MY PROJECTS
Work Portfolio
PUBLICATIONS
“Semblanza de Santa Muerte Cartonera (2008-2010)” Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2017.
“Semblanza de Cuxtitali Kartonera (Chiapas, 1975-)” Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2017.
“Semblanza de Cartonera La Cecilia (2011-)” Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2017.
“Semblanza de Kodama Cartonera (2010-)” Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2016.
“Semblanza de La Regia Cartonera (Monterrey, 2009-)” Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2016.
“Los Diálogos del No-place: Entrevista con Guillermo Gómez-Peña y Saúl García”. Published in Zona de Carga/Loading Zone no. 7, March 2016 & Caníbal, 2016.
“Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship”. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World.
Sandra Bettencourt, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Susana Araújo eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015. Print.
“Book review: You Have Nothing to Learn from Me: A literary relationship between George Bernard Shaw &
Rodolfo Usigli by Ramon Layera and Katie Gibson”. In Latin American Review 47/1, Fall 2013.
“Ay, con que no le gustes a un narco.” Basta: 100+ Latinas Against Gender Violence. Emma Sepúlveda ed. Reno: University of Nevada, 2017. Print.
“¿Qué cosecha un país que siembra cuerpos?”. Axolote UW-Madison. Web, September 27, 2016.
“Book Suggestions about the Drug War & Ayotzinapa”. Axolote UW-Madison. Axoloteuwmadison.wordpress.com. Web, September 22, 2016.
“La palabra como puente”. Axolote UW-Madison. Web, March 16, 2016.
“Un gato es un gato: cuento de los desaparecidos.” Axolote UW-Madison. Web, February 26, 2016.
“Ayotzinapa en el Medio-Oeste estadounidense y el pretexto de las drogas”. El Beisman. http://www.elbeisman.com. Web, September 26, 2015.
Ayotzinapa, forced disappearances. Bilingual edition. Madison: Axolote/Pensaré Cartonera, 2015. Print. Link: https://issuu.com/pensarecartoneras/docs/ayotzinapa_-_edicion_bilingue_bookl
CONFERENCES
“Navegar con bandera de pendejo: keeping a secret at the Mexican Border”. 2019 Mexican Studies Conference at the University of California, Irvine. Panelists: Rafael Acosta Morales, Brandon Bisbey, Pedro García-Caro, Christian Kroll-Bryce, Joseph Patteson, Marcela Romero, & Sayak Valencia (upcoming May 2-4).
“New Media y el Narco”. Augustana University, SD. March 21, 2018.
Keynote Juan Carlos Aldir, author. Introduction and panel moderator. Kaleidoscope 2018: Uttering the Impossible, Dissecting, representing, and narrating rupture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 10, 2018.
"Everyone dies, but not everyone is murdered": Teresa Margolles, Conceptual Resignification in Postautonomy Art. LASA 2016, New York May 27-29, 2016.
Proposal and Dissertation Writing Workshop. Panelist. UW-Madison, December 9, 2014.
“Sicario Testimonies in México: Divulging Public Secrets of the Narcosphere: The Victim, Narco-language, and Bodies”. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, UW-Madison, October 9-11, 2014.
“Talk: Gaming Rosaura a las diez: Preparing for the Exam”. TA Professional Development Workshop: Teaching the Non-Fun Things in a Fun Way. UW-Madison, April 2, 2014.
Strategies and Methods of Teaching Literature, Culture and Linguistics. TA Professional Development Workshop. Panelist. UW-Madison, April 3, 2013.
“Mexico`s Fearscapes: Private, Public, and Virtual Spheres”. Hermes European Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies: Fear and Fantasy in a Global World, Cascais, Portugal, June 12-18, 2011.
“Dancing on Graves of a Forced Past: Pre-Mourning and the Process of the Archive”. LACIS Graduate Student Conference: reTURN: USA Academic and Latin America: What is Your Role, UW-Madison, April 5, 2011.
“La cruz como representación del universo maya”. Kaleidoscope Conference: Distortion and Illusion, UW-Madison, March 5-6, 2010.
“El manejo de la violencia en dos obras de César Aira”. Kaleidoscope Conference: Mimesis: Imitation, Mind, and Matter, UW-Madison, March 6-7, 2009.
CRITICAL THINKING, DEVELOPER OF CULTURAL PRODUCTS.
Cartonera Workshop Leader. "Superpowers" ETSU: Axolote, 2024.
Cartonera Workshop Leader. "De Aztlán a Aztalán" UW-. Madison: Axolote, 2023.
Cartonera Workshop Leader. "Who am I now? ¿Quién soy ahorita?" MMOCA/UW-Madison Libraries. Madison: Axolote, 2022.
Program Manager. Wisconsin Conference on Latinx Art & Culture. 2021.
Cartonera Workshop Leader. "Who am I now? ¿Quién soy ahorita?" MMOCA. Madison: Axolote, 2021.
Content Creator. Madisonmurals.com. Black Lives Matter Madison, WI, Murals’ teaching guides and lesson plans.
Website design and Content Creator., Ayotzinapa, Reseach Guide, Memorial Library UW-Madison. http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/ayotzinapa
Editor. Conference Proceedings of the 2013 Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies: New Worlds, New Literatures, New Critiques, 2014-Present
Editor. Zona de Carga/Loading Zone no. 7: Ekphrasis, (Print) ISSN 2330-2356 / (Online) ISSN 2330-2364, zonadecarga.com, Madison, WI, 2016.
Editor. e-Zona no. 3, The Online Undergraduate Creative Writing Journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Spring 2015
Editor. Ayotzinapa, forced disappearances. Bilingual edition. Madison: Axolote/Pensaré Cartonera, 2015. Print.
Editor. Zona de Carga/Loading Zone no. 6: Belonging, Madison, WI, 2014
Editor. e-Zona no. 2, Spring 2014
Editor. Zona de Carga/Loading Zone no. 5, Madison, WI, 2013
Editor. e-Zona no. 1, Fall 2013
Editor. Disidencias: Escritura y Resistencia en el siglo XXI, Madison, WI: Rosalita Cartonera/ Kaleidoscope, 2012. Print.
Editor.Luomos: A High School Literary and Academic journal. Prepa TEC, Campus Valle Alto, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 2008
Editor.El Cavernario, I.T.E.S.M, Campus Monterrey, 1996 to 1998