Future Presentations
“Willa Cather in the ‘Country…Still Waiting to be Made into a Landscape,’” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, January 2025.
“Whiteness and/as Water Infrastructure along the Colorado River,” 19th-Century Americanist Colloquium, Columbia University, December 2024.
Past Presentations
“‘Representantes de la Raza Latina en el país del Dollar’: Dispossession and Diaspora along the Rio Grande,” Latinx Studies Association Biennial Conference, Tempe, April 2024.
“Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US–Mexico War,” Department of English and Comparative Literature Works-in-Progress Series, Columbia University, November 2023.
“Environmental Justice in the US–Mexico Borderlands,” Department of English, Boston College, November 2023.
“Solidarity in Incommensurability: Ethnic Studies and the Environmental Humanities,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, November 2023.
“Performing and Printing Modernity in the South Texas Borderlands,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, New York, October 2023.
“Imagined Environments,” Post45 Conference, University of Southern California, October 2023.
“Latinidades Beyond Ecocriticism and Ethnic Studies,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, Portland, July 2023.
“Imagined Environments in the US–Mexico–Apache Borderlands,” Indigenous Borderlands Symposium, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2023.
“Imagining Land and Latinidad in the Wake of the California Gold Rush,” English and Comparative Literature Department, Columbia University, January 2023.
“John Rollin Ridge, the Pacific Coast Public Sphere, and Intersections of Indigeneity and Latinidad,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, January 2023.
“Migrant Imagined Environments in the Latina/o Nineteenth Century,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, January 2023.
“Mescalero Apache Imagined Environments across the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2022.
“Imagined Environments in the U.S.–Mexico–Apache Borderlands,” English Department Working Paper Series, Vanderbilt University, October 2022.
“Working Through the Archives of Latinx Ecomedia,” Environmental Humanities Initiative, Arizona State University, February 2022.
“The Limits of Latinx Representation,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 2022 (online due to COVID-19).
“Environmental Racism and Environmental Unconsciousness in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 2022 (online due to COVID-19).
“Narrating Latinidad in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, 1848–1865,” The Novel Seminar, Vanderbilt University, November 2021.
“Migrating Beyond the Borders of Environmentalism and Environmental Justice,” Latina/o Studies Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“Remapping Race and Revolt in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.–Mexico Borderlands,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, October 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“Mescalero Apache Pictographs Beyond U.S. and Mexican Settler Colonialisms,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, Portland, July 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“Ansel Adams and the Ambivalence of Borderlands Modernism,” Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado College, July 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“Mescalero Apache Pictographs Beyond U.S. and Mexican Settler Colonialisms,” Art History Department, Stanford University, May 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“The Possibilities and Problems of Interdisciplinary Pedagogy,” Environmental Humanities Initiative,” Yale University, April 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“On the Borders of English, Ethnic Studies, and the Environmental Humanities,” Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, March 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“Excessive Archives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, January 2021 (online due to COVID-19).
“Nuestra América in the Anthropocene,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).
“Imagined Environments” (a lecture to commemorate the Obama Dissertation Prize), Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, November 2020 (online due to COVID-19).
“Imagined Environments in the U.S.-Mexico Food System,” Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, October 2020 (online due to COVID-19).
“Imagined Environments,” Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vanderbilt University, October 2020 (online due to COVID-19).
“Imagined Environments in the U.S.-Mexico Food System”: An invited lecture delivered at Vanderbilt University, Harvard University, and Pitzer College in February 2020.
“Latinx Environmentalisms”: An invited lecture delivered at College of the Holy Cross in February 2020 and Franklin & Marshall College in December 2020.
“Re-Racializing the Río Colorado and the Río Bravo,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, January 2020.
“Working Through the Archives of Latinx Eco-Media,” Environmental Humanities Symposium, Yale University, December 2019.
“Imagined Environments: Mediating Race and Nature in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”: An invited lecture delivered at the University of Michigan in December 2019.
“Natural Landscapes and Extraction,” Peabody Museum of Natural History Science Café, New Haven, October 2019.
“Latinx Archives in/of/and the Anthropocene,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, University of California, Davis, June 2019.
“Imagined Environments,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2019.
“The Sciences of Settler Colonialism in Turn-of-the-Century New Mexico,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2019.
“Latinx Modernism on the Llano Estacado,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Columbus, November 2018.
“Modernist Institutions, Modern Infrastructures, and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Columbus, November 2018.
“Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Socio-Ecological Struggles,” Latinx Studies Association Biennial Conference, Washington, D.C., July 2018.
"Reimagining the Borderlands: Reies López Tijerina’s Poetics of Resistance," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2018.
“Rewriting the Land of Enchantment,” Post45 Graduate Symposium, Yale University, March 2018.
“Hydrology and/or/vs./as Modernism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, January 2018.
“Imagining Infrastructure in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Summer Fellows Colloquium, July 2017.
“Imagined Environments,” Beyond Nature: The Environmental Humanities at Yale Conference, Yale University, May 2017.
“Black, White, and Red All Over: The Black Press, the Black Arts Movement, and the Cuban Revolution,” The Arts in the Black Press Conference, Yale University, March 2017.
“The Politics of Teaching Literature,” 20th- and 21st-Century Studies Colloquium, Yale University, February 2017.
“To Be Alone in Nature: Private Journals, Public Essays, and the Fantasy of Eco-Solitude,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, January 2017.
“Literature’s Lost Treasure: The Transnational History of McTeague and Nostromo,” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pennsylvania State University, March 2016.
“Contesting the Cookbook: Recipes for Hybridity in The Book of Salt,” Literature, Arts and Environment Colloquium, Yale University, April 2015.