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Conference Papers/Panels/Lectures  

“Consciencialization, Negritude e Pan-Africanism in the Poetry of Noémia de Sousa.” Women, Gender and Intersectionality in the Lusophone World, University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, June 29 to July 2, 2022.

“Angola - Perspetivas Históricas e Literárias Sobre a Rainha Njinga Mbande (1583-1663).” Lusophone Studies Association International Conference: The Lusophone World: Global and Local Communities, 25-29 June, 2019, Universidade de Évora, Portugal. Panel proposal and organization.

“De como a Soberana do Ndongo e da Matamba resiste ao poder colonial e patriarcal: uma análise de A rainha Ginga e de comos os africanos inventaram o mundo de José Eduardo Agualusa.” Lusophone Studies Association International Conference: The Lusophone World: Global and Local Communities, 25-29 June, 2019, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.

“The Case for Literary Extroversion: Enhancing Literary Writing and Human Consciousness through Multi-Multilingual Reading and Writing.” Expressions of Lusofonia International Conference/Expressões de Lusofonia – Encontro Internacional, October 25, 26 and 27, 2018, York University, Canada.

"The Strings that Weave the Word: Obsessions, Understanding and Deep Communication in Creative Writing.” Celebrating Twenty-Years of the Portuguese Studies Review, Trent University, Canada, October 26- 27, 2017.

“What the Self "Lacks" the Self Imagines: The Mourning and Memory of the Imagined Colonial in Karen Blixen and Isabela Figueiredo.” Lusophone Studies Association, Aracajú, Brazil, June 28 to July 02, 2017. Moderator for one Panel.

“Debunking Racial and Cultural Essentialisms: Mia Couto’s Miscegenation/s in The Other Foot of The Mermaid. IV International Conference of Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Latin American Studies. University of Ghana, Legon (Accra), Ghana, August 2-5, 2016.

"Looking for 'God' in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons." 46th Annual Convention NeMLA, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May 1, 2015.

“The Recreation of the Holistic ‘Choric’ Order and Self in Mia Couto’s Stories of the Birth of the Land.” Discussing Translation, Meanings and Cultural Recreations in JM Coetzee and Mia Couto, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, March 2008.

“The Sterility of the Individual Ontological Search versus The Fecundity of the Relational Ontological Search in Saramago’s The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.” Comparative Horizons: Reading Across Boundaries, Annual Graduate Colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 2004.

“Delving Into the Powers and Limits of Agostinho Neto’s Political Poetry.” Bridging Identities: Regionalisms, Nationalisms and Globalization in the Luso-Hispanic World, 24th Levy-Wasteney’s Annual Graduate Symposium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 2004.

“From Reis’s Lídia to Saramago’s Lídia: Killing the Phantom Building the Body.” International Conference, Hystorical Fictions: Women, History and Authorship, University of Wales, Wales, August 2003.

“Attempting to Deliver a Difficult but Beautiful Baby: A Discussion of Language and Nationhood in Mia Couto’s Stories of The Birth of The Land.” African Literary Association 29th Annual Meeting, Of Lighthouses and Libraries: History ReLit, Alexandria University, Egypt, March 2003.  Served as chair for my panel: ‘Language, Literacy and the Nationhood.” (A version of this paper was also presented at Annual Graduate Colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 2003).

“Agostinho Neto: Beautiful Words Might Move Hills But Can They Move Mountains?” Tenth Annual International Graduate Conference on Romance Studies, The Quest For Meaning Through The Coexistence Of Ideologies, Boston College, Boston, U.S.A, April 2002. (A version of this paper was also presented at Annual Graduate Colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 2002).

 Invited Guest Lectures

“Inserting Women’s Voices in History: Writing and Reading "Her" in Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes and Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World.” The Harriet Tubman Institute for Africa and Its Diasporas, York University, November 15, 2018.

“O meu processo de escrita.” Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies, York University, November 29, 2016.

“The Trouble with ‘Heroes’: Deconstructing Mozambican National Narratives in the Writing of Mia Couto and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa.” The Harriet Tubman Institute for Africa and Its Diasporas, York University, November 10, 2016.

 “O que move a minha palavra: uma discussão sobre a visceral necessidade de escrever.” PRT 420: Advanced Portuguese, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, March 10, 2016.

“Négritude, ‘African Personality’, Cultural Nationalism and the Poetry of Léopold S. Senghor.” ENG C72S: Contemporary Literature from Africa, Department of English, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, January 7, 2016.

“The Way/s of ‘Poetry’: The Contracting and Expanding Self in the Writing of Mia Couto.” African Literatures in Portuguese, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, Nov. 7th, 2013.