Scholarly Presentations and Author Interviews

2021

  • Interviewer, “Bexley Community Author Series: Susan Orleans,” invited by the Bexley Public Library (virtual – postponed from 2020).

2018

  • “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Colonial Structures In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao,” Kenyon Justice Program Summer Seminar and Adams Summer Scholars in Socio-Legal Studies Undergraduate Law Seminar
  • Interviewer, “A Night with Elizabeth Strout,” Bexley Community Author Series, invited by the Bexley Public Library, Mees Hall, Capital University, Bexley, OH
Ivonne M. Garcia and Elizabeth Strout
Bexley Community Authors Series Q&A with Elizabeth Strout.
(photos by Lance Oliver)

2017

  • Interviewer, Junot Díaz, Kenyon Review Podcast, Gambier, OH
  • “Post-postmodernism? The Foundational Transamerican Narrative of the Fukú Americanus,” Myth, Dungeon Masters, Diaspora, History, and Transamericanity: A Faculty/Student Panel on the Work of Junot Díaz, Latinx Heritage Month, Kenyon College
  • “‘One tough bitch’: Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World – A Memoir of Immigration, the Rule of Law, and Empowerment,” Kenyon Justice Project, Kenyon College
  • “The ‘Ugly Tourist’: Tourism and Colonialism in Puerto Rico, Antigua, and Hawai’i,” Crossroads Faculty Seminar, Kenyon College
  • “Recordando el Futuro (Remembering the Future),” Actividad Natalicio Juan Manuel García-Passalacqua (activity to commemorate JMGP), Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR
  • “Why 90% Retention Isn’t Good Enough: Student Success and Diversity at the Selective Small College,” American Conference of Academic Deans, 73rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

2016

  • “African Diaspora in the Americas: Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest and Roberto Fernández Retamar’s Caliban,” AFDS 108: The Crossroads Seminar, Kenyon College
  • “‘If I Were A Man’: Queer Female Subjectivity In Fanshawe,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Conference, Stowe, VT
  • “Using ‘The Master’s Tools’?: Institutionalizing Diversity,” Summit of Ohio Latinx: Voices Unidas, Denison University, Granville, OH
  • “Caribbean Shakespeares: Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest and Roberto Fernández Retamar’s Caliban,” Global Shakespeare Panel, Kenyon College
  • Council for Social Justice and Diversity Symposium, Kenyon College

2010-2015

  • “Cuba and the ‘Transamerican South’ in William Cullen Bryant’s Letters of a Traveler and Nathaniel Parker Willis’ Health Trip to the Tropics,” Faculty Seminar, Kenyon College
  • “Alice Pyncheon’s ‘Bondage’: Intersecting Race and Gender in The House of the Seven Gables,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Conference, North Adams, MA
  • “Historia Ficción o Ficción Histórica en La séptima vida de Juan M. García Passalacqua” (“Historical Fiction or Fictionalized History in The Seventh Life”), University of Turabo, PR
Ivonne M. Garcia
Ivonne M. García
  • “White fear, black doubles and imperiled women: Colonial Gothic Specters in Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America,” presented at the American Literature Association Symposium on the Gothic in Savannah, GA (photo right)
  • “Be True! Be True! Be True!: The Scarlet Letter as foundational discourse in American empire,” presented at the 2011 Modern Language Association Conference in Los Angeles, CA
  • “The Eden of the Present World?: Colonial Anxiety and the American Family in Rappaccini’s Daughter,” presented at the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Annual Meeting in Concord, MA

2006-2009

  • “With the Eyes That Are Given Me: Feminist Transcolonial Poetics in Sophia Peabody’s The Cuba Journal,” presented at the 2009 Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA
  • “To Reach Moral Perfection: Trans-American Crossings in Ramón Emeterio Betances’ The Travels of Escaldado,” presented at the Third Crossing Over Symposium, Cleveland State University, OH
  • “Pearl’s Green Letter A: Transnational Endings as Beginnings in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,” presented at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA
  • “Writing Empire: The Local as Global in Queen Lili’uokalani’s Hawai’i’s Story.” Organizer and chair, Panel on Transcolonial Feminisms, 2008 GLCA Conference, “Transnational Dialogues: De-Centering the Academic Debate on Global Feminisms,” Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
  • “Indigenizing the Transnational: Queen Lili’uokalani’s Hawai’i’s Story by Hawai’i’s Queen.” 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY
  • “Anticipating Colonialism: American Letters on Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1831-1835.” 2006 Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA