Upcoming Presentations:
“More than Muses: Expanding the Early Modern Iberian Literary Canon through Project-Based Pedagogy,” at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference in San Francisco, February 19-21, 2026, on Saturday, February 21 at 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. in the Continental Ballroom 2, Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
Cristina of Sweden, Queen, on Horseback by Sébastien Bourdon, 1653-1654, Prado Museum, Madrid
“Imagining Queen Christina and the Swedish Court for the Stage at the Spanish Court of Philip IV and Carlos II,” 4th SWESP (International Research Network on Iberian–Nordic Contacts throughout History) workshop: Decentring Europe: Nordic–Iberian Histories in Transregional Perspective at the University of Gothenburg (Göteborg, Sweden), May 21-22, 2026.
Public Lectures:
Brandie R. Siegfried Lectureship on Global Women’s Studies: “Nuns on Stage: Performing People of Color, Roma Fortune-Tellers, Vices, and Devils in the Early Modern Iberian Convent,” Global Women’s Studies Program, Brigham Young University, March 6, 2025.
“Las luchadoras,” International Cinema, Brigham Young University, December 4, 2024.
“More Than Muses: Conectando os Nossos Alunos às Escritoras da Península Ibérica através de Mentoria,” (with Anna-Lisa Halling), Quando passado se faz presente … Recursos digitais sobre escritoras portuguesas de Era Moderna (1500-1900), Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, June 21, 2024.
Plenary presentation: “Decirle la buena ventura al Niño Jesús: Las romaníes en las piezas teatrales navideñas de las carmelitas,” Vidas en la memoria: Erudición y escritura en el carmelo reformado (Siglos XVI-XVIII), Universidad Complutense, Casa de Velázquez, CITeS-Universidad de la Mística, Madrid and Ávila, June 17-20, 2024.
Disciple-Scholar Lecture: “Learning to Glorify God,” David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, February 23, 2024.
Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Faculty Lecture: “The Love of Learning: Early Modern Iberian Women Writers as Advocates for Women’s Education,” Brigham Young University, November 5, 2020.
“Life Advice from Women I Study,” International Women’s Day Lunch and Learn, Imagine Learning, Provo, Utah, March 6, 2020.
P. A. Christensen Lectureship: “Translating Maria do Céu’s Enganos do bosque, desenganos do rio: Domestication, Misreading, and Gender,”Brigham Young University College of Humanities, March 7, 2019.
“‘Cobridme de flores’: Translating the Life and Works of Maria do Céu,” Universidade do Porto, Portugal, May 29, 2017.
“‘Cobridme de flores’: Translating Maria do Céu and Her Enganos do bosque, desenganos do rio,” Projeto “Literatura no Feminino (1500-1900),” Centro de Estudos Clássicos de FLUL e da área de Cultura Portuguesa do Mestrado e Doutoramento em Estudos Românicos, Departamento de Literaturas Românicas, Universidade de Lisboa, May 26, 2017.
Keynote Presentation: “The Transformational Power of Mentoring,” (with Dale Pratt), 5th Annual Spanish Undergraduate Research Conference: Voyages of Discovery, Treasures of Knowledge, Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa, April 3, 2017.
Plenary Speech: “The Greatest Hits of Spain’s Greatest Age: Three Books, Two Plays, and Two Paintings,” 2016 Undergraduate Conference: Latin American and Iberian Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, April 9, 2016.
The Rosehill Estate Lecture: “Finding Maria do Ceo, or What Spanish & Portuguese Literature Have to Do with Women’s History Month,” Lewis-Clark State College, March 24-27, 2014.
The International Lecture Series: “Finding Maria do Ceo, or What Spanish and Portuguese Literature Have to Do with Women’s Studies,” Meredith College, November 12, 2012.
Plenary presentation: “Tragedy or Comedy? The Outcome of Rash, Young Love in Lope de Vega’s Castelvines y Monteses and El caballero de Olmedo,” Symposium on Early Modern Spanish Theater: Text and Performance, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, April 2-4, 2012.
“Soror Maria do Ceo and Female Utopias,” Universidade do Porto, Portugal, May 24, 2011.
“What Every Shakespeare Student Should Know About Lope de Vega,” sponsored by The Play’s the Thing: A Comparative Look at Early Modern Theatre in England and Spain Seminar, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, December 3, 2010.
Graduate Workshop: “Spanish Golden Age Stagecraft 101: Reading Between the Lines,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, November 9, 2010.
“Mujer, sociedad y derechos civiles a la luz del teatro conventual peninsular en la temprana modernidad,” Civil Rights Section, Ateneo de Madrid, November 13, 2009.
College Forum: “Why Early Modern Women Created and Why it Matters,” Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 4, 2006.
Campus Lecture: “More Than Muses: Rediscovering Women in the Arts,” Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, November 9, 2000.
“Sor Juana’s Dramatic Foremothers and Sisters, or How to Suppress Seventeenth-Century Spanish Women Playwrights,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, November 29, 1994.
Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro, León, Spain, 2025.
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Symposium on Rethinking Mary in Early Modern Europe: Women’s Voices and the Virgin Mary, Rome, 2023
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Academic Conference Papers:
“Staging the Story of Adam and Eve in the Convent,” AHCT Virtual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, October 10-11, 2025.
“Entre páginas de la temprana modernidad y ediciones digitales: Re-presentando textos teatrales escritas por mujeres en formato en línea,” (with Anna-Lisa Halling), XXII AITENSO Congress, León, Spain, September 23-26, 2025.
“Life in the Convento del Ángel Custodio: Las obras poéticas by Sor Ana de San Jerónimo and the Manuscript of Her Works,” Conference on the History of Women Religious: Lives and Archives, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, June 22-25, 2025.
“People and Places on the Margins in the Christmas Plays by Sor Juana de Jesús,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 20-22, 2025.
“Allegorizing a Saint’s Life: Soror Maria do Céu’s Trilogy of Plays about St. Alexius,” American Portuguese Studies Association Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, October 3-5, 2024.
“Quiero seguirle el humor para entretenerme un rato”: Levity in Religious Plays by Spanish Nuns,” The God Who Laughs–Examining Intersections of Faith and Humor, BYU Humanities Center Annual Symposium, Brigham Young University, September 27-28, 2024.
“Representing Convent Life and Convent Spaces: Sor Juana de Jesús’s play El Convento y el Cuidado,” AITENSO and AHCT joint conference in collaboration with LA Escena, University of California-Los Angeles, September 12-14, 2024.
“Cross-Dressing Nuns Performing the Devil and His Minions on Iberian Convent Stages,” Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA) 17th Biennial Symposium, Universidad UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico, July 17-18, 2024.
“Anonymous Was a Nun: Convent Plays by Unknown Women Writers,” Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Chicago, March 21-23, 2024.
“Telling the Christ Child’s Fortune: Romani Women in Spanish Convent Christmas Plays,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, October 1-3, 2023.
“Virginity and Motherhood: Mary in the Christmas Plays by and for Spanish Nuns,” Rethinking Mary in Early Modern Europe: Women’s Voices and the Virgin Mary, Norwegian Institute in Rome and Pontificia Facoltà Teologica Marianum, Rome, June 21-22, 2023.
“Surprising Things Our Students Have Learned while Working on the More than Muses Website,” Co-authored with Anna-Lisa Halling, The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (RMMRA) Annual Conference, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, April 13-15, 2023.
“More Than Muses: Connecting Students to Early Modern Women Writers through Mentoring,” Co-authored with Anna-Lisa Halling, Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 9-11, 2023.
“Literary Genealogies: Escarmentos de flores, Verdades do Tempo, and Soror Maria do Céu’s Relationship with the Marquesa de Marialva and Soror Inés Maria,” American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), Brigham Young University, October 6-8, 2022.
“Between Early Modern Pages and Digital Editions: Re-Presenting Playtexts by Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights in an Online Format,” Co-authored with Anna-Lisa Halling, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), Almagro, Spain, July 4-7, 2022.
“The Unexpected Outcomes of Teaching Students to Care about Every Letter in the Marquise of Castellfort’s Surviving Manuscript,” The Sixth Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU6), Brigham Young University, February 25-26, 2022.
“How George Ticknor was Wrong about Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda: ‘Liras à aclamação do rei dom João o IV,’” GEMELA Virtual Symposium 2020, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800), Zoom and YouTube, October 3-4, 2020.
“Letters from Behind Bars: The Creation of Identity in the Correspondence of Maria do Céu (1658-1753) and Leonor de Almeida Portugal (1750-1839),” Association for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) 50th Anniversary Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, July 10-13, 2019.
“As respostas clássicas de Dona Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda ao cavalheiro espanhol,” Jornadas-Seminário de Investigação: Mulheres e Cultura Clássica, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, June 17-18, 2019.
“Escarmentos de flores: An elegy for Sóror Inês Maria composed by Maria do Céu,” Congresso Internacional / Um Reino de Mulheres: Expressões literárias, culturais e artísticas nas instituções monástico-conventuais femininas,” Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, April 22-24, 2019.
“Gender Norms, Sexual Assault, and the Mujer Varonil in Three Comedias,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, April 10-13, 2019.
“Women and War: The Mujer Varonil as Wonder Woman in Early Modern Spain,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: “Politics and Conflict,” Orlando, Florida, March 13-16, 2019.
“Staging Gender in the Spanish Literature Classroom: Teaching Early Modern Dramaturgas,” Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA), Charleston, South Carolina, October 25-27, 2018. (Co-authored with Amy R. Williamsen.)
“Alma as Everynun: Performing Union in Sor Francisca de Santa Teresa’s Coloquios for the Professions of Sor Rosa, Sor Manuela Petronila, and Sor Mariana,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, April 11-14, 2018.
“Resisting Domestication: Reading the Portuguese in the Source Text of Ângela de Azevedo’s El muerto dissimulado,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, April 19-22, 2017.
“Mentoring Full-Scale Productions vs. Assigning Reader’s Theater Performances: Azevedo, Marcela de San Félix, and Convent Nativity Plays,” Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 29-October 1, 2016.
“Journeys in and through the Poetry of Mother Maria do Céu,” Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, September 8-10, 2014.
“Two Medieval Astronomers in an Early Modern Spanish Convent in the ‘Coloquio para la profesión de Sor Angela María de San José’ by Sor Francisca de Santa Teresa,” XIII Working Session of Ometeca Institute, Stonehill College, Massachusetts, June 18-20, 2014.
“Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda’s Soledades de Buçaco: Early Modern Gendered Landscape Poetry,” Twentieth Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium – Early Modern Women: New Perspectives, University of Miami, Coral Gables, February 21-23, 2013.
“El convento como espacio escénico y la monja como actriz: Montajes teatrales en tres conventos en Valladolid, Madrid y Lisboa,” Congreso Internacional: Escritoras entre Rejas: Cultura Conventual Femenina en la España Moderna, Bibliografía de Escritoras Españolas (BIESES), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain, July 5-7, 2012.
“Dramaturgas of the Spanish ‘Empire’: Towards a Contemporary Performance History,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 2-5, 2011. (Co-authored with Amy Williamsen.)
“Performed Absence and Death in Don Quijote, Volume II,” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011. (Co-authored with Dale J. Pratt.)
“Heavenly Family Relationships on Earth: Soror Maria do Ceo Writes and Performs Families in an Early Modern Portuguese Convent,” Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference (MSH), Claremont, California, May 21-22, 2010.
“Alma as Every-Nun: Performing Allegory in the Recreation Rooms of Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese Convents,” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009.
“A Life Performed Three Times: Soror Maria do Ceo’s Autos on Saint Alexis,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 27-29, 2009.
“Onstage in the Sala de Recreio?: Soror Maria do Ceo’s Plays as Performance Texts,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 5-7, 2009.
“Lost in Translation: The Case of Sor Maria do Ceo’s Writing in Spanish,” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008.
“Montaje: Introducing and Teaching Hispanic Theater as Performance,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) 89th Annual Conference, San Diego, August 1-5, 2007.
“How My Nuns Have Made Me a Better Mormon (Why I Study Early Modern Nuns and How Their Writings Resonate in My Life),” Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Inaugural Conference, Brigham Young University, March 23-24, 2007.
“Teaching Spanish Women Writers and Feminist Theory at a Religiously Affiliated University,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA), Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006.
“Childbirth and Motherhood in the Convent: The Poetry and Theater of Sor María de san Alberto,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, October 26-29, 2006.
“’Loco el que su hacienda emplea donde se puede perder’: Las cortes de la muerte in Don Quijote,” Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 9-11, 2006.
“Comedia Scholarship and Performance: El muerto disimulado from the Archive to the Stage,” Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 3-5, 2005.
“Comedia Scholarship and Performance: From the Archive to the Stage,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), Mexico, July 27-31, 2004.
“A Displaced Author and Her ‘Metamorphed’ Play: Doña Isabel Rebeca de Correa and the Pastor fido,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures (MACHL), University of Colorado, October 2-4, 2003.
“Confessions of a Dramaturga: What Golden Age Women Playwrights Say About Their Craft,” Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 5-8, 2003.
“The Devil Couldn’t Make Him Do It: Saint Pedro González in El gran prodigio de España, y lealtad de un amigo by Doña Joanna Theodora de Souza,” Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 7-9, 2002.
“Women’s Theater in Early Modern Seville: Ana Caro and Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, July 5-9, 2001.
“A los márgenes de los márgenes: San Alejo en el teatro de Sor Maria do Ceo,” V Congreso Internacional Mujeres escritoras. Edad Media, Moderna temprana e Hispanoamérica, La Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana y el Centro de Estudios de Historia de México–CONDUMEX, October 5-7, 2000.
“Fenisa, un personaje en busca de montaje; o, por qué La traición en la amistad de María de Zayas merece estrenarse,” La Comedia del Siglo de Oro en el Siglo 21: Nuevas Direcciones Investigativas, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater and XXII Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, July 17-20, 2000.
“Maria do Ceo’s Mary in Heaven: Rosa, y Clavel and El triunfo do rosario,” A Spanish Odyssey: One Thousand Years of Iberian Literature and Culture, University of New Mexico, February 17-19, 2000.
“Re-covering Women: Hints about Archival Research,” Fourth Annual Conference on Women Writers of Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Latin America, University of Arizona Department of Spanish and Portuguese, September 16-18, 1999.
“Translating Tone in Teresa: Humility and/or Irony?,” Teresa de Cartagena: Mujer, Conversa, Monja, Sorda y Autora, University of New Mexico, April 30, 1999.
“Affirming Play(w)Rights: Women Comedia Authors’ Transgression and Re-Construction of Gender Norms,” Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater and the University of Texas at El Paso, March 5-8, 1997.
“Isabel/Elizabeth: Political Power, Oratory, and the Rhetoric of Queenship,” A Conference on Women Writers of the Spanish Golden Age and Latin American Colonial Period, Texas Tech University, October 10-12, 1996. (Co-authored with Brandie Siegfried.)
“Gendered Spirituality: The Theater of Maria do Ceo,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Conference and Annual Meeting, El Paso, Texas, March 6-9, 1996.
“More Than Muses: Seventeenth-Century Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire,” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), Chicago, December 27-30, 1995.
“Writing the Male Gaze and Female Subjectivity in Leonor de la Cueva y Silva’s La firmeza en la ausencia,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures (MACHL), University of Colorado, October 12-14, 1995.
“Gendered Ritual and Celebration in the Theater of Sor Marcela de san Félix,” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), San Diego, California, December 27-30, 1994.
“‘Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places’: Disabused Suitors, Comedia Endings, and Angela de Acevedo’s La margarita del Tajo,” A Stage of Their Own/Un Escenario Propio, Westin Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 5-8, 1994.
“The Virgin Mary as Trace in Angela de Acevedo’s Dicha y desdicha del juego y devoción a la Virgen,” Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium (Chamizal), University of Texas at El Paso, March 9-12, 1994.
“Silencing Women Play(w)Rights, Comedia Conventions, and Angela de Acevedo’s El muerto disimulado,” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures (LA CHISPA), Louisiana State University, February 10-12, 1994.
“Postmodern Feminism in the Theater of Denise Chávez,” Theatricality and Postmodernity: The Mise en Scène, University of California at Irvine, February 3-5, 1994. (Co-authored with Erlinda Gonzales-Berry.)
“The Fallacy of False Dichotomy in María de Zayas’s La traición en la amistad,” Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium (Chamizal), University of Texas at El Paso, March 18-21, 1992. Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California, February 23-27, 1994.
“Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty and José Ruibal’s Café-Teatro,” De lo particular a lo universal: El teatro español del siglo XX y su contexto, The College of Wooster, April 15-17, 1993.
“Early Brechtian Theater in Mexico: Juan Bustillo Oro’s San Miguel de las Espinas,” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 15-17, 1991. (Also presented in an earlier version, “Juan Bustillo Oro’s San Miguel de las Espinas as Epic Theater,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Best Western Woodlands Plaza Hotel, Flagstaff, Arizona, February 21-23, 1991.)
“Listening in, in Plain Sight: Eavesdropping and Onstage Audiences in Lope’s La dama boba and Tirso’s El vergonzoso en palacio,” Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium (Chamizal), University of Texas at El Paso and Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, March 13-16, 1991.
“Night Scenes in Tirso’s El vergonzoso en palacio and Don Gil de las calzas verdes,” The Symposium on Aspects of the Staging Techniques, Dramatic Structure and the Treatment of Sexuality in the Drama of Tirso de Molina; University of Missouri-Columbia, April 6-8, 1990.
“Darkness in the Afternoon: The ‘Daylight Convention’ in Tirso’s El vergonzoso en palacio and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium (Chamizal), University of Texas at El Paso, March 15-18, 1989.
“Los personajes intertextuales de El sol en el hormiguero de Antonio Gala,” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures (LA CHISPA), Tulane University, February 26-28, 1987.
Roundtable Discussions:
Scholarly Panel Discussion: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s House of Desires performed by Brigham Young University’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts, with Shelley Graham, Studio Theatre, March 30, 2024.
Conference Panel: “Amy R. Williamsen, Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer, and Feminist Performance and Translation” in “Homage to Amy Williamsen, Early Modern Feminist Scholar and Leader,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, San Diego, California, October 28-31, 2021.
Online Roundtable Discussion: “Early Modern Spanish Literature & Visual Culture” with Emily Francomano (Georgetown U), Luis Avilés (UC Irvine), Matthew Ancell (BYU), Rosilie Hernández (U of Illinois Chicago), and Emilie Bergmann (UC Berkeley), February 3, 2021.
Roundtable: “Finding Joy and Purpose over the Duration of an Academic Career,” Humanities Center Colloquium, Brigham Young University, November 19, 2020.
Podcast: Feras Fayyad’s The Cave with Douglas Weatherford and Marie-Laure Oscarson, International Cinema, Brigham Young University, November 6, 2020.
Online Roundtable: “Leonor López de Córdoba” in “Plagues and Pandemics in Europe,” Café Europa Panel Series, European Studies, Brigham Young University, September 22, 2020.
Radio Interview: “Becoming Feminist,” Constant Wonder, BYU Radio, October 12, 2018.
Panel Discussion: Humanities and Belief Workshop, Brigham Young University College of Humanities, summer 2018.
20th Anniversary Roundtable: “The State of Early Modern Women’s Studies in the 90s” with Anne J. Cruz, Jeanne L. Gillespie, Margaret Greer, Lisa Vollendorf, and Gwyn E. Campbell, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 29-October 1, 2016.
Roundtable: “Europe’s Feminist Legacies” with Renata Forste, Amy Harris, and Jamie Horrocks, Café CSE Speaker Series, European Studies and the Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, November 18, 2015.
Talk-Back Session: Ângela de Azevedo’s Presumed Dead performed by WSC AvantBard Theatre on the Edge, Arlington, Virginia, April 2015.
Panel Discussion: “Why Mentoring Matters / Practical Suggestions for Successful Mentoring” with Bruce Burningham, Lynn Vidler, and Amy R. Williamsen, Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 18-21, 2015.
Radio Interview: “The Word Feminism” in “Feminism, Women’s Movements, Sex and Peace,” The Morning Show with Marcus Smith, BYU Radio, October 22, 2014.
Roundtable: “Collaboration, Then and Now” with Emilie Bergmann, Stacey Schlau, Amanda Powell, and Diana Dugaw, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, September 8-10, 2014.
Roundtable: “Why Spanish Women Don’t . . .” in “Why European Women Don’t . . . ” with Heather Belnap Jensen and Martha Peacock, Café CSE Speaker Series, European Studies and the Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 3, 2013.
Talk-Back Session: Megan McClure’s Unruly Mujeres performed at the Curtain Theater, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, September 2010.
Roundtable: “Tracing GEMELA’s History” in “GEMELA Past, Present, and Future” with Bonnie Gasior, Gwyn Campbell, Barbara Simerka, and Amy R. Williamsen. Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA) biennial conference, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley and University of Massachusetts-Amherst, September 23-25, 2010.
Talk-Back Session: Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding performed by Brigham Young University’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Margetts Arena Theatre, March 2010.
Special Session: “Producing the Foreign Language Play: A Roundtable Discussion” with Robert Haven, John Holloway, Andrew Kimbrough, and Dale Pratt, 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 19-21, 2007.
Mesa Redonda: Guillén de Castro’s El Narciso en su opinión performed by BYU Spanish Golden Age Theater, Chamizal National Memorial Theater, March 2007.
Panel Discussion: “How Collaboration Has Enriched My Life” in “Feminismo y colaboración” with Electa Arenal, Amanda Powell, Stacey Schlau, Barbara Simerka, and Amy R. Williamsen. Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas 1300-1800 (AEEA), Georgetown U, Washington, D.C., October 5-7, 2006.
Talk-Back Session: Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna performed by BYU’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Pardoe Drama Theatre, September 2005.
Mesa Redonda: Lope de Vega’s Caballero de Olmedo performed by BYU Spanish Golden Age Theater Project, Chamizal National Memorial Theater, March 2005.
Panel Discussion: “From Page to Stage: Performance of María de Zayas’s La traición en la amistad” with Sharon Voros, Constance Wilkins, and Amy R. Williamsen, Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), El Paso, Texas, March 4-6, 2004.
Panel Discussion: “Teaching and Politics: Strategies for Effecting Real Change in the Academy” with Alison Weber and Jeanne Gillespie, A Conference on Women Writers of the Spanish Golden Age and Latin American Colonial Period, Texas Tech University, October 10-12, 1996.
Valerie Hegstrom, PhD 