“Humanities
and Folklore Studies” Federation of State Humanities Councils,
November 2004.
“Service
Learning in a Ph.D. Program: Pedagogical Outcomes” Latin American
Studies, October 2004.
“Contemporary
Llorona Stories along the U.S. Mexico Border” American
Folklore Society, October “Border Literature: Writing on the
Edge” Invited talk,
College of Humanities, University of Arizona, September 2004.
Gathering
Llorona Stories, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social,
August
2004.
“Trauma
and its Aftermaths” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social,
August 2004.
"La
Llorona: Reconfigured Legend in Contemporary Latina Texts” Latina
Letters, July 2004.
"Teaching
Testimonial Literature: Telling To Live,” International Oral
History
Association meeting in Rome, Italy, June 2004.
“Border
Violence and Violence of Borders: Violence and Borders in the Work
of Montserrat Fontes, Chicano/Chicana Literature in Sevilla, Spain,
May 2004.
“Gathering
Stories: Collecting and Preserving” Popular Culture Association,
April 2004.
“Reconfiguring
La Llorona” Multi Ethnic Literatures of the U.S., March 2004.
Reading
from Canícula , Tejas
Foco of the National Association for Chicano/a
Studies, November 2003.
“Dancing
with Faith: Two sones from the Matachin tradition” American
Folklore
Society, October “A Folklorist in an English Department”
Career workshop
sponsored by the Fund for Folk Culture at the American
Folklore Society (AFS)
annual meeting, Albuquerque, October 2003.
A
Book Discussion at the AFS: Chicana
Traditions, October 2003.
Workshop
on Writing for Teens in the Smithsonian Institution’s Rio
Bravo/Rio Grande Exhibit, Washington, DC, 2003.
“Latina
Feminist Testimonios” Latina Letters Conference, July 2003.
"Writing
the Self” National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, UTSA,
2003.
“Latina
Writing in the New Millennium” 5th Meeting of
Borderlands Writers,
Letras en el Borde, 2003.
“A
Writer in the Academy” 1-day workshop at the Universidad de
Monterrey
exploring the role of the faculty member who is also a creative
writer and
presenting my research on quinceañeras and rituals, April 2003.
“Creative
Writing for Social Change” Pima County Community College, Tucson,
March 2003.
“Latinas
and Testimonios” Latin American Studies Association. Dallas,
March 2003.
“Canícula:
A Borderlands Text,” Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher
Education, Austin, January 2003.
"Envisioning
a New World: Polycultural, Mestizo and Mestiza, Creole
Literatures” MLA Ethnic Literatures of the U.S.
Session convener and
moderator, December 2002.
“Latina
Feminisms and Chicana Writers” Breakfast Talk for the Women’s
Caucus of the American Studies Association Meeting, Houston November
2002.
“We
Came to Work: Mining and Smelting in Laredo, TX,”
Oral History
Association, October 2002.
“Telling
to Live—Getting There Cuando No Hay Camino,” National Women’s
Studies Association, June 2002.
“Autobiography,
Memoir, and Testimonios,”Congreso
Internacional de
Literatura Chicana. Málaga
Spain, May 2002.
“Coming
to Bilingualism: A writer and a reader,” San Antonio Area
Bilingual
Education conference, May 2002.
“Con
el corazón y la mente: Chicana Activism and
Spirituality,”National
Association of Chicano/a Studies, Chicago, March 2002.
“Latina
Feminisms: A Trope for the new Millennium,” Latino Studies
Journal,
UIC, Chicago, February 2002.
“Telling
to Live,” Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the
21st
Century: Celebrating This
Bridge Called My Back, UC Berkeley February
2002.
Modern
Languages Association. New Orleans Respondent to Tey Diana
Rebolledo’s panel, 2001.
Modern
Languages Association. New Orleans “Home Made Autobiography: La
Casa de Miel,” 2001.
Texas
Association of Chicanos in Higher Education. Austin “Chicanas in
Higher
Education,” 2001.
Art
Exhibit Opening: Raquel Valle Senties. Nuevo
Laredo, Tamps. MX, Border
Artists, 2001.
Latin
American Studies Association, Washington, DC, Homegrown
Autobiographies in the Borderlands,
2001.
NEH
Seminar (UTSA) Folklore in the Classroom, 2001.
“The
George Washington’s Birthday Celebration,” University of
California Santa
Barbara, 2001.
“Intersections
of Class and Gender,” Working Class Studies conference,
Youngstown, Ohio, May, 2001.
“Performing
Hybridity: George Washington’s Birthday Celebration in Laredo,
Texas” American Folklore Society, Anchorage, AL, 2001.
“Autobiography”
Western Literature Association. Omaha, NE, 2001.
“La
Onda Tejana: New
Chicana Poets” National Association of Chicano and
Chicana Studies, Tucson, AZ, 2001.
“Homemade
Autobiographies: four
Laredo authors.” National Association of
Chicano and Chicana Studies, Tucson, AZ, 2001.
“Don
Pedrito Jaramillo: Folk
Healer of Los Olmos,” American Folklore Society,
Columbus, MO, 2000.
“Writing
at the Crossroads: Un lenguaje y una realidad fronteriza,” Latin
American Studies conference, Miami, Florida, 2000.
“Fronteriza
Literature: from Canseco del Valle to Fontes,” Primavera
Conference, Laredo, TX, 2000.
Creative
Writing and Autobiography: A Workshop for Teachers of Writing,
National Council of Teachers of English, Denver, 1999.
“Mandas
y Promesas: Los Matachines” American Folklore Society, Memphis,
TN, 1999.
Teatro
y Teatristas: The Role of Chicanas in the Formation of a Dramatic
Traditions,” Hijas del Quinto Sol, San Antonio, 1999.
“Teatro
and Teatristas: Chicanas in the Development of a Dramatic
Tradition,”
NACCS, San Antonio, 1999.
“Chicanas
and Latinas: A future, a past,” Portland State University, 1999.
“Latinas
in the Next Millennium: A
workshop for Student Leaders,” University of
Texas, Austin, 1999.
“Borderlands
Culture and Tradition,” Salado Institute for the Humanities/Salado
High School, Salado, TX, 1999.
“Chicanas
in the New Millennium,” NACCS California Foco, California State
University, Monterey Bay, 1999.
“La
Quinceañera: A Gendered Racialized Ritual,” and Respondent to the
Panel
on Autobiographical Writing, American Folklore Society, Portland,
OR, 1998.
Al
Filo de la Literatura, “La Literatura en las Fronteras,” Bellas
Artes, Mexico,
D.F., 1998.
Panel
Presentation on Papelitos
Guardados, Mujeres Activas en Letras y
Cambio Social, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998.
“¿Qué
Onda? Cultural Exchange on the U.S. Mexico Border,” NACCS, Mexico
City, 1998.
“Literature
of the Borderlands,” Rio Bravo Association annual conference,
Laredo, TX, 1998.
Workshop
at the American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Austin, TX,
1997.
“Navigating
Public Discourse: Norma Alarcon’s Third Woman Press and the
Construction of a Chicana Discourse,” American Studies Association
Annual
Conference, Washington, D.C., 1997.
“La
onda fronteriza: Radio on the Border,” Borderlands Landscapes
Conference, TAMIU, 1997.
Border
Studies Workshop for the Texas Council for the Humanities, TAMIU,
1997.
Fife
Conference, 2 workshop presentations: La
Quinceañera and Los
Matachines, Utah State University, 1997.
Border
Studies Workshop for the Texas Council for the Humanities, TAMIU,
1997.
“Critical
Perspectives on U.S. Latina Literature,” Hijas del Quinto Sol
Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1997.
“La
Quinceañera: Towards an Ethnography of a Life Cycle Ritual.”
National
Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies, Sacramento, CA, 1997.
“Borderlands
Culture and Tradition,” Stanford University, 1997.
“Margarita
Canseco del Valle and Post-War Borderlands Culture.” Modern
Languages Association, Washington, D.C., 1996.
The
Washington Center’s “Women as Leaders: An Academic Seminar,”
Washington, D.C., 1996.
“Margarita
Canseco del Valle: Autora Fronteriza,” “Recovering the U.S.
Hispanic Literary Heritage,” University of Houston, 1996.
Respondent
at American Studies Association meeting, Kansas City, 1996.
“Borders
and Identity: the borderlands workshops,” American Folklore
Society
conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996.
“Women
and Leadership,” National Hispanic Leadership Conference, Phoenix,
AZ, 1996.
“A
writer who teaches; A teacher who writes--The Writing of Canícula:
Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera,” Mujeres Activas en
Letras y Cambio
Social, San Diego, 1996.
“Language
and Politics: The case
of a border community,” Teaching Diversity
Teacher Workshops, Howard University, Wash. D.C., 1996.
“Folklore
in the Classroom: Using
literature,” Folklore in the Classroom
Teachers' Workshops, University of Virginia, Northern Virginia
campus, 1996.
“Margarita
Canseco del Valle: Escritora
Fronteriza," Encuentro
Internacional
de Escritores,” Monterrey,
Nuevo León, 1996.
“Borderlands
Culture and Traditions,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
1996.
“The
Novelist as Social Critic: Margarita
Canseco del Valle and Borderlands
Culture of the Mid-Twentieth Century.”
University of New Mexico's Fifth Annual
Conference on IberoAmerican Culture and Society, Albuquerque, N.M.,
1996.
“Borderlands
Culture and Tradition: The
literary legacy"--Intercultural Workshop
conducted for the faculty of Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Texas
A&M
Kingsville at the TAM-CC campus, 1996.
“La
Quinceañera como acto de resistencia cultural,” Encuentro
Chicano/Latino,
Universidad Autónoma de México, 1996.
“Language
as Cultural Resistance,” The Global Education project, Ramapo
College,Ramapo College of New Jersey, 1996.
“An
Expression of Art--Linking with Latina Writers,” workshop and
reading at
the 10th Hispanic Women's Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1996.
“Rights
of Passage: La
Celebración de la Quinceañera como rito de pasaje
comunitario e individual,” Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Nuevo
Laredo, Tamps.,
1996.
Creative
Writing in the Classroom: D.C.
Writing Project -- Writing Workshop,
Howard University, 1996.
“A
Walk on the Wild Side: Chicana
Literature Today,” Conference on Latina
Writers at Jersey City State College, 1996.
“The
Streets of Laredo: Myth
and Reality of a Legendary Site,” Presented at
the Conference on Barrios and
other ethnic neighborhoods in the U.S.,
Université Paris VII, Paris, France, 1995.
Workshop
Presenter: Smithsonian
Institution/Inter-University Program Latino
Qualitative Methods Seminar: Interpreting
Latino Cultures: Research
and
Museums “Gender and Sexuality in Cultural and Historical
Studies,” 1994.
American
Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Institution.
Presenter Northern New
Mexico/Southern Colorado Hispanic weaving traditions, 1994.
American
Women Writers of Color: Other
Voices: Plenary Session
Presenter--"Current Directions in U.S. Latina Literature,”
Salisbury State
College, MD, 1994.
“Chicana
Poets: From Declamación
to One-Woman Shows,” American
Studies Association Meeting. Boston,
MA, 1993.
“Desde
el otro Lado: Notes on
borders and cultures",” presented at the
Américo Paredes Symposium, Austin, TX, 1993.
“Breakfast
Round Table on Border Literature,” American Literature
Association. San
Antonio, TX, 1993.
“Growing
Up Chicano/a: the work
of Sandra Cisneros and Richard Rodriguez,”
Workshop presented for the South Dakota Humanities Council,
Mitchell, South
Dakota, 1993.
“Border
Experience,” three day workshop for the Augsburg College Center
for
Global Education students. Laredo,
TX, 1993.
“Margarita
Canseco del Valle and Roberta Fernández:
Border Writers Writing
Culture.” Coloquio de
escritoras Chicanas, UNAM, Mexico City, 1993.
“Festival
of American Folklife,” Smithsonian Institution, 1993.
“Tafolla's
with our very own name: Chicanas Transform Poetry--from
Declamación to One Woman-Shows,” National Association of Chicano
Studies, San Jose, CA, 1993.
“Issues
of Chicanas in Higher Education,” Mujeres Activas en Letras y
Cambio
Social. Berkeley, 1992.
“Working
Class Chicanas as Administrators,” American Association of Higher
Education. Chicago,
1992.
“Women
on the Edge: Chicanas y
Latinas in the Borderlands,” National
Association of Chicano Studies, San Antonio, 1992.
“La
Onda de la Frontera: Las
Radiodifusoras en Laredo y Nuevo Laredo,”
Universidad Valle del Bravo, Semana de la Comunicacion, Nuevo
Laredo,
Tamps., 1991.
“Mi
Casa es su casa: Moving
Toward a Multilingual Texas or Legislation on
Second Language Learning and Culture,” Keynote Address, TexTESOL
State
Conference, Austin, Texas, 1991.
“Tafolla's
with our very own names: Cultural Transformation of a Traditional
Form as Resistance and Affirmation.” South Central Modern
Languages
Association, Fort Worth, Texas, 1991.
“Los
Matachines de la Santa Cruz de Laredo, Texas:
Un acto de Resistencia
Cultural,” Foro de Analysis, Festival de la Raza, Nuevo Laredo,
Tamps., 1991.
“Somos
de aqui y de allá: Refugees on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Human
Rights in the Americas Symposium, St. Mary's University School of
Law, San
Antonio, Texas, 1991.
“Pastoras
and Matachines: A
Feminist Look at Chicano/a Folk Drama”
Modern Languages Association, Chicago, 1990.
“Semiotic
Analysis of a Public Religious Performance - Los Matachines de la
Sta. Cruz de la Ladrillera de Laredo, Texas.” Popular
Culture Association, San
Antonio, 1990.
“Women
of Color in Academia: Rock
the Boat and Learn to Swim,” South
Central Modern Languages Association, Dallas, 1990.
“how
i got to be what i never intended to be--AN ADMINISTRATOR,” Texas
Faculty Association, Texas A&I, Kingsville, TX, 1990.
“Chicana
Literature and the Border,” discussion at the Mujeres
Activas en
Letras y Cambio Social Institute, UCLA, 1990.
“ESL
Techniques for LVA Tutors,” Literacy Volunteers of America-Texas,
Salado, 1990.
“Entre
Malinche y Guadalupe: La
Chicana en la historia de la frontera
mejico-tejana,” Foro de analysis, celebración del 5 de mayo,
Colegio de la
Frontera Norte, Nuevo Laredo, 1990.
“Reader-Response,
Deconstruction, Feminism???Approaches to Chicana
Literature” in the panel “Tradition and Change: Chicana Writers
Today” National
Association of Chicano Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1990.
“Las
Radiodifusoras en Laredo y Nuevo Laredo: Apuntes basados en la
aportacion de Luciano Duarte y Ramoncita Esparza,” South Central
Organization of Latin American Studies, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 1990.
“The
Many Loves of Cisneros and Castillo:
The Poetry of Sandra Cisneros and
Ana Castillo--Examples of Literary Befriending,” Modern Languages
of
America, Washington, D.C., 1989.
“Los
anuncios comerciales en Laredo, Texas,” Conference on Spanish in
the
U.S., Tucson, Arizona, 1989.
“Los
Matachines de la Santa Cruz de la Ladrillera:
Notes Toward a
Socio-literary Analysis,” International Conference on Feasts and
Celebrations in
North American Ethnic Groups, Institute Charles V, American Studies,
Paris.
Hispanic Women's Network of Texas Blue Ribbon Panel on Education,
Laredo,
Texas, October, 1989.
“Literacy
Tutoring in the High Schools,” Texas Joint Council of Teachers
Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1989.
“Guadalupe
and Malinche: Roles of
Women in Chicano Folk Drama” National
Association of Chicano Studies, Los Angeles, 1989.
“The
ESL Student and Literacy Programs,” Adult Basic Education
Conference,
Dallas, TX, 1987.
“Images
of Self and Community: Audre
Lorde and Cherrie Moraga,” Modern Languages Association, 1986.
“La
Gila and La Malinche: Notes
Towards an Analysis of Female Characters in
Chicano Folk Drama,” XII TENAZ Theater Festival, Santa Barbara,
CA, 1984.
“Plenary
Session: Gender and
Equality, Chicanas in Higher Education and
Society,” NACS, Austin, TX, 1984.
“Los
Matachines in Laredo,” NACS, Ypsilanti, MI, 1984.
“'The
poet within us bays': Students
Write in Their Own Language,” Writing
Across The Curriculum Conference, El Centro College, Dallas, Texas,
1982.
“Trenzas
and Bright Colors: Race and Class Stereotypes,” National Women's
Studies Association Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, 1979.
“My
‘Excuse-me' Tongue,” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Minneapolis, 1979.
