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Invited Talks & Public Engagement
Alberto Fuguet, Thomas Nulley-Valdés, Álvaro Bisama and Cristián Opazo
2026, "Conversatorio: McOndo Revisited de Thomas Nulley-Valdés" with Alberto Fuguet, Álvaro Bisama and Cristián Opazo, 26 March.
2026, ¿Cómo construimos el canon literario? Public Lecture Inaugurating the Academic Year at La Universidad de la Frontera, 17 March.
Book Launch for Parece diciembre, a novel by Fabricio Tocco. Photo by Rafael Florez.
2025, Book Launch for Parece diciembre (Equidistancias) by Fabricio Tocco, at Smiths Alternative.
2023, Book Launch for McOndo Revisited, hosted by the Transnational Research Network and the School of Literature Languages and Linguistics, 31 October.
2023, presented an elegy 'The Passion of Víctor Jara' as words of introduction to the screening of the documentary The Resurrection of Víctor Jara, alongside Em/Prof John Minns (ANU) and Dr. Israel Holas (UMel) (24 September, sponsored by ANCLAS and Clandestino).
2023, Special guest on 'The Spanish Program' 2XX FM 98.3, Canberra Community Radio, 9 May.
Locas mujeres: Gabriela Mistral, Life and Works of a Chilean Poet Event with Embassy of Chile, ANU Gender Institute, ANCLAS and ANU Film Society
2021, “Introductory Remarks on the Life and Literature of Gabriela Mistral” for Locas mujeres: Gabriela Mistral, Life and Works of a Chilean Poet (May, Embassy of Chile, ANCLAS, ANU Gender Institute, ANU Film Society)
2021, “Immersive and Developed Language Teaching” Professional development workshop. Alliance Française, Canberra, 15 April.
2020, Seminar titled “Responses to Magical Realism: McOndo vs. macondismo” for Post-Magical Realist Worlds Research Group, 25 October.
2018, Guest Lecture titled “Boom, Postboom, and ‘babyboom:’ Politics and Latin American Literature 1950-2000s” for Latin American Histories (INTS2040), Macquarie University, 11 September.
2018, Seminar titled “The McOndo anthology: a(n) (a)typical World Literature Case Study,” Macquarie University, 11 September.
Social Impact PUBLICATIONS
2021, “Historia personal de McOndo: Entrevista a Alberto Fuguet a 25 años de la antología." Latin American Literature Today 20 (December)
2019, “El nuevo boom latino en los EE.UU. y Se habla español: Entrevista a Mayra Santos Febres.” Latin American Literature Today 12 (November)
2018, “Lina Meruane, algunas reflexiones sobre las antologías McOndo y Se habla español: Entrevista por Thomas Nulley-Valdés.” Nagari Magazine 12 (December)
2018, “Cuando la tecnocultura se transforma en una experiencia literaria. Entrevista a Naief Yehya.” Letra Urbana 38 (April)
2018, “La derrota de lo real/The Defeat of the Real by Pablo Brescia: A Book Review,” minor literature[s] (April)
2017, “‘La literatura tiene una relación oblicua con lo real.’ Entrevista a Pablo Brescia.” Letra Urbana 37 (November)
2017, “‘Vivir fuera de lugar me ha dirigido hacia la derrota de lo real:’ una conversación con Pablo Brescia.” Latin American Literature Today 4 (October)
2017, “Ilan Stavans y la antología Se habla español: voces latinas en USA.” Letra Urbana 35 (May)
Event Organisation
2024, Transnational Textures XVI AILASA Biennial Conference, 29-31 May, ANU, co-chaired with Fabricio Tocco.
'A Conversation with Adolfo García Ortega' about his life, oeuvre, and work as a translator and editor.
2023, 'A Conversation with Adolfo García Ortega' Festival Benengeli - International Week of Literature in Spanish, ANU, Instituto Cervantes, and Embassy of Spain, May
2021, Communicating Truth & Beauty: A Dialogue with the Sciences ACHRC Annual Conference, ACHRC, November
2021, ACHRC Digital Humanities Seminar Series, ACHRC, September
2021, Humanities From the Regions: an ACHRC Forum, ACHRC, July
2021, conference organizing committee for A Life in Literature: Literary Editing, Criticism, and Biography, A Humanities Research Centre Symposium in Honour of Ian Donaldson, Humanities Research Centre, March
Creative writing masterclass with Chilean author Carla Guelfenbein for undergraduate and postgraduate ANU creative writing students
2019, Creative writing masterclass with Chilean author Carla Guelfenbein for ANU creative writing students
2019, Organizer of author interview with Chilean author Carla Guelfenbein for general public
2017, Conference co-organizer: The Uncanny City: Strangers and Strangeness in Urban Literature (June, Canberra), with Anuparna Mukherjee, the Humanities Research Centre and the Australian National University
2016, Conference organizing committee: Our America? Past and Future of the New Latin American Fiction (October, University of South Florida, Tampa).
Panel with Mexican writers Cristina Rivera Garza and Naief Yehya, Our America? Past and Future of the New Latin American Fiction
Participants of Our America? Past and Future of the New Latin American Fiction (University of South Florida, October 2016)