“Entre leyendas, fábulas, romances y cuentos infantiles: leer por placer o para aprender” Organizer and chair of the panel. National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies conference to be held February 11-16, 2008 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“Preparing and implementing an assessment plan for a modern languages department”.  American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) to be held July, 2008 in San José Costa Rica.

“The experience of creating and implementing a service learning program”. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) to be held July, 2008 in San José, Costa Rica.

“Medeas latinoamericanas: tres reapropiaciones de una leyenda popular”. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS, Women Active in Letters and Social Change) at the University of Minnesota. Aug 4^th, 2007.

 “Los rostros de la llorona: reapropiaciones de una leyenda popular”. 27th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures.  Organizer and chair of the panel held at the University. of Cincinnati. May 11, 2007.

“Dos reapropiaciones modernas de las leyendas de ‘la llorona’ y la ‘cegua’ en el teatro costarricense contemporáneo”. Latin American Studies Association (LASA). September 5,  2007.  Montreal,  Canada.

“El más allá de la ley de la calle: El Huelepega de Elia Schneider”.  26^th Cincinnati Romance Languages and Literatures Conference. Organizer and chair of the panel held at the University of Cincinnati. May 11-13, 2006.

“Memorias de Mamá Blanca: una nueva memoria nacional”.  Gendering Citizenship and Globalization. III International Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Huelva,. Huelva, Spain.  May 9-12/2005.

“The Sony Virtuoso/Soloist Multimedia Language Learning System: Dream or Nightmare?” Twelfth International Literacy Conference on Learning. (in collaboration with Dr. Eva Tsuquiashi-Daddesio). University of Granada. Granada Spain. July 11-14, 2005.

“Bringing World Cultures to Life in the Classroom”. (ACT 48 teacher Workshops) World Language Competition. Slippery Rock University. Feb. 2005.

“Traditional Hispanic Games (Teaching languages)”. (ACT 48 teacher Workshops) World Language Competition. Slippery Rock University. Feb. 2004.

"Teresa de la Parra's Bolivar: the Reformation of a National Myth" XIV International AILFH Conference "Myths, Realities and Cultural Paradigms: Iconography in Hispanic Women's Literature," Boca Raton, Florida on October 23-26, 2003.

“Gender and Nation in the Work of Teresa de la Parra” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), March 2003. Dallas, TX

“The use of Fairy Tales Teaching Foreign Languages”. (ACT 48 teacher Workshops) World Language Competition. Slippery Rock University. Feb. 2003.  

"Memorias de un olvido deliberado." 11th Annual Conference "The Poetics of Space: Mapping Exile." SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY. March 2000