Invited Lectures and Scholarly Presentations
INVITED LECTURES
“La mujer noble y el arte real: la influencia de Mariana de Austria en la obra teatral”
(“The Noblewoman and Royal Art: The Influence of Mariana of Austria on Royal Theater”)
May 26, 2016. Department of Literature, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Succession Solutions? The Nephew-King Paradigm in Bances Candamo's El esclavo en grillos de oro and La piedra filosofal”
April 12-14, 2018. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“Shared Agency and Authority in Seventeenth-Century Royal Theater Productions: The Court in Madrid”
April 20-22, 2017. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“Political Influences on Madrid's Courtly Theater: The Interweaving of Habsburg Succession Concerns in Bances Candamo's Political Trilogy (1692-1693)”
October 29, 2016. International conference Dialogues of Power: Political (Re)presentations in the Arts, St. Andrews University (UK).
“Where the Loyalties Lie: The Tangled Web Between Mariana of Austria, Don Juan of Austria, and Carlos II of Spain”
April 8, 2016. International conference Kings and Queens V: Dynastic Loyalties, Royal Studies Network, Clemson University (SC).
“Political Tensions in the 1690s: La estatua de Prometeo and the Politics of the Court”
April 2, 2016. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“Political Concerns as Represented Through Court Entertainment: La estatua de prometeo and the Power Struggle Between Queen Consort Mariana and John of Austria”.
June 26, 2015. International conference Kings and Queens IV: Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy, Royal Studies Network, University of Lisbon (Portugal).
“Los epígrafes de la segunda parte del Quijote”
April 25, 2015. International conference Don Quixote in the American West: A Fourth Centenary Celebration (1615–2015), The University of Wyoming (Laramie).
“More than Mirror Neurons: A Look Beyond the Biological Process and Empathy Production”
February 28, 2014. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“El Cervantes progresivo y pre-feminista”
February 2011. Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language, and Culture, The University of Arizona (Tucson).
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Advantages to Multi-lingual Status in Our Global Community”
June 2006 and 2007. Rochester Adams High School, Rochester Hills, Michigan.
“La mujer noble y el arte real: la influencia de Mariana de Austria en la obra teatral”
(“The Noblewoman and Royal Art: The Influence of Mariana of Austria on Royal Theater”)
May 26, 2016. Department of Literature, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Succession Solutions? The Nephew-King Paradigm in Bances Candamo's El esclavo en grillos de oro and La piedra filosofal”
April 12-14, 2018. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“Shared Agency and Authority in Seventeenth-Century Royal Theater Productions: The Court in Madrid”
April 20-22, 2017. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“Political Influences on Madrid's Courtly Theater: The Interweaving of Habsburg Succession Concerns in Bances Candamo's Political Trilogy (1692-1693)”
October 29, 2016. International conference Dialogues of Power: Political (Re)presentations in the Arts, St. Andrews University (UK).
“Where the Loyalties Lie: The Tangled Web Between Mariana of Austria, Don Juan of Austria, and Carlos II of Spain”
April 8, 2016. International conference Kings and Queens V: Dynastic Loyalties, Royal Studies Network, Clemson University (SC).
“Political Tensions in the 1690s: La estatua de Prometeo and the Politics of the Court”
April 2, 2016. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“Political Concerns as Represented Through Court Entertainment: La estatua de prometeo and the Power Struggle Between Queen Consort Mariana and John of Austria”.
June 26, 2015. International conference Kings and Queens IV: Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy, Royal Studies Network, University of Lisbon (Portugal).
“Los epígrafes de la segunda parte del Quijote”
April 25, 2015. International conference Don Quixote in the American West: A Fourth Centenary Celebration (1615–2015), The University of Wyoming (Laramie).
“More than Mirror Neurons: A Look Beyond the Biological Process and Empathy Production”
February 28, 2014. Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Symposium on Golden Age Theater, El Paso, Texas.
“El Cervantes progresivo y pre-feminista”
February 2011. Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language, and Culture, The University of Arizona (Tucson).
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Advantages to Multi-lingual Status in Our Global Community”
June 2006 and 2007. Rochester Adams High School, Rochester Hills, Michigan.
- The goal of the lecture is to encourage high school students to continue pursuing a second, and perhaps a third language in their university years. Topics from studying abroad and travel, to career opportunities and salaries were discussed.