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PUBLIC LECTURES
“Mapping Colonial Havana: The Countess of Merlin’s Voyage of Return”
XVIII Annual Congress Cuban Cultural Center of New York. Oda a La Habana—The First 500 Years. Nov. 17, 2019. Barnard College.
“Mythologies of Return: Revisiting Ana Mendieta’s Rupestrian Sculptures”
Book launch. Cuban Cultural Center of New York/Instituto Cervantes, New York City. March 18, 2019.
“Mythologies of Return: Homeland and Diaspora in Ana Mendieta’s Rupestrian Sculptures”
Iowa Humanities Festival, Salisbury House, Des Moines, April, 2014.
“Picturing Cuba: Romantic Ecology in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab (1841)”
Invited lecture, Americas Society and Cuban Cultural Center of New York, September 9, 2014.
“Todo el país era un vasto y magnífico vergel” (Sab, 143)
Cementerio Colón, Havana
Carlota: “¿Habrá podido olvidar la hija de los trópicos al esclavo que descansa en una humilde sepultura bajo aquel hermoso cielo?” (Sab, 275)