PUBLISHED ARTICLES
“Edwidge Danticat y el cruce de fronteras entre Haiti, Africa, y America.” Cuadernos del Ateneo de La Laguna 28 (December 2009): 85-92. http://www.ateneodelalaguna.es/pdf/ATENEO28/ada.pdf
“Breath, Eyes, Memory: Ancestors and Dreams.” Proceedings of the First Conference on Women and Literatures in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Nieves Pascual Soler, Francisca Molina Navarrete, Jesús López-Peláez Casellas, and Paula García Ramírez. CD-ROM. Jaén: Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Jaén, 2003. 56-69.
“Reclaiming Visibility: Mama Day and Invisible Man.” Power and Culture in America: Forms of Interaction and Renewal: Proceedings of the V Conference of Spanish Association for America Studies. Eds. Antonio R. Celada, Daniel Pastor García, and Manuel González De La Aleja. Salamanca: Almar, 2002. 45-67.
“Una aproximación al cine afroamericano.” (A Review of African American Film) Cuadernos del Ateneo de La Laguna 10 (May 2001): 121-23.
“Ghost Dog: Los caminos de un samurai rapero, un genero reinventado.” (Ghost Dog: the Journeys of a Samurai Rapper, a Reinvented Genre) Cuadernos del Ateneo de La Laguna 8 (June 2000): 53-59.
PROJECTS
“Narrative Insurrection in the Short Stories of Toni Cade Bambara, Edwidge Danticat, and Mayra Santos Febres.”
“New Narrative Strategies: The Renewal of Genre in the Work of Toni Cade Bambara, Kasi Lemmons, and Dael Orlandersmith.”
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Urban Intersections: Geopolitical and Cultural Spaces in Short Stories by Toni Cade Bambara and Mayra Santos-Febres.” College Language Association Conference, Brooklyn, New York City, April 2010.
“Mayra Santos-Febres and the Afro-Puerto Rican Literary Tradition.” Negritud: 2ndAnnual Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, March 11-13, 2010.
“Transgressive Performances and The Refraiming Of Nation In Mayra Santos-Febres’ ‘Resinas Para Aurelia.’” American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2009.
“The Carnivalesque in M. Nourbese Philip’s ‘Dis Place-The Space Between’ and Mayra Santos Febres’s ‘Marina’s Fragrance,’” Collegium for African American Research Conference, Madrid, Spain, April 2007.
“Writing on Edge: Edwidge Danticat and Narrative Resistance,” First Annual Howard U. Graduate Certificate Research Seminar Day: Graduate Student Perspectives: International Studies and Women’s Studies, Reading Lounge, Blackburn Center, Howard U., Washington, D.C., Nov. 2006.
“The Short Story as Narrative Battleground: Edwidge Danticat and Mayra Santos Febres,” 8th International Conference on Caribbean Literature, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 2006.
“Gender and Graduate Student Life,” National Conference on Graduate Student Leadership, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Nov. 2005.
“Communal Healing in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters,” Collegium for African American Research Conference, Tours, France, April 2005.
“Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks. Because I Know You Don’t Read The Newspaper As A Multilayered Narrative,” Graduate School Research Symposium, Howard University, Washington, DC, April 2005.
“The Blues as Healing Ritual in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora,” College Language Association, Athens, Georgia, April 2005.
“Ancestry in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters,” Symposium on the re-publication of Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman: An Anthology, Howard University, Washington, DC, March 2005.
“Feminist Re-enaction of Ritualized Oppression in Sherley Anne Williams’ ‘Tell Martha Not to Moan,’” Graduate School Research Symposium, Howard University, Washington, DC, April 2004.
“Worrying the Line”: Douglass’s Transgressive Aesthetic in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” Frederick Douglass Conference: An Intimate View, Howard University, Washington, DC, September 2003.
“Recovering Ancestral Voices in Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!,” College Language Association 63rd Annual Convention, Howard University, Washington, DC, April 2003.
“Silence and Voice in Ann Petry’s The Street: A Feminist Reading of Bakhtin’s Dialogism,” Graduate Symposium, Howard University, Washington, DC, April 2003.
“Women and Storytelling in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak,!” Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2002.
“Rapping Back: Body, Sexuality and Female Voice in Hip Hop,” Gendered Spaces: II International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Huelva, Spain, May 2001.
“Reclaiming Visibility: Mama Day and Invisible Man,” Power and Culture: Forms of Interaction and Renewal, Spanish Association for American Studies, Salamanca, Spain, April 2001.
“Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues,” Crossroutes: The Meaning of Race for the 21st century. Collegium for African American Research. Cagliari, Italy, March 2001.
“La mujer en el Hip-Hop,” (Women in Hip Hop) ¿Angel o demonio? Modelos de representación de la mujer en las artes (Angel or Devil? Models of Representation of Women in the Arts), Ateneo of La Laguna and University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, October 1999.
