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Professional Presentations

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• “My Mother Is Rita Moreno.” Video essay presentation accepted for the Celebrity Studies Journal Conference 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 1-3, 2024.
• “Author, Spectator, Critic, Actor: On subjectivity.” Part of a roundtable entitled “Cinematic Thinking: Essay Film, Video Essay and the Presence of the Maker.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2024, Boston, MA, March 16, 2024.
• “Being There: The Long Take and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity.” In the Works: Making and Unmakings of the Video Essay. Lucerne School of Art and Design, Lucerne, Switzerland, November 3, 2023. Co-presented with Kerry Hegarty (Miami U of Ohio).
• Co-chair and presenter in roundtable entitled “The Accented Voice in Digital Audiovisual Practices” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2023, Denver, CO, April 12, 2023.
• “Mi sueño es representar la belleza de la mujer de mi estado: Framing Beauty in Latin American Cinema.” Theory and Practice of the Video Essay: An International Conference on Videographic Criticism, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 21-22, 2022.
• “This Series Is Going to Fabuloso Itself: Television Comedy, the Foreign, and One Day at a Time.” Forthcoming for Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2022, Chicago, IL, March 31-April 1, 2022.
• “Netflix and Xochitl: Transnational Streaming Distribution and Non-English ‘Prestige Content.’” Part of a panel entitled “Global Latin American Film and Media: New Intersections of Aesthetics, Production and Distribution in the 21^st Century.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2019, Seattle, WA, March, 2019.
• “The National Auteur ‘Goes World’: Claudia Llosa and Aloft.” Part of a panel entitled “Transactions and Translations of World Cinema: Videographic Approaches.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2018, Toronto, Canada, March 17, 2018.
• “Mi sueño es representar a la belleza de la mujer de mi estado: Framing Beauty in Latin American Cinema.” Encrucijadas 2017: The Digital Turn. Princeton, NJ, November 10, 2017.
• “Ciudadano Cuarón: Transnational Auteurism and Mexican Cinema.” Part of a panel entitled “New Approaches to Transnational Mexican Cinema,” Latin American Studies Association 2017, Lima, Perú, April 30, 2017.
• Presenter on workshop entitled “Latin American Film Studies and Digital Humanities,” Latin American Studies Association 2017, Lima, Perú, May 1, 2017.
• ��“‘My dream is to represent the beauty of the women from my State’: Latin American vs. World Cinema.” Part of a panel titled “Global Latin American Cinema: Politics, Aesthetics and Ethics,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2016, Atlanta, GA. April 1, 2016
• “Out of One, Many: First-Year Student Research and The Contemporary World Cinema Project.” Part of a workshop titled “Video Essays in Transnational Cinema Studies,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2016, Atlanta, GA. March 31, 2016.
• “Mi sueño es representar la belleza de mi estado: Latin American vs. World Cinema.” Part of a panel entitled “Globalization and Latin American Film: Politics, Aesthetics and Ethics,” Latin American Studies Association, San Juán, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015.
• ��“Reading Between the Subtitles.” Part of a panel entitled “On Subtitles,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2015, Montréal, Canada, March 25-29, 2015.
• ��“The Movies That Become ‘World Cinema’ (And the Movies That Don’t).” Part of a panel entitled “World Cinema” organized by Dudley Andrew, ACL(x): Examine, Penn State University, September 28, 2013.
• “Permanent Residents?: Contemporary Hollywood and the International Auteur.” Part of a panel entitled “Locating Transnational Hollywood,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2013, Chicago, IL, March 7, 2013.
• ��“Alfonso Cuarón as the Prisoner of Mex-kaban: The Transnational Auteur Meets the Franchise Film.” Part of a panel entitled “Styles of Global Authorship,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2012, Boston, MA, March 23, 2012.
• “Y tu Thundercat también: Glocalization, National Cinema and Alfonso Cuarón.” Part of panel entitled “The Im/Possibility of National Cinema,” American Comparative Literature Association 2010, New Orleans, LA. April 2-5, 2010.
• "In Lima, Like You: Confronting Peruvian National Cinema with Claudia Llosa's Madeinusa." Part of a panel entitled "What Remains: Contemporary Latin American Cinema," American Comparative Literature Association 2009. Cambridge, MA. March 26-29, 2009. Also proposed, organized and co-chaired panel (with Silvia Spitta).
• "Ibermediating National Cinemas." Part of a panel entitled "Programa Ibermedia and Contemporary Latin American Cinema," Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2008. Philadelphia, PA. March 8, 2008. Also proposed, organized and chaired panel.
• "Hablemos de cine(filia) peruana: Film Journals and National Cinema in Peru, Then and Now." Part of panel entitled "Trans/National Cinephilias," American Comparative Literature Association 2007. Puebla, Mexico. April 22, 2007.
• "It's Not Easy Being Brown: Rita, Lena and The Muppet Show." Part of a panel entitled "Race on Television." Society of Cinema and Media Studies 2007. Chicago, IL. March 9, 2007.
• "Babes in the Amazon, Ponch in the Andes: Roger Corman and Peruvian Cinema." Part of a panel entitled "Hollywood Business Practices and Latin American Cinema" at Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2006. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 4, 2006. Also proposed, organized and chaired panel.
• "Peru Vs. the New Latin American Cinema: Hablemos de cine and the Viña del Mar Film Festivals of 1967 and 1969." Part of a panel entitled "Beyond La boca del lobo: Peruvian Cinema, Past, Present and Future" at Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2005. London, England, April 3, 2005. Also proposed, organized and chaired panel.
• "Hablemos de Minnelli: A Peruvian Look at Some Came Running." Part of panel entitled "Hollywood por otros ojos: Film Spectatorship in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Pre-Revolutionary Cuba and 1960s Peru" for ASA (American Studies Association) 2004, Atlanta, GA, November 12, 2004.
• "A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)." The Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Nashville, TN, May 28, 2004. Nominated for "Mr. Pointy" Award for Best Conference Paper.
• "'Me moría': Aesthetics, Documentary and the Creation of Nostalgia in Patricio Guzmán's Chile, Obstinate Memory. "Thirty Years After Chile's 9/11", SUNY-Albany, October 10, 2003.
• "Teaching Cinephilia." Society for Cinema Studies 2003, Minneapolis, MN. March 9, 2003.
• "Este país es una basura: Cultural Politics and the Adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa's La ciudad y los perros." Literature/Film Association Conference 2002. Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, November 18, 2002.
• "The Enigma of The Hire (www.bmwfilms.com)." Society for Cinema Studies 2002. Denver, CO, May 24, 2002.

Work In Progress

• Monograph:��The Cinema of Alfonso Cuarón: Transnational, Auteur
• Essay: "In Lima, Just Like You: Mapping a Response to Peruvian Cinema with Claudia Llosa's��Madeinusa"
• Essay: "Without an image, there is no story:The Indigenous and Transnational aesthetics in Latin American Cinema" (with Núria Vilanova)
• Video essays on framing women in Latin American cinema, voiceover, spectatorship, subjectivity, and auteurism