“Lifting As We Climb: Mentors and Mentees” Roundtable. American Studies
Association Annual Conference. Atlanta Georgia. November 12, 2004.

“Gender Does Matter: Mentors and Leadership Training for Women,” Learning
Communities Panel, UTSA. October 20, 2004.

“Recuerdos de Gloria, Return to the Homeland.” MALCS: Mujeres Activas en
Letras y Cambio Social, Annual Summer Institute. August 6, 2004.

“Anzaldúan Theory/Borderlands Feminism: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Legacy,” Latina
Letters Conference, July 2004.

“Mujeres Testimoniando: There Is No Neutral Position.”  Plenary Speaker on
Family Matters: Critical Regionalism and the Places of Chicana/o Studies. 38th
Annual Western Literature Association Conference. Houston, October 31, 2003.

“Minority Scholars in the Twenty First Century: Conditions of Existence, Conditions
of Possibility.” Roundtable discussant. American Studies Association Annual
Conference, Hartford, Connecticut. October 18, 2003.

“The Writer Testimonando: Political Writers in Telling to Live.” Panel on Testimonio
and the Latina Writer: A Literature of Resistance and Affirmation. Seventh Annual
Latina Letters Conference, St. Mary’s University. July 19, 2003.

“The Aesthetics of Politics: Sandra Cisneros’s Political Essays.” Summary Speaker
for  Border Crossings: Interplay Within English Studies Graduate English Society
Conference. Texas Tech University. February 22, 2003.

“What American Studies Looks Like in 2002: Comments on Panel Presentations,”
Panel on Inventing Youth Cultures in the Borderlands.” American Studies Association
Annual Conference. November 16, 2002.

“Between Art and Activism: Chicana Political and Aesthetic Interventions.” Keynote
Speaker for Annual Ethnic and Third World Graduate Program Symposium. The
University of Texas, Austin. April 4, 2002.

“Between Art and Activism: Chicana Political and Aesthetic Interventions.” Keynote
Speaker for Annual Ethnic and Third World Graduate Program Symposium. The
University of Texas, Austin. April 4, 2002.

Roundtable discussant on Feminism on the Border. Annual Ethnic and Third World
Graduate Program Symposium. UT Austin. April 5, 2002.

“Activism and Community in Chicana/o Literary Studies.”  Panel on Reintroducing
American Literature to the American Public. American Studies Association, November
9, 2001

“Theories of the (Feminist) Self: Chicana Coming of Age Narratives,” Invited lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Latina/o Literature, San Antonio, Texas. July 12, 2001

Panel Chair and Commentator, “Conference on The Future of Feminist Critique:
Ethics, Agency, Politics. Rice University, November 2000.

Panel Chair and Respondent, “Chicana and Latina Spiritualities: Negotiating Multiple
Identities, Faiths and Practices.” American Studies Association, October 2000.

“The Significance of the Chicana Women’s Movement.” Panel on The Significance
of the Women’s Movement, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, April 2000.

“Feminist Futures/ Future Feminisms” Modern Language Association Convention.
Chicago, December 1999.

“Chicanas and the ‘F’ Word: Women’s Studies or Gender Studies or Chicano
Studies?” Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, October 12, 1999.

Keynote Address. UCLA Raza Graduation, June, 20, 1999.

“Identity Matters: The Conquest of Memory and Contemporary US Latina/o
Communities.” La Asociación Latina, Cornell University. April 1, 1999.

“Art, Activism and Academia.” Presented to Latino Living Center Café con Leche
speakers series, Cornell University. February 19, 1999.

“Globalizing Feminism: Cherríe Moraga’s Call for Third World Feminism.” Latino
Studies Program and English Department, Cornell University. April 1998.

“Theory Out of Lived Experience: Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years.” Dept.
of English, Cornell University, April, 1998.

“Remembering the Massacre at Acteal: Sandra Cisneros and Transfrontera
Activism.” Conference on Gender and Globalization. University of California,
Berkeley. March 1998.

“Art and Activism in Chicana Narratives.” University of Santa Cruz Chicana
Feminisms Discussion Group. June, 1997.

“Chicana Aesthetic Interventions: Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of
Jesus and Tish Hinojosa’s “Something in the Rain.” The Society for the Study of the
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) conference. Organized panel,
“The Literacy of Violence: Chicana Narratives and the Mobilization of Aesthetics.”
The University of Hawai’i at Manoa. April, 1997.

“Representations of Chicana Cultural Identities.” Chicano Literature Discussion
Group, 1997 Modern Language Association Convention. Organized and chaired
panel. Toronto, Canada, December 1997.

“Music and Activism in Chicana Cultural Production.” Modern Language Association
Conference. Chicago, Illinois, December 1995.

“‘Between My Art and Activism:’ Contemporary Chicana Feminist Writers.” Hispanic
Association for the Humanities International Conference on The Spanish And
Latin-American Woman: International Challenges and Successes. Madrid, Spain.
August, 1995.

“Re-forming the Subject: Identity Politics / Transfrontera History.” Chicano Studies
Research Center SCR-43 Working Group Lecture Series. UCLA, May 18, 1995.

“Chicana/o-Latina/o Subjectivities and Communities in an Era of Transnationalism.”
Organizer and moderator of panel presented at American Studies Association
Conference. Nashville, Tennessee, October 29, 1994.

“Political Identities in Contemporary Chicana Literatures: Helena María Viramontes’s
Visions of the U.S. Third World.” Netherlands American Studies Association
Conference. Middelburg, The Netherlands. June 9, 1994.

“‘Alone With Your Burns’: The Collision of Gender, Culture, and Class in Helena María
Viramontes’s Paris Rats in L.A.” American Studies Association Conference. Boston,
Massachusetts, November 5, 1993.

“Chicana Feminist Literature: Negotiating the Discursive With the Extra-Discursive
Space.” American Literature Association Symposium on Women Writers. San Antonio,
Texas, October 2, 1993.

"The Politics of Chicana Feminist Discourse in the Institution." Conference on Culture
and Society in Dialogue: Issues in Chicana Scholarship. University of California, Irvine,
May 14, 1993.

"Taking Aim: The Canon, Heridas Abiertas and Chicana Literature." The Modern
Language Association Convention. New York, New York. December 29, 1992.

"From Llorona's Lament to Mujeres Hollering: Chicana Feminist Transformations."
The American Studies Association Conference. Costa Mesa, California. November 7,
1992.

"Chicana Narrative: Border Politics/ Feminist Politics." Latin American Studies
Association 17th International Congress. Los Angeles, California. September 25,
1992.

"The Specificities of Chicana Feminism(s)." Panel on "Feminism on the Border."
The International American Studies Conference, Seville, Spain, April 3-7, 1992.

"U.S. Women of Color: Feminist Theory as Counter Discourse." Organizer and
Moderator of panel presented at Minority Discourse Conference, "Multiple Tongues:
Centering Discourse By People of Color." UCLA, January 30, 1992.

"Cultural Identity and the Academy: A Chicana Feminist Perspective." Cultures and
Nationalisms: the Tenth Annual Interdisciplinary Forum of The Western Humanities
Conference at UCLA, October 18, 1991.

"Chicana Literary Criticism." Annual Conference, Mujeres Activas en Letras y
Cambios Social, Laredo, Texas, August 3, 1991.

"From Fotonovela to Telenovela: Popular Narratives in Sandra Cisneros' 'Woman
Hollering Creek'."  Panel on Chicano/a Consciousness and Sexual Identity. The
International Conference on Narrative Literature, Universite de Nice, Nice France,
June 13, 1991.

"The Politics of Difference in Women's Studies: A Chicana Perspective." The
Huntington Library, Women's Studies Seminar, April 13, 1991.

"Mujeres de fuerza, Women of Strength in Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering
Creek."  The Arizona Quarterly Annual Symposium, University of Arizona, March 1,
1991.

"Chicana Writers Re-write the Body: Sandra Cisneros' Women in Struggle in The
House on Mango Street."  Women's Studies Lecture Series on Gender and the Body,
University of Southern California, November 15, 1990.

"Feminist Mestizaje: Feminism with a Difference."  Panel on "Mestiza Consciousness:
A Theoretical Construct for the 90s." American Studies Association Conference, New
Orleans, Louisiana, November 2, 1990.

"Third World Women."  Special Session, "Feminist Bywords, 1989: What Do They
Mean Now?"  Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C.,
December 28, 1989.

"Refugees of a World on Fire: Testimonios Across the Bridge."  Panel on Sin
Fronteras: Cultural Logistics and Creative Discourse.  American Studies Association
Conference, Toronto, Canada.  November 4, 1989.

"An Overview of Contemporary Chicana Feminist Writers."  San Antonio
Inter-American Bookfair.  October 14, 1989.

"Contemporary Chicana Feminism as Oppositional Discourse."  Panel on
Twentieth-Century Chicana Narrative Discourse: The Deconstruction of Borders.
Conference on Narrative Literature and Poetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
April, 1989.

"Toward a Chicana Counter Discourse: Sandra Cisneros, Gayatri Spivak, and
Rosaura Sánchez."  Division on Women's Studies in Language and Literature
Workshop, Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana,
December 30, 1988.

"'Rebellious Movements and Traitorous Cultures': The Chicana Feminist on the
Border."  Panel on Mexican Women in the Southwest: The Feminist Presence,
American Studies Association Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, October 30, 1988.

"'Life on the Borderlands': Chicana Feminism and Mestiza Culture."  Annual Fellows
Meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education, Seton Hill College, Greensberg,
Pennsylvania, August, 1988.

"Chicana Counter Discourse."  Minority Scholar's Forum, The University of Texas at
Austin, March 1988. 

"Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics."  The Politics of
Chicana Feminism panel, Modern Language Association Meeting, San Francisco,
California, December 1987.

"Lydia Maria Child: A Literary Mother to Think Back Through?"  The Winter
Conference of the Dickens Project, University of California, Riverside, February,
1988.

"Chicana Writers in Exile From the Feminist Counter Canon: Chicana Counter
Discourse."  The Feminist Forum, South Central Modern Language Association
Meeting, Houston, Texas, October, 1987.

"Race and Feminist Critical Practice."  The Society for Values in Higher Education
Annual Fellows Meeting, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, August 1987.

"Gender, Race, and Class and the Contemporary Chicana Writer."  The Graduate
Conference on Current Issues, The University of Texas at Austin, March 1987.

"No More Laments: Helena María Viramontes' Chicana Literature of Opposition."
Panel on Women's Literature in the Third World, Modern Language Association
Meeting, New York, New York, December, 1986.

"Wrestling Your Ally: Stein, Racism, and Feminist Critical Practice."  Women Writers in
Exile I: Communities of Exile, Modern Language Association Meeting, New York, New
York, December, 1986.

"Sandra Cisneros and Cherríe Moraga: The Chicana in Late Capitalism."  Literature
Lecture Series, Tomas Rivera: A Decade of Chicano Literature, San Antonio College,
San Antonio, Texas, June 1985.

"Breaking Taboos: The House on Mango Street and Loving in the War Years."
National Association of Chicano Studies Conference, Sacramento, California,
March 1985.