borau’s Adaptation of Miau (TVE 1972).” I Symposium of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. Sept. 14-15, 2018.

“The Insufficiency of Excess and the Construction of Masculinity in Galdós’s La Sombra.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies 2018 Supernumerary Conference. University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. June 13-15, 2018.

“Mere Shadows of Men: Gothic Conventions and Masculine Crisis in Galdós’s La sombra.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. New York, NY.  January 4-7, 2018.

“From Photos to Forensics: Technology, Modernity, and the Internationalization of Spanish History in Gran Hotel.” IV Jornadas de ALCESXXI. Residencia Pignatelli, Zaragoza, Spain. July 3-7, 2017.

“Crisis de masculinidad en la narrativa fantástica de Galdós: Hombres inseguros en La sombra y ‘¿Dónde está mi cabeza?’.” XI Congreso Galdosiano. Casa Museo Pérez Galdós, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. June 19-23, 2017.

“Impairment of Vision and Visions of Impairment in Galdós’s Marianela.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. January 5-8, 2017.

“The Aesthetic Appeal of Ahistorical History in the Spanish Television Series Gran Hotel.” Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington. April 14-16, 2016.

"The Art of the Spanish Historical Drama: A Case Study of the Television Series Gran Hotel." Aquí y Ahora: TV and Film Production in Contemporary Spain Conference. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore. March 25-26, 2016.

“Two Spains in Alberto Rodríguez’s La isla minima/Marshland (2014).” Spanish Film Series. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. November 5, 2015.

“Gendered Trauma and the Spanish Civil War in La plaça del Diamant by Mercé Rodoreda.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. University of Washington, Seattle. March 26-29, 2015.      

“Sacred and Supernatural: Representations of Madrid in Fantastic Narratives from 19^th-Century Spain.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. New York University, New York. March 20-23, 2014.

“‘My Dear, These Things Are Life’: A Woman in the Spanish Civil War in La plaza del diamante.” Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Susquehanna University, Harrisburg. April 3-6, 2014.

“El retrato de las clases sociales en dos cuentos fantásticos de Galdós.” X Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. Casa Museo Pérez Galdós, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. June 18-21, 2013.

“Haunted House/Scary Street: Crises of Self and Space in 19th-Century Spanish Fantastic Narrative.” Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Tufts University, Boston. March 21-24, 2013.

“Of Trams and Trains: Fantastic Movement Through Madrid and Spain in Galdós's Short Fiction." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln. October 12-14, 2012.

“The Haunted City: Madrid in the Fantastic Fiction of Galdós.” Invited talk before the Whitney Humanities Fellows. Yale University, New Haven, CT. March 28, 2012.

American Fellowship recipient, American Association of University Women, 2021-22. 

The Rodolfo Cardona Award for the best publication from a junior faculty member in the Anales Galdosianos from 2013-2017 at the Galdós Conference.