“Storytelling from the Borderlands of La Romana and New York: A Journey through Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish.” Roundtable: Special issue on Contemporary Dominican Writing/Art, Review Literature and Arts of the Americas. International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Bogotá, Colombia. June 13, 2024.

“Women filmmakers of the Dominican Diaspora in New York City” as part of the panel Defying Silence: Dominican Women, the State, and Centering Narratives of Possibility. 10th Biennial Dominican Studies Association Virtual Conference. CUNY Hostos Community College, New York, December 2, 2022.

“A Dominiyorkian ‘from the Hip-Hop Zone’. Centering Blackness in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina.” Latino Studies Association 2022. Centering Blackness, Challenging latinidad.” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, July 11-14, 2022.

“New Cartographies of Transnational Dominicanidad in the Film Papi.” 46th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Virtual Conference, June 2, 2022.

“Reclaiming Camila’s Legacy: A Few Reflections on Gender, Feminism, and Women of Color in U.S. Academia.” XL International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Virtual Conference, May 26, 2021. [Paper re-submitted and accepted for 2021 due to 2020 COVID 19 cancellation]

“Carmen FotonovelArte: Beauty, Self-Care and Autonomy” with Esther Hernández Medina. Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Virtual Conference. January 30, 2021.

“‘Los Doce Años’” Revisited: Rita Indiana Strikes Back.” 9th Biennial Dominican Studies Association Virtual Conference. CUNY Hostos Community College, New York. Chair and presenter. December 4-5, 2020.

“Transnational Legacies of Chavoneras: Reflections and Dialogue with Dominicanyork virtual artist, Scherezade García.” Dominican Studies Association Virtual Conference. CUNY Hostos Community College, New York, December 4-5, 2020.

“Becoming Latina in New York City: A Road Map to Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of
Paradise: How I Became Latina.” Latino Studies Association Biennial Conference. South Bend, Indiana, July 2020. Organizer, chair, and presenter. [Conference cancelled due to COVID 19]

“Reclaiming Camila’s Legacy: A Few Reflections on Gender, Feminism, and
Women of Color in U.S. Academia.” XXXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Guadalajara, Mexico, May 2020 [Presentation cancelled due to COVID 19]

“Metáforas corpóreas de existencias precarias. Análisis de tres novelas de Rita Indiana Hernández.” XXXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Boston, Massachusetts, May 24-27.

(Chair and presenter) “Performing Contradictions: Thirty years of Ay Ombe Theater and the Work of Josefina Báez.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Boston, Massachusetts, May 24-27, 2019.

“Reconstructing DR’s Latinidad: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Hip-
Hop.” 2018 Biennial Dominican Studies Association Conference. CUNY Hostos Community College, New York, November 15-17, 2018.

“A Roundtable Reading and Conversation with Josefina Báez.” 2018 Biennial Dominican Studies Association Conference. New York, New York, November 15-17, 2018.

“Diálogos músico-literarios y nuevos discursos contra-hegemónicos en dos novelas de Rita Indiana Hernández.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Presenter. Barcelona, May 2018.

“Bodies that Speak: Gender, Race and Identity in Dominican Culture.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Discussant. Barcelona, May 2018.

“Tras los pasos de Camila Henríquez Ureña.”27th Annual Conference of The International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November 9-11, 2017.

“Dimensiones geográficas del legado intelectual de Camila Henríquez Ureña: Educación y feminismo desde el Caribe de habla hispana hasta el Valle del Hudson”. XIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8-10, 2017.

“(Re) Constructing Dominican Latinidad: Intersections Between Ethnicity, Race, and Hip-Hop.”  The 3^rd Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference. Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21^st Century.  John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, April 13-15, 2017.

“Crossing Intergenerational Borders: Tales of Two Dominican-American Women Writers.” 26th Annual Conference of The International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture, Houston, Texas, November 9, 2016.

“Being Latina in the Hip-Hop Era: A Dominican- American in the Mix.” LSA Conference 2016. Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, Incivility & (Un) Disciplinarity.” Latino Studies Association, Pasadena, California, July 9, 2016.

“Peeling off the Skin: Representations of Alternative Spaces of Dominican Womanhood in Contemporary Visual Arts and Performance.” XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York, New York, May 23, 2016.

“Teaching Dominican Identity at SUNY New Paltz. An overview and students’ reflections” with SUNY New Paltz students, Ramón Capellán, Claiane Rojas, Zamanta Alcalá, Ana Valdez. Bi-Annual Dominican Studies Association Conference, New York, NY, May 5, 2016. Panel organizer and presenter.

“Dominican-American Family Tales: Intergenerational Dialogues in a Transnational Setting” as part of the panel proposal, “The Multigenerational Latino Novel: Structure and Nuance in the Latino Experience”,” 47th Annual Convention North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Hartford, Connecticut, March 18, 2016. Panel chair and presenter.

“Papi de Rita Indiana Hernández: Metáfora de la rápida transformación del imaginario dominicano post-trujillista,” XVII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, Lock Haven University, Mérida, México, March 10, 2016.

“Josefina Báez’s Apartarte-Casarte and Aparicionesas storytelling” as part of the panel “Telling Stories: Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Narratives in the Academy” for the 15th Annual National Conference Imagining America: Artist and Scholars in Public Life. September 30-October 3, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.

“From the Margins: Constructing Contemporary Dominican Identity through the Female and Queer” as part of the panel proposal “From Beauty Pageants to Audiovisual Art: The Portrayal of Precarious Bodies in Dominican Culture” for the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Panel co-chair and presenter. May 27, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

“On Becoming Latina: A Dominican-American History of Identity, Race and DNA Ancestry” as part of the panel proposal “Contemporary Writings of The Hispanic Caribbean in The United States” for the 46th Annual Convention North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA), May 1, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.Panel chair and presenter.

“Rey Emmanuel Andújar y Josefina Báez: El Terror también vivió en Nueva York” at Sexto Coloquio Internacional de Latino Artists Roundtable (LART) and The City College at The Center For Worker Education. Held at The Center For Worker Education, November 24-25, 2014.

“A ‘paradise’ at world’s end: the role of popular music and literature in the dismantling of exclusive foundational stories.” XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington, D.C., 2013.

“Re-writing the national psyche: The voices of Immigrant Dominican women beyond el aquí y el allá.” NEMLA 2013 Convention. Boston, Massachusetts, 2013.

“Crash, Collision and Creation of New Sounds and Words: The Quest of a New Dominican Cultural Identity in the Work of Rita Indiana Hernández. “XXII Congreso Anual de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH), Grand Rapids, Michigan, November, 2012.

“Rompiendo las fronteras: El Ni é como una tercera dimensión de la identidad cultural dominicana”. XXXIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional deLiteratura Iberoamericana, Cádiz, Spain, July 2012.

“Aquí se re-escribe la novela”: The voices of Immigrant Dominican women beyond el aquí y el allá.” Bi-annual Conference of the Dominican Studies Association, Connecticut, New York, May 2012.

“El rol de la música en la literatura”. I Coloquio de Literatura Hispana escrita en Nueva York en español. LART, New York, New York, October 2012.

“La identidad y las construcciones espaciales en la literatura dominicana. La perpetuación del mito rural en Geographies of Homefrente a una visión transgresora de lo provincial en El carnaval de Sodoma.” Symposium – The City and the Humanities, Lehman College, April 2011.

“Masculinidad dominicana: tígueres y parigüayos”. Congreso Transnational Hispaniola, Instituto Bonó, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, May 2010.

Introduction and Presentation of Junot Díaz: An analysis of the representation of male characters in The  Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Feria del libro, Queens, New York, September 2009.