selected CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES

Conference paper: “Creative Collaboration: Summer Arts, Culture and Language Study in Spain”
            International Connections: Engaging Campus, Community and World Conference, CCSU, Hartford,
            November 2008

Invited Lecture: “ Days of the Dead: A Celebration of Life,” New Fairfield Middle and High Schools, New
           Fairfield, CT, October 2008

Conference paper: “Spatial (dis)Placements: DQ Don Quijote en Barcelona, an Opera in the Digital
            Age” Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture: The Fin de Siècle and its Legacy, An International
            Interdisciplinary Symposium, London, September 2008

Live interview on Catalan TV3 during the broadcast of the 42^nd Cantada d’Havaneres of Calella de Palafrugell,
             July 5, 2008

Conference paper: “Where the Musical and Visual Collide: Don Quijote en Barcelona on Video and on Line”
             Music, Body and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera, CUNY, Graduate Centre, New
             York, March 2008

Conference paper: “Trans/Oceanic Trans/lations: The Case of The Catalan Habanera” 3rd World Congress of
            the International American Studies Association, University of Lisbon,    September 2007

Conference paper: “Don Quixote in the Third Millennium and Beyond” 2006 Modern Languages Association
            Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2006

Conference paper: “Feminist World? : Colonial Desire Reinvented in Catalan Film”  The June Baker Higgins
           Gender Studies Conference “Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World,” Central Connecticut State
           University, New Britain, Connecticut, April 2006

invited lecture: “Exploring Web Resources for Arts and Sciences:  The Virtual Museum Project” Center for
           Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut,
           March 2006

invited lecture: “The Habanera Beyond the Caribbean: Jelly Roll Morton, Xavier Cugat,  Sebastián Iradier and
           the Spanish Tinge” Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, January
           2006

Conference paper: “DQ Don Quijote en Barcelona: ¿Un mito, una fantasía, una realidad?” The American
           Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Southern California Chapter, Fall 2005 Meeting, San
           Marino, California, October 2005

Conference paper: “Using Frameworks for Teaching Narrative: Concept Mapping” The American Association
           of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Southern California Chapter, Spring 2005 Meeting, Northridge,
           California, April 2005

Conference paper: “Crónica sentimental de España: ¿Qué se perdió en Cuba?” 2004 Modern Languages
            Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2004

Conference paper: “Integrating Technology into Language and Literature Classroom: Exploring Web
            Resources for Teaching Poetry, Arts and Culture of the Spanish-Speaking World” The American
            Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Southern California Chapter, Fall 2004 Meeting, Los
            Angeles, California, October 2004

Conference paper: “‘Cuando salí de La Habana’: The Habanera Beyond the Caribbean” Caribbean
           Soundscapes: Caribbean Music and Culture Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, March 2004

Invited lecture: “Imperios de la habanera: Cuba/España–España/Cuba,” Spanish Resource Center at USC,
           Office of the Embassy of Spain, Los Angeles, California, October 2003

Invited lecture: “Integrating Culture into the Curriculum: The Virtual Museum “El Mundo Hispano,”
           Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, February 2003

Conference paper:  “Trigueñas, Mulatas, and Others:  Transatlantic Voyages of an Habanera,” The African
           Diaspora in/and Latin America: Literatures, Cultures, and Histories Conference, Santa Barbara,
           California, May 2003

Conference paper: “Transatlantic Returns: The Habanera in Catalonia,” 2002 Modern Languages Association
           Convention, New York, December 2002 

Conference paper: “A Tale of Two Habaneras: Transatlantic Journeys of a Cultural Sign” Transatlantic Studies
           Conference, Dundee, Great Britain, July 2002

Invited lecture: “Las habaneras: Canciones de ida y vuelta” Spanish Resource Center at USC, Office of the
            Embassy of Spain, Los Angeles, California, January 2002

Conference paper: “La habanera a finales del siglo XX: refiguración de mitos y reinvención del pasado,” Spain
           in the Twenty-First Century: An International Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, October 2000

Conference paper: “Havanera 1820 de Antoni Verdaguer: Cataluña, Cuba y el deseo colonial,” International
          Conference Cine-Lit 2000, Portland, Oregon, February 2000