These are conference presentations about my research presented to both domestic and international audiences. Enjoy!
I presented my study "The affect of the Marginal Being: (Re)presenting peripheral bodies as vehicles of social and political sentiment in Roberto Bolaño's writing" at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting in June, 2022.
This is a presentation of my article "Nationless States and Stateless Beings," given at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) 2021 Symposium on the panel Migrant Ecocriticism & Diasporic Environments.
Published below are my preliminary results from linguistics research conducted in Colombia during the summer of 2017. San Basilio de Palenque, a rural village outside of Cartagena, Colombia, is the only place in the world where Lengua Palenquera, a Spanish-Bantu creole language, is spoken. For this excursion, I traveled under the auspices of another Partners for International Research and Education grant, an NIH-funded grant that provided my travel, living, and research expenses for two months. This research served as the basis for my Honors Thesis for the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State.
I presented the results from my first experience conducting linguistics research abroad to the Center for Language Science (CLS) at Penn State University. Having received a Partners for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH), I was able to work closely with my professors during an entire year, design an experiment, and travel to Granada, Spain for two months during the summer of 2016.
Based on the research done for a paradigm shift essay "The Bra: A Tale of Uplift," I presented my findings on the evolution of the brassiere over the 20th Century to my peers in the Communication, Arts, and Sciences Department at Penn State. My study reveals that each step of this evolution was influenced by certain sociopolitical factors in each decade, starting in the 1950's until present day (2015, at the time of this presentation).