Talks and conference papers

The House of Hecuba: Tragic/Queer Disidentifications of Color & the Siege of AIDS

Queer and the Classical 2021. 20 February 2021.

Full programme of the conference here

A gay Medea again

Department of Classic’s Research Seminar. University of Reading. 10 November 2021.

Did they know?
a conversation about queer, ancient and modern

Queer Studies and Classics round table.

Gents Instituut voor Klassieke Studies. 18 May 2022.

Dioniso Queer:
Versiones LGBTQ de las Bacantes de Eurípides

Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Autónoma de México.

28 June 2022 (in Spanish).

Papers and talks

Queer Bromius: LGBT versions of The Bacchae.

Lisbon University, Centre for Classical Studies. 12 of May 2023.

Dionisa travesti: a Mexican trans Bacchae.

Classical Association Conference 2023. University of Cambridge. 21-23 April 2023.

Bacchants in La Movida: Lourdes Ortiz’s queer-punk Penteo.

Assoc. Hispanists of Great Britain& Ireland annual conf. TCD/UCD. 17-21 April 2023. 

LGBTQI+ History Month Public Lecture: Queer Tragic Masks: LGBTQ History and Ancient Drama.

University of Reading. 27th of February 2023.

Sapphic Bacchae: Butch(er)ing Section 28.

Durham Univ., Department of Classics and Ancient History Seminar. 12 January 2023.

Dioniso queer: versiones LGBTQ de Las Bacantes de Eurípides.

Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM. 29 June 2022.  

Did they know? A conversation about queer, ancient and modern.

GIKS. 18 May 2022. Roundtable with D. Halperin, G. Sissa, C. Carastro and K. Merkley.

Rito y ceremonia queer: la Medea de Carrusel (1979-1980).

Assoc. Hispanists of Great Britain& Ireland annual conf. Senate House. 12 April 2022.

Rito y ceremonia de la liminalidad: Medea de Carrusel (1979-1980).

CLASTEA V. Université Clermont-Auvergne (France). 9 December 2021.

A gay Medea again: toxic masculinity, non-normative parenthood, uncoded marriage.

University of Reading, Classic Department’s Research Seminar series. 10 November 2021.

House of Hecuba: Tragic/Queer Disidentifications of Color and the Siege of AIDS.

Queer and The Classical. Oxford University (online). 20-21 February 2021.

Gay Medeas: Tragic betrayal, parenthood and displacement.

Royal Holloway University of London, Classics Department. 13 May 2021.

Antic-queer-tea (Being Human Café). A conversation about queer receptions of Greece and Rome with Oliver Baldwin, Katherine Harloe and Claudina Romero Mayorga.

Online. 18 November 2020.

Queer Medea: construction and deconstruction of the gendered self in Riaza’s Medea is a good boy.

Classical Displacements. Senate House (London). 23 November 2018.