Refereed conference papers

  • Granja, X. (2014, January). Imperfect courtiers: Inobservance of courtly male ideals in María de Zayas. Paper presented at the Newberry Library Multidisciplinary Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Granja, X. (2012, October). Organismos decadentes y cuerpos decrépitos en Imán de Ramón J. Sender. Paper presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Granja, X. (2009, June). The Latin American detective: a centrifugal evolution. Paper presented at LASA2009: Rethinking Inequalities Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Campus or departmental talks

  • Granja, X. (2016, March). Woman reclaimed: subverting feminine exclusion through masculine physicality. Paper to be presented at the Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
  • Granja, X. (2014, April). Illegitimate masculinities: Sadism and excess in Early Modern Spanish courts. Paper presented at Legalities & Beyond: The (il)legitimations of violence Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Granja, X. (2014, February). Aggression, sexual narrative and political expectations in Zayas’ storytelling. Paper presented at In Between: The Soundscapes of Culture Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Granja, X. (2012, April). Problemáticas en la transformación de sistemas pictográficos a alfabéticos. Paper presented at Transits, Transition, Revolution Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Granja, X. (2010, February). Pasado, presente, coexistencia: palimpsesto y espectralidad en Tusquets y Guerín. Paper presented at Interstices & other spaces Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Granja, X. (2008, April). Naturaleza e Identidad Femenina en Peregrinaciones de una alma triste. Paper presented at Nuevas Lecturas Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Granja, X. (2007, April). Exclusion & Segregation of North American slavery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Paper presented at Cuerpo y Esclavitud Conference, Bilbao, Spain.