Presentations

“Reading, Remediating, and Rewriting America: Latinx Children’s Picture Books in the 21st Century”

MELUS Conference — Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

“Politics in Contemporary Cultural Production”

Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities

“Methodology of the Obsessed”

MELUS Conference — Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Austin, TX, April 29–May 3

“Correcting the Narrative”

Madison Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities, UW-Madison

“Methodology of the Obsessed”

Popular Culture Association Conference

“Alterity and Interiority”

MadLit Graduate Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Conference organized by the UW-Madison English Graduate Student Association; Alfonso-Stokes served as Lead Organizer.

“Excavating Forms of Life: Place-as-Knowing in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Sabrina & Corina and ‘Sugar Babies’”

Latinx/o/a Literary Studies Conference

“Ghostly Presents / Material Pasts: A Gothic Reading of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric”

MadLit Graduate Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“‘Most Young King(s) Get Their Head(s) Cut Off’: Kevin Young’s Mimetic Ekphrasis and the Initiation of (More) Young Black Artists in ‘Defacement’”

MELUS Conference — Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

“Networks of Violence Establishing Identity: Town Gossip and Roles of Difference in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Jazz”

EGSA Graduate Conference, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Adaptability, Motion, and Identity: Identification in Sandra Cisneros’s ‘Woman Hollering Creek’”

NeMLA Conference — Northeast Modern Language Association

“Adaptability, Motion, and Identity: Identification in Sandra Cisneros’s ‘Woman Hollering Creek’”

EGSA Graduate Conference, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Sex, Gender, and Violence”

EGSA Graduate Conference, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

MadLit Graduate Conference

University of Wisconsin-Madison English Graduate Student Association

Lead organizer of UW-Madison’s annual English department graduate student conference.