I’m writing this as I sit next to my mom. She’s dying — no more treatment for her cancer is possible. All I can do is sit with her, sometimes help her drink something or take pain medication. It’s hard to even imagine my family’s world without her in it. It’s hard even now to…
Category: Presentation
2018 Ford Fellows’ Conference Plenary
Thank you for the introduction. Being selected to give this plenary here at the Ford Conference is a huge honor. Receiving the Ford Predissertation Fellowship was a turning point in my academic life. The community of Fellows and what I learned from them is the reason I stayed in graduate school and why I have…
Chicana/o Gothic – HASTAC 2016 – Researching with Students
(These notes form the rough basis for a panel talk with Anne Cong-Huyen and Anne Choi at HASTAC 2016.) The idea that became a class that became a research project The process began in fall 2011 when I began discussing on my personal blog and on Twitter whether or not “the gothic” would be a…
The Case for Reparations in Digital Spaces
These are my remarks as part of the MLA 16 roundtable: Repair and Reparations in Digital Public Spaces. As I begin to pull together my thoughts on the subject of repair and reparations, I find the ideas I had in January 2015 when Adeline and I, over plates of Korean fried chicken first began discussing…
Disrupting DH: Lowriding Through the Digital Humanities
This was written as a position paper for MLA16’s roundtable Disrupting DH. Note: The title of this piece is shamelessly borrowed from Barbara Noda’s “Lowriding Through the Women’s Movement,” a piece which creatively addresses the power a group made up of women of color could have on individuals during the women’s movement. It was published…
NACCS Presentation: “for those who dream of roses / swallow thorns”: Aztlán as Cosmopolitical Space
[This is the exact text of my talk. You can download a pdf version of all the slides: NACCS though I haven’t been able to reach Maria Teresa Fernandez to get her permission to repost them to the internet. She did give me permission to use them in my research when I spoke to her…