2020     Accepted Proposal. “The Codex Nepantla Project, Or, The Hospitality of Translation: Una plática” A roundtable conversation with Dr. Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Dr. Emma Pérez, Alma López, Dr. Elena Avilés and Dr. Sandra Ruiz. 12th International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino Studies. Instituto Franklin-Universidad de Alcalá Henares (UAH). Barcelona, 16-18 June. *POSTPONED* due to Covid-19 pandemic.

2019     Invited Speaker. “Conversatorio for The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader 1974-2016.” UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. 14 November.

2018     Accepted Proposal. “Buenos Aires-Mexico City Round Trip: Cultural trafficking, blanqueamiento, and Noir Thriller in Argenmex Myriam Laurini’s Morena en rojo. Latin American Studies Association XXXVI International Conference, Barcelona, Spain. 23 May.

2018      Invited Speaker. “An Interview with Novelist Lucha Corpi” A Celebration of Chicano Culture. El Camino College. Torrance, CA. 3 May.

2017     Invited Speaker. “Blood in the First Twenty-Pages: Chicana/o Crime, Mystery, and Detective Fiction.” Chicana Literary Feminist Perspective Lecture Series, El Camino College, Torrance, CA. 2 May.

2016    Moderator. Archive Talk: Guadalupe Rosales Presents “Southern California Chicano Party Crews and Rave Scene in the 1990s” UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Los Angeles, CA. 20 January.

2015    “La mujer en llamas: Lucha Corpi’s Decolonial Movidas in Black Widow’s Wardrobe.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW). Philadelphia. PA. 4-8 November.

2015   “Re-building and Re-exposing What We Thought We Had Lost”: Teaching Chicana/o Studies en español.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Southern California Conference. Channel Islands, CA. 31 October.

2015     Ruiz, Sandra and Héctor Calderón. “When Crime Fiction Matters: A Transborder Dialogue with Lucha Corpi, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Patricia Valladares.” Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles, CA. 29 April.

2014     Invited Lecture. “Chronicles of Crime: Legal Storytelling in Mexican and Chicana Detective Fiction.” University of San Francisco, School of Education. San Francisco, CA. 7 November.

2014     “Chicanas con causa: Deconstructing Colonial Legacies in Detective, Mystery and Crime Narratives” American Literature Association: The Latina/o Literary Landscape. San Antonio, TX. 6-8 March.

2013     “Chicana Mystery Narratives as Decolonial Acts of Love” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS). San Antonio, TX, 20-24 April .

2011    Invited Lecture. “From Edgar Allen Poe to Lucha Corpi: Writing the Chicana in Crime Fiction.” UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Los Angeles. 17 and 22 November.

2011    “Transhistorical and Transnational Legal Storytelling in Lucha Corpi’s Crime Narratives” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Summer Institute Conference. Los Angeles, CA.   3-7 August.

2011    “Variaciones sobre una identidad: Lucha Corpi’s Literary Mexicana-Chicana Identity.” UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference. Los Angeles, CA. 21-22 April.

2011    “Nuestra herencia: Language Politics, Spanish and Teaching Chicana/os-Latina/os.” XXIII Congreso del español en Estados Unidos. Sacramento, CA. 17-19 March.

2010    “From Rhyme to Crime: Porous Environments, Fluid Identities and an Intuitive Sleuth in Lucha Corpi’s Literary Production.” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS). Seattle, WA. 7-11 April.

2008    Invited to Present. “A Bridge of Realities: Elena Poniatowska’s Exploration of her Mexicana-Self Within Chicana Feminism” The 6th International Conference on Chicana and Chicano Literature: Biennial conference hosted by the Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos through the University of Alcalá, Spain. Alicante, 22-24 May.