Jeanne Gillespie, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
and
Co-director, Center for American Indian Research and Studies
The University of Southern Mississippi
current cv
and
Co-director, Center for American Indian Research and Studies
The University of Southern Mississippi
current cv
Education
Arizona State University
Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish, Concentration Latin American Colonial Literature, May 1994.
Dissertation: “Saints and Warriors: The Lienzo de Tlaxcala and the Conquest of Tenochtitlan.”
Areas of Examination: Seventeenth Century, Poetry.
The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Arts in Latin American Studies. August 1986.
Concentrations in Anthropology and Art History with secondary work in Latin American Literature (in Spanish and Portuguese). Research Reports: “Cacaxtla: A Discussion of the Symbol Systems/ The Olmeca-Xicalanca in Southwestern Tlaxcala.”
Purdue University
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature with minors in History, Political Science and Art. May 1984.
Selected Publications
Books:
Women’s Voices and the Politics of the Spanish Empire: From Convent Cell to Imperial Court. Collection of essays edited with Jennifer Eich and Lucia Guzzi-Harrison. UP of the South. 2008.
Saints and Warriors: Tlaxcalan Perspectives on the Conquest of Tenochtitlan. UP of the South, 2005.
Editorial Responsibilities:
Guest Editor. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts & Letters in the South. General Issue: “The Unexpected South.” A collection of essays and poetry that reflects the diverse communities and unexpected perspectives on life, literature, and culture in the South. Volume 53.2 Fall 2015 (in production).
Guest Editor. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts & Letters in the South. Special Issue: “And We are Still Here.” A celebration of scholarship about the history, archaeology, cultural heritage and artistic contributions of the indigenous communities who lived in the region at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth century as well as contributions from some of the 27 communities who still reside in the Gulf South. Volume 51.4 Summer 2014.
Essays and Articles:
“In the shadow of Coatilcue’s smile or reconstructing female indigenous subjectivity in the Spanish colonial record.” Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799. Monica Diaz and Rocio Quispe-Agnioli, eds. New York: Routledge. 2017.
“Amerindian Women’s Influence on the Colonial Enterprise of Spanish Florida.” The Southern Quarterly. 51.4 (Summer 2014) 84-102.
“Casting New Molds: The Duchess of Aveiro’s Global Colonial Enterprise (1669-1715).” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8 (2013): 301-315.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Indigenous Petitions and the Discourse of Heterarchy.” HIPERTEXTO 13 (January 2011).
“Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico.” In Laura Esquivel's Fiction: Re-imagining Identity, Gender, and Genre in Mexico. Willingham, Elizabeth, ed., Sussex Press, 2011.
“Catarina de San Juan and the Politics of Conversion and Empire.” in Women’s Voices and the Politics of the Spanish Empire: From Convent Cell to Imperial Court. Collection of essays edited with Jennifer Eich and Lucia Guzzi-Harrison. UP of the South. 2008.
“Finding the Global in the Local: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching.” With Marjorie Rhine in Damrosch, David. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: MLA, 2008.
“Abstinence, Balance and Political Control in Mesoamerica.” Celibacy and Religious Traditions. Carl Olsen, ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Talking out of Church: Women Arguing Theology in Sor Juana’s loa to the Divino Narciso.” In DelRosso, Jeana; Eicke, Leigh; and Kothe, Ana, eds. Unruly Catholic Women and their Writings. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
“Amerindian Women’s Voices in Aztec Society and the Spanish Colony.” Cuaderno internacional de estudios hispánicos y lingüstica. (Spring 2005).
“Life and Death along the Waterways of South Louisiana: Isleño Oral Narratives and the Hurricane of 1915.” in Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage. v. 4. Houston: Arte Público P. 2002.
“Gender, Ethnicity and Piety: the Case of the China poblana.” in Past Recovering: Essays on Latin American Popular Culture. 19-37. Eva Bueno and Terry Caesar, eds. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
“Establishing World Order in Mesoamerica: the Codex Mendoza and the Lienzo de Tlaxcala.” in Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 13.1 (Fall 1998): 93-99.
“Cacaxtla: a Discussion of the Symbol Systems.” “In Love and War: Hummingbird Lore” and Other Selected Papers from LAILA/ ALILA's 1988 Symposium. Mary H. Pruess, ed. Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1989, 29-45.
Current Research Projects:
The Codex of Tlaxcala: Amerindian Visual Narratives and the Discourse of Heterarchy,
Hispanic Theatre Translation
Critical Edition of Sigüenza y Góngora’s Scientific Study of Pensacola Bay.
Spanish and Portuguese accounts of early voyages to Asia and India and the role of the Duchess of Aveiro, Maria Guadalupe de Lencastre
Selected Panels, Papers and Presentations:
Topics in Higher Education, Professional Development, Teaching, and Learning
“Using our Voices and Talents to Advocate for the Humanities: What we can learn from Atticus Finch and Don Quixote.” President’s Forum, South Central Modern Languages Association, Nashville, November 2015.
“South Central Modern Languages Association Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Departments of English Workshop.” with Dennis Looney, Director of Programs and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages for the Modern Languages Association. Nashville, November 2015.
“Preparing for the Interview with the Dean” for the panel “Workshop for Jobseekers: Knowing your Audience, Being Prepared for the Interview,” at the 71st Annual South Central Modern Languages Association Conference. Austin, October 2014.
“Resurrecting the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi” for the panel “Successful Institutional Strategies for Enhancing Student Retention and Progress to Graduation Part II: Curricular Programs” for the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences 48th Annual Meeting. Jacksonville, FL, November 2013.
“Administering an Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate Program: Some Notes from Some Newbies.” Panel participant at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM. February 2012.
“From ‘Good’ to ‘Great:’ Students Reflecting on Community Service as a Catalyst.” Panel organizer for the Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, Roanoke, Virginia, March 2-4, 2011.
“Exploring las Cholulas: Teachers Using Ethnographic Techniques to Gather Local Histories for their own Classrooms.” Invited presentation for the Chacmool 2010 Conference, Calgary, Canada, November 2010.
“The Garden as Cultural Heritage.” Paper presented for the panel “Gardening Across the Curriculum,” Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 2009.
“Teaching and Learning in the Spanish-Language Literature Class with Service Learning.” Paper presented to the Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, Nashville, March 2008.
“Service-Learning as an Ethnographic Experience for Graduate Students in Spanish: Enhancing the Study-Abroad and the Online Classes.” paper presented to the Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, New Orleans, LA March 2007.
“Exploring and Teaching Latin America through the Arts.” Workshop designed for the International Latin American Studies Association Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2006.
Recent Research Presentations
“Using Classical Dramatic Texts as Ethnography in the Spanish Classroom.” Presented to the Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre. El Paso, Texas, April 2017.
“Flowing from the Milky Way: Cosmic Nourishment and Healing in Aztec Poetry
with Citlalicue and her Sisters.” Paper presented to the South Central Modern Languages Association. Dallas, Texas, November 2016.
“Las cacicas de las islas: Caribbean Women and Power in Early Contact Narratives of the Encounter.” Paper presented to GEMELA 2016. San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 2016.
“Women’s Bodies, Violence, and the Cosmic Order in the Aztec Empire: Recording State-Sponsored Femicide in the Documentation of Hegemonic Power.” Invited paper for the TePaske Seminar. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2016.
“Telling Friends from Enemies: Portuguese, Moors, Amerindians, and Priests in Lope's El nuevo mundo.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre 2016. Chamizal/El Paso, TX, April 2016
Invited Panelist “The Local Humanities Community: Lessons in Partnership-Building and Advocacy from the Humanities Working Groups for Community Impact Initiative” National Humanities Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2016.
“The Isleño décima ‘El barco de Boy Molero’ … traces of the first narcocorrido?” South Central Modern Languages Association, Nashville, November 2015.
“Women’s Bodies and the Cosmic World Order in Colonial Nahuatl Poetry” presented on the panel “Women in and as Forces of Nature in Hispanic Art and Literature,” at the 71st Annual South Central Modern Languages Association Conference. Austin, October 2014.
“The ‘Mother of Missions’: The Duchess of Aveiro Corresponds with Jesuits around the Globe about their Multinational Missionary Enterprise, 1674-1694” presented to the Biennial Conference of GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y Latinoamerica). Lisbon, September 2014.
“Are You Really Going to Eat That? Water, Power, and Bugs a la Tlaxcalteca.” Paper presented to the American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, LA, September 2013.
“Condensation by Collaboration.” Position paper for the panel “Re-Play: Building Lope’s (small) New World for Florida’s Quincentennial.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference. Orlando, FL, August 2013.
“In Her Voice, in Our Voices: Listening to/for the Words of Amerindian Women in the Spanish Colonies.” Paper presented at the 31st Latin American Studies Association Congress in honor of Dr. Maureen Ahern, Washington, DC, May 2013.
“Where Have All the (Chocolate and Popcorn) Flowers Gone? Recovering Healing Botanicals in Nahuatl Poetry.” Invited paper for the 5th Annual Sam Houston State “Medicine and the Social Sciences and Humanities” Conference. Huntsville, TX, February 2013.
“Palca and the Mirror: Lope’s treatment of the gaze of the other… and another’s gaze on the gazing…” position paper for the working group “Undercover: New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women & Native Americans.” Team Lope Collaborator and Participant. The American Society for Theatre Research. Nashville, TN, November 2012
“Healing, Oral and Written Narratives, and American Indian Women’s Voices.” Panel Organizer and Commentator. Paper: “Amerindian Women from Florida and their Interactions with the Spanish Crown 1492-1600.” Gulf South History and Humanities Conference. Pensacola, FL, October 2012.
“Indigenous Images of the Bishoprics of New Spain: The Codex of Tlaxcala and Amerindian Authority,” Paper presented in the Symposium “Visual and Textual Dialogues in Mesoamerica” at the 54 International Congress of Americanists. Vienna, Austria, July 2012.
“Flowers and Pharmacology: Collecting Ethnobotanical Data from Nahuatl Poetic Texts,” Paper presented to the Association of History, Literature, Science, and Technology Conference. Madrid, Spain, June, 2012.
Panel organized for Latin American Studies Association: “Women Make the Mesoamerican World Go Around: Examining Rituals, Genealogies, Cosmologies, and Representations of Gender throughout Mesoamerica,” Paper: “Making Royal Women out of Royal Men, or I Need a Huastec!” San Francisco, May 2012.
“Writing the Women We Admire: The Duchess of Aveiro from Sor Juana’s Poetry to the Missions in California, Guam, and China.” Paper presented to the South Atlantic Modern Languages Association. Atlanta, GA November 2011.
“Washing Away the Evidence: Midwives and Ritual Cleansing in Mesoamerica and Colonial New Spain.” Paper presented to the South Central Modern Languages Association. Hot Springs, AR October 2011.
“The Science and Art of Empire: Mesoamerican Strategies for Survival in the New World Order in the Indigenous Grammars and the Relaciones geograficas,” Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing, Washington, DC, July 2011.
“The Isleño décima: Memory and Cultural Adaptation in Spanish-Speaking South Louisiana,” Popular Culture Association, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April, 2011.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Indigenous Discourse in Visual Narratives,” Paper presented at the 2011 Modern Languages Association Conference, Los Angeles, January, 2011.
“Enemies, Friends, and Neighbors: Conversations Between Texcoco, Tlaxcala and Surrounding Cities,” paper to be presented to the Symposium on Texcoco, University of North Texas, Denton, April 2010.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Indigenous Petitions and the Discourse of Heterarchy,” Paper to be presented at LASA 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009 (not able to present because of travel issues)
“The Garden as Cultural Heritage,” Paper presented for the panel Gardening Across the Curriculum, Gulf South Summit, on Service Learning, Baton Rouge Louisiana. March 2009.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Pictorial Representations of Amerindian Participation in the Conquest” Paper presented to the IV International Congress on Colonial American Studies. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, November 2008.
“Centers and Peripheries in Colonial Studies: Culture Texts and the Processes of Colonization.” Panel organizer. 65th Annual Meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, November 2008.
“Tlaxcalan Voices and Colonial Publics” Paper presented to the 65th Annual Meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, November 2008.
“Teaching and Learning in the Spanish-Language Literature Class with Service Learning.” Paper presented to the Gulf South Summit, Nashville, March 2008.
“Before There Were Borders: The Tlaxcalans Tell Their Story of Cíbola.” Paper presented to the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies. El Paso, Texas, February 2008.
“Los Isleños of St. Bernard Parrish” Invited presentation as a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Mississippi Humanities Council. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Jefferson Davis Campus. October 2007.
“Service-Learning as an Ethnographic Experience for Graduate Students in Spanish: Enhancing the Study-Abroad and the Online Classes” paper presented to the Gulf South Summit, New Orleans, LA March 2007.
“Women's Voices in the Cantares mexicanos: The Pleasure of the Word” paper presented to the 2006 AEEA/AHCT conference. Georgetown University. October 2006.
“Pleasure, Babies, and Warriors: Women’s Voices in the Cantares mexicanos” paper presented to the XVII International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures, The Ohio State University, May 2006.
“Exploring and Teaching Latin America through the Arts” Workshop designed for the International Latin American Studies Association Meeting 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2006.
Arizona State University
Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish, Concentration Latin American Colonial Literature, May 1994.
Dissertation: “Saints and Warriors: The Lienzo de Tlaxcala and the Conquest of Tenochtitlan.”
Areas of Examination: Seventeenth Century, Poetry.
The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Arts in Latin American Studies. August 1986.
Concentrations in Anthropology and Art History with secondary work in Latin American Literature (in Spanish and Portuguese). Research Reports: “Cacaxtla: A Discussion of the Symbol Systems/ The Olmeca-Xicalanca in Southwestern Tlaxcala.”
Purdue University
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature with minors in History, Political Science and Art. May 1984.
Selected Publications
Books:
Women’s Voices and the Politics of the Spanish Empire: From Convent Cell to Imperial Court. Collection of essays edited with Jennifer Eich and Lucia Guzzi-Harrison. UP of the South. 2008.
Saints and Warriors: Tlaxcalan Perspectives on the Conquest of Tenochtitlan. UP of the South, 2005.
Editorial Responsibilities:
Guest Editor. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts & Letters in the South. General Issue: “The Unexpected South.” A collection of essays and poetry that reflects the diverse communities and unexpected perspectives on life, literature, and culture in the South. Volume 53.2 Fall 2015 (in production).
Guest Editor. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts & Letters in the South. Special Issue: “And We are Still Here.” A celebration of scholarship about the history, archaeology, cultural heritage and artistic contributions of the indigenous communities who lived in the region at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth century as well as contributions from some of the 27 communities who still reside in the Gulf South. Volume 51.4 Summer 2014.
Essays and Articles:
“In the shadow of Coatilcue’s smile or reconstructing female indigenous subjectivity in the Spanish colonial record.” Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799. Monica Diaz and Rocio Quispe-Agnioli, eds. New York: Routledge. 2017.
“Amerindian Women’s Influence on the Colonial Enterprise of Spanish Florida.” The Southern Quarterly. 51.4 (Summer 2014) 84-102.
“Casting New Molds: The Duchess of Aveiro’s Global Colonial Enterprise (1669-1715).” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8 (2013): 301-315.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Indigenous Petitions and the Discourse of Heterarchy.” HIPERTEXTO 13 (January 2011).
“Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico.” In Laura Esquivel's Fiction: Re-imagining Identity, Gender, and Genre in Mexico. Willingham, Elizabeth, ed., Sussex Press, 2011.
“Catarina de San Juan and the Politics of Conversion and Empire.” in Women’s Voices and the Politics of the Spanish Empire: From Convent Cell to Imperial Court. Collection of essays edited with Jennifer Eich and Lucia Guzzi-Harrison. UP of the South. 2008.
“Finding the Global in the Local: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching.” With Marjorie Rhine in Damrosch, David. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: MLA, 2008.
“Abstinence, Balance and Political Control in Mesoamerica.” Celibacy and Religious Traditions. Carl Olsen, ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Talking out of Church: Women Arguing Theology in Sor Juana’s loa to the Divino Narciso.” In DelRosso, Jeana; Eicke, Leigh; and Kothe, Ana, eds. Unruly Catholic Women and their Writings. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
“Amerindian Women’s Voices in Aztec Society and the Spanish Colony.” Cuaderno internacional de estudios hispánicos y lingüstica. (Spring 2005).
“Life and Death along the Waterways of South Louisiana: Isleño Oral Narratives and the Hurricane of 1915.” in Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage. v. 4. Houston: Arte Público P. 2002.
“Gender, Ethnicity and Piety: the Case of the China poblana.” in Past Recovering: Essays on Latin American Popular Culture. 19-37. Eva Bueno and Terry Caesar, eds. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
“Establishing World Order in Mesoamerica: the Codex Mendoza and the Lienzo de Tlaxcala.” in Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 13.1 (Fall 1998): 93-99.
“Cacaxtla: a Discussion of the Symbol Systems.” “In Love and War: Hummingbird Lore” and Other Selected Papers from LAILA/ ALILA's 1988 Symposium. Mary H. Pruess, ed. Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1989, 29-45.
Current Research Projects:
The Codex of Tlaxcala: Amerindian Visual Narratives and the Discourse of Heterarchy,
Hispanic Theatre Translation
Critical Edition of Sigüenza y Góngora’s Scientific Study of Pensacola Bay.
Spanish and Portuguese accounts of early voyages to Asia and India and the role of the Duchess of Aveiro, Maria Guadalupe de Lencastre
Selected Panels, Papers and Presentations:
Topics in Higher Education, Professional Development, Teaching, and Learning
“Using our Voices and Talents to Advocate for the Humanities: What we can learn from Atticus Finch and Don Quixote.” President’s Forum, South Central Modern Languages Association, Nashville, November 2015.
“South Central Modern Languages Association Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Departments of English Workshop.” with Dennis Looney, Director of Programs and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages for the Modern Languages Association. Nashville, November 2015.
“Preparing for the Interview with the Dean” for the panel “Workshop for Jobseekers: Knowing your Audience, Being Prepared for the Interview,” at the 71st Annual South Central Modern Languages Association Conference. Austin, October 2014.
“Resurrecting the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi” for the panel “Successful Institutional Strategies for Enhancing Student Retention and Progress to Graduation Part II: Curricular Programs” for the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences 48th Annual Meeting. Jacksonville, FL, November 2013.
“Administering an Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate Program: Some Notes from Some Newbies.” Panel participant at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM. February 2012.
“From ‘Good’ to ‘Great:’ Students Reflecting on Community Service as a Catalyst.” Panel organizer for the Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, Roanoke, Virginia, March 2-4, 2011.
“Exploring las Cholulas: Teachers Using Ethnographic Techniques to Gather Local Histories for their own Classrooms.” Invited presentation for the Chacmool 2010 Conference, Calgary, Canada, November 2010.
“The Garden as Cultural Heritage.” Paper presented for the panel “Gardening Across the Curriculum,” Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 2009.
“Teaching and Learning in the Spanish-Language Literature Class with Service Learning.” Paper presented to the Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, Nashville, March 2008.
“Service-Learning as an Ethnographic Experience for Graduate Students in Spanish: Enhancing the Study-Abroad and the Online Classes.” paper presented to the Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, New Orleans, LA March 2007.
“Exploring and Teaching Latin America through the Arts.” Workshop designed for the International Latin American Studies Association Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2006.
Recent Research Presentations
“Using Classical Dramatic Texts as Ethnography in the Spanish Classroom.” Presented to the Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre. El Paso, Texas, April 2017.
“Flowing from the Milky Way: Cosmic Nourishment and Healing in Aztec Poetry
with Citlalicue and her Sisters.” Paper presented to the South Central Modern Languages Association. Dallas, Texas, November 2016.
“Las cacicas de las islas: Caribbean Women and Power in Early Contact Narratives of the Encounter.” Paper presented to GEMELA 2016. San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 2016.
“Women’s Bodies, Violence, and the Cosmic Order in the Aztec Empire: Recording State-Sponsored Femicide in the Documentation of Hegemonic Power.” Invited paper for the TePaske Seminar. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2016.
“Telling Friends from Enemies: Portuguese, Moors, Amerindians, and Priests in Lope's El nuevo mundo.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre 2016. Chamizal/El Paso, TX, April 2016
Invited Panelist “The Local Humanities Community: Lessons in Partnership-Building and Advocacy from the Humanities Working Groups for Community Impact Initiative” National Humanities Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2016.
“The Isleño décima ‘El barco de Boy Molero’ … traces of the first narcocorrido?” South Central Modern Languages Association, Nashville, November 2015.
“Women’s Bodies and the Cosmic World Order in Colonial Nahuatl Poetry” presented on the panel “Women in and as Forces of Nature in Hispanic Art and Literature,” at the 71st Annual South Central Modern Languages Association Conference. Austin, October 2014.
“The ‘Mother of Missions’: The Duchess of Aveiro Corresponds with Jesuits around the Globe about their Multinational Missionary Enterprise, 1674-1694” presented to the Biennial Conference of GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y Latinoamerica). Lisbon, September 2014.
“Are You Really Going to Eat That? Water, Power, and Bugs a la Tlaxcalteca.” Paper presented to the American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, LA, September 2013.
“Condensation by Collaboration.” Position paper for the panel “Re-Play: Building Lope’s (small) New World for Florida’s Quincentennial.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference. Orlando, FL, August 2013.
“In Her Voice, in Our Voices: Listening to/for the Words of Amerindian Women in the Spanish Colonies.” Paper presented at the 31st Latin American Studies Association Congress in honor of Dr. Maureen Ahern, Washington, DC, May 2013.
“Where Have All the (Chocolate and Popcorn) Flowers Gone? Recovering Healing Botanicals in Nahuatl Poetry.” Invited paper for the 5th Annual Sam Houston State “Medicine and the Social Sciences and Humanities” Conference. Huntsville, TX, February 2013.
“Palca and the Mirror: Lope’s treatment of the gaze of the other… and another’s gaze on the gazing…” position paper for the working group “Undercover: New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women & Native Americans.” Team Lope Collaborator and Participant. The American Society for Theatre Research. Nashville, TN, November 2012
“Healing, Oral and Written Narratives, and American Indian Women’s Voices.” Panel Organizer and Commentator. Paper: “Amerindian Women from Florida and their Interactions with the Spanish Crown 1492-1600.” Gulf South History and Humanities Conference. Pensacola, FL, October 2012.
“Indigenous Images of the Bishoprics of New Spain: The Codex of Tlaxcala and Amerindian Authority,” Paper presented in the Symposium “Visual and Textual Dialogues in Mesoamerica” at the 54 International Congress of Americanists. Vienna, Austria, July 2012.
“Flowers and Pharmacology: Collecting Ethnobotanical Data from Nahuatl Poetic Texts,” Paper presented to the Association of History, Literature, Science, and Technology Conference. Madrid, Spain, June, 2012.
Panel organized for Latin American Studies Association: “Women Make the Mesoamerican World Go Around: Examining Rituals, Genealogies, Cosmologies, and Representations of Gender throughout Mesoamerica,” Paper: “Making Royal Women out of Royal Men, or I Need a Huastec!” San Francisco, May 2012.
“Writing the Women We Admire: The Duchess of Aveiro from Sor Juana’s Poetry to the Missions in California, Guam, and China.” Paper presented to the South Atlantic Modern Languages Association. Atlanta, GA November 2011.
“Washing Away the Evidence: Midwives and Ritual Cleansing in Mesoamerica and Colonial New Spain.” Paper presented to the South Central Modern Languages Association. Hot Springs, AR October 2011.
“The Science and Art of Empire: Mesoamerican Strategies for Survival in the New World Order in the Indigenous Grammars and the Relaciones geograficas,” Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing, Washington, DC, July 2011.
“The Isleño décima: Memory and Cultural Adaptation in Spanish-Speaking South Louisiana,” Popular Culture Association, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April, 2011.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Indigenous Discourse in Visual Narratives,” Paper presented at the 2011 Modern Languages Association Conference, Los Angeles, January, 2011.
“Enemies, Friends, and Neighbors: Conversations Between Texcoco, Tlaxcala and Surrounding Cities,” paper to be presented to the Symposium on Texcoco, University of North Texas, Denton, April 2010.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Indigenous Petitions and the Discourse of Heterarchy,” Paper to be presented at LASA 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009 (not able to present because of travel issues)
“The Garden as Cultural Heritage,” Paper presented for the panel Gardening Across the Curriculum, Gulf South Summit, on Service Learning, Baton Rouge Louisiana. March 2009.
“The Codex of Tlaxcala: Pictorial Representations of Amerindian Participation in the Conquest” Paper presented to the IV International Congress on Colonial American Studies. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, November 2008.
“Centers and Peripheries in Colonial Studies: Culture Texts and the Processes of Colonization.” Panel organizer. 65th Annual Meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, November 2008.
“Tlaxcalan Voices and Colonial Publics” Paper presented to the 65th Annual Meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, November 2008.
“Teaching and Learning in the Spanish-Language Literature Class with Service Learning.” Paper presented to the Gulf South Summit, Nashville, March 2008.
“Before There Were Borders: The Tlaxcalans Tell Their Story of Cíbola.” Paper presented to the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies. El Paso, Texas, February 2008.
“Los Isleños of St. Bernard Parrish” Invited presentation as a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Mississippi Humanities Council. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Jefferson Davis Campus. October 2007.
“Service-Learning as an Ethnographic Experience for Graduate Students in Spanish: Enhancing the Study-Abroad and the Online Classes” paper presented to the Gulf South Summit, New Orleans, LA March 2007.
“Women's Voices in the Cantares mexicanos: The Pleasure of the Word” paper presented to the 2006 AEEA/AHCT conference. Georgetown University. October 2006.
“Pleasure, Babies, and Warriors: Women’s Voices in the Cantares mexicanos” paper presented to the XVII International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures, The Ohio State University, May 2006.
“Exploring and Teaching Latin America through the Arts” Workshop designed for the International Latin American Studies Association Meeting 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2006.