PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

2017-2018

• "Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Spanish as a Professional Language." Panelist, Second Language Research Forum.
•  "Service Learning Research: Achievements, Opportunities and Challenges." ACTFL. Panelist and chair.
  
• "Leadership Tips for Bilingual Workplaces: Lessons from Latino/a Leaders." ACTFL. Co-presenter.
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2016-2017

• "University Community Engagement with a Purpose: World Languages and the Professions." Invited Speaker, University of Memphis. 

• "Service Learning and LAS." UIUC LAS Teaching Academy Workshop.

•  “Tools for Teaching 'Foreign' Languages in a Time of Nativism.” Let's Talk 2017: Relationships, Research, and Results. Notre Dame. Keynote speaker.

•  “Bridging Classrooms and Careers: Chicago Professionals' Insights into Languages, Cultures and Success.” External, Full-day Workshop. AATSP. Co-presenter with Holly Nibert.

•  "Engaged Humanities and the Future of Spanish Programs." Plenary panel: "Happy Birthday, Hispania (1917-2017)!" AATSP.

 

2015-2016

• "Experiential Activities for the Community Service Learning Classroom." Duke University. 

• "Less Specific Purposes for LSP: What Students Need in College." Keynote speaker at Third International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes.  Phoenix, AZ.

• "Alternative Models in Foreign Language Pedagogy beyond the Hybrid/Blended Classroom." Invited panelist to ADFL-sponsored roundtable session. MLA, Austin, TX. 

• ACTFL. San Diego, CA.

• "Innovating Language Programs for a Changed World." Panelist with Gillian Lord Ward, Alberto Moro, Amy Rossomondo.

•  "Teaching 21^st Century Career Skills in Basic Language Courses." Co-presenter with Holly Nibert. 

• "Post-Millennials and the Language Advantage." Invited to speak to a class of ELL students at Urbana High School.

 

2014-2015

• "Comity and Compliance, or Incivility and Inquiry: The Strange Situation of Steven Salaita." International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Co-presenter with Patrick Dilley (SIU-C).
• "Foreign Language Learners' Perspectives of Spanish Community Service Learning."  International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Co-presenter with Rejane Diaz (UIUC).

• "Situating Learning within Language Communities: The Potential of Spanish Community Service Learning." University of Miami. 

• St. Olaf University. 

• Faculty Workshop: "Poised for Success: Helping Language Students Transition from the Classroom to Competitive Job Markets." Co-presenter with Darcy Lear.
• Keynote Talk: Re-Imagining the Humanities: Taking the Curriculum beyond Campus. Co-presenter with Darcy Lear. 

• "Can-Do Statements for Spanish Community Service Learning." The Ohio State University. 

• "LSP in Basic Language Curricula: the Perspective of Two Textbook Authors." Preparing Students for the Global Workplace: An Online Professional Development Series. Sponsored by U Florida. Co-presenter with Holly Nibert (OSU). 

• "The Potential of Community Service Learning."  University of Nevada, Reno.

• "Infusing Immigration Dynamics in our Global Classrooms." ACTFL, San Antonio. Co-presenter with Katie Fowler Córdova (U of Miami).
• “’Don’t Just Teach! Engage Students in Communities’: Engaging Students in Civic Action through Service-Learning in Culturally Diverse Communities.” University of South Florida. Invited Keynote Speaker.

• “'Students, Turn on Your Cell Phones and Open Facebook’: Using New Media and Technology to Enhance Service-Learning.” An Engaged Conversation with Ann Abbott. University of South Florida during their campus-wide Service-Learning Day. Invited Speaker. 

• "Student Career Concerns and Aspirations: Integrating Languages for Specific Purposes into Basic Language Programs." Pearson Chicago Symposium. Co-presenter with Holly Nibert (OSU).
• "Social Entrepreneurs: Lessons that Engage and Inspire Language Students." Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA), Miami. Keynote Speaker.

• "Teaching Social Media Marketing in the Language Classroom."  Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA), Miami. 

• "Social Entrepreneurship and Service Learning: Business Concepts within Latino Contexts." Fall 2014 Discovery Series at Danville prison through the Education Justice Project (EJP)
• "Transforming Language Students into Standout Candidates in Competitive Job Markets." AATSP. Panama. Co-presenter with Darcy Lear (U of Chicago).

  

2013-2014

• CIBER Business Languages Conference. Park City, Utah. 
• "Teaching Social Entrepreneurship to Language Students: Using Business to Create Social Value." Paper presentation with Deb Reisinger (Duke). 
• "Designing or Updating Your Business Spanish Curriculum." Spanish Workshop. 
• "Service Learning and Social Media." Workshop for K-12 Business Language Teachers. 
• "Poised for Success: Helping Language Students Transition from the Classroom to Competitive Job Markets." Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes. Boulder, CO. Co-presenter with Darcy Lear (U of Chicago). 
• Notre Dame. Invited Speaker.
• "Social Entrepreneurship: Business Concepts within Cultural Contexts." Invited lecture in "Exploring International Economics" course.
• "Weaving Community Based Learning throughout the Language Curriculum."
• "Making Visible the Work of Community Based Learning: A Case Study."  
• "How to Teach Business Concepts in Cultural Contexts." K-12 Language for Business Conference. Florida International University. Invited speaker. 
• "Situating Learning within Language Communities: The Potential of Spanish Community Service Learning." University of Illinois Chicago. Invited speaker. 
• "Connecting Students to the Real World." Preparing Students for the Global Workplace: An Online Professional Development Series. Sponsored by U Florida. 
• “Advocacy, Translation and Interpretation: Equipping Teachers to Meet Community Needs.” ACTFL, Orlando. Co-presenter with Soria Colomer.
• "Be Different: Preparing Stand-out Students for the Job Market." ACTFL, Orlando. Co-presenter with Eva Rodríguez and Katie Fowler Córdova.
• "How Do You Say 'Digital Divide' in Spanish? Community-Campus Partnerships with Spanish Speakers." Digital Divide Lecture Series. Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences. UIUC. 
• "Public Engagement and IT: Solving Real World Problems." CIC CIO TechForum 2013. Ohio State University. Co-presenter with Kate Williams and Paul Hixson. 

 

2012-2013

• "Building Bridges to the Future: Innovation, Technology, Advocacy" AATSP, San Antonio TX. Opening Session, Invited Plenary Panelist
• “Teaching Social Entrepreneurship: Business Concepts within Cultural Contexts" AATSP, San Antonio TX. Follow-up Plenary Speaker Individual Panel
• "Linguistically and Culturally Appropriate Social Media Marketing: 'Radio Ambulante' as Case Study.” CIBER Business Languages Conference. Bloomington, IN.
• "Social Entrepreneurship." Entrepreneurship Forum. Panelist. UIUC.
• “Transcultural Competence in Professional Contexts.” Guest lecture, SPAN 254 "Introduction to Cultural Analysis, UIUC.
•  "Marketing Your PhD in Literature and Languages: Languages for Special Purposes." MLA, Boston. Panelist. 
• “Social Media Marketing for Social Enterprises.” Guest lecture in on-line course "Social Media and Global Change," UIUC.
• “Preparing Language Students to Meet Employer Needs.” ACTFL, Philadelphia. 
• “Community Service Learning and Civic Engagement: The Need for Explicit Connections.” Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. Invited Speaker. 

 

2011-2012

• “The Ethics of Engagement and Business Languages.” CIBER Business Languages Conference. Chapel-Hill, NC. 
• “Building Community in the Classroom with Social Media.” 2012 Latin American Teachers Workshop. CLACS, UIUC. 
• “How to Prepare Service-Learning Lesson Plans: Synthesizing Best Practices.” ACTFL, Boston. 
• “Transcultural Competence in Spanish Community Service Learning.” Bryant College. Providence, RI. Invited Speaker.
• “Partnering with the Community via Service Learning.” Responding to Immigrants: Bridging Research and Practice to Meet the Needs of Immigrants in New Growth Communities. UIUC. Invited workshop.

 

2010-2011

• “Teaching Social Media Marketing to Develop Business Language Students' Hard and Soft Skills.” CIBER Business Languages Conference. Charleston, SC.
• “How to Incorporate 'Spanish & Illinois' in the School Curriculum.” 2011 Latin American Teachers Workshop. CLACS, UIUC.
• “Service Learning in Multicultural Contexts: Teaching Cultural Competence.” Scholarhship of Engagement Seminar. UIUC.
• “Teaching Hard and Soft Skills in K-12 Business Spanish: The Case of Social Media Marketing.” K-12 Language for Business Conference. FIU CIBER, Miami.
• “The Lost 'C': The Communities Goal Area.” ACTFL, Boston. Invited Plenary Speaker. 
• “The Communities-Classroom Cycle: Smoothing Service Learning's Transitions.” ACTFL, Boston. Follow-up plenary session. 
• “Using Social Media to Guide Students toward Transcultural Competency.” Texas Community College Teacher Association, San Antonio.  
• "Teaching Intercultural Competence through Spanish Community Service Learning.” Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, UIUC. 
• “Moving from Teaching about Culture to Teaching Intercultural Competency.” California State University, Long Beach. 

 

2009-2010

• “Entrepreneurship Education and Social Media Marketing.” Entrepreneurship Education Retreat. University of Illinois-Chicago.
• “Assessing Community Service Learning.” San Diego Mesa Language Conference, San Diego. Invited Speaker.
• “Social Media and Professional Development.” CITES Brownbag, UIUC.
• “Social Media for Business: Online Lessons for Analysis and Action.” CIBER Business Languages Conference, University of Pennsylvania.
• “Assessing Community Service Learning: A Practical Approach.” Co-presenter, Darcy Lear (UNC). ACTFL, San Diego.
• “A New Model for Spanish Service Learning.” Community Informatics Initiative Research Series. UIUC

 

2008-2009 

• “Foreign Language Community Service Learning: Aligning Research and Practice.” Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference.

 

2007-2008

• “Site Visits, Standards & Scaffolding: Creating and Teaching Cases for Business Language Learners of All Levels.” Co-presenter, Maida Watson (Florida International University).CIBER Conference on Language and International Business, Florida State University.
• “Undergraduate Research in Business Languages: Strategic Plans for Campus and Student Success.” CIBER Conference on Language and International Business, Florida State University.
• “Managing Your Organization through Mission.” Keynote Speaker, Student Service and Leadership Conference, UIUC.
• “Entrepreneurial Education and Faculty: Enchancing Student Engagement in Any Discipline.” 2008 Annual Faculty Retreat, UIUC.
• “Cross-Campus Entrepreneurship: Two Kauffman Campus Case Studies.” Panelist.Entrepreneurship and Global Impact Conference (Worldwide Universities Network).October 2007. Chicago.
• “Undergraduates Engaged in Inquiry in an International Setting.” Copresenter. Faculty Learning Community sponsored by CTE. October 2007. UIUC.

 

2006-2007

•  “Cross-Cultural Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Classroom and Community.”Sino-American Seminar on Contemporary China and Social Entrepreneurship. May 30, 2007. Nanjing, China.
• “Developing Business Spanish Courses for Heritage Speakers: Materials & Internships.” Copresenter, Maida Watson (FIU). CIBER Conference on Language and International Business, OSU.
• “Connections, the Decisive “C” in a Spanish and Entrepreneurship Course.” Copresenter, Darcy Lear (UNC). CIBER Conference on Language and International Business, OSU. 
• “Learning Abroad and Global Awareness Programs: Putting the Pieces Together.”Annual Faculty Retreat on Active Learning UIUC.
• “Social Entrepreneurship 101.” Keynote Speaker, Student Service and Leadership Conference.UIUC.
• Invited workshop leader. “Service Learning: What It Means in the Academic Community.” Thomson Arts & Sciences National Workshop.
• “Community-based learning in Champaign-Urbana Spanish-speaking communities: A look from both sides.” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studes UIUC.

 

2005-2006 

• “Experiential Learning and Business Spanish: From Theory to Practice.”
• CIBER Conference on Language and International Business, Georgia Tech. Co-presented with Prof. Maida Watson.
• "What does entrepreneurship have to do with foreign languages?: How we answered that question." Lunchbox Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Co-presented with Prof. Darcy Lear.
• “Can we have class outside? Making Learning Relevant Outside the Classroom Context.”UIUC Annual Faculty Retreat on Active Learning. 
• “Entrepreneurship: Merging community-based learning and Spanish in the professions.”ACTFL 2005, Baltimore. Co-presented with Prof. Darcy Lear.

 

2004-2005

• “Beyond Oral Presentations: Using Digital Diaries to Bridge Community and Classroom Experiences”. Language Symposium 2005—University of Chicago and Northwestern University. (University of Chicago)
• Professional Development Workshop Series (SIP), Co-Creator.
• Cognitive Research and Lesson Planning. 
•  Academic Portfolios (I & II)
•  Using the Case Method in the Humanities

1999

• “Transitional Discourses: the Psychosomatic Fictions of Juan José Millás.” Modern Languages Association. (Chicago, Illinois)

 

1995

• “Representaciones de la sinrazón: el teatro vanguardista de Enrique Jardiel Poncela.” The Purdue Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Films. (West Lafayette, Indiana).
• “The Carnivalesque in Camilo José Cela’s La colmena: The Tragic, the Ludic and the Grotesque.” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. (Cincinnati, Ohio).