Speaking & media

Keynotes, campus lectures, panels, podcasts, and press commentary — scholarly depth, delivered for real audiences.

Topics

Narrative theory for general audiences — what movies, TV, comics, and novels are really doing under the hood.

From Reel Latinxs: how U.S. film and television imagine Latinxs, and what's changing.

Visual-verbal narrative, Latino comics, and why the gutter is where the meaning happens.

Narrative permissibility, cultural politics, and the market forces that shape which voices are heard.

University Forum Lecture, College of Liberal Arts UNLV · 2025
Project Narrative Speaker Series Ohio State · 2024
Project Narrative Podcast — on Junot Díaz's "The Books of Losing You" podcast · 2024
Humanities in Class Webinar Series National Humanities Center · 2021
Humanities Research Center Virginia Commonwealth · 2021
Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio State · 2019
Quoted in NBC News on Latinx representation in publishing NBC News · 2020

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