"DEBATING THE ISSUES: TARGETING ADVANCED
ORAL PROFICIENCY THROUGH ROLE-PLAY" This session demonstrates how role-play activities can be effectively implemented into the advanced/intermediate language classroom. These engaging activities motivate students to interpret and analyze authentic texts and to later articulate their ideas from the informed perspective of an assigned role/character, all in the target language. |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- “Targeting Advanced Oral Proficiency in the Classroom: Role-Play Debates”. Modern Languages Teaching and Learning Extravaganza. University of Mississippi (Feb. 26, 2024)
- “Role-Play Debates: Targeting Advanced Oral Proficiency in the Classroom”. ACTFL 2023 Convention. Chicago, IL (Nov. 17-19, 2023)
- “Debating the Issues: Targeting Advanced Oral Proficiency through Role-Play”. ACTFL 2021 Virtual Convention (Nov. 19-21, 2021)
- “The Ambivalence of Blackness as Portrayed in Early Sixteenth-Century Spanish Religious Iconography.” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 9-12, 2019).
- “Saints Cosmas and Damian’s Fragmentation of the Suffering Black Slave’s Body: A study of Spain’s Unique Projection of the Miraculous Leg Transplantation.” South Carolina Medievalist Meeting, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC (Sept. 22, 2018)
- “Nuns and War in Medieval Iberia: The Material Culture found at a Royal Female Abbey in Central Spain.” Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC (Mar. 3, 2016)
- “Berceo y el mester de hag(e)ografía: La castellanización del pasado en Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla y Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos.” Mester de Clerecía Conference, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX (Oct. 22-24, 2015)
- “Aproximación geopolítica al texto hagiográfico de Gonzalo de Berceo.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (May 8-11, 2014)
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- “Reading Politics and Consuming Ideology in the Cloister: Las Huelgas.” Stop Day Colloquium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (Dec. 10, 2010)
- “Propaganda subversiva en la comedia hagiográfica Vida de San Diego de Alcalá, de Lope de Vega.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, St. Louis, MO (Oct. 28-30, 2010)
- “Education and Thirteenth-Century Material Culture in the Female Monastery of Las Huelgas.” Medieval Association of the Midwest, Iowa City, IA (Sept. 16-17, 2010)
- “Hag[e]ografía. Más allá de lo puramente hagiográfico. Intención económica y parcelaria de Gonzalo de Berceo en Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA (Dec. 27-30, 2008)
- “The Geopolitical gains of Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos.” The Spanish and Portuguese Stop Day Colloquium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (Dec. 12, 2008)
- “Hag[e]ografía. Más allá de lo puramente hagiográfico. Intención económica y parcelaria de Gonzalo de Berceo en Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos.” 4thAnnual Tierra Tinta Conference on Latin American, Spanish and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (Oct. 16-17, 2008)
INVITED TALKS
- “Bilingüismo: el caso de Galicia y o galego”. Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, FL (April, 2021).
- “A Galicia de fin de século: Castelao, pai do nacionalismo.” Department of Latin American Studies, SUNY Purchase College, NY (Sept., 2016)
- “Galicia hoxe.” Bilbao Summer School. Sponsored by the Department of Latin American Studies, SUNY Purchase College, NY (July, 2016)
- “A lingua galega e as súas variacións dialectáis.” Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC (Oct., 2015)
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
- “South Carolina Medievalist Meeting.” SC Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics, Hartsville, SC (Feb., 2018)
SESSIONS CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED
- Chair. “Dominance of Religion: The Impact of Religion on European Literature.” 37thAnnual PAC Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC (Mar. 21-23, 2013)
- Organizer. “El honor medieval: análisis intrae inter-cultural del discurso y la creación de la identidad nacional.”American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, México (Apr. 19-22, 2007)