Publications
“Culinary conflict or convivencia? Halal food practices, perceptions, and promotion in Spain” (Digestible Governance: Gastrocracy and Spanish Foodways, Vanderbilt UP, Fall 2024)
“Captive of Constantinople: Home, Hasret and Hüzün in Cautiverio y trabajos de Diego Galán” (Visions of Constantinople, Peter Lang, Fall 2024)
“Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral As Representative Third Place” (Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities, Brill Series: Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, Volume 7, pp. 25-38, Fall 2023)
“Selling Spain: Tourism, Tensions, and Islam in Iberia” (Journal of Intercultural Communication, Issue 53, pp. 42-55, July 2020)
“Challenging Confinement: The Redress of Captivity in La gran sultana” (The Sixteenth Century Journal, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 1001-1016, Winter 2019)
“Uncommon Denominators? Christian-Muslim Relations and the Legacy of al-Andalus in Contemporary Spain” (On Migrants Routes in the Mediterranean. Political and Juridical Strategies, pp. 97-112, Spring 2018)
“Irony made manifest: cultural contention and Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral” (Journal of Cultural Geography, Volume 34, Issue 3, pp. 275-302, Winter 2017)
“Imagining Istanbul: Sentiment and Subversion in La gran sultana” (eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, Volume: Cervantes 2, pp. 130-145, Fall 2013)
“A Tale of a City: Travelling Images of Urban Space in Early Modern Spain and the Ottoman Empire” (Travelling Concepts & the Metaphor of Travelling in Literary and Cultural Studies, pp. 193-207, Spring 2012)
“Violating the Harem: Manipulation of Spatial Meaning in Cervantes’ La gran sultana” (The International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 9, Issue 5, pp. 137-148, Fall 2011)
“The Experience of Enemy Space: Istanbul through the Eyes of the Spanish Other” (The International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 6, Issue 6, pp. 53-58, Fall 2008)
“Istanbul: East, West and Everything In-Between” (High End Magazine, featured travel article, November 2008, pp. 126-134, Fall 2008)
Conferences Presentations
Mediterranean Studies Symposium, “(Un)savory Spain: Triumphs and Tensions in Spanish Gastronomy,” Palermo, Sicily, June 2024
Mediterranean Studies Symposium, “Fare Game: Tastes, Transitions, and Tensions in El Próximo Oriente,” Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2023
Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, “Food Fight: Past and Present Contention Surrounding Halal Fare in Spain,” Lisbon, Portugal, May 2022
Mediterranean Studies Symposium, “Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Representative Third Place,” Ortigia, Italy, July 2021
Meeting Points: Imagination and Spaces for Social Change, “The Third Dimension: Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Exemplary Third Space,” University of Saint Paul, Ottawa, Canada, August 2019
Communication Across Cultures: Challenges and Prospects in the Global Context, “Selling Spain: Cultural Considerations in Spanish Tourism,” Chania, Greece, September 2018
Cultures, Hopes and Conflicts: The Mediterranean between Land and Sea, “Uncommon denominators? Christian-Muslim Relations in Contemporary Spain,” Salerno, Italy, September 2017
Don Quijote and the Mediterranean, “From Enchanted Inn to Besieged Castle: Quixotic Influence in Pamuk’s The White Castle,” University of Texas-Austin, October 2015
Attending to Early Modern Women, “Commanding Concubines: Historic and Literary Women of Imperial Influence,” Milwaukee, WI, June 2015
CIEPO-21: 21st Symposium of the Comite International des Etudes Pre-ottomanes et Ottomanes, “Istanbul in Iberia: Impressions and Implications in Early Modern Spain,” Budapest, Hungary, October 2014
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, “Istanbul as Embodiment of Geographic Good,” New Orleans, LA, October 2013
Eastern Resonances I: Ottoman Empire and Persia – 16th-18th c., “Istanbul Re-accentuated: Ottoman Impressions in Early Modern Europe,” Montpellier, France, May 2013
Shared Spaces and their Dissolution: Practices of Coexistence in Cyprus & Elsewhere, “Altered Alterity: The Shared Spaces of Early Modern Istanbul and the Hagia Sophia,” Nicosia, Cyprus, October 2011
9th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, “Violating the Harem: Manipulation of Spatial Meaning in Cervantes’ La gran sultana,” Granada, Spain, June 2011
Hermes Consortium for Literary & Cultural Studies, “A Tale of Two Cities: The Image of Urban Space in Early Modern Spain and the Ottoman Empire,” University of Giessen, Germany, June 2010
Middle Eastern History & Theory Conference, “Narrating the City: Istanbul as Embodiment of Geographic Good in Viaje de Turquía,” University of Chicago, May 2010
17th Colloquium on Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Lit. & Linguistics, “Life in Other Space: Istanbul in the Spanish Literary Imagination,” University of Texas-Austin, Fall 2008
6th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, “The Experience of Enemy Space: Istanbul through the Eyes of the Spanish Other,” Istanbul, Turkey, July 2008
Invited Presentations
“Contemporary Religious Site Disputes: Understanding How Religions Interact Within the Same Walls” (panel speaker), American University, November 2020
“Islamic Spain, Past and Present” (sole presenter), Marquette University, October 2020
“Spaces of Contention and Confluence: The Contradictions of Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral” (keynote speaker, Carroll University Center for the Humanities Symposium: Space and Place in City and Suburb), Carroll University, April 2019
“Texts and the City: Impressions of Istanbul in Early Modern Spain” (invited speaker), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 2012