INVITED LECTURES
- November 6th, 2009. "Identification and Reconstruction of the Lost Spanish Epic Poems in the Estoria de España". Invitation by the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop. The U of Chicago.
- October 18th, 2009. Special session. "De Pelayo a Belay: La batalla de Covadonga según la historiografía árabe". Invitation by the Spanish Graduate Students Comittee. Asturias & the Asturians throughout History: Past, Present and Future. The U of Chicago.
PANEL ORGANIZER - CHAIR
- May 2012. Organizer & Chair. Medieval Manuscript Culture: Patronage, Production, Texts, and Uses. 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
- May 16th, 2010. Organizer & Chair. Iberian Book Culture in Transition. Society for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS). 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
- May 14th, 2010. Organizer & Chair. Translation and Identity in Medieval Iberia. Iberomedieval Association of North America (IMANA). 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
- October 8th, 2005. Chair. Cervantes on the New World. Cervantes and/on/in the New World. UMass Amherst.
- April 30th, 2005. Chair. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Our Research Matters: New Dialogues on Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies. UMass Amherst.
- April 23-24th, 2004. Director & Co-organizer. International Conference on Hispanic Languages & Literatures: Visiones Literarias del Viejo y Nuevo Mundo. UMass Amherst.
LECTURES (OTHER THAN INVITED)
- May, 2011. "Un recorrido geográfico por la Fazienda de Ultramar". The Romancing of Bibles. Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
- September 18th, 2010. "History or Fiction? Of Medieval Kingdoms and Their Forged Identities?" From Iberian Kingdoms to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal, and the New World, 1250-1700. Nanovic Institute for European Studies. U of Notre Dame, IN.
- April 2nd 2010. "El valle del Río Grande: La historiografía de Rolando Hinojosa a la luz de la literatura medieval". Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference. Saint Louis, MO.
- October 17th, 2009. "Marginal Discourses: Medieval Iconography & Its Meaning". Reflections in the Margins: Representations of the Marginalized in Iberian & Latin American Literatures. The U of Chicago.
- May 8th, 2009. "El linaje de los godos: La forja de una identidad nacional en el scriptorium regio". Nations & Borders in Medieval Iberia. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
- December 30th, 2008. "From Roncesvalles to Reconstruction: Textual Considerations on the Lost Spanish Epic of Mainete." Spanish Medieval Languages and Literatures Division. Modern Language Association - San Francisco, CA.
- October 31st, 2008. "Ficciones ideológicas de la nación: El mito del rey Pelayo y los orígenes de España". Myth and Mythmaking in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic Literatures. The U of Chicago.
- April 30th, 2005. "Sor Juana y el diablo: El cetro de José y la teología natural". Our Research Matters: New Dialogues on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA.
- April 22nd, 2005. "El debate dialogado y la herencia medieval de 'El curioso impertinente'".Repercusiones e impactos quijotescos: La publicación del Quijote 1ª parte. The U of Chicago.
- September 10th, 2004. "Reading Medieval Iconography: The Story Behind the Image." American Association of Teachers of Portuguese 10th Biennial Conference. Yale University - New Haven, CT.
- April 1st, 2004. "Early Chaucer Editions: Printing The Works in the Renaissance". Renaissance Society of America. New York, NY.
- October 3rd, 2003. "Las Casas' Brief Account and the English Printing Press: European Responses to the Discovery of the New World." New England Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures. University of Hartford - Hartford, CT.
- May 15th, 2003. "The Legend of Peter Stubb: Werewolves in Print". Graduate Students' Conference. University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA.
- April 12th, 2003. "Nación e identidad: Flores y Blancaflor en la Estoria de España". Ante la ley: 13th Annual Conference at Columbia / NYU. King Juan Carlos I Center for Spanish Studies. New York University - New York, NY.
- March 15th, 2002. "El humor en tiempos de guerra." IX Congreso Internacional Sobre el Discurso Artístico: El humor en todas las épocas y culturas. Universidad de Oviedo - Asturias (Spain).